Sapphire HD4870 512mb DDR5
Call of Duty 4 & Bioshock
Published: 1st August 2008 | Source: Sapphire | Price: £103.49 |
Call of Duty 4 is a stunning DirectX 9.0c based game that really looks awesome and has a very full feature set. With lots of advanced lighting, smoke and water effects, the game has excellent explosions along with fast gameplay. Using the in-built Call Of Duty features, a 10-minute long game play demo was recorded and replayed on each of the GPU's using the /timedemo command a total of 5 times. The highest and lowest FPS results were then removed, with an average being calculated from the remaining 3 results.
The advantage the ATI cards held in the 3DMark set of benchmarks seems to have wavered once we start playing 'real' games. Although not a drastic deficit, the NVidia cards had the advantage in COD4, albeit at a greater cost per frame.
BioShock is a recent FPS shooter by 2K games. Based on the UT3 engine, it has a large amount of advanced DirectX techniques including excellent water rendering and superb lighting and smoke techniques. All results were recorded using F.R.A.P.S with a total of 5 identical runs through the same area of the game. The highest and lowest results were then removed, with an average being calculated from the remaining 3 results.
Unsurprisingly the two 4870's were evenly matched. What is surprising as that both managed to out perform the GTX260 at both resolutions with the gap increasing once AA was applied. A very good performance for ATI in the first of our DX10 benchmarks.
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Did u review that? Coz it was damn good!
However I thought that the 4870 was meant to outperform the gtx280
However I thought that the 4870 was meant to outperform the gtx280
Naaaaa man it matches the 260 mostly.
Obviously varies on the odd game.
Obviously varies on the odd game.
Good review, seems like a good card, nice to see it still performing well at high res and AA, as you said in the review it didn't cripple as the 3870 did. 
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Originally Posted by name='Hassan'
Did u review that? Coz it was damn good!
However I thought that the 4870 was meant to outperform the gtx280 |
Nice review once again, Looks like a damn nice card.
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Did u review that? Coz it was damn good!
However I thought that the 4870 was meant to outperform the gtx280 |
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Originally Posted by name='Brooksie'
Good review, seems like a good card, nice to see it still performing well at high res and AA, as you said in the review it didn't cripple as the 3870 did.
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Webbo's been reviewing for a while
Nice review once again, Looks like a damn nice card. |
So the big question is what will you people buy?
The nVidia or the ATi
The nVidia or the ATi
At this moment we want to have nvidia but we will buy ATI, 3 reasons for it : cheap price , good performance and stability.First and last one is what nvidia must work on ;] at least last one cause i dont think that nvidias cards will be at same price as ATI ever
I know that i`m mouning from few weeks about nvidias product but i have a major problem with my system going on SLI(or even without), after googling a bit and going thru different forums i have found many,many other ppl having same or similiar issues.
Sad but true.
I know that i`m mouning from few weeks about nvidias product but i have a major problem with my system going on SLI(or even without), after googling a bit and going thru different forums i have found many,many other ppl having same or similiar issues.
Sad but true.
I don't normally have a preference but NVidia, I usually go with whats best at the time which normally means NVidia. ATI however, are catching up pretty fast.
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