CRYSIS: gtx280 SLI vs. 4870X2

Yes it is. Quite obvious so. But which is cheaper? And has better performance per buck ratio?

Only until Aug 12th

Let's see here.

GTX 280: $419/ea (I'm being generous too - this is the Palit one after rebate, currently the cheapest on Newegg), so $840 total.

HD4870X2: Somewhere around $600 (Again I'm being generous to the 280's, as this is on the high end of the estimated price).

Since when is comparing $840 worth of stuff to $600 worth of stuff a fair comparison?

If I go with more average numbers, the 280's go for $450 each (evga), and the x2 will be more like $500. Now it becomes $900 vs $500.

Oh, and did you know that the 4850 flattens a 9600GSO? That's fair right - they're both a single card...

Mkay, and...?

In answer to your OP, as of right now the SLI'd GTX280s beat the 4870X2 by fairly wide margin in Crysis (and rightly so). And of course it isn't a fair comparison. But you already knew this, now go away troll

He's defending his purchase thats all he's doing.

WEll my GX2 can own the 280 GTX in tri sli. Yeah thats right, I bought it, I love it, it owns you, and it loves Cysis.

I have homemade benchmarks to prove it

OK Baron concrum, you win, better?

so seriously whats the point of this thread?
yes concrum, you win. here's your cookie.(oooo)
the o's are chocolate chips.

FIRST - Crysis is a game developed closely with nVidia which poured about 4-5 milions in its development (I might be wrong about the money here). It was developed especially for nVidia cards adjusting to their architecture etc. It was very non generic game, but closely specialized to nVidia.

That's why it scales much better on SLI and very bad on Crossfire.

2. You should be comparing 1 GTX 280 to 1 4870x2. Stop with the wining how many chips the card have. I dont hear you complaining that your dual or quad core have more that 1 core right? What would you say if I tell you that my single core Opteron (overclocked to 3.2 GHz) is faster than your quad core 6600

3. I am really anxious to see when the 4870 OC versions start to pop out. 800-850 core, 1GB memory at 4GHz will stomp the 280GTX by my opinion (may be except crysis but I wont bet money on that)

point two is really good. like the logic.

lol^ dude where do you get your facts????!?!?!?!!?!


Geez I'm done with this thread, the 280 GTX was a flop for the money and even if it were matched up to the 4870 in price, the 4870 outperfroms in CrossX most of the time, it has Dx10.1, it has 55 nm, I can go on but your fanboyism is too strong of an odor!

No, I wouldn't want one running that hot.

So I would turn the fan up to 30%. Problem solved. (That was a really hard one though )

Since when does the fan at 30% sound like a vacuum?

Besides, you're one to talk. You're advocating the GTX 280, one of the loudest cards available:

(yes, that's over sixty six decibels)

Its fine with me. If its fine with you its fine with me. Vaccums and heat are fine with me if its fine with you.

Guru3D is 1

I certainly don't agree with Concrum's position - however: turning up a fan doesn't make the heat disappear into a black hole of nothingness and it also makes the video card consume more power.

I could really care less about either of those scenarios, but some people might.

Anyways, I wouldn't recommend the gtx280 - its hideously overpriced and its little brother gtx260 is just a flat out better value/performance ratio and has better overall SLI scaling per dollar as well.

Regardless, if all you care about is playing Crysis - then you might as well wait for the 4870x2 and Quadfire them because they will very likely outperform GTX 280 SLI even in Crysis with AA enabled once the drivers and GPU itself are out of the prototype stage.

yea, I know that; its quite apparent - but it still will matter to some people under some circumstances.

It's like Poe's law

This guy is an idiot fanboi. Move along.....

Do you know how unoptomized crysis is for ATI cards? its a joke, try proper games like age of conan, grid, hl 2, ut 3, company of heroes, see who dominates those games.

I have my 4870 at 30 % fan, all the heat goes directly out of the case and the card idles at 45 c load at 58 c and i can barely hear the fan.

Enough with the NVDA "the way bull **** is meant to be taken" fanboyism

I agree...Currently, I play Crysis at Very High Settings at 1920 x 1080 on my 47" 1080p Westinghouse with my 3870s Crossfired (through HDMI). The Frames may be slower, but I can't tell...Smmooth as BUTTA! I don't enable AA or AF but, tweaking Catalyst the right way and who needs it. I can't wait to get these 4870s Quadfired, although I believe that a OC 4870 and an X2 would be better complimented in Triple Crossfire.

An OC 4870? has that been released yet? over 100 dB? r u joking?

your the ignorant one, if you get the fan working right it runs way cooler than the 280 stop ur fud please

But you have to turn the fan up to 30% to able to get 4800 serie to cool down like GTX200. and even with 30% fan up, its still as hot as 78*C idle!

Concrum - are you running the GTX 280 in SLI? and, if so, what are you running them on

My point is... even if the 280 SLIed is faster and quieter in the stats, that doesn't mean that your 280 Sli set-up is fast than my System with ONe 4870X2

You know, if you remove the cooler part of this statement, you have a perfect description of a 280 SLI system.