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View Poll Results: Which one: 4870 or GTX260
4870 79 62.20%
GTX260 48 37.80%
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Old 09-08-08   #21 (permalink)
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2) The image quality is MUCH better. I can't believe this is still a point of contention. Ask anyone who went from Nvidia to ATi.
I went from a Geforce 6200 to a Radeon HD3200

The graphics do indeed look better on the Radeon (At the same settings ingame)
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not faster. this is ocn. both cards, oced to the max, the 260 is faster. the image quality is subjective and not any better imho and its not newer tech ( a few weeks doesnt count) its a smaller die, but that doesnt really matter. (the 3870 is 55nm and the 8800gt is 65nm.)
more lies and incorrect info...
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HD4870 destroys the GTX260.
seriously. and isnt the 4870 cheaper?
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4870 with out a shout of a doubt is faster than the GTX 260, how ever its very close to the GTX 280 also.

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4870 is at least 5% faster then GTX260.

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not faster. this is ocn. both cards, oced to the max, the 260 is faster. the image quality is subjective and not any better imho and its not newer tech ( a few weeks doesnt count) its a smaller die, but that doesnt really matter. (the 3870 is 55nm and the 8800gt is 65nm.)
At the resolution and quality I play at, the 4870 is faster. Image quality is BETTER, that is a fact. The reason I said that it is newer tech, is because it is 55nm and it supports DX10.1, which I thought was the only version of DX10 that DX11 will be backwards compatible with.

The GTX260 is not a bad card, but for the $200-$300 range, the 4870 is the card to beat.

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HD4870 destroys the GTX260.
GTX 260, Scalability in SLI.
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Anyways, the GTX 260 isn't a fair contest, it should be 4870 VS GTX 280
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Anyways, the GTX 260 isn't a fair contest, it should be 4870 VS GTX 280
i think we are comparing GPU less than $300 ;/
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