Gigabyte's Radeon HD 4650: Are AGP Graphics Still Good Enough?
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Benchmark Results: Far Cry 2
This is going to be a disappointment to many, but Far Cry 2 appears to need a lot more than an Athlon64 X2 3800+. It is ironic that Far Cry 2 usually performs a lot faster than Crysis (on quicker platforms) and somewhat puzzling that the minimum requirement for the game is a lowly single-core Athlon 64 3500+.
Also notable is that the Radeon X700 wasn't even able to launch the game because it does not possess the ability to run Shader Model 3.0, one of the game's minimum requirements.
And now for the Medium detail runs, more for the sake of completeness (certainly not because the CPU can handle it).
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drealar *Raise up hand*Reply
I'm still using an AGP HD 2600XT :D.
Good to see that Gigabyte and actually Sapphire too coming up with another card for AGP. But frankly, we (most AGP users in my neighborhood ) are keeping our dollars for now since upgrading to a new system is the most likely option in 2010.
Another thing is, from the benchmarks, it got me worried if I ever upgrade my GPU since most of the result shows CPU bottleneck. If these are the result for a dual core Athlon, then it must be worse for my single core P4 HT :(
Oh BTW, are you reading the power consumption correctly?
"Even the Radeon HD 3850 and its GDDR3 memory peak at a mere 7 W more than the PCIe Radeon HD 4650 under load."
194 - 178 = 16W. So either the graph is wrong or you mis calculated. -
zinabas amdfangirlDon't they have an AGP HD 4670?Reply
a quick search for "agp 4670" on newegg gave me and (Core clock: 750 mhz, 1gb ddr3)
I own a pcie version of it and I really think before part 2 of this article goes up you should acquire one. -
rambo117 amdfangirlDon't they have an AGP HD 4670?Reply
yah, i just saw that on the egg today. Must have just come out.
i liked the article btw. ouch at the performance numbers though xD -
zinabas http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161284Reply
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814131161
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rambo117 yah, this is the one i saw: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161284Reply
looks pretty nifty. iceq FTW! -
eddieroolz AGP is like Windows XP, it just never dies :DReply
Anyways, it's interesting to read something about legacy ports for a change. I never even figured out how to work with computer hardware when AGP was around, so I never got to mess around with it. -
one-shot Most of these benchmarks seem to show a CPU limitation across the board. I owned that same CPU, but used a PCI-E 7900GS with it at the time. I think if the CPU limitation was eliminated, we would see a better overall comparison. Also, if there is an AGP 4670, it would be beneficial to older machines to see the benefits of that GPU. It might show the two cards being equal due to the CPU limitation we're encountering.Reply -
masterjaw I don't think there are lots of people out there who would still hold on to their AGP slots when PCI-e cards are becoming so cheaper and the performance is way better. Even doing a low-end system upgrade would still kick older system's ass all the way to the north pole. But still, another option for those who can't get over the AGPs. They must've been clearing up some old stocks.Reply