Sapphire HD 4830 Video Card Review
Unreal Tournament 3
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Unreal Tournament 3 is the latest installment from this famous first person shooter franchise, supporting DirectX 10 graphics when installed on Windows Vista with a DX10 compatible card. We upgraded Unreal Tournament 3 to version 1.2 and benchmarked it with the help of HOC UT3 benchmarking utility using the “Containment” demo, maxing out image quality settings (image quality at “high” and anisotropic filtering at x16). It is important to note that we haven’t applied the PhysX mod to this game, which would transfer PhysX processing from the CPU to the GPU on NVIDIA cards. The results below are the average number of frames per second (FPS) achieved by each card.
| Unreal Tournament 3 – 1680×1050 – Maximum | Score | Difference |
| GeForce 9800 GTX | 112 | 25.84% |
| GeForce 9800 GX2 | 108 | 21.35% |
| GeForce GTX 260 | 106 | 19.10% |
| GeForce GTX 280 | 104 | 16.85% |
| Radeon HD 4870 | 104 | 16.85% |
| GeForce 9800 GTX+ | 104 | 16.85% |
| Radeon HD 4850 | 96 | 7.87% |
| Radeon HD 4870 X2 | 96 | 7.87% |
| GeForce 9800 GT | 95 | 6.74% |
| Radeon HD 4830 | 89 | |
| Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2 | 84 | 5.95% |
| Radeon HD 3870 | 83 | 7.23% |
| Unreal Tournament 3 – 1920×1200 – Maximum | Score | Difference |
| GeForce 9800 GTX | 108 | 31.71% |
| GeForce 9800 GX2 | 106 | 29.27% |
| GeForce GTX 260 | 103 | 25.61% |
| Radeon HD 4870 | 98 | 19.51% |
| Radeon HD 4870 X2 | 95 | 15.85% |
| GeForce 9800 GTX+ | 94 | 14.63% |
| GeForce GTX 280 | 91 | 10.98% |
| Radeon HD 4850 | 89 | 8.54% |
| Radeon HD 4830 | 82 | |
| GeForce 9800 GT | 80 | 2.50% |
| Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2 | 78 | 5.13% |
| Radeon HD 3870 | 75 | 9.33% |
| Unreal Tournament 3 – 2560×1600 – Maximum | Score | Difference |
| GeForce 9800 GTX | 92 | 73.58% |
| GeForce 9800 GX2 | 92 | 73.58% |
| Radeon HD 4870 X2 | 91 | 71.70% |
| Radeon HD 4870 | 78 | 47.17% |
| GeForce GTX 260 | 76 | 43.40% |
| GeForce 9800 GTX+ | 63 | 18.87% |
| GeForce GTX 280 | 62 | 16.98% |
| Radeon HD 4850 | 60 | 13.21% |
| Radeon HD 4830 | 53 | |
| GeForce 9800 GT | 52 | 1.92% |
| Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2 | 51 | 3.92% |
| Radeon HD 3870 | 47 | 12.77% |