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4890 it's finally here, check it out.
You guys have been waiting for it, here is the RV790,
the newest card from ATI. Very very nice performer,
very high frequencies. It's basically pretty much the RV770 GPU
which is the same thing, it's 55nm but somehow they managed
to get this card with much higher frequencies.
They managed to overclock it and they gave it
a lot of overclocking head-room so very very powerful card.
Your 4870s were clocked at 750, these things are clocked at 850
so an entire 100 megahertz jump and they're very very overclockable
so even if it's only 850 it's very easy
to get it to 900, 925, 950, maybe even higher.
Now just so you know XFX has three cards out right now.
This is the standard edition. This is the fastest card,
this is the *** edition, this like their top dog
but very expensive, well not very expensive but expensive
and then here is the extreme edition,
this is the more like standard overclocked.
This is, so this is actually, this is 850, this is 875,
and this is 900 megahertz GPU. Ok did you see that?
Ok? 875, 900 and 850 down here at the bottom.
So today we're looking at this one, because that's the cheaper one
and most of you guys out there know how to overclock your graphics cards
so you might want to just get this one
because it's a little bit more affordable and do it yourself.
850, wasn't hard to get this thing over 900 megahertz overclocking it,
you use the ATI Catalyst control panel,
you go to ATI Overdrive and crank it up, problem solved.
So a really good card, let's talk a little bit about it.
Now you already know the the shaders and the GPU in an ATI video card
4800 series are always the same, they're matte so 850 for the GPU,
850 for the ALUs and then on top of that
the memory is clocked very high as well,
again it's a gigabyte of GDDR5, it's 1024 megabyte
and that is clocked at 3900 megahertz, that is really fast.
3.9 gigahertz memory is no joke so lots of good stuff.
You can overclock that as well.
Now besides that let's give you a quick look at what's in the box.
You get a composite cable, so this will do 1080i out to your TV,
no audio or RCA jacks. This is I'm sorry not composite,
this is component. You also get this,
this is a 6-pin, 4-pin molex to 6-pin PCI Express, you get two of those
because you do need 6-pin PCI Expresses for this card.
You get the HDMI to DVI dongle, very useful
since this card does support UVD, which is the Unified Video Decoder
so you can do HDCP, you got HDMI support,
7.1 channel lossless audio can go through here as well.
It will blu-rays and 1080P content off the web no problem.
You also get this 15-pin DSub to DVI converter
and you also get of course your very famous Crossfire Bridge
because you can run these in Crossfire,
pretty much you just snap these on right here
and boom you link two cards together
and now you've got double the performing power.
Crossfire scales very well and so you can increase your performance
anywhere from 40 to probably close to 95% increase in performance
by doing that. Direct X 10.1, Shader Model 4.1, OpenGL 3.0
which is new, it does utilize that. It's got two Dual-Link DVIs,
those are right there, those will do 2560 by 1600 lines of resolution.
Those are using 400 megahertz RAMDACs
you also got that 7-pin s-video right there to use.
You've got 40 texture units on here and 16 ROPs just like on the 4870
so there's nothing special there. Pretty much the back of the board
looks all about the same. There are a few differences,
I couldn't really find them right now,
but there are a few capacitors that are in different places
but almost everything is the same. Everything else is a 4870
just more overclockable, more tweakable
and with better power efficiency. It does the better power stuff
using something called ATI Power Play
which is actually a program that comes with it,
part of the drivers and that underclocks the card
to save, you know power depending on how you are using it.
So that is very good and also really cool about this 4890
is again you get double lifetime warranty from XFX
so it's really good and in the box, right over here, see it?
That's what's in the box, Hawks. That's the new Tom Clancy game,
it's a flight simulator, a combat flight simulator.
Very fun to play, very easy.
if you're into like Flight Simulator 10 you'll like it,
but if you're into like a first person shooter you'll like it too
because it's like a basic, more basic flying game.
Also I forgot one thing that also is in the box
is this composite to s-video dongle converter thing.
I really hope nobody uses this, why would you want to output to 480P?
I don't know, maybe to like some 3D glasses,
one of those monitor glasses in your eyes, whatever they're called,
Vuzix maybe. Those are maybe, 480P kind of weak.
You definitely would be getting very high benchmarks with this card.
Speaking of benchmarks let's talk about some of those
because we've got quite a few.
We're going to show you Tom Clancy Hawks,
it's a comes-with-it, Far Cry 2, Crysis Warhead and Fallout 3
on 22 and on 24 inch resolutions. If you have under 22 or 24 inch
this card is probably a little bit too much for you.
The benchmarking setup is a Core i7 965, 4 gigahertz Corsair,
1866 megahertz memory DDR3, triple channel, 6 gigabytes
but it's running at 1600 with 7-7-7-24 with the 1T command line
so it's overclocked but underclocked. The latencies went down,
the frequencies went down, the latencies went up,
I don't know, whatever. Two X25-M solid state drives in RAID 0,
Vista Home, actually Vista Ultimate 64-bit
and that's it. That's pretty much how we did it.
So here are those benchmarks at 22 and 24 versus the 4870
and the GTX 260. Looking at Tom Clacy Hawk at 1680 by 1050,
the GTX 260 did it 54 frames per second,
the 4890 did 63 frames per second so you got a 9 frame per second jump.
At 1920 by 1200 the GTX 260 did 37
the 4890 did 49 frames per second so that's pretty awesome.
Moving on to Far Cry 2 these are maxed out settings,
8x AA, 16x AF, everything else set to the maximum
Also we're using the latest Catalyst 9.4 drivers
and we're also using the AMD Fusion set up under the expert profile
so that gives you the most amounts of performance gains.
Far Cry 2 a very very very NVidia based game.
51 frames per second for the GTX 260, 43 frames per second for the 4890
so if you're a Far Cry 2 player this is not the card for you perhaps.
At 1920 by 1200 the amount was different,
it was 38 frames per second vesus 45 for the GTX 260
so it didn't do as bad, comparably. Crysis Warhead, DirectX 10
in gamer mode with no eye candy, AA and AF were both turned off.
1680 by 1050 or your native 22 inch resolution,
42 frames per second for the GTX 260, the 4890 did 44 frames per second
so slight improvement there. At 1920 by 1200
the GTX 260 did 32 frames per second, the 4890 did 35 frames per second
so nice jump there as well. Moving on to Fallout 3, game of the year,
maxed out settings, HDR on, ultra-high quality, 22 inch resolution
the GTX 260 did 63 frames per second,
the 4890 destroyed it at 72 frames per second.
Moving on to 1920 by 1200 or your native 24 inch resolution,
the GTS 260 did 47 frames per second, the 4890 did 64 frames per second
again destroyed it and these things are very overclockable
so those benchmarks can only go up if you overclock and you really can,
over 900 megahertz with this card so really good stuff.
It comes at 875, to get to 900 is cake.
If you want to download RivaTuner you can go even about 900 no problem.
ATI limits you a little but, just keep going,
raise the roof. Good stuff. 4890 ATI XFX,
this is your regular standard reference board,
overclock it yourself. Good deal, if you have any questions email me,
I'll see you guys next time.
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