Catalyst 10-2 Performance Analysis featuring Win 7 and 4870 series
Test Configuration
Test Configuration – Intel Hardware Core i7
- Intel Core i7 920 reference 2.66 GHz and overclocked to 3.8 GHz); Turbo (21X multiplier for 3.97 GHz of a single core) is on.
- Gigabyte EX58-UD3R (Intel X58 chipset, latest BIOS, PCIe 2.0 specification; CrossFire 16x+16x).
- 6 GB OCZ DDR3 PC 18000 Kingston RAM (3×2 GB, tri-channel at PC 16000 speeds; 2×2 GB supplied by Kingston)
- ATi Radeon HD 4870-X2 (2GB, reference clocks 750/900) by VisionTek
- ATi Radeon HD 4870 (1GB, reference clocks 750/900) by ASUS
- Onboard Realtek Audio
- 250 GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 hard drive
- Silent Pro 600 watt power supply supplied byCooler Master
Test Configuration – Software
- ATi Catalyst 10-1 and 10-2; highest quality mip-mapping set in the driver, Catalyst AI set to “Standard”
- Windows 7 64-bit Home Premium; very latest updates
- DirectX August 2009.
- All games are patched to their latest versions.
- vsync is off in the control panel and is never set in-game.
- 4xAA enabled in all games and “forced” in Catalyst Control Center for UT3; all in-game settings at “maximum” or “ultra” with 16xAF always applied
- All results show average, minimum and maximum frame rates except as noted.
- Highest quality sound (stereo) used in all games.
- Windows 7, all DX10 titles were run under DX10 render paths
The Benchmarks
- 3DMark06
- Vantage
- Far Cry 2
- Crysis
- F.E.A.R.
- Unreal Tournament 3
- PT Boats Demo
- World in Conflict
- Call of Juarez
- Half Life 2
- Left4Dead
- Lost Planet
- Call of Duty 4
- X3:Terran Conflict
- Enemy Territories: Quake Wars
- ARMA2
- H.A.W.X.
- Battleforge
- Dirt 2
- S.T.A.L.K.E.R., Call of Pripyat
- Resident Evil 5
- Heaven (Unigine)
