
At 1920x1080, Crysis is showing us a very tight playing field here. The GeForce cards have a slight advantage in this title, though the factory overclocks don't seem to be doing that much. The average performance does seem to reflect a trend inline with the relative overclocks, though.

At the high 2560x1600 resolution, the playing field is even tighter. The Zotac AMP! edition card offers the best performance with a minimum frame rate that comes relatively close to 30 FPS.
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Summary
- Serious Contenders
- HIS HD 5870 iCooler V Turbo X
- Gigabyte GV-R587SO-1GD SUPER OVERCLOCK
- Zotac GeForce GTX 480 AMP! Edition
- Test System Setup, Benchmarks, And 3DMark
- Benchmark Results: Crysis
- Benchmark Results: Aliens Vs. Predator
- Benchmark Results: Far Cry 2
- Benchmark Results: World In Conflict
- Benchmark Results: DiRT 2
- Overclocking Benchmarks
- Power, Temperature, And Noise Benchmarks
- Conclusion
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Amazing how well the ATI cards are doing given their time on the market.
1. It still taxes even the mightiest of cards.
2. Every comparison for the past few years has used it, thus giving me an idea how my current card performs against the new cards.
3. Someday I want to own a graphics card that can beat it down.
4. I actually still play Crysis (and Far Cry 2).
Amazing how well the ATI cards are doing given their time on the market.
hahahahahhaah.
liked the flickered thing.
LOL
So, the conclusion is that the only good point about those factory overclocked cards are their coolers...
The graphs tell otherwise.
The HIS card in the article, the heatsink it is not superior to the references one, and if the fans are the same type than before, well...
I Like the gigabyte one, that heatpipes shines and offers superior cooling (ignore the inferior performance gain due to overclock).
The GTX 480 ... well, I don´t like physX.
Did not notice, because they were busy with the benchmark...
... but their neighbor does...
wow This fan must be blowing liquid-nitrogen!
No surprise that the 480 performs better than the 5870 overall, this is something that ATI stated would happen when they announced they would use dual gpu cards to compete with the high end nVidia single gpu cards.
Again with the Crysis and Far Cry benches...sheesh!
1. It still taxes even the mightiest of cards.
2. Every comparison for the past few years has used it, thus giving me an idea how my current card performs against the new cards.
3. Someday I want to own a graphics card that can beat it down.
4. I actually still play Crysis (and Far Cry 2).