NVIDIA 280GTX VS ATI 4870

[Lagger]

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkGsbybFSjw&feature=related[/media]

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgaqtdfzATs&feature=related[/media]

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYnXxI1UjxE&feature=related[/media]

ATI INFO

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showpr...)%20-%20Retail

NVIDIA 280GTX INFO

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showpr...)%20-%20Retail

NVIDIA 9800GX2 INFO

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showpr...01G-P3-E895-AR)

NVIDIA 9800GTX NIFO

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showpr...Retail%20(E875)

[HTM|Minion]

Thanks Lagger... nice video comparison.

I moved this to the proper section though.

[HTM|Minus]

i dont see a difference in video quality because the video looks bad. Why they would use cod4 for testing,it is not that crazy of an applacation.

[HTM~ZenEye]

Grid is a good test however, that game bogs me dualies a bit

[HTM|Minus]

i seen the demo on ps3

[HTM~ZenEye]

I posted in the reviews section about it. VERY good graphics, blew me away and I can't even turn everything up

[HTM|Minion]

I think the main difference between the aATI 4870 and the Nvidia 280 isn't video quality, it's the price. The 3870 is only a $300.00 card. Besides, just look at the framerates, don't try to look at the video quality.

[Freak]

I found several 280 cards at just over $300.

Oops.My mistake they were 260 cards,the 280's were over 400.

[HTM~ZenEye]

Methinks Nvidia needs the money lol. With the recent chip troubles they've had, I wouldn't be surprised if Intel bought them out.

[Lagger]

GeForce 9800 GX2

GPU Engine Specs:
Processor Cores 256 (128 per GPU)
Graphics Clock (MHz) 600 MHz
Processor Clock (MHz) 1500 MHz
Texture Fill Rate (billion/sec) 76.8

Memory Specs:
Memory Clock (MHz) 1000 MHz
Standard Memory Config 1GB (512MB per GPU)
Memory Interface Width 512-bit (256-bit per GPU)
Memory Bandwidth (GB/sec) 128 (64 per GPU)

Feature Support:
NVIDIA SLI®-ready 1 Quad
NVIDIA PureVideo® Technology 2 PVHD
NVIDIA PhysX™-ready 3 checkmark.gif
NVIDIA CUDA™ Technology checkmark.gif
HybridPower™ Technology 4 checkmark.gif
GeForce Boost
Microsoft DirectX 10
OpenGL 2.1
Bus Support PCI-E 2.0 x16
Certified for Windows Vista checkmark.gif

Display Support:
Maximum Digital Resolution 2560x1600
Maximum VGA Resolution 2048x1536
Standard Display Connectors Two Dual Link DVI and one HDMI output
Multi Monitor checkmark.gif
HDCP 5 checkmark.gif
HDMI 6 checkmark.gif
Audio Input for HDMI SPDIF

Standard Graphics Card Dimensions:
Height Dual Slot
Length 10.5 inches
Width 4.376 inches

Thermal and Power Specs:
Maximum GPU Tempurature (in C) 105C
Maximum Graphics Card Power (W) 197W
Minimum System Power Requirement (W) 580W
Supplementary Power Connectors One 8-pin and one 6-pin
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GeForce 9800 GTX

GPU Engine Specs:
Processor Cores 128
Graphics Clock (MHz) 675 MHz
Processor Clock (MHz) 1688 MHz
Texture Fill Rate (billion/sec) 43.2

Memory Specs:
Memory Clock (MHz) 1100 MHz
Standard Memory Config 512MB
Memory Interface Width 256-bit
Memory Bandwidth (GB/sec) 70.4

Feature Support:
NVIDIA SLI®-ready 1 3-way
NVIDIA PureVideo® Technology 2 PVHD
NVIDIA PhysX™-ready 3 checkmark.gif
NVIDIA CUDA™ Technology checkmark.gif
HybridPower™ Technology 4 checkmark.gif
GeForce Boost
Microsoft DirectX 10
OpenGL 2.1
Bus Support PCI-E 2.0 x16
Certified for Windows Vista checkmark.gif

Display Support:
Maximum Digital Resolution 2560x1600
Maximum VGA Resolution 2048x1536
Standard Display Connectors Two Dual Link DVI and one HDTV output
Multi Monitor checkmark.gif
HDCP 5 checkmark.gif
HDMI 6 "Via adapter"
Audio Input for HDMI SPDIF

Standard Graphics Card Dimensions:
Height Dual Slot
Length 10.5 inches
Width 4.376 inches

Thermal and Power Specs:
Maximum GPU Tempurature (in C) 105C
Maximum Graphics Card Power (W) 140W
Minimum System Power Requirement (W) 450w
Supplementary Power Connectors Two 6-pins
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GeForce GTX 280

GPU Engine Specs:
Processor Cores 240
Graphics Clock (MHz) 602 MHz
Processor Clock (MHz) 1296 MHz
Texture Fill Rate (billion/sec) 48.2

Memory Specs:
Memory Clock (MHz) 1107 MHz
Standard Memory Config 1GB GDDR3
Memory Interface Width 512-bit
Memory Bandwidth (GB/sec) 141.7

Feature Support:
NVIDIA SLI®-ready1 2-/3-way
NVIDIA PureVideo® Technology2 HD
NVIDIA PhysX™-ready3
NVIDIA CUDA™ Technology
GeForce Boost
Microsoft DirectX 10
OpenGL 2.1
Bus Support PCI-E 2.0 x16
Certified for Windows Vista

Display Support:
Maximum Digital Resolution 2560 X 1600
Maximum VGA Resolution 2048 X 1536
Standard Display Connectors 2 dual-link DVI and 1 analog HDTV-out
Multi Monitor (# of displays) 2
HDCP4
HDMI5 Via Adapter
Audio Input for HDMI SPDIF

Standard Graphics Card Dimensions:
Height 4.376 inches (111 mm)
Length 10.5 inches (267 mm)
Width Dual-slot

Thermal and Power Specs:
Maximum GPU Temperature 105C
Maximum Graphics Card Power 236W
Minimum System Power Requirement 550W
Supplementary Power Connectors One 8-pin + one 6-pin
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ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2

2 x ATI Radeon R700 (4870) Cores running at 750MHz
- Dual TeraScale graphics engines
- 956 million transistors 55nm Manufacturing Process
- 750MHz Shader Clock Speed
- 1600 Stream Processors
- 3600MHz GDDR5 Memory
- 512-Bit (2x 256-Bit) Memory Interface
- 230GB/sec Memory Bandwidth
- Double Precision Support
- DirectX 10.1 Support
- 24x custom filter anti-aliasing (CFAA) and high performance anisotropic filtering
- 2400 Peak GigaFlops
- ATI CrossFireX™ multi-GPU support for highly scalable performance (2x 4870 X2 for a total of 4 GPU's)
- Supplied with GRID PC Game