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Product Application:

PCI-e Video Card
Product Provided by: Sapphire

Available at:

Newegg

Estimated Online Price:

$79.99

Availability:

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Review by:

Paul

Edited by:

Scott

Review date:

9/22/2008

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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
Sapphire 4670 Overclocked
Performance 3844
High 2173
Extreme 1352

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

  1280 x 1024 1680 x 1050 1920 x 1200
Sapphire 4670 Default
Min 10.0
Max 49.3
Avg 25.2
Min 8.9
Max 36.5
Avg 22.8
Min 7.0
Max 28.8
Avg 19.1
Sapphire 4670 Overclocked
Min 11.1
Max 49.3
Avg 28.1
Min 8.3
Max 36.6
Avg 19.8
Min 7.3
Max 30.5
Avg 19.4

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.

  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

  1280 x 1024 1680 x 1050 1920 x 1200
Sapphire 4670 Default
Min 15.6
Max 62.0
Avg 41.8
Min 12.0
Max 60.8
Avg 33.3
Min 9.3
Max 54.1
Avg 28.0
Sapphire 4670 Overclocked
Min 18.5
Max 62.3
Avg 42.8
Min 12.2
Max 60.8
Avg 34.3
Min 10.0
Max 56.6
Avg 28.9

Company of Heroes with the DX10 patch was benched with the settings on medium and the AA at 4x. 

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