Sapphire HD 4870 X2 Video Card Review

Unreal Tournament 3

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.

Radeon HD 4870 X2
Unreal Tournament 3 – 1680×1050 – Maximum Score Difference
GeForce 9800 GTX 112 16.67%
GeForce 9800 GX2 108 12.50%
GeForce GTX 260 106 10.42%
GeForce GTX 280 104 8.33%
Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 104 8.33%
GeForce 9800 GTX+ 104 8.33%
Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 96 0.00%
Radeon HD 4870 X2 96
GeForce 9800 GT 95 1.05%
Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2 84 14.29%
Radeon HD 3870 83 15.66%

 

Radeon HD 4870 X2
Unreal Tournament 3 – 1920×1200 – Maximum Score Difference
GeForce 9800 GTX 108 13.68%
GeForce 9800 GX2 106 11.58%
GeForce GTX 260 103 8.42%
Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 98 3.16%
Radeon HD 4870 X2 95
GeForce 9800 GTX+ 94 1.06%
GeForce GTX 280 91 4.40%
Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 89 6.74%
GeForce 9800 GT 80 18.75%
Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2 78 21.79%
Radeon HD 3870 75 26.67%
Radeon HD 4870 X2
Unreal Tournament 3 – 2560×1600 – Maximum Score Difference
GeForce 9800 GTX 92 1.10%
GeForce 9800 GX2 92 1.10%
Radeon HD 4870 X2 91
Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 78 16.67%
GeForce GTX 260 76 19.74%
GeForce 9800 GTX+ 63 44.44%
GeForce GTX 280 62 46.77%
Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 60 51.67%
GeForce 9800 GT 52 75.00%
Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2 51 78.43%
Radeon HD 3870 47 93.62%

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