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AMD ATI Radeon HD 4770 Review
| Author | Edward Chester |
| Published | 30th Apr 2009 |
| Manufacturer | ATI |
| Price | £67.93 (Exc VAT) |
| as reviewed | £78.12 (Inc VAT) |
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TrustedReviews NewslettersWhile 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.
It's a pretty close run thing but it's clear that the ATI HD 4770 holds an advantage over its two closest rivals in this title. Admittedly, all the cards are borderline playable at these high settings but, even at 1,920 x 1,200, it would only take dropping a few in-game detail settings to reach a steady and playable framerate.
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Bill Broadley said on 1st May 2009
Kinn said on 1st May 2009
Shame about the fan noise. Been looking to get a quiet card for the media center.
Would be great if you guys did a roundup of some quiet/fanless cards.
anshul said on 13th May 2009
i have a pentiumD 820 can i even get 60-70% performance as most games are gpu dependent.i am quite satisfied running games at 1280X720
Jens Kjærsgaard said on 17th July 2009
If noice is an issue - use passive coled graphics cards.
I use ASUS - and play fps-games (Bioshock, GTA4, Battlefiels etc.) with no problems...
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Very frustrating. The review is for a card that sounds great, especially in the quiet department, "on the whole this card was incredibly quiet with it being whisper quiet whe... more