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The GTX 260 is faster than 4870

The problem was he only used synth benchmarks and 1 game benchmark (that favours Nvidia). In that game it was actually slower than the lesser clocked 4870.. so not quite sure what's going on there.

I fully appreciate his frustration about his 4870 crashing, but as mentioned previously by someone else, it isn't an 'apples to apples' comparision.

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I think all the OP was trying to say/prove is that contrary to popular opinion, there is very little real difference between the two cards.

Every other post on this forum seems to indicate the 4870 is the faster better value card. The OP has attempted to balance the bias by providing his personal experience, rather than gossip.

I bet very few people have owned both cards, so OP is in a better position to comment than most.
 
If I can get hold of a BFG 280 for £250 I think I might give one a whirl.

Any chance of a 10% off voucher OcUK ? For the good of the cause :)
 
555BUK said:
I guess others could argue using 8xAA and 16xAF is also bias because ATI is good in that area. But point taken.
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well not quite, because one card was working as intended and the other wasn't in addition to cherry picked results

I sympathise he couldn't get it to work on his rig, and this would possibly point to a persistent problem on ATI's part for a specific hardware set (Asuming people with the problem are sending feedback)
 
Dun dun dun...

Updated my OP with new benches. After using EVGA Precision tool i managed to get the GTX 260 stable at 700MHz core, 1470 Shaders, and 1270 mem - a very nice OC. So i've redone the earlier benches with these settings aswell.

And yeah i know some a pretty crap games but i simply cannot find benchmark software for some of the more popular stuff.

At the end of my post your'll also find a bit about the difference in image quality i noticed with ATI and Nvidia while doing all the card swapping and testing.


My 4870X2 came today so now i'm finally going to go play with that after doing all this **** for way too many hours... hope you lot appreciate it!
 
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sanofi said:
Thats what I'm wondering, shouldn't all these comparisons be done with the stock settings? Why bring overclocking into the equation, its just going to cause more problems?
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Err?! thats the whole point of this thread....

We all know the 4870 IS faster than GTX 260 with them both at stock. A ton of articles show this.

The point of this is to show that the GTX 260's are great clockers and can atleast match even a overclocked 4870.
 
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MR.B said:
Err?! thats the whole point of this thread....

We all know the 4870 IS faster than GTX 260 with them both at stock. A ton of articles show this.

The point of this is to show that the GTX 260's are great clockers and can atleast match even a overclocked 4870.
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You forgot to get the thread title changed.

GTX260 is faster than the 4870 when you click the GTX260 high but its not at stock.


As the title is trying to say the GTX260 is faster than a 4870.

So you have a great clocking GTX260? and only an average clocking 4870 as some get to 1200 on the memory and 850+ on the core.

My results with that lightmark only give me 309 at 1280x1024 and at 830/1000 which is odd I'm so lower, but on the other hand my crysis results are higher.
 
willhub said:
You forgot to get the thread title changed.

GTX260 is faster than the 4870 when you click the GTX260 high but its not at stock.


As the title is trying to say the GTX260 is faster than a 4870.
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You're right it's a little misleading, so if a mod could add "when overclocked" on the end of that thread title that would be great...
 
Chronictank said:
It was kind of self inflicted though, since he posted an innacurate title based on flawed information

It should have been "gtx 260 works better on my system as i couldnt get the 4870 to work" rather than a blanket statement
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The 4870 does work, and gets the exact frame rates and scores it should be getting, you can compare my 3Dmark/lightmark scores to other similiar systems to see this ... only thing is it just sometimes crashes.
 
I cant compared them to see which is faster, in lightmark I'm slower by about 30+fps than your 4870 and in Crysis I'm faster as I get 26.32fps.

My 3dmark is also lower than yours but I have a dual core etc...
 
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