48** Series...Anytime Now...Who's buying?

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I've been patiently waiting for this card series to come out so I can dump my 7900gs into my older pc. I've seen the benchmark for the 4870 and I'm sure everyone else has. Who else is looking into buying this too? :D
 

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Well IF its a beast like im thinking it will be im going to be 100% getting one to replace my old tired 8800gt! I swear ATI better not mess this one up!
 

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Crazy lads...everyone talking about dumping their perfectly good 8800 series cards. What about us folk still holding on strong to the 7800 series cards! Awww...who am I kidding...I need a full PC upgrade...not just a videocard.
 

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And this is how i came to realize how obsessed i became with pc hardware..I did the same thing when i had my car...Figured computer's would calm me down...Now i feel like my 8800gt is old and i need my fix...lol
 

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My 1st PC i had a 9600xt...needed a ungrade so got a x1600 pro 512 AGP card. Then my alienware Laptop had a x1800(Very good laptop GPU...Ran a little hot) And for my new PC i just bought a 3870. So I plan on getting a 4870 1Gb GDDR5 card before I maybe grab a 45nm Phenom to take the place of my 9600 BE. I can't wait.
 

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The top of the line 4870 (not counting the X2) has 480/5=96 SPs vs 128 on the 8800GTS
1gb GDDR5 vs 512mb GDDR3 on the GTS
32 TMU vs ~56TMU
256 bit vs 256bit
16 ROP vs 24 ROP
I'll be surprised if the 4870 beats a 8800GTS
 

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I need to say something like 50-100% increase over my 8800GT, which i know i probably wont get anytime soon.
 
I've put off buying a new video card waiting till the 48xx come out, more because i hope they'll have an impact on all upper end video card prices, then the idea i'll get it. I can wait and see how it really performs before making any decisions. No "need for speed" or being on the cutting edge for me.
 

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I think any modern video card 8800gt and above will give me a ~500% increase (LOL) in performance over my 7900gs. I have a 20 widescreen 1680x1050 and the 256mb memory struggle at that res and holds back my e6750 clocked @ 3.5ghz.
 

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I'm never buying from ATI again until the prove to me they can make decent drivers. Remember how the 3850x2 was supposed to spank everything NVIDIA had?

I'll stick with my dual 9800 GX2's, thank you very much.
 

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I really doubt that. If you look at tomshardware vga charts, which has avariety of games and variety of resolutions and settings, with the overall all games framerate thing selected, the 8800gt is only a 81 percent boost.

2125.4 / 1172.9 = 1.812.

This means the 8800gt gets on average 81.2 percent more frames on games.

I have an x1950 pro. From what we've heard, the 4870 is supposed to be about as fast as the 3870x2, which is about 15% faster than the 8800ultra.

From my calculations, if all of these things are true, then the 4870 will be more than double the performance of my current card, which is what I try to look for before I upgrade.

But yeah, I think I'll be getting one. I'm pretty excited. Hopefully it lives up to its expectations. It'll be my first real high end card. So I'm pretty happy about that. It should last a while for me.



But yeah, I think the 256 on my card does hold me back a little at this res too. And I have an e6550 at 3.4Ghz. It's funny, we have pretty similar stuff.
 

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480/5=96 SPs vs 128 --> 4870 much more efficient stream processors
32 TMU vs ~56TMU --> nvidias using TMUs for antialising but atis using stream processors (differnet architecture)
256 bit vs 256bit --> 4870 uses GDRR5 so it has much more merory bandwith
16 ROP vs 24 ROP --> The 16 ROP was not the bottleneck for 3870 series

I'll not be surprised if the 4870 beats a 8800GTS


 

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im just **** pissed at myself for having bought the 9800gx2..... no one will buy my 9800gx2 from me... i want the new ati cards so badly, they are going to kick ass.
 

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Please remember how the 300 series was supposed to rock ? I say ATI is full of S*** and this will just about tie my gts. Besides you just know Nvidia is waiting to embarrass them yet again.
 

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Hmmm... the ATI has said that 3800 and 4800 are middle range cards, so do not expect high end results, but 4800 should definitely be better than 3800 so, it should be nice card, although it can not be compared to g200 (if it will be released any time soon... and if 4800 is good, then we will see G200 soon enough.)
The saying that: "the 4870 is supposed to be about as fast as the 3870x2" is from ATI so it should be somewhat right. It's much more than I by my self am expecting it to be, because the differences between 3800 and 4800 series are not so big. Most likely 4870 can get near the results of 3870x2, because it's one chip solution, so there is not the scaling problem.
In titles where scaling is good, the 3870x2 will be better, and where the scaling is not so good, the 4870 will be better. In most cases where the scaling is even somewhat good the 3870x2 should be much faster.
It will be near 8800GTS I supose, then the price most propably is the thing that means a lot in that competition. First released parts are with GDDR3 because of low suply of GDDR5... So at the beginning, it's very close fight.
 

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I'll wait for a game that I want to play that requires me to upgrade my 8800gt, so far it's handling all that I play now..

On XP @ 12 x 10

Crysis...np
COD4...sweet
Gears Of War..smooth and fast
Bioshock..flies
HL2 + eps + Portal, cards too good..
Trackmania, makes my head spin..

As I said, why upgrade if there're no games to upgrade to?
 

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I have had 2 3870x2s since their release.

They are still not working to their potential due to my quad core bottlenecking them. Why would anyone with hardware still having unrealized potential buy newer hardware that will have the same problem?

Maybe if you only want to run one card instead of two, but that should be the only reason. Any other is a waste.

I am not interested in any 48xx cards, period, Since 4 3870gpus right now is complete overkill.
 

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Apples to oranges comparison, different architectures