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Update on its way with 8.12 Drivers (15/12/08)



Hey guys , me and a friend have decided to test how much better or worse a 4870X2 is against a GTX 280

Here we're going to do a series of benches to dermine how close these cards are in comparison.

Two rules apply:

1)Overclocking on gfx allowed
2)Screenshots must be posted

System specs:

G4: Qx9650 @ 4Ghz
Asus Maximus
4 Gb ddr2 @ 800 (4x1GB)
Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit
XFX Gtx280

Porky: Qx9650 @ 4Ghz
XFX 780i
OCZ DDR800 ram (2x2GB sticks)
Sapphire 4870x2
8.8 Drivers

Other specs are n/a. . .

Games that will be tested:

1)Crysis dx 9 all high no:aa/af and 16qx 1280x 1024 and 1920x1200

2)A's Creed, latest patch (whichever it is, dx10.1 is a feature of ati so use it) same res as mensioned above, no aa and full aa

3)Mass effect: same res as above, no aa and full aa

4)F:Fow (Make sure you have v-sync switched off ingame and catalyst set to -> use app setting

5)Company of Heroes: Same res, no aa and full

6)Cod 4: same res as above, no aa and full.

This post will be edited as we get the benches done. . .








ill keep this updated , doing this on anather forum! wish me luck!



***********Final Graphs**********



1920*1200 resolution





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15/12/08 Updates :

Crysis :




43fps avg - over 10fps improvement! (old score was 34fps) that is 30%!


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3D Marks (Synthetic benchmarks)

3D mark Vantage Xtreme preset 7618 from 7100 which is about 7% improvement



3d Mark Vantage Performance preset 15760 from 14628 which is about 7% improvement



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****Reserved****


This is where all results will be posted

As promised , warhead! , this is the first mission, about 10 minutes of gameplay!....






*********************Comparative Graphs************************




***********Final Graphs**********



1920*1200 resolution





Conclusion :

As you can see , both cards are more than capable of maxing these games out.............I think that we are both either cpu limited , as the results are extremily similar , or a game needs to come out that stresses the gpu's more .


World In conflict :

44 against 46.............virtually the same score..............soo either card is perfect if you want to see this game maxed out , however the GTX280 had a minimum fps of 24 , wile the 4870x2 had a minimum of 29....but eitherway , each card is fine.


Call of duty 4

Again , this game looks beautifull , and on either card , it runs great , 106 (ati) against 102 (nvidia) , soo again , no real difference here

Assasins Creed

Some interesting results here , the first mission goes to ATI (indoor mission) , wile the second outdoor mission goes to Nvidia , but whatever way you look at it , both cards max this game out , soo either is fine

Company of heroes Opposing fronts

Heres one game , where ATI really smashes Nvidia , 55 against 35 , more than a 50% lead here , however , the GTX280 still maxes this game out @ 35fps , soo it will still be very playable.


Crysis!

oohh , the big boy! , I have not tested crysis with the new drivers , but it seems they have improved everything accross the bourd , ill add in a warhead graph when i pick it up today................

In the tests that we ran , the GTX280 dominated the 4870X2 in lower resolutions , 1680*1080 and below all went to the GTX 280 , leading the 4870X2 by upto 25%!...........upon higher resolutions and AA , ATI comes back and wins this particular battle , 34FPS avg , not too bad , but i was expecting higher


3D Mark Vantage

14628 (ATI) vs 14391 (Nvidia) in performance mode , Nvidia were using the PhysX drivers ,
7100(ATI) against 5100 (nvidia) in xtreme preset (my friend never gave me a score for this one , i have added it in from a few websites that an nvidia card gets with those specs , hope thats ok)



Closing thoughts

Well , not soo much of a "smashing" from the 4870x2 that I was expecting , and I dont know what the review sites use to bench , but I at some games , have gotten completely different results , on some websites , I was supposed to get AVG in COD4 205FPS maxed out on my res??................im getting half that , however , World In conflict i should be getting 40fps , im getting 46.............


a few notes though , all the benchmarks were done with atleast 50 processes running in the background on my pc atleast , soo this is as close to real world performance you can expect ,


In terms of who is the winner , the 4870X2 or the GTX280 , well , without a doubt the 4870X2 does beat the GTX280 , but it is not neccesary to get a 4870X2 over a GTX280 at the moment , as both cards max out all games , however at higher resolutions and AA , that is when the extra power of the 4870x2 comes in and starts beating nvidia's card , the GTX280 starts struggling with full AA on , ati doesent seem to be affected as much!



peace guys , hope you enjoyed my review! , ill add in more from time to time , but untill then , happy gaming!

porky-






******WORK IN PROGRESS******













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GTX 280 Benchmarks:



Crysis :




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Assasins creed:

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Mass Effect

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World In conflict

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Frontlines Fuels of war

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Company of Heroes opposing fronts:

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Call of Duty 4 :


Cod4:

1280x1024 (No AA/AF)
Min: 0
Max: 442
Ave: 205.119

1280x1024 (AA/AF)

1920x1200 (No AA/AF)
Min: 0
Max: 271
Ave: 133.254

1920x1200 (AA/AF)
Min: 0 (Prob a save)
Max: 208
Ave: 101.949


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3D mark vantage

Performance :



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4870X2 Benchmarks
Crysis :


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Assasins creed:







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Mass Effect

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World In conflict




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Frontlines Fuels of war

Max ingame settings




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Company of Heroes opposing fronts :

Max ingame settings , 4X AA 1920*1200


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Same settings , but 8xAA :




Note , the 11FPS is also the same part the game freezes for a second , minimum that lasted for a wile was 35fps



Note : FPS was capped at 60 , how do i disable the cap? vsync is diabled in CCP , but it still capped it at 60fps


minimum fps never went below 55 , even though it does say 27 , that was more of a split second jerk.....more on their way!



****Edit*****

8.9 drivers :


new result:

Max ingame , 16x AA





55FPS

compared to 42fps with old drivers

big improvement!


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Call of Duty 4





1920*1200 4xAA / Max ansiotropic

Min : 52
Max: 172
AVG : 106.256


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3D mark Vantage :

Extreme : http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dmv=359931

Performance : http://www.overclock.net/attachm....led.jpg


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Upon completion of all the benchmarks , G4 , my friend will be drawing up a graph showing all the differences , soo bear with us!

f16-r1

yeah the 4870x2 is going to stomp the GTX280 at higher res... but not testing with max aa/af is putting GTX at avantage i think you should test it both ways because i know for a fact that ATI cards do much better with aa/af on.

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Flinch

These cards are all about high rez and high AA/AF.

usman_hussain1987

why not kick in some AA. we all want to see good quality images. lets see how the cards frames drop under AA

Roy Munson

I'll definitely be watching this thread with much interest. I'm currently thinking about a mid-term upgrade involving moving to 1920x1200, new gfx & new PSU. As such, the whole 280(SLI or otherwise) vs. 4870x2 is of major importance to me

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kk , all games will be benched with ABSOLUTE maximimum ingame settings , soo if the game offers 32XQSMAA we will bench it at that

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updated!

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