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Comparison Revisited, Methods Refined: Nvidia GeForce GTX 480/470 vs. ATI Radeon HD 5870/5850
While we feel the truth might lie somewhere in the middle, it is time to take another look at the Nvidia GeForce GTX 480/470 vs. ATI Radeon HD 5870/5850 comparison.
We also wanted to revisit this high-end graphics card battle to settle a belief of the green team fans that the GeForce GTX 480 is far superior to the Radeon HD 5870 when measuring minimum frames per second. This is an interesting argument as the average fps results did not suggest a huge difference in minimum frame rate performance when we last tested, though it could be possible and therefore we wanted to find out if this were true or not.
Read the complete review.
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dividebyzero
on July 20, 2010 12:52 AM |
Here CUDA and ATI Stream....have a ball Mr. Dead-thread-resurrector. I'm pretty certain anyone with pretensions of parallel/GPGPU computing doesn't need a gaming review to make up their mind about what SDK they should be using. |
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Guest
on July 20, 2010 1:14 AM |
wow, 3 weeks is dead around here? Ok, fair enough. Thanks for the links. |
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Julio Franco
on July 20, 2010 3:58 AM |
It's not dead if you revive it Seriously though, reviews discussion is meant to be on-going no matter how long it's passed since the original article was posted. This one in particular is 6-7 weeks old, and since this review was posted we have looked at SLI vs. Crossfire and also the new GTX 460 graphics cards, so that might be the reason why it feels a bit dated when it's actually not... |
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Guest
on July 21, 2010 5:36 AM |
i own the hd 5870 , im very pleased to say i run everything on max settings with no problem. The card is awesome , i have never been a fanboy of ati or nvidia and hope i never turn into one. no doubt ati have provided the best bang for the buck. the 480 is a very impressive card but fails in my opinion to heat issues and only leading by a couple of frames . however , i do love cuda and physx..... shame ati doesnt come naturally with them.... but... found out recently how to unlock phsyx using an nvidia card along with my hd 5870 and vuala! power of the 5870 along with physx! brilliant.... hope nvidia brings something out mind blowing in the future , however , i think i will be stayin with at i for many years to come if they keep up the good work. |
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Guest
on August 4, 2010 8:55 PM |
After reading the entire review and posted comments I decided to order 480gtx, here is why: First of all I am not a fan boy of neither, I have 4870 in my other system, I still even have 1950xt...voodoo3 2000, geforce4600, radeon64 ddr, radeon 9700, geforce 3.. you name it. I always try to buy stuff like this based on price\quality comparison, as of August 4th I could find gtx480 for $440 CND selling on new egg, cheapest 5870 that I could find is $399... so why not pay extra 40 dollars and get a better card overall (every website shows that 480 gtx is more powerful than 5870.. sorry but that is true, if it was not I would go with 5870 instead) That's about it =) |
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Guest
on August 26, 2010 9:47 AM |
Look, Nvidia kicks ATI *** everytime. Their cards are beast end of. I'm no Nvidia fan boy but every night i take time out to sit in my room and put green things up my **** and scream out Jen-Hsun Huang! Jen-Hsun Huang! |
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