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- Date:
- Monday , July 27, 2009
- Author:
- Brent Justice
- Editor:
- Kyle Bennett
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XFX Radeon HD 4770
We take our first look at a full retail boxed version of the Radeon HD 4770 from XFX. We’ll test its overclocking ability, take its temperature, and see what kind of performance it puts out while taking it for a spin around the block in real world gameplay testing. This dual-slot Radeon HD 4770 has a lot to offer at an attractive price.
Burnout Paradise
Burnout Paradise has been an incredibly popular game on consoles. Now, with the PC version: Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box that great driving experience has been brought to the PC, as probably one of the best driving games out there. The graphics are visually appealing in this game, based on DirectX 9 but using features such as HDR, shadows, day/night time change and high resolution textures. We will simply be racing in this game for ten minutes making sure to do stunts, blast through bill boards and just simply play the game like it is meant to be played.
Highest Playable Settings
Note - This game has a 60 FPS cap that cannot be overcome, even with VSYNC disabled.
Burnout Paradise incredibly well on both video cards, with insanely high graphics settings considering the price of both video cards. We were able to take the XFX Radeon HD 4770 and GeForce GTS 250 up to a high 2560x1600 resolution with 2X AA enabled to boot. We had the game at the highest in-game settings and received a phenomenal gameplay experience on both video cards.
You will notice in the graph that the GeForce GTS 250 is actually able to maintain higher framerates throughout playing this game. The performance with it was pegged at the highest 60 FPS during the entire time. The XFX Radeon HD 4770 was technically slower, dropping down to the 30’s and up to the 50’s in framerate. However, all of this is still very much playable, and you could not tell this difference in framerate while actually playing the game.
We tried pushing both video cards to 4X AA at this resolution, but neither were able to perform well. We also tried a lower resolution at 1920x1200 and both video cards played at the same level of 8X MSAA. There was no visual difference between either video card in this game.
Apples to Apples
In our apples-to-apples testing we set both video cards to 1920x1200 at 8X MSAA and here are the results. Here we see the XFX Radeon HD 4770 dips a tad lower than the GTS 250, but still that drop is only down to 50 FPS, which is very high in the grand scheme of things.