Sapphire HD4890 1GB Atomic PCI-e Video Card

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. 

For the purposes of our bench, we will be testing with the Performance, High, and Extreme Presets.  Here are our results:

Vantage Performance:

In this review, I have decided to directly compare the Atomic directly to the Toxic at both "stock" and overclocked speeds.  In Vantage Performance, the 4890 Atomic at stock takes on the Toxic with a 3.1% lead, and unsurprisingly, the overclocked Atomic only leads by 0.5%.  

Vantage High:

On the High Preset, the Atomic Stock outperforms the Toxic by 3.6%, and overclocked, the Atomic outperforms the Toxic by 2.62%.  . 

Vantage Extreme:

On the Extreme Preset, the Atomic stock beats out the Toxic by 4.5%, while at the overclocked settings, the Atomic winsby 3.1%. 

3DMark06:

Futuremark's 3dMark06 has long been the go-to benchmarking tool when it comes to synthetic benchmarking.  Love it or hate it, there is no question that 3DMark06 has been the measuring stick of video card performance industry wide for several years.

I will be using Version 1.1.0 professional.  The free downloadable version can be found here.

In 3DMark06, the stock Atomic beats out the Toxic by 1.7%, while the overclocked Atomic actually loses to the Toxic by 1.5%. 

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