9800gtx takes a beating here. Looks like 4870 might be able to beat 260 after all. Looking at some of the bandwidth limited situations is where 4850 starts to lose its momentum vs 260gtx.
Message edited by marvelous211 on 06-19-2008 at 10:40:46 PM
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Well it beats the 9800GTX in almost every benchmark but the difference isn't very much bit it has a very good price
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Christopherr, stop spamming. You just made a new account huh? Everybody knows your old one with "Power Index".
The fanboi's just cant handle the fact that ATI released a better smaller more power saving higher performing quieter card at the 200$ price point than Nvidia would have let go at the 400$ price point.
Message edited by xX12amanXx on 06-19-2008 at 11:27:02 PM
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Don't you find it odd that most websites show the 4850 behind the gtx260 or just above the 9800GTX in 22"-24" res, yet this site shows the 4850 beating the gtx260 single gpu vs single gpu in Call of duty 4 at 22" and near matching it at 24" res?
The unpatched Assassin's creed test wasn't a surprise, but yea - I found that a little inconsistant.
Bleh, I hate to say this but I am kinda with a few other people and I really thing the performance of the 4850 single might be getting bloated by some of the reviewers taking selective benches as the norm
I think the 4850 outperforming the 9800GTX vanilla is pretty normal, but the 4850 coming within a hair of the gtx260 looks pretty shady to me lol
Every website have a different way of benchmarking. One might use a timedemo and other might use fraps. Even when using fraps 1 might be using different map or area of map, drivers, test setup, etc,... There are many variables to benchmarking. What I do know that 4850 is slightly ahead of 9800gtx especially with AA.
Anandtech is showing same kind of results where 4850 is substantially faster @ 1600x1200 compared to 9800gtx. I trust anandtech and techreport over Firingsquad. Firingsquad just benches or game reviews. They never ever do anything technically inclined.
Message edited by marvelous211 on 06-20-2008 at 04:38:28 AM
HD 4850 = Better performance (Not much) than a 9800GTX in almost all games with a lower price
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Well still not enough technical details out there, but the one thing I did take away from this review was the power and heat figures, not as it relates to the desktop space (it's a single slot cooler against a bunch of dual slots) but as a notebook part there's little chance cooling would be anywhere near that good, and a higher idle power useage than the HD3870, GTX260/280 means a lot of idle power usage and pretty much a requirement no option of CrossfireX hybrid power.
I was hoping for an HD4850 style GPU in the HP HDX by the fall, but unless they get a sweet mature silicon helper, this looks still a little warm and power hungry for a straight mobile part swap, unlike was initially rumoured (which would mean quick introduction into laptops).
Oh well, hopefully they get something close to similar by September.
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