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AMD ATI Radeon HD 4890 Review

Author Edward Chester
Published 2nd Apr 2009
Manufacturer ATI
Price £204.34 (Exc VAT)
as reviewed £234.99 (Inc VAT)
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Features Score 7 for Features
Performance Score 7 for Performance
Value Score 8 for Value
Overall Score 8 for Overall
AMD ATI Radeon HD 4890
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While it hasn't been a huge commercial success and its gameplay is far from revolutionary, the graphical fidelity of Crysis is still second to none and as such it's still the ultimate test for a graphics card. With masses of dynamic foliage, rolling mountain ranges, bright blue seas, and big explosions, this game has all the eye-candy you could wish for and then some.

We test using the 64-bit version of the game patched to version 1.1 and running in DirectX 10 mode. We use a custom timedemo that's taken from the first moments at the start of the game, wandering around the beach. Surprisingly, considering its claustrophobic setting and graphically rich environment, we find that any frame rate above 30fps is about sufficient to play this game. All in-game settings are set to high for our test runs and we test with both 0xAA and 2xAA.







In line with its 13 per cent core clock speed increase, the HD 4890 shows a similar increase in performance in Crysis, opening up a comfortable lead over both the HD 4870 and GTX 260 throughout our testing. It's early days but this is certainly a good start for the HD 4890.

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comment Sean Groarke said on 3rd April 2009

On the one hand I sympathise with the difficulty of getting all the elements of a comparative review lined up, but plenty of other review sites had 4890 versus GTX 275 ready on Day... more

comment stranded said on 4th April 2009

"...nothing revolutionary enough here to tempt me from my HD3870 :)"
"You do realise even the HD 4870 is significantly faster than the HD 3870?"
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comment DrkZ said on 17th April 2009

So, whats better; HD 4870 or HD 4890?

comment Lucian Proctor said on 28th August 2009

Actually, you can reduce the memory clock manually at idle with CCC. It reduces the idle power by about 30 watts.

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