HIS ATI Radeon HD 4870 1GB IceQ4+ Turbo

Written by Tim Smalley

January 19, 2009 | 15:11

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Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway

Publisher: Ubisoft

While it hasn’t been as successful as Activision’s Call of Duty: World at War, Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway is still a fine game in its own right, continuing the Brothers in Arms franchise with the allied invasion of Holland during Operation Market Garden.

The combat is heavily squad reliant, with the players forced to use cover and covering fire to pin the enemy down and advance against their positions, with coordinated flanking tactics more important than pin point aim in achieving victory.

Running in the ever popular Unreal Engine 3, BIA:HH makes use of high resolution textures, destroyable cover and depth of field to deliver a highly detailed and convincing portrayal of wartime Holland. It's one of the most visually impressive Unreal Engine 3 implementations we've seen to date - a credit to Gearbox, the developers.

For testing we manually play through a section from the “Operation Market” chapter, with all in-game settings set to high. Unfortunately Unreal Engine 3 does not allow us to set anti-aliasing or anisotropic filtering from in game. Anisotropic filtering was forced to 16x in the driver and anti-aliasing just isn't supported at all - when we tried forcing it in the driver, it made no difference to image quality or performance.

HIS ATI Radeon HD 4870 1GB IceQ4+ Turbo Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway

Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway

1,680 x 1,050 0xAA 16xAF, DirectX 9, Maximum Detail

  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 280 1GB SLI
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 295 1,792MB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 260-216 896MB SLI
  • Zotac GeForce GTX 285 1GB AMP!
  • ATI Radeon HD 4870 1GB CrossFire
  • ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 2GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 285 1GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 280 1GB
  • HIS ATI Radeon HD 4870 1GB IceQ4+ Turbo
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 260-216 896MB
  • ATI Radeon HD 4870 1GB
  • ATI Radeon HD 4870 512MB
    • 97.6
    • 82.0
    • 96.5
    • 78.0
    • 95.9
    • 75.0
    • 93.3
    • 74.0
    • 92.2
    • 72.0
    • 91.5
    • 72.0
    • 88.9
    • 66.0
    • 83.9
    • 66.0
    • 78.1
    • 63.0
    • 75.5
    • 58.0
    • 74.9
    • 59.0
    • 74.7
    • 59.0
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Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway

1,920 x 1,200 0xAA 16xAF, DirectX 9, Maximum Detail

  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 295 1,792MB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 280 1GB SLI
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 260-216 896MB SLI
  • ATI Radeon HD 4870 1GB CrossFire
  • Zotac GeForce GTX 285 1GB AMP!
  • ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 2GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 285 1GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 280 1GB
  • HIS ATI Radeon HD 4870 1GB IceQ4+ Turbo
  • ATI Radeon HD 4870 1GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 260-216 896MB
  • ATI Radeon HD 4870 512MB
    • 96.3
    • 77.0
    • 95.9
    • 82.0
    • 94.3
    • 75.0
    • 85.2
    • 63.0
    • 84.4
    • 66.0
    • 83.5
    • 56.0
    • 80.3
    • 63.0
    • 72.4
    • 58.0
    • 67.5
    • 57.0
    • 65.4
    • 55.0
    • 65.1
    • 51.0
    • 64.9
    • 55.0
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Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway

2,560 x 1,600 0xAA 16xAF, DirectX 9, Maximum Detail

  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 280 1GB SLI
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 295 1,792MB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 260-216 896MB SLI
  • ATI Radeon HD 4870 1GB CrossFire
  • ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 2GB
  • Zotac GeForce GTX 285 1GB AMP!
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 285 1GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 280 1GB
  • HIS ATI Radeon HD 4870 1GB IceQ4+ Turbo
  • ATI Radeon HD 4870 1GB
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 260-216 896MB
  • ATI Radeon HD 4870 512MB
    • 89.4
    • 73.0
    • 83.9
    • 66.0
    • 78.9
    • 63.0
    • 66.6
    • 53.0
    • 64.1
    • 51.0
    • 60.5
    • 48.0
    • 56.2
    • 45.0
    • 50.6
    • 41.0
    • 46.3
    • 38.0
    • 44.1
    • 36.0
    • 43.7
    • 35.0
    • 43.3
    • 35.0
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The Radeon HD 4870 1GB and GeForce GTX 260-216 perform very similarly in Hell's Highway right across the board - there's nothing in it at all. What the HIS Radeon HD 4870 1GB IceQ4+ Turbo's increased clock speeds do is improve performance by up to five percent, depending on the resolution - it works out at roughly two frames per second and that's something that you're not going to notice in a blind taste test.
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