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Although AMD took the hardware community by surprise with the performance of RV770 and the derivative Radeon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radeon HD 4850/4870, things didn’t go entirely according to plan. The company launched its boards immediately after Nvidia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia , which turned around and slashed the prices on its own models, determined to win this round of the ongoing graphics card war.

And yet, a month and a half after the launch of AMD’s newest round of products, the verdict hasn’t changed. Neither the GeForce GTX http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_9_Series 260 nor the GeForce 9800 GTX+ (only recently made available) can take on the Radeon HD 4870 with regards to price or performance, even in light of heavy cuts from Nvidia.

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But AMD’s not out just to make waves with the gamers looking for value. It also wants to reclaim a crown it lost a long time ago to Nvidia’s last two generations of large, monolithic programmable graphics architectures. As a means to that end, the company is putting a pair of its most impressive GPUs on a single PCB and calling it the Radeon HD 4870 X2. Now the question remains: does the new board have the muscle to take on Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 280, the single fastest card?





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Good thing I started saving up for this card a while back..
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It's weird though on some review sites the 4870 X2 does not blow the 280GTX out of the water and even sometimes the 280GTX beats it by little but on other reviews the 4870 X2 just blows away the 280GTX. Example: Check Crysis http://www.guru3d.com/article/radeon...w-crossfire/12 and http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...md,1992-5.html

I smell some biased reviews....
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It's weird though on some review sites the 4870 X2 does not blow the 280GTX out of the water and even sometimes the 280GTX beats it by little but on other reviews the 4870 X2 just blows away the 280GTX. Example: Check Crysis http://www.guru3d.com/article/radeon...w-crossfire/12 and http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...md,1992-5.html

I smell some biased reviews....
I believe Crysis was made or optimized for nvidia cards so any Crysis benchmark nvidia will have the lead. But if you take some other games benches I think the 4870 x2 wins most if not all.
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Oh you didn't know Guru3d are nvidia luvrs?
Huh they had the 4870x2 beating the 280GTX in ever benchmark except Crysis and GRAW2
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I believe Crysis was made or optimized for nvidia cards so any Crysis benchmark nvidia will have the lead. But if you take some other games benches I think the 4870 x2 wins most if not all.
I know Crysis was optmized for nVidia but in the Tom's HW review the 4870 x2 beats the 280GTX while other reviews show the opposite.
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Oh you didn't know Guru3d are nvidia luvrs?
After reading their RV770 reviews i wouldn't say that for sure.
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Since I only play at 1680x1050 the 4870 will suit me just fine for quite a long time. I highly doubt any game in the near future will bring that card to it's knees so I'm probably going to sit this high-end series out. Hopefully when the next one comes out there will be a need for it so I can use that as an excuse to get one
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I know Crysis was optmized for nVidia but in the Tom's HW review the 4870 x2 beats the 280GTX while other reviews show the opposite.
That's because of newer drivers.

Well, the 4870 X2 is close enough to the performance of the GTX 280 that I will not regret going with the GTX 280, since I trust nVidia more. The GTX 280+ will surely do great against the 4870 X2 if this review is accurate in showing what the 4870 X2 has to offer vs the GTX 280.

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