Testseek.com have collected 22 expert reviews of the Sapphire Radeon HD 4890 1GB GDDR5 PCIe 21150-00-40R and the average rating is 84%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Sapphire Radeon HD 4890 1GB GDDR5 PCIe 21150-00-40R.
April 2009
Experts 84% 22 Reviews
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
General quality, Rich bundle, Good price/performance ratio, Rather cool and silent,
Almost no overclocking possible
At present, the Radeon HD 4890 is no longer is the most powerful graphics-GPU from AMD ATI. With the release of the HD 5800 series, the prices of the HD 4800 series models have been reduced considerably, reason why it is a wonderful opportunity to acqu...
No Cool Sticker, Reference Heat Sink A Little Lacking
Many of you will say, "All the HD 4890 is, is an overclocked HD 4870". In some regards you are right. But who honestly runs 850MHz core on an HD 4870 without extreme cooling? Not even my non reference HD 4870 can get through a round of Vantage, let al...
Exceeds GTX 285 performance on most games, RV790 GPU offers exceptional overclocking headroom, Outstanding performance for high-end games, Supports DirectX 10 and Shader Model 4.1, 850 MHz RV790 GPU (overclocks past 900 MHz), 1 GB of 975 MHz GDDR5 vRAM...
Fan noise can grow to a noticeable level under full load, Maximum postprocessing Anti Aliasing is limited to 8x, 65W power consumption at idle, 268W under load, Exposed capacitors are easy to disturb
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Across the board weve seen some good gains from the HD 4890 when compared to the HD 4870. With that said, though, its not next generation gains, which is fine since ATI chose to keep the card a part of the HD 4800 series. If they had come out and ...
So with all that being said, how does the 4890 stack up? First off, it is a worthy update to the 4870. In all categories that matter, it is either better or the same as the 4870. Obviously, it is better in terms of performance, power consumption an...
Abstract: It feels like an age since we last saw a genuinely brand-new architecture from either AMD or NVIDIA, and if thats what youre looking for from this launch then Im afraid its time to be disappointed. RV790 may be a new core in name, but its clearl...
Very solid performance increase over HD 4870, 1 GB of memory, 3DMark full version included, Dual voltage controllers make voltmods obsolete, Cooler blows hot air out of the case
Noisy, No architectural improvements, No support for CUDA / PhysX
AMD HD 4890 Series is a solid upgrade from the HD 4870. In our testing we see a performance increase of 13% when averaged over all benchmarks and all resolutions. Considering the core clock increase is 13.3% from the HD 4870, I see the theories confirm...
Performance, Excellent overclocking, Low temperatures, Improvement over prior gen, HDMI output via dongle, Price...
Noisy fan...
With a new generation core based on the architecture of the R770 and improved memory management, the R790 based HD 4890 offers higher clock speeds and better performance against the previous generation ATI video cards across the board. However, it fal...
We mentioned at the beginning of this review that in today’s marketplace innovation through the maturing of existing technologies would be the way to success. Even though their new architecture is still some time away, ATI knew that they needed a ca...
Cool running temperatures, good overclocking potential, audio passthrough, decent performance
Loud, not the best single GPU on the market
Providing big performance with a little price, ATI’s Radeon HD 4890 graphics card is a step up from the Radeon HD 4870 with a minimal cost increase. It isn’t the fastest card available, but it will run the latest games without problems. ...
