Eyefinity gets owned by NVIDIA Surround

[RavenXXX2]

http://www.hardocp.com/article/2010/07/20/nvidia_surround_technology_performance_review/9

Let's hope the refresh turns the tables, don't forget Nvidia came seven months after AMD this generation so expect the AMD refresh to lay the smackdown, nevertheless impressive stuff from 480 SLI beating ATI at their own game.

 

[RavenXXX2]

Nah it got owned, read the whole review, the experience was way smoother with the nvidia setup even with higher IQ settings applied to 480 SLI and that's a big deal IMO.

 

[RavenXXX2]

If you're going to spend big bucks on three monitors then you're going to pay the extra £100 for the best performance on them said monitors.

Nothing good was said about ati at all!

The fact you need sli to run it is a major fail boat in my eyes.

Err, single 5870 can perform at the rez they are running at? don't think so, it makes sense to go dual cards to power three screens for gaming.

 

[RavenXXX2]

Increase the fan speed and don't run furmark and you can easily clock high a 480 on air.

 

[RavenXXX2]

I think I'm safe in saying the majority of gamers just want a fast GFX card with good driver support, all this 3D suround, physx and eyefinity interests only a small minority.

 

[RavenXXX2]

A review today showing 480 SLI v 5870 xfire, xfire putting up sweet numbers.

http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/hardware-canucks-reviews/34531-asus-rog-ares-4gb-review-11.html

 

[RavenXXX2]

^^Yeah, I guess that's not the concrete jungle benchmark....

 

[RavenXXX2]

They do an 8xAA bench as well, and let's be honest 8xAA is more than enough.

 

[RavenXXX2]

5970 is up for sale, keeping the 5870 and waiting for ATI refresh, I don't do multi-GPU.

 

[RavenXXX2]

You will have me take out my 5870 unpack the 5970 to do some benchmarks that we all know what a 5970 will perform like in...here check youtube out

http://www.youtube.com/user/arvutihull#p/u/342/sNGa3-tT3TI

 

[RavenXXX2]

Round 1. Fight!

LoL, you got them the wrong way, Nvidia is the fat, sweaty and hot walrus, ATI the lean, cool polar bear.

 

[RavenXXX2]

bjorn3d, another site on my blacklist.

 

[RavenXXX2]

Sorry razor but it looks like your trying real hard to justify your purchase, just enjoy your rig and let it be.

 

[RavenXXX2]

What puts people off is the panning fermi got from the review sites, a card that came seven months after the competition, is not much better than the competition yet is more expensive, runs hotter and consumes more power than ATI's DUAL GPU 5970, now do the math. Go to most review sites now, they still recommend the 5870 over a 480, so blaming ATI owners for the stick fermi gets is just lol, go spam the tech sites that gave ATI the nod over nvidia this generation.

 

[RavenXXX2]

Let me correct you there a 480 uses less power than a 5970 (294w vs 250w) and runs about the same temp.

Unfortunately manufacturers specs for TDP are more often than not quite far out..
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The 480 uses about 10-20w more under load than the 5970.

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I don't need corrected.

The fact you go on NVidia's rather embarrassing TDP value and not the actual power draw shown on tech sites, says a lot really.

Enjoy the vids