ATI 4890 Vs. NVIDIA GTX 280.

[silvertounge]

Both cards are in my price range. I have been looking up the benchmarks for both cards from many different sources, and it appears that they are trading blows for different games. However, it seems like the GTX 280 is coming out a head on more of them.
4890 vs. GTX 280, looking for opinions. (once again when price doesn't matter)

 

[Chronobodi]

ehhh... it depends on the games and the resolutions, some games, like S.T.A.L.K.E.R, favor ATI cards while Crysis favors Nvidia and so on...

Dunno, both are a good buy, they seem to be pretty much equal to each other.

However, people have said that the drivers for Nvidia are in general more reliable, but that's subject to one's own experience.


There are some extra features that the Nvidia cards have which ATI card don't, like Physx and CUDA applications, however there will be an equivalent of those features for the ATI cards later on.

 

[simplyderp]

It depends. What's your favorite color: red or green?

I would personally choose the 4890 (I'm biased since all my video cards have been ATI), although my 4870 1GB plays most mainstream games at max settings 1600x1200. A lot of the complaints about ATI drivers seem to stem from people trying to install ATI over Nvidia without removing previous drivers properly.

 

[megamanx00]

The 4890 competes well with the 280 if you overclock it. The 280 doesn't have much overclocking headroom but you may be able to get close to 1GHz with the 4890 if you get a good sample. While the 4890 will generally be cheaper (excluding the factory 1GHz oc models) it generates alot more heat and uses alot more power compared to the 280, so it's up to you.

 

[megamanx00]

If it was me I'd rather go with a 4870 1GB or two 4770s as I think those choices are better values, but hey it's your money. Personally my two 3850s are still holding up (and heating my room), so I'm waiting for mid-range DX11 cards ^_^.

 

[silvertounge]

Thanks for the feedback guys. Would a 600 watt power supply, which is what I have currently, get the maximum performance out of these cards? Or work well for one, or not for the other?

 

[silvertounge]

Just as a note, I am playing at 1680X1050 for the time being. I am sure both of these cards will be more than enough to run at this res. However, with this added note, would your recommendations still be the same, or does this added fact change matters?

 

[Chronobodi]

Thanks for the feedback guys. Would a 600 watt power supply, which is what I have currently, get the maximum performance out of these cards? Or work well for one, or not for the other?

i have a 550w, and that powers the GTX 260 core 216 just fine. What really counts is the amps on the +12 rails, and an high-quality PSU will often have more amperage than a crappy one at the same wattage.

 

[JAYDEEJOHN]

Id double check the alot more heat, alot more power thing

 

[ilikegirls]

Well just to add here i have a 280 and looking to buy a 4890 for now and then add another one but it seems that all over the net people say that 4890 is the about the same as the 280 and just like a few hours a go the release the new update for ATI Cards so it may even be better now!

 

[Darthmaniac]

Hey guys , I would just like to know that which card runs games like mass effect better 280 GTX or HD 4870???
Regards,
Darthmaniac

 

[ilikegirls]

I could be totally wrong about this but i believe that mass effect is a non bias game and you would simply get a little better FPS from the gtx 280 but the 4870 is cheeper.

 

[chef7734]

gtx 280 by far. hell you could get an 8800gt and it would beat 4870 withour ocing

What makes you think an 8800gt would beat a 4870. The 4870 trades blows with the gtx 260 and the 260 destroys the 8800gt.

 

[invisik]

Hahaha you cant compare the little 8800gt to the beastly 4870. (4870=gtx260) jimdog stop spamming!

Both cards are about the same but the gtx280 usually is a bit faster, but barely. If money isn't an issue for you get the gtx280 if not 4890 would be the best price/performance.

 

[chef7734]

hell a 9600gt could beat a silly little 4870 even a 4870x2 in crossfire if overlocked and volateged corectly

The posts i have seen you post are useless and can veer a new person off track. Stop trolling if you can not add anything useful to a conversation and stop talking out your ars.

