HIS HD 4650 iSilence 4 512MB

PERFORMANCE

3DMark06 V. 1.1.0

As expected, the HD4650 places itself between the HD4550 and the HD4670.

3DMark Vantage

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The newest video benchmark from the gang at Futuremark. This utility is still a synthetic benchmark, but one that more closely reflects real world gaming performance. While it is not a perfect replacement for actual game benchmarks, it has its uses. We tested our cards at the 'Performance' setting.

In both Futuremark products, the HD4650 places itself between the HD4670 and the HD4550.

Crysis: Warhead

This game demands the most of your computer and that shows in our results. The game actually is CPU-bound at around 24 fps since that is what the faster cards like the HD4870 gets on our system at the higher resolutions. So, while the HD4670 does not loose too many frames, when we increase the resolution, the HD4650 starts to show that it already has problems at 1024x768.

World in Conflict Demo

In World in Conflict the HD4650 already starts dropping off at 1280x1024.

Far Cry 2

Even though the HD4670 easily beats the HD4650, the HIS HD4650 actually performs really well at the Medium quality setting and DX9. ~40 fps at 1280x1024 is not bad for this type of card.

When we add 4xAA and increase the quality level to high, the HD4650 really takes a beating and it is simply not feasable to play the game with these settings.

Something interesting happens when we switch over to DX10 from DX9. At the lower resolutions we see an ~20% increase in performance, making it feasable to play the game at least at 800x600 and possibly 1024x768. We see a strange spike at 1600x1200 and verified it by running the benchmark a few times, so we are not sure what is going on there. Still, at around 20-25 fps, the game isn't really playable at the higher resolutions.