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- Date:
- Monday , August 03, 2009
- Author:
- Matthew Krysiak
- Editor:
- Brent Justice
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ASUS EAH4890 TOP Video Card
Based on the Radeon HD 4890 GPU, the new ASUS EAH4890 TOP has numerous improvements over the reference design, including a new cooling solution and improved power circuitry. We compare it against a reference Radeon HD 4890 and a GeForce GTX 275 in the latest games including Call of Juarez Bound in Blood, Ghostbusters, and Demigod.
Call of Juarez Bound in Blood
After playing through Call of Juarez Bound in Blood we found that the first chapter to be the most demanding. Therefore, for our testing we are playing the first 5 minutes of this scenario. Here Ray makes his way through the trenches fending off union soldiers and then makes his way out to hunt snipers in a forested area.
Highest Playable Settings
Call of Juarez Bound in Blood is the latest addition to our game line-up and all three of these video cards were able to handle it without any problems. Each video card was playable at the highest settings possible: 2560x1600, No AA, 16X AF, and the highest in-game settings. Call of Juarez Bound in Blood doesn’t have any in-game AA options and forcing it in the control panels doesn’t work either. The bright side is that by setting "Post Process Quality" to normal it enables a type of full screen AA. This softens the aliasing on objects and even reduces it on transparent textures like foliage.
It is obvious by being playable at the highest in-game setting that we had great time on all three video cards. The only thing that differentiates these video cards is the average FPS. The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275 came in first with an average 50.2 FPS then the ASUS EAH4890 TOP at 49.3 FPS, three FPS faster than the AMD Radeon HD 4890 at 46.5 FPS.
Image Quality
The image above shows that there is no image quality difference between the ASUS EAH4890 TOP and the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275.