AMD: R7xx Speculation

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A GDDR 4 HD 3870 X2 will still be faster than the HD 4870 won't it? I was thinking about a single HD 4870 or a HD 3870 X2 with GDDR 4.
 
Oblivion with Radeon HD 3850 and Catalyst 7.5 :

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Oblivion with Radeon HD 4870-X2, Catalyst 8.8, Tesselator and DX10.1 patchs, and with the exact same girl :

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Oh my god ! :runaway:
 
A GDDR 4 HD 3870 X2 will still be faster than the HD 4870 won't it? I was thinking about a single HD 4870 or a HD 3870 X2 with GDDR 4.

In what? The 4850 seems to get awfully close already at times from what I've seen.

<edit> and at the same money I'd have to think that 4850 crossfire is going to kick the crap out of the 3870x2.
 
A GDDR 4 HD 3870 X2 will still be faster than the HD 4870 won't it? I was thinking about a single HD 4870 or a HD 3870 X2 with GDDR 4.
HD 4870 all the way !

No CF drivers bugs/slowdown.
No CF optimisations needed.
Don't have to wait for new CF drivers to play a new game.
 
In what? The 4850 seems to get awfully close already at times from what I've seen.

<edit> and at the same money I'd have to think that 4850 crossfire is going to kick the crap out of the 3870x2.

add to that the power usage, a very silent card and a some overclock to boot.

the 4850 is the next gen 8800GT.
 
Not a typo, not a mistake. I used to work for a large computer parts supplier, and this looks like our marketing managers "advertising" at work. If competitor had a product for £400, but neither of us had it in stock, our site would show £300.

Not only does it not give your competitor an idea of your retail price, but how many people will have bookmarked that site, and when the real price shows up, just buy from there anyway, even when they put the price up to $5-600, because thats the standard price at other sites too.

We'll see in less than 48 hours anyway.
 
Not a typo, not a mistake. I used to work for a large computer parts supplier, and this looks like our marketing managers "advertising" at work. If competitor had a product for £400, but neither of us had it in stock, our site would show £300.

Not only does it not give your competitor an idea of your retail price, but how many people will have bookmarked that site, and when the real price shows up, just buy from there anyway, even when they put the price up to $5-600, because thats the standard price at other sites too.

We'll see in less than 48 hours anyway.

Yep its a great way to get your site at the top of price search engines, even if the product isn't in stock people will look back.
 
Don't those Crysis scores for the 4850 look a bit low to you? (1680x1050 All High, 35 FPS)

It's around a stock 8800GT.

Of course, with Crysis generally favoring nVidia cards if a 4850 matches a 8800GT on Crysis it will probably be faster than 8800GT in all the rest. But still I'd like it to do more than just a 8800GT on Crysis too.
 
No, that's impossible if your CPU is a C2D above 2GHz or something.

The avg FPS on 1680x1050 all High with a single 8800GT is 34 for me, with an E8400 running at something like 3.5GHz (I don't remember)
 
No, that's impossible if your CPU is a C2D above 2GHz or something.

The avg FPS on 1680x1050 all High with a single 8800GT is 34 for me, with an E8400 running at something like 3.5GHz (I don't remember)

Far from impossible.

At Toms the GT doesn't even manage 20 fps in their crisis test at 1680x1050. Although they don't say the settings so perhaps it was very high.
 
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I guess until you test a 4850 in your system that seems to be so much better than theirs, you'll never know.

It seems fairly obvious that [H] and Tom's Hardware have been slighting the 8800GT in their reviews in preparation for the release of the 4850 so they can make AMD look good.
 
In SLI maybe. For instance [H] got about 29fps in crisis on mostly med (shaders high) at 1280x1024 no AA/AF with an 8800GT.

Seems like a fishy test, 1280*1024 all medium with shaders on high and only 29,8fps avg?

At Toms the GT doesn't even manage 20 fps in their crisis test at 1680x1050. Although they don't say the settings so perhaps it was very high.

Very high and the comment below the benchmarks seems to suggest this to.
 
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