Sapphire HD 4850 Video Card Review
3DMark06 Professional
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3DMark06 measures Shader 3.0 (i.e., DirectX 9.0c) performance. We run this software under three 16:10 widescreen resolutions, 1680×1050, 1920×1200, and 2560×1600, first with no image quality enhancements enabled – results we call “low” on the charts and tables below –, then setting 4x anti-aliasing and 16x anisotropic filtering. See the results below.
| 3DMark06 Professional 1.1.0 – 1680×1050 – Low | Score | Difference |
| Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2 | 16260 | 37.31% |
| GeForce 9800 GX2 | 15623 | 31.93% |
| GeForce GTX 280 | 14904 | 25.86% |
| GeForce 9800 GTX | 12759 | 7.74% |
| Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 | 11842 | |
| Radeon HD 3870 | 10694 | 10.73% |
| 3DMark06 Professional 1.1.0 – 1920×1200 – Low | Score | Difference |
| GeForce 9800 GX2 | 15547 | 45.42% |
| Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2 | 15489 | 44.88% |
| GeForce GTX 280 | 14215 | 32.96% |
| GeForce 9800 GTX | 11631 | 8.79% |
| Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 | 10691 | |
| Radeon HD 3870 | 9454 | 13.08% |
| 3DMark06 Professional 1.1.0 – 2560×1600 – Low | Score | Difference |
| GeForce 9800 GX2 | 13015 | 61.14% |
| Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2 | 12315 | 52.47% |
| GeForce GTX 280 | 11766 | 45.67% |
| GeForce 9800 GTX | 8743 | 8.25% |
| Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 | 8077 | |
| Radeon HD 3870 | 6823 | 18.38% |
| 3DMark06 Professional 1.1.0 – 1680×1050 – High | Score | Difference |
| Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2 | 16260 | 83.09% |
| GeForce 9800 GX2 | 13900 | 56.51% |
| GeForce GTX 280 | 12157 | 36.89% |
| GeForce 9800 GTX | 8981 | 1.13% |
| Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 | 8881 | |
| Radeon HD 3870 | 6915 | 28.43% |
| 3DMark06 Professional 1.1.0 – 1920×1200 – High | Score | Difference |
| Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2 | 15489 | 94.29% |
| GeForce 9800 GX2 | 12213 | 53.20% |
| GeForce GTX 280 | 10991 | 37.87% |
| Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 | 7972 | |
| GeForce 9800 GTX | 7811 | 2.06% |
| Radeon HD 3870 | 6114 | 30.39% |
| 3DMark06 Professional 1.1.0 – 2560×1600 – High | Score | Difference |
| Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2 | 12315 | 108.87% |
| GeForce 9800 GX2 | 9829 | 66.71% |
| GeForce GTX 280 | 8704 | 47.63% |
| Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 | 5896 | |
| GeForce 9800 GTX | 5774 | 2.11% |
| Radeon HD 3870 | 4319 | 36.51% |