Seems to me that the 5870 virtually the same as the gtx480 with the exception of Metro2033. The GTX470 is painfully slow in almost every benchmark compared to the 5850. That card, to me, is a worst out of the four.)
In this review yes.
But like any other review it’s in the numbers…
If , for arguments sake, you included HAWX (which up until this review was part of Techspots benchmarking suite), you might see
this
And if you included CoD:MW2, a fairly popular game I believe (which up until this review was part of Techspots benchmarking suite), you might see
this
Likewise for a full electric chair review; “Sims 3”, a title that heavily favours AMD cards could have been included at the expense of say, “Metro 2033”
A fairly simple metric of ascertaining how "good" or "bad" these cards are would be to look at the newegg reviews for both the
GTX480/470, the
HD 5850 and
HD 5870 as well as the incidences of “buyers remorse” in the online auction arena
I know Nvidia has got CUDA and Physx. However, the man responsible for CUDA has moved to AMD promoting the development of AMD FUSION APU. I think it is clear that the tide is shifting. The way I see it, the turtle (AMD) has overtaken the hare (Nvidia, who has been napping for too long).
"The man responsible for CUDA".....oh dear! Don't your arms get tired waving the red flag?
The man in question is Manju Hegde. He was a
vice president of PhysX and CUDA
MARKETING. While he was the CEO of Ageia (admin, not tech) when nVidia bought the company, he certainly didn't scale the same heights at nVidia. The main man for CUDA is Ian Buck (PhD Stanford I believe).
Feel free to feel the excitement of AMD acquiring one of nVidia's PR guys.
Somehow I doubt that an APU sporting HD5450 level graphics is going to seriously hinder enthusiast graphics cards development for the foreseeable future, and considering ATI graphics are the only thing standing between AMD and a sea of red ink maybe that's just as well.
You might also consider that part of AMD's appeal has been as the plucky underdog...something thats a little hard to maintain when you're heading for parity or better in market share. You might do well to take note of the noticable groundswell of a reversal of opinions in light of the many ill informed bandwagon jumpers that permeate the public domain :wave:
Oh, and before you get to carried away in the euphoria of nvidia's impending demise, here's a tidbit regarding
Nebulae- the worlds second biggest computer. You'll note that in addition to the 9,280 Intel Xeon X5650 CPU's it also runs 4,640 nVidia C2050 Tesla cards (workstation GTX 470). If certain tech "journalists" are right with their 5,000-8,000 total GTX4xx cards being produced, then nVidia might need to run off another batch fairly soon.:haha:
This makes the top ten of most ridiculous statements ever made on TS.
I'll see your ridiculous nVidia fanboy...and raise you a nonsensical AMD fanboy.....watcha got?, I got a full house, kneejerk reactionaries over tards!:haha: