Sapphire Vapor X

Other Results

Overclocking

Using Catalyst Control Centre and by testing the card using Crysis as a benchmark I managed to overclock the Vapor-X 4850 to a fairly impressive 700mhz on the GPU and 1.2ghz on the Memory.

This is an overclock of 12% on the GPU and 21% on the memory.

As this overclock was done using Catalyst Control Centre, I was limited to this overclock being the maximum. I therefore tried to overclock using the card further using ATiTool and Rivatuner, however, the software didn’t seem to recognise this card.

Overclocking Results

Below are the results from the graphics card running Crysis at stock clocks and then at overclocked.

The performance increase is 15%. This isn’t bad for a moderate overclock.

Noise

I predicted that being a fairly large card, the Vapor-X 4850 would be noisy. However, I was pleasantly surprised when I booted it up to find no increase in noise from my 9500GT at all. Infact, I’d be quite inclined to say I noticed a decrease. Score one for the Vapor X.

Cost

This 512mb GDDR3 version of the Vapor-X 4850 can be bought in the UK for a small sum of £135. This is certainly a very competitive price for a graphics card of this performance.

As noted in the review, the 9500GT is half the price of this card and the GTX 285 is more than double the price. While the performance difference between the 9500GT and 4850 is fairly substantial; the difference between the GTX 285 isn’t huge. This suggests the Vapor-X 4850 certainly offers more bang for the buck than the more expensive nVidia card.

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