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first 4870 review

Looking pretty good if the price is right (ie. lower than GT260).

My money has already gone to the green team though, AMD should have thought about releasing it last week when NVidia did and I would have had a choice to make.

The Physx support still gives NVidia cards an edge in my opinion until AMD offer support for it, although admittedly not many games use it yet.
 
mmj_uk said:
Looking pretty good if the price is right (ie. lower than GT260).

My money has already gone to the green team though, AMD should have thought about releasing it last week when NVidia did and I would have had a choice to make.

The Physx support still gives NVidia cards an edge in my opinion until AMD offer support for it, although admittedly not many games use it yet.
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I am not sure PhysX gives Nvidia the edge as the 4870 is looking to be way cheaper.

I personally would not buy a GTX 260/280 because I can get CF 4850 to beat a 260 and 4870 to beat a 280 at similiar prices.

AMD have done well this round, Nvidia have shot themselves in the foot by becoming lazy. Outside of such forums, midrange is king, I wonder what the ratio of 280s to 4850s sold etc, I am not quite sure having the "brute fastest" card is that important anymore.
 
Though if these results are to be belived then we can consider the 4870 to by high end :p at least in performance figures and not market price
 
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