Sunday, November 11th 2007
AMD Internal Benchmarks Show HD 3850 Supremacy
Well, the charts speak for themselves really. The 3850, which should be less than $200USD when it is released later this month, completely slaughters the intended competition, which includes the HD 2600XT, and the NVIDIA GeForce 8600GTS. The 3850 also holds it's own against the HD 2900XT.
The last images show RV670 supremacy in DirectX10 rendering.
Source:
VR-Zone
92 Comments on AMD Internal Benchmarks Show HD 3850 Supremacy
Fact is that you cannot go wrong with either card, this is what the true mid range cards should be.
However this isn't always the case, companies like Sapphire, BFG, etc. that make GPU's based on nVidia/ATI chipsets make custom coolers as well to provide to the enthusiast market. Hence stock coolers from AMD/nVidia/Intel are crap the majority of the time.
But you also have to remember that before these heatsink designs are approved these cards go through simulation testing and realtime testing to verify that the heatsink can provide the right cooling power. So basically these cards are tested inside and oven that is heated to within a few degrees of the failing point and if it cant provide enough cooling power, they go to the next design. To think that they just pick a heatsink out of a hat and throw it on a card is just silly, you dont trust your whole product platform too a chunk of copper and a 22 cent fan.
3rd parties change the cooling to distinguish themselves from one another, each company has its fine print that states they will not cover any damages done to the card due to running it out of specification or any physical modifications done to the card. But they know your gunna overclock em, and if they can put a good cooler and the card it rules you having to change the cooler, because when your removing a cooler and adding a new one, thats usually when people damage the card, either by improperly mounting the heatsink, chipping the core, knocking a capacitor loose, etc.
But knowing that these companies (all all companies) are ready and willing to cut cost at any corner they can, its easy to understand that sometimes your gunna get the cheapest and most simple heatsink thats gunna do the job, because its easier to make than a big elaborate 3 heatpipe copper monster like the stock hd2900 series heatsink :p
Both Ati and nVidia PR departments should be fired... What a mess up, so sad, seeing their latest cards having such price to performance ratios...
if you check...MSI has built a 790 board that will support 4 dual slot 3870s
oh and to the few people that said rv670 is an r600 with lower TDP...that doesn't even make sense...it's totally different, it's a new design...fabbed in a totally different place, at 55nm...it's like comparing a 7800gtx to an 8800gtx, and saying they are the same, except for power consumption...
and to all the performance crown junkies...stock speeds don't count...if you don't overclock, you're wasting your money...low power consumption goes hand in hand with heat output...and both of those relate directly to the size of the die...i don't foresee any throuble with an overclocked 3870 being able to surpass the 8800gt...the GT's run hot enough stock, i can't see an overclock helping it any...