Results

DirectX 10 really takes a VGA card to task with its advanced graphics capabilities in Crysis.  As we have all seen before, Crysis is a true blue system buster.  We have found that the HIS HD4850 IceQ4 Turbo moves along best within Crysis at 1024x768 with FSAA turned off and all settings set to 'High' for giving its best game play.

Crysis shows us not much difference between our three cards at this level.  As we have seen first hand however, the HD4870 pulls away once FSAA becomes enabled and the resolution

Assassin's Creed is a new game here in the Penthouse Labs.  It being DirectX 10 based helps us shift gears to the driving force behind new game designs.  All in game graphics settings were set at their maximum level with screen resolution set to 1920 x 1440 with FSAA was turned off through the Catalyst Control Panel as there is no in game setting to turn FSAA on or off.  This is a now standard bench setting we use here so these results will be comparable to other VGA reviews we've done.

Here we begin to see a little headway that the factory overclock of the HIS card allowed us.  Our overall frame rates were reflective of game play; the HIS HD4850 IceQ4 TurboX plays every bit as strong as did our reference design HD4870

Unreal Tournament 3 is our only DX9 based game.  Its graphics engine has a lot to challenge any VGA card however.  Using the Defiance map with 12 bots in Deathmatch we took a look at our card's performance.  All settings within the game were set to max with FSAA turned off through the Catalyst Control Panel as there is no in game setting to turn FSAA on or off.  Screen resolution was set to 1920 x 1440.

Again, a spread showing that the HIS HD4850 IceQ4 TurboX is for real, we are getting enough extra hootspa that clearly separates the HIS card from other HD4850s.

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Pg. 1 - Introduction
Pg. 2 - The Card
Pg. 3 - Test Bed/Benchmarks
Pg. 4 - Benchmarks
Pg. 5 - Image Quality/Overclocking/Conclusion