 

[dj12334]

hello guys i have a question i have a Visiontek 3870x2 OC Edition ,, which is a Nice card in all respects. but i am looking to upgrade, i have read the reviews and done some reserch, Sounds like its all preference in ATI . VS.. Nvidia.. i Preffer the ATI cards over the Nvidia ones for the Simple reason of Bang for buck ,, but the real question is ,is the 4890 an upgrade to the 3870x2 OC.. ??

 

[ilikegirls]

hello guys i have a question i have a Visiontek 3870x2 OC Edition ,, which is a Nice card in all respects. but i am looking to upgrade, i have read the reviews and done some reserch, Sounds like its all preference in ATI . VS.. Nvidia.. i Preffer the ATI cards over the Nvidia ones for the Simple reason of Bang for buck ,, but the real question is ,is the 4890 an upgrade to the 3870x2 OC.. ??

Well first of all the 3870x2 is a dual gpu card and somegames like Cod4 live for dual gpu but in other games i think the 4890 is better! i have it and its runs very nicly! if you can run some benchmarks and then post the results we can go further with this !

 

[Freezeron]

I will recommend you to get a nVidia based graphic card.
I was selling and installing a lot of them (both of them) and generally the nVidia one, will get you more stable drivers and (in my opinion) much better driver menu.

I have nothing with ATI, but the drivers are the usual suspect for a lot of complains.

Now for the (easy) technical part:

1. nVidia is using a dual platform (Graphic rendering and PhysX*), to generate the image. (intelligent drawing)
260 SP + PhysX on GDDR3

2. ATI is using a muscle monster on steroids to generate the image. (fast and what the eye sees drawing)
800+ SP on GDDR5


*Also to be mentioned that a lot of new games are coming with PhysX processing enabled that favorise the nVidia platform.

I hope I didn't mess you up too much.
Good hunting.

 

[dj12334]

i just Ran 3dmark got a score of 14393 . if it helps i am Running a Phenom x4 9500 , 8 gig Corsar 800 Mhz 6400 ,, biostar Tseries 790gx 500 gig Bracuda, 8800 watt kingwin Mach1 PS .. and i did have AMD Fusion on .. hope it helps a ltl .. as i said befor i Really like the GPU but i have found some issues with the drivers more so than most .. i have 2 other Computers one with a Nvida 9600 gtx and one with a X1550 Radon(Getting ready to replace with the 3870x2) neither of the other GPU's have the Driver problems

 

[dj12334]

Sorry PSis a 800 watt not 8800 sorry for the Typo

 

[ilikegirls]

Hahaha you cant compare the little 8800gt to the beastly 4870. (4870=gtx260) jimdog stop spamming!

Both cards are about the same but the gtx280 usually is a bit faster, but barely. If money isn't an issue for you get the gtx280 if not 4890 would be the best price/performance.

I believe this to be the best ansrew you will get !

 

[roofus]

4890 should be the better card if you get one that works.

 

[ilikegirls]

4890 should be the better card if you get one that works.

True that! i went through 3 before i got one that works! but that could also be just really bad luck!

 

[Nica Guy]

The 4890 competes well with the 280 if you overclock it. The 280 doesn't have much overclocking headroom but you may be able to get close to 1GHz with the 4890 if you get a good sample. While the 4890 will generally be cheaper (excluding the factory 1GHz oc models) it generates alot more heat and uses alot more power compared to the 280, so it's up to you.

what are u talking about? have u owned a gtx 280?
i have owned both a gtx 280 and a 4870 (which produces same heat as 4890) and the gtx 280 produces way more heat...
I'm not afan boy i currently have a 9600gt cause i had to downgrade but my 4870 used to get only to 67 on full load while my gtx 280 with 100% fan speed
reached 85 degrees on games...
GTX 280 ia a solid card but gets way too hot, get the 4890.

 

[Nica Guy]

do some research and u will see gtx 280's get very hot, everyone complains about that and they still say ati cards produce more heat which is FALSE. Old 4850's and inferior ati cards get hot, nothing else.