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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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TrustedReviews NewslettersWhat can we say about Counter-Strike: Source that hasn't already been said before? It is quite simply the benchmark for team-based online shooters and, five years after its release, it's still one of the most popular games in its genre. It focuses on small environments and incredibly intensive small-scale battles with one-shot kills the order of the day. If you want to test all elements of your first person shooter skills in one go, this is the game to do it.
We test using the 64-bit version of the game using a custom timedemo taken during a game against bots on the cs_militia map. This has a large amount of foliage and is generally one of the most graphically intensive maps available. We find a frame rate of at least 60fps is required for serious gaming as this game relies massively on quick, accurate reactions that simply can't be compromised by dropped frames. All in-game settings are set to their maximum and we test with 0xAA 0xAF, 2xAA 4xAF, and 4xAA 8xAA.
As we're beginning to see more and more often, Counter-Strike: Source really doesn't pose a threat to graphics cards of this calibre. There's simply nothing to choose between the three cards on test.
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Sean Groarke said on 3rd April 2009
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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DrkZ said on 17th April 2009
So, whats better; HD 4870 or HD 4890?
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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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