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Benchmark Results: 3DMark Vantage

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3DMark suggests the Radeon HD 5670 will be in the same league as the GeForce 9800 GT, GeForce GT 240, and GeForce 9600 GT. But here's where our hopes for equality with ATI's Radeon HD 4770 performance come to an end.

We run 3DMark without PhysX optimizations to keep things on a level playing field, but in our experience, it favors Radeon cards a bit when this is the case. So, we suspect the new Radeon HD 5670 will have a fight on its hands when facing Nvidia's aging (but still surprisingly potent) GeForce 9800 GT.

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amdfangirl 01/14/2010 5:08 AM
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4800x900? Are you serious?

Otherwise, great review. Just curious, are you going to make Flash 10.1 playback a benchmark? I'm just interested.

amdfangirl 01/14/2010 5:13 AM
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Oh yes, could you add the hierarchy chart and show where the HD 5670 fits in?

stridervm 01/14/2010 5:28 AM
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I wish there was a Radeon 4850 in the comparison chart for.... Comparison....

noob2222 01/14/2010 5:36 AM
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notty22 01/14/2010 5:40 AM
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belial2k 01/14/2010 5:43 AM
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I think the points made here about the pricing could be made about the entire 5xxx series. At no point in the entire line is there a GOOD value. Everything can be beaten in price/ performance by previous generation cards or combination of cards...even the 5870 loses badly to two 4890s for less money. The only thing they have going for them is DX11 and eyefinity, which for most gamers are rather questionable "value" adds because of the huge hit DX11 gives framerates and the 3 monitors needed for eyefinity. All these cards need to come down in price before they become smart price/performance buys.

duckmanx88 01/14/2010 5:46 AM
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notty22 :
Just meh, no reason for this card to exist at all.



low price point, low power consumption, and extremely close to the 9800GT in performance. Plenty of reasons to like this card. especially for a casual Sims or Torchlight gamer.

cleeve 01/14/2010 5:47 AM
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noob2222 :
It was slaughtered in the rest of the games by the 5670.



"Slaughtered". +1 for hyperbole!

noob2222 01/14/2010 6:08 AM
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Otus 01/14/2010 6:10 AM
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cleeve 01/14/2010 6:11 AM
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noob2222 :
What would you call 12-20% faster across the board?



I'd call it "similar". Because the user experience is "similar".

An actual human being would probably not be able to experience most of the differences that you're suggesting are monumental.

cleeve 01/14/2010 6:17 AM
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Oh yes, could you add the hierarchy chart and show where the HD 5670 fits in?




I'll be adding it to the existing hierarchy chart soon! :)

cleeve 01/14/2010 6:18 AM
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I wish there was a Radeon 4850 in the comparison chart for.... Comparison....




Didn't have time to include both the 4850 and GTS 250, but they'll perform close to the 5750 and certainly better than the 4770.

noob2222 01/14/2010 6:21 AM
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Cleeve :
I'd call it "similar". Because the user experience is "similar".An actual human being would probably not be able to experience most of the differences that you're suggesting are monumental.


then why bother saying the 9800 is slightly faster, it would be just as similar in comparison.

amdfangirl 01/14/2010 6:29 AM
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I'll be adding it to the existing hierarchy chart soon! :)




I reckon adding the chart to the end of GPU reviews would greatly help.

WINTERLORD 01/14/2010 7:29 AM
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would love to see the 4670 in crossfire. any idea what it will beat

anamaniac 01/14/2010 7:30 AM
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Yay, a 40nm 4670 with GDDR5...
Is that really all it is?
I just picked up some guys used 5770 for $150 (I'm Canadian, they cost $200 locally).
Other than not needing any external power cables, useless.

Go pick up a used 5750 from Craigslist instead people...

cleeve 01/14/2010 7:37 AM
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then why bother saying the 9800 is slightly faster, it would be just as similar in comparison.




Wow. Bickering over the minutia is what you're all about, isn't it? :D

mitch074 01/14/2010 7:56 AM
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And here, I'm happy I decided 18 months ago that the 4850 was a good deal, if it's still powerful enough to be considered 'upper mainstream' in a world where cards twice as powerful as what came before come out every 9-12 months.

My only regret is that those early models were soon forgotten by their makers, and they need heavy tweaking to get the juice out of them.

The huge cooler I put on it made it much cooler (the original cooler failed), and virtually silent. The VBIOS hack I applied, reducing frequencies to 160/500 MHz, 0.92V at idle may have helped in the power draw department (it sure helped before the cooler change, by lowering temps from 80°C to 65°C), but probably not as much as these more recent cards.

I'd love a similarly tweaked 4850 (more recent models actually offer most of these out of the box: dual slot cooler and tweaked freqs/voltages) being fully benched against these.

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