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5850,5850 in CF vs GTX 480 SOC Results

Sgt Tackleberry

Sgt Tackleberry

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Well After much thinking and toying with ideas what could be better then 5850 in crossfire i order the gtx 480 SOC to compare the the cards and see what is better.

This morning my gtx 480 SOC arrived. I uninstalled my my 5850's then installed the monster of a card the gtx 480!, install the latest drivers from the nvidia web site
once installed i restarted and started some benchmarking!.

My spec:

i5 760 @ 4ghz
4gb ram @1600mhz
650w antec psu

here are the results, sorry but there are no picture.

3d mark 05 Max setting,
single 5850 = 30149. 5850 in CF = 33914. GTx480 SOC = 33756

3d mark 06 Max setting,
single 5850 score = 5795. 5850 in CF = 9513. GTX 480 SOC = 9354

3d mark 11 default settings, (click on the one you want to view)

single 5850 5850 in CF GTx480 SOC

I love playing black ops and crysis both on the max setting at 1920x1080 res, here are my results from gaming.

Call of duty black ops @ 1080 res, max settings,
Single 5850 = min fps 50ish, max fps = 110ish, avg fps 80ish.
5850 in CF = min fps 70ish, max fps = 330ish, avg fps 180ish.
GTX 480 SOC = min fps 100ish, max fps 400ish, avg 190ish.

Crysis @ 1080 res, max setting
Single 5850 = min fps 15ish, max fps = 40ish, avg fps 25ish.
5850 in CF = min fps 25ish, max fps = 65ish, avg fps 41ish.
GTX 480 SOC = min fps 30ish, max fps 75ish, avg 45ish

So after much playing with both cards i can say that gtx 480 SOC is better then 5850 single and crossfire for gaming but for benchmarking the 5850 in crossfire wins but JUST!
As for temps on the gtx 460 SOC it ain't gone over 70'c and idels at 40'c.

So after all this i have to choose which one i have to keep what to sell as i have a wedding to pay for but i am going to play around some more 2night with them and
let you know how i get on but now i have got to go to work.

I hope this has help a few people.

Thanks,

Sgt T.
 
You're pretty much doing it wrong then, Crysis Warhead favours Nvidia slightly, Crysis 1 favoured AMD performance wise

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4209/amds-radeon-hd-6990-the-new-single-card-king/7

More recently you're looking at 25fps mins, just under 40 average for a single 5850.

just under 40fps mins and 50fps average on a 480gtx, xfire 5850's just destroy 480gtx's.

There were some bad driver sets that dropped xfire performance quite a lot, any of the good driver sets and, well quite simply a 5850 is no where near that slow in single card, compared to the xfire results they aren't scaling horribly, but theres a clear performance issue.

There should be, 2-3 games where a 480gtx is better than xfire 5850's, Crysis certainly isn't one of them, in most situationsa 5850fx should be significantly faster.

I'm not even a fan of anand's gpu bench as their selection of games includes several cpu limited situations yet http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/303?vs=309

Its clear as day which wins, of course you're using one with a 20% overclock, which would take it above 5850xf in a couple games, but, 5850's easily overclock 20% aswell.

Honestly it looks like serious performance issues with 5850xf, which is a completely valid reason for not going sli or xfire, however, working right 5850xf will blow away a 480gtx.
 
OP is doing it right, links DM posted are canned warhead benchmarks, it looks like the OP is taking his results from actual gameplay which is what counts. OP's 480 is at 820 core and not 700 core as it is in the linked benchmarks.
 
RavenXXX2 said:
OP is doing it right, links DM posted are canned warhead benchmarks, it looks like the OP is taking his results from actual gameplay which is what counts. OP's 480 is at 820 core and not 700 core as it is in the linked benchmarks.
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DM also linked to Anand's GPU bench which clearly shows a performance lead for the HD5850CF setup.

Unless of course we are now suggesting that a mildly overclocked GTX480 is as fast as a HD5970...
 
Sorry nice try, but no chance,I'm not taking your results Crysis results seriously at all.
Your SOC whips a 580 thats not even using max settings in this test!:rolleyes:
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RavenXXX2 said:
OP is doing it right,
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But on the other hand, if the Nvidia police says it's right then who am I to argue?;)
 
tommybhoy said:
Sorry nice try, but no chance,I'm not taking your results Crysis results seriously at all.
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For a start hes using a different res (granted its not hugely different) to those in the graph also he doesn't list AF, AA, etc. settings so you can't directly compare, you don't even know he ran the same benchmark.
 
Rroff said:
For a start hes using a different res (granted its not hugely different) to those in the graph also he doesn't list AF, AA, etc. settings so you can't directly compare, you don't even know he ran the same benchmark.
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Yeah guy is clueless.

And if you look at the benchmark he posted the SOC is on par with overclocked 460SLI which is on par with 5850 crossfire lol which would makes the OPs results more vaild.
 
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Its unfortunate that theres been a few problems, but I don't think you will find many people with a properly working 480 core clocked at 800+MHz who will have a bad word to say about it.
 
Hi guys,

All my benchmarks with playing games was me playing the game. So on different maps the fps was different, I played all map with both cards and took the avg, min and max fps from that.
When I set up games my setting are set to max.

With my 5850 in crossfire my mobo it is set up as 8x 8x pci-e.

Also remember when the other benchmarks what have been posted on they use an i7 950 with 6gb or ram.

These benchmarks are from my Pc spec so they will be different.
 
Rroff said:
For a start hes using a different res (granted its not hugely different) to those in the graph also he doesn't list AF, AA, etc. settings so you can't directly compare, you don't even know he ran the same benchmark.
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Sgt Tackleberry said:
I love playing black ops and crysis both on the max setting at 1920x1080 res, here are my results from gaming.
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Crysis benchmark using a 2600K @ 4.8 GHz which is a superior setup, gets 46fps at 1680@2xAA, which still isn't max settings.
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Take into account that Sgt Tackleberry's setup would then have a smaller fps than the 4.8GHz 2600K.
Since my post Sgt Tackleberry has since stated that it's his own playthrough.



RavenXXX2 said:
Yeah guy is clueless.
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:p



Regarding the dodgy psu for the soc, when a branded 750w psu can't power a claimed '600w required' requirement out of the box, then there's something wrong.

Before eyeryone goes on defence, I'm questioning the claims not the card itself!
 
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In regards to PSUs unfortunatly there are a lot of sub-par PSUs out there just doesn't come to light as people invariably buy a PSU with rated power specs 5x what they actually need... when something comes along that actually puts a real draw on the PSU it quickly seperates the wheat from the chaff.

Sadly its not uncommon for high quality parts to be used on the first batch/review versions then quietly downgraded later as no one really notices normally.
 
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