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4850 Benchmarks Thread

jmpage2

jmpage2

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Please report gaming/performance benchmarks in this thread, as the thread for 4850 shipping status, etc, is too difficult of a place to have this conversation.

I will copy a few previously reported benchmarks into this thread.
 
barefeats said:
Originally Posted by barefeats View Post
Thanks to Tom Dahl, a member of this forum, I have some 4850 X-Plane benchmark results (vs other GPUs) to share....

Running X-Plane Demo 9.22 benchmark using a recorded 1 min flight of the X-15 dropped from a bomber, it produces results for three phases. Averaging these, we get....
iMac with GeForce 8800 GS = 70 fps
iMac with GeForce 130 GT = 71 fps
iMac with Radeon HD 4850 = 101 fps

Here's how the 2009 Mac Pro with various GPUs compares:
GeForce 120 GT = 43 fps
GeForce 8800 GT = 42 fps
Radeon HD 3870 = 154 fps
Radeon HD 4870 = 154 fps

It appears from the Mac Pro numbers that X-Plane "favors" ATI GPUs so don't draw too much from this. Hopefully we'll have results for a whole spectrum of graphics apps to share soon.
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above from barefeats.
 
OpenGL benchmarks with 3.06ghz iMac and 4850 card;

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Originally Posted by barefeats View Post
If some of you want to lay some groundwork on the 4850 vs others 3D OpenGL performance, I recommend running OpenGL Extensions Viewer's test at 1920x1200 and/or 1280x800 at 32 bit fullscreen, standard framebuffer, 4x Multisampling, 8X Anisotropy, Use Fog, Benchmark, and Transparency enabled.

Here's the link for downloading the app:
http://www.realtech-vr.com/glview/download.html

For example, just looking at the OpenGL 2.1 result for the 2009 iMac 3.06GHz with GeForce 130 GT, I get...
124 fps at 1920x1200

The 2008 iMac 3.06GHz with GeForce 8800 GS gets...
123 fps at 1920x1200

The 2009 Mac Pro 2.93GHz Nehalem 8-core with Radeon HD 4870 gets...
179 fps at 1920x1200
I just did the set-up that you described (at 1920x1200 on my 3.06GHz 4850 system). Here are the results:

Test 1.1 362 FPS
Test 1.2 363 FPS
Test 1.3 356 FPS
Test 1.4 340 FPS
Test 1.5 277 FPS
Test 2.0 282 FPS
Test 2.1 131 FPS

Here is a screen-shot of the Viewer's settings and results:
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo...eat=directlink
 
DELTASnake said:
I've been playing Dawn of War II all day in bootcamp. I have it turned up to high at 1920*1200. Even with it being a demanding game the 4850 held up great with a constant high frame rate, no dips in frame rate I noticed.
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DoW II, can you get a framerate measurement?
 
That's nice but it would keep the clutter to a minimum if we would keep responses in this thread for Radeon 4850 Benchmarks Only.

Thanks.
 
jmpage2 said:
That's nice but it would keep the clutter to a minimum if we would keep responses in this thread for Radeon 4850 Benchmarks Only.

Thanks.
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The Mac Pro benchmarks are interesting to me because our readers on BareFeats.com want to see comparison of the Mac Pros with new iMacs. We have an iMac 3.06 with Radeon 4850 on order but it hasn't arrived as of today.

Tom Dahl, a member of this forum, was kind enough to run X-Plane at our request. We posted those results along with competing Macs on this forum.

If any of you want to run more gaming benchmarks on either an iMac with Radeon 4850 or any other iMac model that might be compared to it, we'd love to share our test procedures and test files with you.

If you have any of the following Mac games and are want to run benchmarks on your iMac, send me a private message:
Call of Duty 4
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
Halo
Prey
Quake 4
Doom 3
Unreal Tournament 2004
World of Warcraft
 
barefeats said:
We have an iMac 3.06 with Radeon 4850 on order but it hasn't arrived as of today.
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I've been awaiting Barefeats' test of the iMac 4850 with great anticipation. Hopefully you'll get your machine soon so you can test it before mine ships. :D
 
LagunaSol said:
I've been awaiting Barefeats' test of the iMac 4850 with great anticipation. Hopefully you'll get your machine soon so you can test it before mine ships. :D
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Me too seeing a few people have got there 4850 system I thought I would see more benchmarks here. I think to see a run down of the system Barefeats review is the one to wait for.
 
barefeats said:
The Mac Pro benchmarks are interesting to me because our readers on BareFeats.com want to see comparison of the Mac Pros with new iMacs. We have an iMac 3.06 with Radeon 4850 on order but it hasn't arrived as of today.

