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Winter 2008 Graphics Performance Update

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There have been quite a few changes in the market over the last few weeks, as both AMD and Nvidia have released new drivers that promise some significant performance gains. This followed the release of a number of very high profile games, including Far Cry 2, Fallout 3 and Dead Space amongst others.

The question, therefore, that we're hoping to answer over the course of this article is whether or not our original recommendations have changed as a result of the new games being released. Before we get onto that though, it's worth having a quick recap on what's happened over the past few months, and what we're going to be doing very soon.


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* Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2 2GB - operating at 625/1,986MHz using Catalyst 8.11 beta
* AMD ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 2GB - operating at 750/3,600MHz using Catalyst 8.10 hotfix 8-551-1-71310
* AMD ATI Radeon HD 4870 1GB - operating at 750/3,600MHz using Catalyst 8.10 hotfix 8-551-1-71310
* AMD ATI Radeon HD 4870 512MB - operating at 750/3,600MHz using Catalyst 8.10 hotfix 8-551-1-71310
* AMD ATI Radeon HD 4850 512MB - operating at 625/1,986MHz using Catalyst 8.10 hotfix 8-551-1-71310
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Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6850 (operating at 3.00GHz – 9x333MHz); XFX nForce 780i SLI motherboard (with two PCI-Express 2.0 x16 slots); 2x 2GB Corsair XMS2-6400C5 (operating in dual channel at DDR2-800 5-5-5-12-1T); Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 200GB SATA hard drive; Enermax Galaxy DXX 1000W PSU; Windows Vista Home Premium x86-64 (with Service Pack 1); Nvidia 15.17 nForce drivers.

Graphics cards

* Nvidia GeForce GTX 280 1GB - operating at 602/1,296/2,214MHz using Forceware 180.43 beta
* Nvidia GeForce GTX 260+ 896MB - operating at 576/1,242/1,998MHz using Forceware 180.43 beta
* Nvidia GeForce 9800 GTX+ 512MB - operating at 738/1,836/2,200MHz using Forceware 180.43 beta
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I like the chart, buy why cater to the $150+ market only? It would have been nice to have the 9800GT, HD4830, HD4670, and even 9600GSO to be thrown in there for comparison as well.
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i can already see, from looking at the chart, one pretty big flaw with that comparison - they don't mention the GTX 260 216. given how much pressure it is putting on the GTX 280 and how long it has been in the market, it is a pretty big omission IMO.

nevertheless, that should make for an interesting read - Bit-Tech's articles are always top notch, just like HeXus'.
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i can already see, from looking at the chart, one pretty big flaw with that comparison - they don't mention the GTX 260 216. given how much pressure it is putting on the GTX 280 and how long it has been in the market, it is a pretty big omission IMO.

nevertheless, that should make for an interesting read - Bit-Tech's articles are always top notch, just like HeXus'.
Other way around - they got the Core 216, they couldn't get a hold of the standard GTX 260.
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Other way around - they got the Core 216, they couldn't get a hold of the standard GTX 260.
Precisely.

And these benches make me sad @ my native res. Then again I'm 700mhz ahead of their test system so well see.

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Where is my AAx8+?
this is...
Fun to know that my 60FPS+ 8800GTX SLi vs the 4870X2 is creepy close.
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Thanks for posting this...I really need to get rid of this X1600 lmao...
haha at least you don't have a 9200SE, which is probably the worst video card on overclock.net lmao
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I don't even have a card
You've got one mean IGP though. I just got my roomate a similar setup to yours, with the Gigabyte GA-MA790GP-DS4H, X2 5000+ (non-BE), and 2x1GB of OCZ DDR2 800 RAM. It runs games pretty damn well all things considered.
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