Racedriver: GRID (DirectX 9)

Racedriver Grid looks great with a good graphics card driving it. All settings were maxed out to Ultra or High (as applicable) along with 8xMSAA and 16xAF at 1680x1050 for both the 4870 and the 5770. For the 4850, we had to drop down to 4xMSAA but to it's credit it still puts in high numbers. In this one game at least, the HIS 4770 has a pretty clear win, although during actual play, you would be hard pressed to tell the difference between the 4870 and the 5770.

Batman: Arkham Asylum (DirectX 9)

Batman is a new game to me, and I've actually not got much further than the start, but I wanted to at least show some numbers for this UT3 engine based game. We don't have numbers for the 4850 card, but we do have for both the 4870 and of course the 5770. The benchmark is only around 90 seconds long, so the frames from about the 95 second mark onwards are looking at the results. There is little in the way of graphic control within the game so we set things up within the CCC instead, and got the above scores with 4xMSAA, 16xAF at 1680x1050. Again, the 5770 and 4870 are virtually identical in scores, with the 4870 winning by a nose (hair).