Radeon HD 4870 X2, HD 4850 X2 Faster and Better Than GeForce GTX 295, 285: AMD

Wednesday, January 21st 2009

AMD started its marketing offensive against NVIDIA's new dual-GPU GeForce GTX 295, and single-GPU GeForce GTX 285 accelerators, in an attempt to put the Radeon HD 4800 X2 series accelerators ahead of its competition in terms of performance on a "broad scale", and used the cards' availability in non-reference designs as a USP against NVIDIA's offerings using a uniform company-specified design. All this, in an internal presentation leaked to Donanim Haber. As for those wondering why, ATI and NVIDIA have a history of picking on each others' flagship products by means of such presentations, with which they intend to influence OEMs and channel vendors, though it always happens so, that these presentations reach public domains. Viral marketing or something plausible? Find out for yourself:

Source: Donanim Haber

posted by btarunr - 2:10 PM | Related News |

User comments

by evil_raptor (2:16 PM) - Reply

u got to be kidding right? :laugh: GTX 295 pwns them all :rockout:

by pabloc74 (2:27 PM) - Reply

that's funny, because this screenshots are from ati-amd, make me laugh:laugh::laugh::laugh:

by kid41212003 (2:28 PM) - Reply

They used the highest resolution which is the weak point of GTX 295, because of its limited memory vs 1GBx2 of ATI cards. I think this is believable.

by evil_raptor (2:28 PM) - Reply

by: pabloc74
that's funny, because this screenshots are from ati-amd, make me laugh:laugh::laugh::laugh:

:roll:

by Exceededgoku (2:30 PM) - Reply

Lol that was a good laugh :), I especially like how the GTX285 has 480 shaders to HD4870 X2s 1600 shaders and the shader horsepower is 1.78 to 2.4 teraflops respectively! Surely the 4870 X2 should dominate in this respect...

by evil_raptor (2:36 PM) - Reply

read this review: http://www.guru3d.com/article/geforce-gtx-295-review-bfg/

by lemonadesoda (2:38 PM) - Reply

Disingenuous marketing. :shadedshu At a technical level so many of those figures are wrong in terms of better performance. The comments are as stupid as saying 100 arrows are better than 1 machine gun, because 100 > 1.

by Noggrin (2:39 PM) - Reply

LOOOOL, those pics made me ROFLMAO.. also i feel bad for amd, they sunk to a new low..:laugh:

by omiknight52 (2:40 PM) - Reply

From looking at the review the gtx 295 is not in most game benchmark's that faster then the 4870 x2. I admit it scores better but still not worth it My feelings.

by AlCabone (2:42 PM) - Reply

How come the slides don't mention power consumption? :D

by DrPepper (2:47 PM) - Reply

by: AlCabone
How come the slides don't mention power consumption? :D

Because no one really cares about power consumption :D

by kysg (2:52 PM) - Reply

and yes unfortunately ATI has to nitpick at nvidia. They gotta do something this time to keep from getting their rears from being handed to them again on a silver platter. Couldn't be anyworse than what some other companies do...

by The Witcher (2:52 PM) - Reply

god damn O_o I never knew that AMD were so stupid like that. I guess they think that we are so unintelligent to the point that we won't even recognize their BS ?! This made me lose my respect for AMD, they were so direct and rude -.- They could get sued for this right ? This thing reminds of the latest Asus VS Gigabyte war xD In the end AMD will apologize :P (Too many thoughts in my mind right now :P)

by Xiphos (2:52 PM) - Reply

this is good for AMD :p marketing is where it's at

by lemonadesoda (2:56 PM) - Reply

Just a few random examples to even the boat little: Call of Duty 5

BiA: Hells Highway

Crysis Warhead

Performance Summary from TPU

by my-id (2:56 PM) - Reply

Hi Guys May be AMD-ATI has something we don't, and that's ATI CCC 9.1. so we will wait for new driver from AMD.

by TRIPTEX_CAN (2:57 PM) - Reply

Why is ATI saying anything about the 4850x2? They don't even write drivers to support the card. Sapphire has to support them. ATI crippled the launch of the 4850x2 just to help the 4870x2 sales. ATI is blowing smoke out of their a$$... Where is Catalyst 9.1? instead of trying to rain on Nvidia's parade ATI should go back to work on their own drivers.

by Laurijan (3:00 PM) - Reply

AMD´s statement that the 285 doesnt offer anything new compared to the 280 is wrong cause its 55nm technology thus cooler..

by soldier242 (3:02 PM) - Reply

come on guys, nvidia does the same thing ... and i see it reasonable that the 4870 x2 does quite good in ultra high resolutions and with AA & AF turned all the way up

by PVTCaboose1337 (3:13 PM) - Reply

I hate the dirty marketing between companies... so sad. We all know the GTX295 pwns.

by phanbuey (3:18 PM) - Reply

lol... this is like the "true quad core performance boost over Core 2" barcelona screenshots... I wonder how much theyre paying baghdad bob to come up with these.

by Laurijan (3:19 PM) - Reply

by: phanbuey
lol... this is like the "true quad core performance boost over Core 2" barcelona screenshots... I wonder how much theyre paying baghdad bob to come up with these.

lol Badhdad Bob

by [I.R.A]_FBi (3:31 PM) - Reply

by: kid41212003
They used the highest resolution which is the weak point of GTX 295, because of its limited memory vs 1GBx2 of ATI cards. I think this is believable.

It acts as 1 GB

by adrianx (3:36 PM) - Reply

so....your test are with out AA the test from the thread are with AA 8X so... let compare same apple ... not an apple with an EGG

by Weer (3:36 PM) - Reply

Wow, that's just cheap. They purposefully set Crysis @ 2560x1600 with 4xAA, knowing that at exactly that setting the GTX 295 crumbles only because of memory capacity, and then yell at our faces bluntly provoking the lie that the 4870X2 is better. Simply unbelievable.

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