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Sapphire Radeon HD 4670 512MB GDDR4 Video Card Review

Manufacturer: Sapphire
Product: HD4670 512MB
Date: Tue, Jul 07, 2009 - 12:00 AM
Written By: Austin Hamann -
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The Test System

The Test System

The test system was running XP Professional with Service Pack 3 and all available Microsoft updates. The Sapphire 4670 was using ATI Catalyst 9.3 drivers due to artifacting on new drivers, and the ASUS 9600 GSO was using nVidia Geforce 181.20 Cuda Drivers for the same reason. All results shown in the charts are averages of at least three runs from each game or application used. 


The Video Cards

  • Sapphire Radeon HD 4670 – 512MB GDDR4 (750MHz/2200MHz)
  • ASUS Geforce EN9600 GSO TOP– 384MB GDDR3 (600MHz/1800MHz)

The test system used was a little more modest than the one ordinarily used for video card reviews, featuring an Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 'Wolfdale' clocked at 3.20GHz in an EVGA 750i FTW SLI motherboard with 4GB of system memory. The Corsair XMS2 2x2GB kit was used at stock speeds of 800MHz, and 5-5-5-18 timings. The E7200 was used with a MASSCOOL 8WA741 92mm Ball CPU Cooler. Keeping in line with the rest of the system being 'budget' based, this tower cooler rings in at just $23 and keeps the chip at good temps even at a nice stable 3.2 GHz; this is an underclock compared to normal use, but rock solid. Powering the system is the Corsair TX750W Power Supply with a single 60Amp 12v+ rail.

  Test Platform
 Component  Brand/Model Live Pricing
 Processor  Intel Core2 Duo E7200
 Motherboard  EVGA 750i FTW
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 Memory  4GB Corsair DDR2 800MHz
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 Video Card
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 Hard Drive
  Western Digital Raptor
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 Cooling  MASSCOOL 8WA741 92mm Ball Click Here
 Power Supply
  Corsair TX750W
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Operating System
 Windows XP Professional SP3
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Now that you know the rest of the system used, we can continue on with the testing.

Next Page - Call of Duty 4


Review Index
Page 1 - The Budget Minded Sapphire Radeon HD 4670
Page 2 - Retail Box and Bundle
Page 3 - A Closer Look
Page 4 - The Test System
Page 5 - Call of Duty 4
Page 6 - Crysis Warhead
Page 7 - Race Driver: GRiD
Page 8 - Need For Speed: Undercover
Page 9 - Left 4 Dead
Page 10 - Colin McRae: DiRT
Page 11 - 3DMark06
Page 12 - Final Thoughts & Conclusion