System Setup and Benchmarks Used
For our review of the Radeon HD 4890 1GB and GeForce GTX 275 896MB graphics cards, we used the Vista portion of the test suite used recently in our Windows 7 gaming article. Obviously we pitted the HD 4890 and GTX 275 against one another, but we also included the HD 4870 1GB and GTX 260+ 896MB graphics cards in the mix as well as they are the most price competitive parts for the mid-range performance gamer.Our latest version of GPUZ mostly verified the results we were told from AMD and NVIDIA about these cards with just a few blanks we filled in on the previous pages.
We are now moving away from Core 2 as our platform of choice and on to the world of Nehalem, the Core i7. Our system is built around an Intel Core i7-920 2.67 GHz processor on an ASUS P6T6 WS Revolution motherboard that sports both the X58 chipset and the NVIDIA nForce 200 chipset with 4 full x16 PCIe 2.0 graphics slots should would test the extreme cases of GPU scaling. 6GB of Corsair DDR3-1600 memory are used as well and a PC Power and Cooling 1200 watt Turbo-Cool power supply keeps everything running 100% stable.
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Test System Setup |
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CPU |
Intel Core i7-920 @ 2.67 GHz
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Motherboards |
ASUS P6T6 WS Revolution X58 + nForce 200
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Memory |
Corsair 3 x 2GB DDR3-1600
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Hard Drive |
Western Digital VelociRaptor 300GB
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Sound Card |
Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Value |
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Video Card |
AMD Radeon HD 4890 1GB
GeForce GTX 275 896MB GeForce GTX 260+ 896MB Radeon HD 4870 1GB |
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Video Drivers |
NVIDIA: 181.71 and 182.08
AMD: Catalyst 9.3 |
| Power Supply | PC Power and Cooling Turbo-Cool 1200w
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DirectX Version |
DX10
/ DX9c
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Operating System |
Windows 7 Beta v7000 64-bit
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Our thanks go out to Corsair for the memory for our test bed, to PC Power and Cooling for the 1200w beast of a PSU for the system and to ASUS for the P6T6 WS Revolution motherboard.
- Call of Duty: World at War
- Crysis
- Far Cry 2
- Left 4 Dead
- World in Conflict
- 3DMark Vantage
