Legit Video Card Reviews

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275 Versus ATI Radeon HD 4890

Manufacturer: ATI
Product: GeForce GTX 275 and Radeon HD 4890
Date: Thu, Apr 02, 2009 - 01:00 AM
Written By: Nathan Kirsch -
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Tom Clancy: H.A.W.X.

Call of Duty: World At War

Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X. (High Altitude Warfare eXperimental squadron) is an aerial warfare video game developed by Ubisoft Romania and published by Ubisoft for Microsoft Windows. It was released in United States on March 6, 2009 and features Microsoft DirectX 10.1 game play.

Call of Duty: World At War

For this game VSync was turned off, but Antialiasing was turned on and set to 8x for better image quality.

Call of Duty: World At War

All of the DirectX 10 options were set to high including Ambient occlusion (SSAO) on both the NVIDIA and ATI graphics cards.  All of the ATI cards tested had DirectX 10.1 enabled, as in the real world anyone owning one of these cards will have the feature enabled for better performance and improved image quality.

Call of Duty: World At War

Benchmark Results: Tom Clancy's H.A.W.K. is a game that was just released this month and it does much better on ATI Radeon 4800 series graphics cards as you can see in the chart above. The Sapphire Radeon HD 4890 OC was 48% faster than the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275 reference board in this benchmark at 1920x1200 with 8x AA enabled. The graphics in Tom Clancy's H.A.W.K. are very stunning and if you like aerial combat games this is one title that is worth a look.

Next Page - 3DMark Vantage


Review Index
Page 1 - NVIDIA and AMD - Spring 2009 Cards Arrive
Page 2 - The Radeon HD 4890 OC and 4890
Page 3 - The ASUS Retail Box and Bundle
Page 4 - The GeForce GTX 275
Page 5 - The Test System
Page 6 - Crysis Warhead
Page 7 - Far Cry 2
Page 8 - Stalker: Clear Sky
Page 9 - Call of Duty: World At War
Page 10 - Tom Clancy: H.A.W.X.
Page 11 - 3DMark Vantage
Page 12 - Power Consumption
Page 13 - Temperature Testing
Page 14 - Radeon HD 4890 Overclocking
Page 15 - Final Thoughts and Conclusions