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The Vaporizer - Sapphire Vapor-X HD 4890 2GB GDDR5

By Kenny Yeo - 6 Aug 2009

Test Setup

Test Setup

Windows Vista SP1 Test System

  • Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6850 (3.00GHz)
  • Gigabyte X38T-DQ6 motherboard
  • 2 x 1GB DDR3-1333 Aeneon memory in dual channel mode
  • Seagate 7200.10 200GB SATA hard drive
  • Windows Vista Ultimate with SP1

We'll be comparing the Sapphire Vapor-X HD 4890 closely against the previously reviewed PowerColor PCS+ HD 4890 Battle Forge Edition . Although the PowerColor card comes with higher clock speeds, it will serve as a good reference point as both cards feature customized cooling solutions and both come factory-overclocked. We'll also be putting in a reference clocked Radeon HD 4890. And from the green camp, we have the usual suspects of NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 275 and GeForce GTX 260 Core 216, the Radeon HD 4890 primary rivals.

  • Sapphire Vapor-X HD 4890 2GB GDDR5 (Catalyst 9.6)
  • PowerColor PCS+ HD 4890 Battle Forge Edition (Catalyst 9.5)
  • ATI Radeon HD 4890 1GB (Catalyst 9.5)
  • NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275 896MB (ForceWare 185.63 Beta)
  • Palit GeForce GTX 260 Sonic 216 SP (ForceWare 181.20)
  • NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 (ForceWare 181.20)
  • ATI Radeon 4870 512MB (Catalyst 9.1)

The cards were tested using the following benchmarks:

  • Futuremark 3DMark06
  • Futuremark 3DMark Vantage
  • Crysis Warhead
  • Far Cry 2
  • Unreal Tournament 3
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