Tom Dahl, a member of this forum, was kind enough to run X-Plane at our request. We posted those results along with competing Macs on this forum.

If any of you want to run more gaming benchmarks on either an iMac with Radeon 4850 or any other iMac model that might be compared to it, we'd love to share our test procedures and test files with you.

If you have any of the following Mac games and are want to run benchmarks on your iMac, send me a private message:
Call of Duty 4
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
Halo
Prey
Quake 4
Doom 3
Unreal Tournament 2004
World of Warcraft
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Fair enough. I was just trying to avoid what happened the last time when everyone posted benchmarks for every random Mac on the planet.

It's been somewhat frustrating that a good number of these machines are out there and we have almost zero benchmarks to date.

We do appreciate all you do and I'm sure your up coming benchmarks for this machine will be outstanding.

It would also be nice to see a few benchmarks under Boot Camp with some of the more taxing Windows games such as Crysis. It would be nice to know that this iMac will be able to play Crysis at a decent resolution.
 
ok, not a normal benchmark, but some people might like :

Counter Strike: Source on Crossover 7.2

Video stress test
1920x1200
Model detail : High
Texture detail: High
Shadows : high
AA : None
Full

163.51 FPS.

Also TF2, smooth as butter

Finally, Civ4 Warlords, full res+details, works like a treat - no slow down.
 
GonzoRob said:
ok, not a normal benchmark, but some people might like :

Counter Strike: Source on Crossover 7.2

Video stress test
1920x1200
Model detail : High
Texture detail: High
Shadows : high
AA : None
Full

163.51 FPS.

Also TF2, smooth as butter

Finally, Civ4 Warlords, full res+details, works like a treat - no slow down.
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Any other game performance you or others can share?
 
GonzoRob said:
ok, not a normal benchmark, but some people might like :

Counter Strike: Source on Crossover 7.2

Video stress test
1920x1200
Model detail : High
Texture detail: High
Shadows : high
AA : None
Full

163.51 FPS.

Also TF2, smooth as butter

Finally, Civ4 Warlords, full res+details, works like a treat - no slow down.
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Thats disappointing for a $22xx machine, hope they release new "drivers" to fix freezes and increase performance
 
Crysis Performance

from d510r said:
2xAA, High settings, 1280x1024
30fps under normal play
35fps if you're looking out at detailed scenery
25fps during crazy explosions, multiple North Koreans

Add about 4-5 for removing 2xAA
Add about 5-10 for dropping to medium detail.

Rather unscientific tests but if you let it choose optimal settings which are the top figures it runs nicely.

I've recorded some video if you would like me to post a youtube clip.
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mastershakess said:
Thats disappointing for a $22xx machine, hope they release new "drivers" to fix freezes and increase performance
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If you're buying any iMac for gaming performance you will probably be disappointed. The 4850 iMac just disappoints a bit less than the other iMac models.
 
Just finished playing a couple of hours of Left 4 dead in Windows XP via boot camp 1920x1200 all high settings very high shaders, anisotropic 16x and it maintains really high frames. Even when the action gets high and you have dozens of zombies coming at you the 4850 iMac never drops frames.
 
ronel129 said:
Just finished playing a couple of hours of Left 4 dead in Windows XP via boot camp 1920x1200 all high settings very high shaders, anisotropic 16x and it maintains really high frames. Even when the action gets high and you have dozens of zombies coming at you the 4850 iMac never drops frames.
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Thanks for the impressions. What, in your opinion, is "high frames"? Are we talking constantly 30+, constantly 60+ or something ridiculous like a constant 100+ fps?

Thanks!
 
mattcube64 said:
Thanks for the impressions. What, in your opinion, is "high frames"? Are we talking constantly 30+, constantly 60+ or something ridiculous like a constant 100+ fps?

Thanks!
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I agree. This is the game I'm most interested in when playing on bootcamp. Do you know how to show fps in HL2 based games?

In Advanced Keyboard Settings
Enable '~' Developer Console

Then in game, press '~' "no quotes"
Enter 'cl_showfps 1" and press Enter. The frame rate should pop up in the corner.
 
Ill try those commands out for you and see the exact numbers of frames. From looking at it it feels and it seems like its doing above 50+ but ill get you guys the exact number when i play it later on today.
 
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