Going by what we've seen, the 4850 seems to be about the same speed as the 9800 GTX, the 4870 is supposed to be about 1.3x that, when Crossfire works, it scales by about 70% on average in dual card situations? And the GTX280 is said to be anywhere from 1.5-1.8x a 9800 GTX (correct me if I'm wrong, I've seen all sorts of numbers for it!), I think two 4850's vs. a GTX 280 would be a close call, two 4870's would probably edge it out.
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GT200 GTX280/260 "official specs"
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Until you take into account the various SLI / x-fire issues.
Average FPS benchmarks don't tell the whole story.
Agreed, but it's hard to tell until they're out.
Even if they don't two 4870's are looking like costing less than a GTX280 anyway.
Totally agree. It's not another 8800GTX which was worth the price premium back then.
I have just come into a nice wad of cash and for the first time in my life I was going to buy one of the new Nvidia high end cards.
Looking at the prices they are wanting, they can now go and suck on my Candice.
Looks like for the first time in my life I am going down the ATI route.
Looking at the prices they are wanting, they can now go and suck on my Candice.
Looks like for the first time in my life I am going down the ATI route.
I still don't think those results make the GTX280 make it a 8800GTX again.
10% quicker in half life 2 and 1% slower in company of heroes isn't great.
Okay beta drivers but I bet you not far off the proper ones on launch day and good results in crysis but is it worth £150 more tha a GX2 for a gain in some games and none in others?
10% quicker in half life 2 and 1% slower in company of heroes isn't great.
Okay beta drivers but I bet you not far off the proper ones on launch day and good results in crysis but is it worth £150 more tha a GX2 for a gain in some games and none in others?
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are these new cards likely to be bottlenecked by the spec in my sig for example?
... Oh dear, the 3870 X2 actually outperforms it in some of those tests? We'd better hope those beta drivers are pretty bloody rubbish then, 'cause aside from the official release drivers we won't see many more for a while. :\
How many games are you cpu limited on now?
Okay depends on the res you are playing but let's assume 1680 x 1050. The GTX280 doesn;t look much difference to the GX2 and nobody reports that to be cpu limited so you will be fine.
Just make sure you have a 1kw psu and you will be fine.
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Where the £472 price tag come from?
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・Geforce GTX 280 85,000 (£403)
Posted above?
Was looking at those benchies from pcgamer mag... for 10fps more in crysis and almost 2x the price tag.....
Roll on Monday and ATI for next week
ASUS
・Geforce GTX 280 85,000 (£403)
Posted above?
Was looking at those benchies from pcgamer mag... for 10fps more in crysis and almost 2x the price tag.....
Roll on Monday and ATI for next week
All those saying it is not much faster than a 9800GX2 or a 3870X2 need to be reminded that it is a single GPU and that means it doesn't have the SLI or crossfire issues.
Yes SLI and crossfire have come on a big leap but they only work in 70% of games I would say but that is just my opinion. If your favourite game happens to be one that doesn't support Crossfire or SLI then it's a big leap forward.
I fit in to the latter category so will be happy to purchase a 280 or 4870 for the right price of course.
Until crossfire and SLI becomes supported in ALL games I'll avoid the disappointment.
Yes SLI and crossfire have come on a big leap but they only work in 70% of games I would say but that is just my opinion. If your favourite game happens to be one that doesn't support Crossfire or SLI then it's a big leap forward.
I fit in to the latter category so will be happy to purchase a 280 or 4870 for the right price of course.
Until crossfire and SLI becomes supported in ALL games I'll avoid the disappointment.
Where the £472 price tag come from?
ASUS
・Geforce GTX 280 85,000 (£403)
Posted above?
Was looking at those benchies from pcgamer mag... for 10fps more in crysis and almost 2x the price tag.....
Roll on Monday and ATI for next week
Err that yen (I think) with a straight conversion to pounds so over here you need to add VAT so on that price it will be £473.52
My price is based on the German site listing them for 599 euros so hence £472.
So that's two different sources from two different countries within a pound or so of each other so I guess it might be right.
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Thats ******* hilarious that.
Okay, interesting thought: The 4870 seems to have similar specs to the 3870 X2*, except with 200GFLOPs more shader power and no crossfire or PLX chip lane splitting to worry about. The 3870 X2 actually outperformed the GTX280 in one or two of the tests shown in that magazine review, so this leads me to the conclusion that in certain situations, RV770 could indeed be competitive with GT200.
I don't actually believe myself, though. For the first time in my life I am convinced that the numbers are misleading me terribly. :\
*(going with 800 shaders, 32 TMUs, 3.92GHz GDDR5 on a 256-bit bus here)
I don't actually believe myself, though. For the first time in my life I am convinced that the numbers are misleading me terribly. :\
*(going with 800 shaders, 32 TMUs, 3.92GHz GDDR5 on a 256-bit bus here)
