AMD Radeon HD 4890 RV790 and GeForce GTX 275 Review

Call of Duty: World at War

Call of Duty: World at War is a WWII-based shooter built on the Call of Duty 4 engine with a little flair added.  The game is unique in the genre as it sets the game at the Pacific stage rather than the much more common, and less controversial, European front. 



For our testing with CoD: WaW we ran through the level of the game shown above while recording in FRAPS to get our frame rate comparisons below.  The game plays almost exactly like CoD 4 (a good thing) so our testing methods were reliable and repeatable. 





The new Radeon HD 4890 1GB card is definitely an improvement over the existing HD 4870 cards on the market, even with 1GB of frame buffer on those as well.  Average performance increases by 13-15% over the various resolutions from 1600×1200 to 2560×1600.  The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275 sees a nice 15% gain at 1600×1200 but only speeds up by about 7% as the resolution increases.  That being said, the GeForce GTX 275 is actually a faster card at that top resolution.