Sapphire HD4870 512mb DDR5
Crysis & F.E.A.R
Published: 1st August 2008 | Source: Sapphire | Price: £103.49 |
Crysis is without doubt one of the most visually stunning and hardware-challenging games to date. By using CrysisBench - a tool developed independently of Crysis - we performed a total of 5 timedemo benchmarks using a GPU-intensive pre-recorded demo. To ensure the most accurate results, the highest and lowest benchmark scores were then removed and an average calculated from the remaining three.
Being a DX10 game and seeing how the Sapphire card performed in Bioshock I half expected to see the ATI cards out perform the GTX260 in Crysis aswell. However this game seems to favour NVidia based setups at both resolutions. The NVidia cards also claw back a little bit of cost in this game but are still more expensive cost per frame. Still a very good performance from the ATI cards given that they are alot cheaper and still keep within a couple of FPS of their main rival.
F.E.A.R. is a game based on the Lithtech Jupiter EX engine. It has volumetric lighting, soft shadows, parallax mapping and particle effects. 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.
F.E.A.R has always taken a preference to the NVidia camp and today was no different seeing the GTX260 and 280 cards easily dispatch the ATI offerings. The NVidia cards do take a much bigger hit when AA was applied though and one can only assume that the more AA and higher the resolution the more even the playing field would be.
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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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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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