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HIS Radeon HD 4870 CrossFire Video Card Review - GDDR5 Arrives

Manufacturer: HIS
Product: Radeon HD 4870
Date: Wed, Jun 25, 2008 - 12:00 AM
Written By: Nathan Kirsch -
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BioShock

BIOSHOCK on NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2

BioShock is a game published by 2K Boston/2K Australia, and designed by Ken Levine. The game is a PC and Xbox 360 title released on August 21, 2007 in North America. BioShock is a first-person shooter with role-playing game customization elements that was developed using the Unreal Engine 3.0 and is a DirectX 10 game title that is multithreaded.

BioShock Benchmark Settings

Since 2K didn't include a benchmark script or utility in BIOSHOCK, I used FRAPS version 2.9.2 to capture the frame rates for 240 seconds at scenes that I personally selected from the game. If you don't know anything about Bioshock, let me set the scene for you: After your plane crashes into icy uncharted waters, you discover a rusted bathysphere and descend into Rapture, a city hidden beneath the sea. Constructed as an idealistic society for a hand picked group of scientists, artists and industrialists, the idealism is no more. Now the city is littered with corpses, wildly powerful guardians roam the corridors as little girls loot the dead, and genetically mutated citizens ambush you at every turn and you get to kill them. Let's look at the benchmark results!

BioShock Benchmark Results

Benchmark Results: In BioShock, the GeForce 9800 GTX+ was beaten by the Radeon HD 4870 at both 1920x1200 and 1280x1024. CrossFire didn't seem to scale too well here, but we showed the results since performance went ever so slightly up.

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Review Index
Page 1 - The Radeon 4000 Series Officially Launches
Page 2 - A Closer Look at the Radeon HD 4870
Page 3 - Under The Heat Spreader
Page 4 - Retail Box and Bundle
Page 5 - The Test System
Page 6 - Tomb Raider: Anniversary
Page 7 - Company of Heroes
Page 8 - World in Conflict
Page 9 - S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
Page 10 - BioShock
Page 11 - Crysis
Page 12 - Call of Duty 4
Page 13 - Lightsmark 2007
Page 14 - 3DMark 2006
Page 15 - 3DMark Vantage
Page 16 - Temperatures
Page 17 - Overclocking
Page 18 - Power Consumption and Final Thoughts