HIS HD 4830 Fan (Full HD 1080p) HDMI

THE BENCHMARKS

3DMark06 & 3DMark Vantage

We will start off with 3Dmark06 and 3Dmark Vantage.

There's no big surprise in 3Dmark06. The HD 4830 just trails the GeForce 8800GT (and thus the 9800GT) slightly but the difference is very slim.

In 3Dmark Vantage we see the absurd CPU-score that you get when using a newer GeForce card (with accelerated physic support in drivers). I haven't followed the drama but last I heard Futuremark would not accept this. The actual GPU-score is slightly lower on the 8800GT than on the HD 4830.

Crysis:Warhead

Crysis: Warhead is a stand-alone expansion of the demanding PC-game Crysis released earlier this year. Just like Crysis, Crysis: Warhead needs a beefy machine to work. We used the HardOC benchmark program to bench the game and selected the Airfield-map for the test.

The GeForce 8800GT and the HD 4850 leads the pack with the HD 4830 starting to slip away when we increase the resolution. The framerates is really crappy though meaning that we still need to start turning off stuff just to get playable framerates.

 Devil May Cry 4

Devil May Cry 4 is yet another demanding PC-game. Luckily it has a benchmark mode which was used for this test.

The AMD-cards have a firm lead in DMC4. The engine seems to favour AMD. There is a big gap between the HD 4850 and the HD 4830, something we haven't seen in other games.

World In Conflict

The last game we have benchmarked is World In Conflict, a great but short  RTS with excellent graphics.

The HD 4830 trails the HD 4850 and the GeForce 8800GT but crushes the HD 4670.

Power Consumption of the whole system

Last but not least we measured the power consumption of the system while it was just sitting at the Windows desktop ("Idle") and while running 3DMark Vantage at 1920x1200 ("Under load").

The HD 4830 isn't a power saver itself but does not go through the roof either. The HIS 4830 seems to need a few extra Watts.  We're not sure whether it is the fan that needs a few more Watts or something else.