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GTX 470 Vs 5870 Benchmarks...

rhys216

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Those earlier benchies may be true!
So looks like the 470 is only 2 FPS faster in unigine in Tessellation but ironically sucks at games that use Tessellation.

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=148597

Out of curiosity can anyone post up a 5970 benchmark with the same settings?

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I saw these elsewhere last night, not very impressive at all imo, I doubt that one of these cards will be making their way into my rig when they get released.

I'm gonna wait until they hit the shelves to see what kinda price tag they're going to have, and hope that ATi lower their prices a little bit so that I can sell on my 280's and buy a 5870 instead.
 
I still expect the 470 will edge out the 5870 in many games but still be pretty close overall. This is based on the assumption that NVidia would not release a GTX470 with sub 5870 performance. After all, they have had 6 months to tweak the clock speeds and specufcations to exceed known oposition. I also guestimate GTX480 will be a good 10-20% faster than 5870 in most games.

I have been wrong before......
 
When you look at it, the 480 is barely an improvement over the 285/295....

So much for gfx cards doubling in performance with a new line of architecture.......

ATI must be laughing themselves silly knowing that a few mths after Fermi launches, they can come to market with an improved 58xx refresh and regain the performance lead, at little extra cost.
 
Kribby2006 said:
Doesnt the i7 at stock in both cases maybe change things? Would both setups get higher FPS with an overclocked cpu?
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Unigine quotes your processor at stock speed despite it being overclocked.
Besides I just checked and my Q6600 @ 3.2ghz = the 5870 benchmarks so the CPU has little impact.

My 5870 on 10.2 might checkout the 10.3
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Also remember that ATI has steadily improved 58xx performance with new driver releases. The soon to be released 10.3's reportedly show good increases in new and old games so there is no reason to believe NVidia's drivers are the finished product yet.

I am an ATI 5850 (soon to be crossfired) owner, but I do hope GTX4xx performs well. Competition is good for prices and future devopment. When one side dominates, the consumer gets a sore bum.
 
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If we use those figures and put them into the context of the 480 graph taking into account the slight difference in res and settings... then the GTX480 would appear to be around 51-52% faster than the GTX470 on average (tho I'd have put it closer to 40-45% myself) which would put it just behind the 5970 (using average crossfire scaling 60-70%). Which puts up nice results for the heaven benchmark and dirt2 but would still be somewhat dubious in crysis... tho I find those crysis results a little odd.
 
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That's a little disappointing be honest, I've been waiting ages for this! The GTX 480 better be priced at most £400 with that performance. Anything over and it's a HD 5870 for me!
 
555BUK said:
Also remember that ATI has steadily improved 58xx performance with new driver releases. The soon to be released 10.3's reportedly show good increases in new and old games so there is no reason to believe NVidia's drivers are the finished product yet.

I am an ATI 5850 (soon to be crossfired) owner, but I do hope GTX4xx performs well. Competition is good for prices and future devopment. When one side dominates, the consumer gets a sore bum.
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I do feel that most people will not be able to buy a 470 never mind a 480 because of limited stock, how long that goes on for is any body's guess out side nvidia.
If you thought 58** stock was bad wait until 470/480,i just feel for most they will not be able to buy one even if they wanted one.

i do think their drivers will get a lot more out of them in the next few months
 
Surprised knowbody has pointed out the fact that although the 480 results show no higher FPS than the 5870, they are at least more stable (better avg FPS) according to the graph, so the card although not faster, may at least give a smoother game play ?...
 
rpg said:
That's a little disappointing be honest, I've been waiting ages for this! The GTX 480 better be priced at most £400 with that performance. Anything over and it's a HD 5870 for me!
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This is about what I would expect tbh, once the dust settles the 470 will probably perform within a few percent either faster or slower than the 5870 as thats been the target for the card in that bracket.
 
Cooper said:
Same Uniengine demo.....1080p


Geforce 480 vs 5870
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Not exactly earth shattering is it.......
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Based on that graph it looks brilliant...

The GTX480 is consistently over 35fps with a single small dip to 32fps, whilst the 5870 spends most of its time in 17-30fps region.
 
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