thats coz 9600GT beats HD4670.....
@ultimategpu
Your fanboyism wont save any company dude......no offences but dont be so biased
HD4870x2 is good card no doubt, but generates a lot of heat, and requires enormous amounts of power to run, I prefer a HD4870 over HD4870x2 any day, HD4870x2 doesn't look that interesting and its really not worth it.8600 gt is the old hot stove and it is not much faster to play games in the high resolution ------------> the upcoming games like NFS-undercover,GTA-4
needs atleast 9600gt ,,, so go for it
man i am not talking about the 4670
i am telling only 4850 and 4870
8800gt,9800gt,9800gtx,9800gtx+,8800ultra ------------> these all cards fails with 4850
9800gtx+,260gtx,8800gtx,280gtx ----------------->fails with 4870
9800gx2,gtx280 -----------> fails with 4870x2
and onething there no nvidia cards is there to compare with 4870x2
see if u say that 4870x2 fails with any card ,,,, is there anyone belive this
Man I dunno where u get ur Intel from but it is F'd up big time. 4870X2 better than GTX280, come on, u must be outta ur mind or lost ur marbles.8800gt,9800gt,9800gtx,9800gtx+,8800ultra ------------> these all cards fails with 4850
9800gtx+,260gtx,8800gtx,280gtx ----------------->fails with 4870
9800gx2,gtx280 -----------> fails with 4870x2
and onething there no nvidia cards is there to compare with 4870x2
see if u say that 4870x2 fails with any card ,,,, is there anyone belive this
Man I dunno where u get ur Intel from but it is F'd up big time. 4870X2 better than GTX280, come on, u must be outta ur mind or lost ur marbles.
With 1.4 billion transistors on a single die, GTX280 is the biggest and meanest bada$$ in the GPU community today. Sure HD4870X2 beats GTX 280 but it takes 2 of the Reds to gang up and beat down onw single GTX280. The default single chip HD4870 was never aimed at competing with GTX280, it was lucky enough to match GTX260 in most of the benchmarking tests. What if Nvidia rolls out GTX280X2 or GTX260X2 tomorrow, what do you think is gonna happen to HD4*** series?
This time where Nvidia went wrong was their pricing. ATi cards were cheaper and here we always go for "Sasta", whether it may or may not be "Sunder" and "Tikaoo", just like XBOX360. HD4850 is nothing more than a highly OCed 8800GT and the fact that latter card came almost a year before, HD4850 had time to incorporate DX10.1 and SM 4.0 in it.
This is was just general rambling, lets talk figures now.
The GTX200 series GPUs have 1.4billion transistors on a single die making them even more faster and better than your average dual Core processors.
GTX280 has:
ATi may have jumped on to GDDR5 bandwagon to show how advanced they are but to consider GDDR5 as the best thing ever to happen to a GPU is pure n00bish. A friend of mine, who was employed in RAMDAC and also had chance to work on PS3's RAM made it clear that next VRAM generation isn't going to belong to GDDR3 or GDDR5, it belongs to XDR who's production cost is just 20cents a unit right now.
- Peak pixel fillrate-19.3 billion pixels per second!
- Peak texels fillrate-48.2 billion texels per second.
- Bandwidth-141.7GBps (VRAM is GDDR3)
- SP count-240
- Texture Units-80
- Raster Operators-32
Look I ain't here to teach or preach so just grab the copies of August and September issues of Digit to know more about memory and GPU architectures. As for comparing these cards is concerned, why don't you leave it to Pros and see what they Say about it.
If you are still unable to understand what those reviews say, Use Google Translate!
- HD4870X2 vs GTX280
- HD4870 1GB
- HD4850
Even if that also fails well then, Lord save you Boy!
BTW guys look at my GPUz screenshot and look at it very carefully. I think something's wrong with it, I mean the software, as my card is working just fine.
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8600 gt is the old hot stove and it is not much faster to play games in the high resolution ------------> the upcoming games like NFS-undercover,GTA-4
needs atleast 9600gt ,,, so go for it
man i am not talking about the 4670
i am telling only 4850 and 4870
8800gt,9800gt,9800gtx,9800gtx+,8800ultra ------------> these all cards fails with 4850
9800gtx+,260gtx,8800gtx,280gtx ----------------->fails with 4870
9800gx2,gtx280 -----------> fails with 4870x2
and onething there no nvidia cards is there to compare with 4870x2
see if u say that 4870x2 fails with any card ,,,, is there anyone belive this
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You said 4xxx series beats every NVIDIA card in their range. 4xxx series covers HD4670 and HD4650 which were an epic phail against 9600GT. Sure, 9800GX2 is beaten by HD4870x2 but still search Google about GTX280 vs HD4870x2. On chart specs and ingame performance differ a LOT. See, HD3870 had such fine specs on charts but it was just another phail. Same was 3870x2. HD4870x2 is technically seen and recognized as a Crossfire GPU and bcoz of incompatible drivers and lack of support it performs lower than GTX280 in most games. GTX280 is still the fastest single GPU card on Earth. And even if HD4870x2 HAD been successful in some how beating it, the succes would have not been counted bcoz HD4870x2 is a dual GPU and GTX280 is a single GPU. The HD4870x2 generates a lot of heat on stock clocks so forget OC'ing without expensive cooling. All in all, GTX280 is a better buy than a HD4870x2. I wont argue with you further coz you are a fanboi (I advise others to do the same
Learn to comprehend. He never said that HD4870x2 is the and GTX280's power requirment is more. He said that GTX280 is the best and HD4870x2's power requirement is too much.
problem with over heat and more power
confused DDR3 Sonic.....
hey dude , yeah HD4850 is 25%-30% much faster than the 9600gt and if u crossfire it with another HD 4850 it beats 280gtx --!!!
spending 1.5k more on the HD 4850 worth ur future , then have to get good psu if it is 9600gt or HD4850
cooler master 600 watts extreme power ----> 3.5k (which i use )
corsair 450 watts -------------> 4.1k (good for single HD 4850)
cooler master 500 watts extreme power ---------------> 2.7k