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- Date:
- Sunday , August 23, 2009
- Author:
- Matthew Krysiak
- Editor:
- Brent Justice
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ASUS EAH4770 FORMULA Video Card
The battle at $100 is fierce, and the new ASUS EAH4770 FORMULA thinks it can take on the challenge. This time around, we have included some of the latest games including Arma II and Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood. We also squeeze every amount of performance out of the ASUS 4770 FORMULA using third party apps to achieve the best overclock possible and see if it makes any difference in real world gameplay.
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
In Call of Juarez Bound in Blood both video cards were playable at the same settings of 1920x1200, no AA, 16X AF, and the highest in-game settings. As we will see next in the apples-to-apples section trying to raise the resolution up to 2560x1600 on either of the video cards proved to be disastrous with them both taking huge framerate losses.
Unfortunately raising AA also proved to be a no-go since Call of Juarez Bound in Blood doesn’t have an in-game AA option and neither video card is capable of forcing it on in the Control Panel. The bright side though is that Call of Juarez Bound in Blood already does a full screen AA by way of the "Post Process Quality" setting. This softens the aliasing on objects and even reduces it on transparent textures like foliage, which helps reduce the need for a standalone AA option.
Being playable at the highest in-game settings and with a resolution of 1920x1200 obviously meant we had a great time with both of the video cards despite them being $100 cards. The NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 though did come out on top with an average FPS of 51.4 or 3 FPS higher on average the ASUS EAH4770 FORMULA.
Apples-to-Apples
For our apples-to-apples comparison in Call of Juarez Bound in Blood we used the same settings as before but raised the resolution to 2560x1600. At this resolution, both video cards simply couldn’t handle it. The ASUS EAH4770 FORMULA’s framerate went from an average 48.6 FPS down 18 to 30 FPS. The NVIDIA GeForce GTS’s framerate average dropped 19 to 32 FPS.
Image Quality
In the screenshot above, we can see that there are no image quality differences between the two video cards. Please disregard the lines on the roofs and around the water, these are the heat wave effect in the game.