HIS (AMD) ATI Radeon HD 4830 512MB

Written by Tim Smalley

October 30, 2008 | 09:17

Tags: #4830 #benchmark #benchmarks #gpu #graphics-card #load #performance #power-consumption #radeon #tested #testing

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Devil May Cry 4

Publisher: Capcom

Devil May Cry 4 had a relatively quiet introduction to the PC back in February this year, bringing ludicrous demon hack and slashery to the graphical splendour that is DirectX 10. You play as Nero, a member of the Order of the Sword whose job it is to smash, slash and explode as many bizarre looking demons and beasties in the most stylish possible manner. There's a lot more plot in the full game, but damned if we understood much of it.

Devil May Cry 4 (or DMC4 for short) is part of Nvidia's "The Way It's Meant To Be Played" program, and received a significant graphic refit for its PC release. Featuring full Direct X10 support, and with dozens of enemies on screen, the game is surprisingly graphically intensive even when run on the most modern hardware.

We used the game's inbuilt benchmark suite, and have taken our scores from the second test, which is the most graphically intensive. Because DMC4's benchmarks are AI driven, and so subtly different each time they are run, we ran the benchmark three times and have taken an average score for test two as the results below. We tested at 1,680 x 1,050 with 8xAA, 1,920 x 1,200 with 4xAA and 8xAA and at 2,560 x 1,600 with both 4xAA and 8xAA.

Because DMC4 does not support anisotropic filtering as standard, this was forced to 16xAF in the graphics driver control panel.

HIS (AMD) ATI Radeon HD 4830 512MB Devil May Cry 4 HIS (AMD) ATI Radeon HD 4830 512MB Devil May Cry 4

Devil May Cry 4

1680x1050 8xAA 16xAF, DX10, Maximum Detail

  • ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2
  • ATI Radeon HD 4870 1GB
  • ATI Radeon HD 4870 512MB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 280
  • ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2
  • ATI Radeon HD 4850
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 260+
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 260
  • ATI Radeon HD 4830
  • Nvidia GeForce 9800 GTX+
  • Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT
    • 141.2
    • 80.2
    • 69.8
    • 66.6
    • 65.9
    • 60.3
    • 59.7
    • 58.3
    • 52.8
    • 50.2
    • 37.5
0
25
50
75
100
125
150
Frames Per Second
  • Average

Devil May Cry 4

1920x1200 4xAA 16xAF, DX10, Maximum Detail

  • ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2
  • ATI Radeon HD 4870 1GB
  • ATI Radeon HD 4870 512MB
  • ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 280
  • ATI Radeon HD 4850
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 260+
  • ATI Radeon HD 4830
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 260
  • Nvidia GeForce 9800 GTX+
  • Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT
    • 143.3
    • 80.8
    • 71.7
    • 68.2
    • 65.8
    • 60.6
    • 54.5
    • 53.3
    • 51.3
    • 41.7
    • 32.1
0
25
50
75
100
125
150
Frames Per Second
  • Average

Devil May Cry 4

1920x1200 8xAA 16xAF, DX10, Maximum Detail

  • ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2
  • ATI Radeon HD 4870 1GB
  • ATI Radeon HD 4870 512MB
  • ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2
  • ATI Radeon HD 4850
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 280
  • ATI Radeon HD 4830
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 260+
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 260
  • Nvidia GeForce 9800 GTX+
  • Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT
    • 134.8
    • 76.1
    • 67.6
    • 62.6
    • 56.6
    • 54.3
    • 50.5
    • 49.2
    • 44.7
    • 35.0
    • 31.0
0
25
50
75
100
125
150
Frames Per Second
  • Average

Devil May Cry 4

2560x1600 4xAA 16xAF, DX10, Maximum Detail

  • ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2
  • ATI Radeon HD 4870 1GB
  • ATI Radeon HD 4870 512MB
  • ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2
  • ATI Radeon HD 4850
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 280
  • ATI Radeon HD 4830
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 260+
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 260
  • Nvidia GeForce 9800 GTX+
  • Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT
    • 96.3
    • 55.4
    • 48.9
    • 43.7
    • 40.0
    • 38.0
    • 35.5
    • 31.7
    • 30.8
    • 21.9
    • 17.5
0
25
50
75
100
Frames Per Second
  • Average

Devil May Cry 4

2560x1600 8xAA 16xAF, DX10, Maximum Detail

  • ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2
  • ATI Radeon HD 4870 1GB
  • ATI Radeon HD 4870 512MB
  • ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2
  • ATI Radeon HD 4850
  • ATI Radeon HD 4830
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 280
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 260+
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 260
  • Nvidia GeForce 9800 GTX+
  • Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT
    • 87.9
    • 49.2
    • 44.1
    • 38.0
    • 33.5
    • 30.8
    • 29.1
    • 24.7
    • 24.2
    • 15.8
    • 13.5
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
Frames Per Second
  • Average

Despite being a part of The Way It's Meant To Be Played, DMC4 really favours the Radeon HD 4800 series at the moment - the Radeon HD 4830 is faster than Nvidia's similarly priced hardware by a country mile and it's faster than the GeForce GTX 260 in all but a few scenarios.
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