Testing:
The tests to be executed include one synthetic benchmark, four benchmarks integrated with 3D games, thermal testing, and power consumption testing. Each card was run through the following tests, and the system was rebooted between each run.
» FutureMark 3DMark Vantage
» PT Boats - Knights of the Sea
» Devil May Cry
» Company of Heroes - Opposing Fronts
» Call of Juarez
» Thermal Testing
» Power Consumption Testing
For comparison purposes the following two other video card configurations were tested head to head with the Sapphire Radeon HD4830 512MB graphics card:
» 1x
Sapphire Toxic 512MB Radeon HD4870
» 2x
Sapphire Toxic 512MB Radeon HD3870 in CrossFire
You may be thinking to yourself that it isn't fair to compare the Radeon HD4830 to these two 'high performance' setups; and I initially agreed. I thought it would be a blow out and that the HD4830's benchmark results wouldn't even show up on the same charts. While I didn't expect it to do as well as either of these configurations, it did do better than I expected, and we will see just how much this little card can do as we check out the results.
3DMark Vantage:
We'll start with
FutureMark's 3DMark Vantage where the complete suite of tests was executed in "High" mode. This uses a 1680x1050 resolution and high settings, and higher is better for all results reported.
The Radeon HD4830 may not be the best, but it didn't get embarassed. Using 3DMark is a quick and easy way to gauge the gaming performance of a video card, and the results tell me that it definitely has some potential.
