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Synthetic Testing Continued...
3DMark Vantage
 3DMark® Vantage is the new industry standard PC
gaming performance benchmark from Futuremark, newly designed for
Windows Vista and DirectX10. It includes two new graphics tests, two
new CPU tests, several new feature tests, and support for the latest
hardware. 3DMark® Vantage is based on a completely new rendering
engine, developed specifically to take full advantage of DirectX10,
the new graphics API from Microsoft. 3DMark Vantage can also
test your video card in several different ways. We'll be
giving results for the Performance, High and Extreme tests.
| Sapphire 4670 Default |
| Performance |
3572 |
| High |
2025 |
| Extreme |
1252 |
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| Sapphire 4670 Overclocked |
| Performance |
3844 |
| High |
2173 |
| Extreme |
1352 |
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The HD4670 is able to handle all of the tests,
including the Extreme test. I'm still impressed that this
is a $79 card. I know that you may be used to seeing
scores a lot higher than this, but if that's what you are after
you're going to have to pay quite a bit more.
Real-World Gaming Benches
Call of Juarez
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1280 x 1024 |
1680 x 1050 |
1920 x 1200 |
| Sapphire 4670 Default |
| Min |
10.0 |
| Max |
49.3 |
| Avg |
25.2 |
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| Min |
8.9 |
| Max |
36.5 |
| Avg |
22.8 |
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| Min |
7.0 |
| Max |
28.8 |
| Avg |
19.1 |
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| Sapphire 4670 Overclocked |
| Min |
11.1 |
| Max |
49.3 |
| Avg |
28.1 |
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| Min |
8.3 |
| Max |
36.6 |
| Avg |
19.8 |
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| Min |
7.3 |
| Max |
30.5 |
| Avg |
19.4 |
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At the higher resolutions we
pushing the playability factor. However, the HD4670 performs
pretty well at the lower resolutions.
Unreal Tournament 3

Unreal was benched using the
benchmark program from HardwareOC with everything set on High.
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1280 x 1024 |
1680 x 1050 |
1920 x 1200 |
| Sapphire 4670 Default |
76 |
58 |
47 |
| Sapphire 4670 Overclocked |
83 |
63 |
51 |
Unreal Tournament is a DX9 game and the card
provides more than playable frame rates, even at the higher
resolutions.
Company of Heroes DirectX 10 Patch

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1280 x 1024 |
1680 x 1050 |
1920 x 1200 |
| Sapphire 4670 Default |
| Min |
15.6 |
| Max |
62.0 |
| Avg |
41.8 |
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| Min |
12.0 |
| Max |
60.8 |
| Avg |
33.3 |
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| Min |
9.3 |
| Max |
54.1 |
| Avg |
28.0 |
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| Sapphire 4670 Overclocked |
| Min |
18.5 |
| Max |
62.3 |
| Avg |
42.8 |
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| Min |
12.2 |
| Max |
60.8 |
| Avg |
34.3 |
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| Min |
10.0 |
| Max |
56.6 |
| Avg |
28.9 |
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Company of Heroes with the DX10 patch was benched
with the settings on medium and the AA at 4x.
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