Monday, July 14th 2008
Radeon HD 4870 X2 Previewed, AA Performance a Trump Card
HardOCP previewed the ATI Radeon HD4870 X2. In the preview it was pitted against a single BFG GeForce GTX 280 OC (overclocked) and Crossfire X setup using two cards was pitted against two GeForce GTX 280 cards in SLI. Across variable settings, the HD4870 X2 was compared to the GTX 280. In Crysis the competition was neck-to-neck while the ATI cards returned marginally lower average frame rates. In Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures, the ATI cards outclassed the NVIDIA cards significantly, where the Anti-Aliasing (AA) performance of the cards proved to be a trump-card, with the cards returning over 30% performance increments in both single and Crossfire X configurations over the GeForce GTX 280 OC and its SLI configuration. With the AA bottleneck reduced, the R700 is a monster. Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures shows what this card is truly capable of, the author of the preview goes on to use "AMD AA Performance FTW" to head a write-up on the AA system. AMD has reworked AA and also a new mode that doesn't tax the video memory as much has been added. The total of 2 GB GDDR5 memory only helps this cause.
The card in Crossfire X peaked 700W though not much is revealed with the power-testing. You can read the article here.
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The card in Crossfire X peaked 700W though not much is revealed with the power-testing. You can read the article here.
95 Comments on Radeon HD 4870 X2 Previewed, AA Performance a Trump Card
I'm actually more looking forward to the 4850x2, since I only game in 1680x1050.
Any idea how the 4850x2 will be released compared to the 4870x2? (before, after, simultaneously)
-Indybird
Watch how the R700 pwns XFX GTX 280 XXX.
and the only real compare is 9800GX2 (it is faster than 280GTX)
Also, if the GTX280 is the same size as a 4870X2. Imagine the size of a GTX280GX2! :eek:
Don't forget people, AMD and nvidia have gone about this different ways. Nvidia has a massively powerful but expensive single GPU. AMD has two less powerful and less expensive GPU's. Who cares. It has to be down to price/performance ratio. Even if nvidia do bring out a GX2 of the 280. (if they can fit it all onto one PCB) it will probably still be cheaper to buy two 4870X2's.
price comparisons are all very well but its STILL a dual card beating a single card ,obviously its going to win and yet your all raving over the fact its winning ,its bound to win fgs.
ive np with ATI beating nvidia at all i just think its very unfair the way you all compare cards on price rather than dual v single,some ppl simply dont want a dual card.
some ppl cant have a dual due to PSU limitations or just dont like them,and a single card is preferred,in which case the 280 wins regardless of the price difference.
How would it be fair to compare a GTX280 GX2 against a 4870X2, when the GX2 would likely cost almost twice as much? That's like saying it's fair to compare a 2600Pro against an 8800GT.
If the GTX280 and 4870X2 had the same performance, same power consumption, same size and same heat. But the 4870X2 was $100+ cheaper. Which would you pick?
anyway i respect ppls opinions even if i think they are wrong,so im not going to argue about it,just stating wat i think.
and for the record i will not buy a dual card from either camp be it ATI or nvidia or any1 else.