Hi there,
Earlier in the week I couldn't decide if the upgrade from my BFG 8800GTX OC to a Powercolour ATI HD4870 was worth it, kept writing down analysis of other benchmarks and eventually summarised the jump in performance should be somewhere around the 25-30% mark. Anyway a couple of pints one lunchtime, I got back to work, and thought what the hell and clicked on that BUY button
Managed to fit the card today, and I was really rather surprised how well made the card felt, very solid and nicely finished off. I had spent the previous few days grabbing as many benchmarks as I could with my 8800GTX still installed.
My rig is as follows
E6400 @ 3.2GHz
2Gb Crucial Ballistix DDR2-1066
Asus P5b Deluxe
Enermax Liberty 620W
Windows XP SP2 32 bit
1. BFG 8800GTX OC with Forceware 175.16
2. Powecolour ATI HD4870 with CCC 8.6 + Hotfix
Here are the results :
Conclusions/Findings
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I'm very pleased with the card particularly the overall IQ which is really outstanding. I always worry when I chop and change between NVidia and ATI as to the differences in IQ/Rendering, but ATI have certainly got back to their previous levels of quality. Crysis just looks amazing !
I did find some rather strange results in some of the Crysis tests. That's why I have included the minimum framerate data. For example, the 1920x1200 2xAA test shows a drop in minimum framerate from 17.45 to 10.79 and it was rather painful watching this bench, a few times the timedemo nearly grinded to a complete halt. If I had to guess I would say this was evidence of the framebuffer becoming exhausted, it would be nice to compare this with a 1Gb 4870.
Overall though I've got some impressive gains across all the games I tried. Particularly impressed with the performance in GRID, and the ability to just apply 8xAA in the DMC4 bench without hardly any performance hit !
The 4870x2 is going to be a monster !
Welcome back ATI !
Earlier in the week I couldn't decide if the upgrade from my BFG 8800GTX OC to a Powercolour ATI HD4870 was worth it, kept writing down analysis of other benchmarks and eventually summarised the jump in performance should be somewhere around the 25-30% mark. Anyway a couple of pints one lunchtime, I got back to work, and thought what the hell and clicked on that BUY button
Managed to fit the card today, and I was really rather surprised how well made the card felt, very solid and nicely finished off. I had spent the previous few days grabbing as many benchmarks as I could with my 8800GTX still installed.
My rig is as follows
E6400 @ 3.2GHz
2Gb Crucial Ballistix DDR2-1066
Asus P5b Deluxe
Enermax Liberty 620W
Windows XP SP2 32 bit
1. BFG 8800GTX OC with Forceware 175.16
2. Powecolour ATI HD4870 with CCC 8.6 + Hotfix
Here are the results :
Conclusions/Findings
--------------------
I'm very pleased with the card particularly the overall IQ which is really outstanding. I always worry when I chop and change between NVidia and ATI as to the differences in IQ/Rendering, but ATI have certainly got back to their previous levels of quality. Crysis just looks amazing !
I did find some rather strange results in some of the Crysis tests. That's why I have included the minimum framerate data. For example, the 1920x1200 2xAA test shows a drop in minimum framerate from 17.45 to 10.79 and it was rather painful watching this bench, a few times the timedemo nearly grinded to a complete halt. If I had to guess I would say this was evidence of the framebuffer becoming exhausted, it would be nice to compare this with a 1Gb 4870.
Overall though I've got some impressive gains across all the games I tried. Particularly impressed with the performance in GRID, and the ability to just apply 8xAA in the DMC4 bench without hardly any performance hit !
The 4870x2 is going to be a monster !
Welcome back ATI !
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Don't forget the benchmarks