Monday, June 30th 2008
Two R700s Churn-out X12515 in 3DMark Vantage
AMD, Austin have managed a benchmark score of X12515 in the 3DMark Vantage benchmark using two Radeon HD4870 X2 cards in CrossfireX, a feat that takes three GeForce GTX 280 cards in 3-way SLI to achieve. The R700 boards were clocked at 778 MHz core, while the GDDR5 memory was clocked at 980 MHz QDR (effectively 3.92 GHz). This brings the total on-board video bandwidth to a stellar 250.8 GBps.With inputs from TG Daily
157 Comments on Two R700s Churn-out X12515 in 3DMark Vantage
I think the Vantage eXtreme score of the 2*R700 will turn out better then what is shown in the OP BUT it will fall behind 3*GTX280.
That said, if 2*R700 come close to 3*GTX280, that will mean total defeat to nVidia's because it would mean that nVidia would need 3 cards to beat ATI's 2 cards (i'm not talking cores here) and, on top of that, ATI's cards will be cheaper, which makes it even worse.
Also, and i believe this to be VERY relevant: does anyone know if that ATI score was made with the physX thingy? If it wasn't, ...
ATI should be working on their version of physX drivers or whatever you call it to try and make an appropriate response to CUDA, no?
...so I could feed the news with a little more detail.
I posted "physX thingy" because, @ present, there's that modified something to enable physX on ATI, besides Havok.
thats just on 2,66ghz ;)
www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/71821/
s3 made some god cards of their time (savage4, savage 2000)
also for this just for those who don't know because of the new interconnect chip you can run 4 4870X2s together for octafire
One thing is though Nvidia drivers arn't mature either, and these cards do not preform like they should for being double a G92, so i think time will tell what happens
None of the drivers are fully worked out, and none of the capabilites of either line of cards has been seen yet b/c there really isn't the proper software to test it. In a few months things should look clearer, I'm hoping ati takes the next couple of rounds though, I like their prices much better. :D
I'm sorry, but after reading through this thread, I fell out my chair laughing at that post! :laugh: and that right there gives this new ATI series some serious ass-kicking leverage; if we can see what 2 R700s pull, dollar for dollar, you're still far under the closest 1337 performance offering from nVidia . . . and even if nVidia did manage something to compete or outdo the 4870x2, for starters it'd probably produce more heat and noise (if not be dubbed Chernobyl and slapped with a radioactive sticker and MSDS sheet), and would probably be priced close to twice that of the 70x2 . . . think about it, how much of a performance difference would there have to be over the 4870x2 to justify twice the cost as being viable to both manufacturers and consumers? And to bring in a product like that at current $600-$700, nVidia would have to wrist-slash the price of all their other cards.
Sorry, but this GPU series round goes 100% to ATI! stuttering? What stuttering do you speak of?
Oh! you must be talking about within Crysis, right?! Hell, that's the only game that takes 5min of additional load time with a single card once the map is loaded up, and 5.5min with dual cards.
Seriously, though, I rarely experience any amount of stutter that detracts from a game.
But all valid points.
all that matters is performance and price