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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlEA8E9NomM&fmt=22
Trubritar video review of the two cards on a 4.4ghz 6-core gulftown
Trubritar video review of the two cards on a 4.4ghz 6-core gulftown
Interesting watch. What do you think this means Tempered81?
Yah Mark, lookin forward to your review. When is it coming out?
Wait until you overclock both cards
-then the GTX 480 (825/1100) pulls away from the HD 5870 (975/1300)
i have found the same thing in all of my benching with 15 games from 16x10 to 25x16 -
- Overclocking each card results in not a single win for HD 5870 - just one tie
Maybe the texture fillrate disavantage is coming into play?
To me minimums are more important. But regardless, I think Crysis shows a weakness in Fermi - either that or Nvidia has some serious driver optimizations to do. But more than likely Fermi's texture management looks suspect.
If SPUs go unused, then the performance of the chip suffers due to underutilization. This design gives AMD a great deal of theoretical computational power, but it is always a challenge to fully exploit it.
To me minimums are more important. But regardless, I think Crysis shows a weakness in Fermi - either that or Nvidia has some serious driver optimizations to do. But more than likely Fermi's texture management looks suspect.
Is that with the stock cooler on both? And how do heat/noise scale?
Run Heaven 2.0 benchmark and there you see really heavy foliage; in the tall grass scene the FPS really drop for both cards - but more so for the Radeon.Tons of foliage, tons of overdraw. High levels of overdraw+high resolution- major texel draw demands. That the 5870 doesn't obliterate the 480 in this bench is the real interesting point from an architectural standpoint.
Doubtful, or we would see the HD 5870-2GB (6 pack) version beating the 1 GB version.Meh...I think the minimums are just having to do with the extra ram
no AA
GTX 480 = 26.4 min / 35.4 avg
5870 = 23.3 min / 36.8 avg
8AA
GTX 480 = 23.8 min / 29.6 avg
5870 = 18.9 min / 32.4 avg
Better mins on the Fermi card.
Doubtful, or we would see the HD 5870-2GB (6 pack) version beating the 1 GB version.
From the AT HD5870 E6 2GB review:
That's a 40% increase in minimum framerates between the 1GB and 2GB models (11.6 vs 16.3). And since the average on the E6 is just a tiny bit higher, the minimum pops up during the test very rarely.
So the minimum here is not a consistent occurrence and is not really a show stopper (though it is obviously always nice to have higher minimums). Both models play almost the same and the rare dip on the 2GB model is less noticeable. And the only difference is memory size.
First of all, you are showing us Warhead; not Crysis.
Secondly, you don't see driver issues - especially with the first chart? Look at 5970 and CF.
And in the second one, four tenths of a frame rate, shows no perceptible difference; the same card will often vary by that much (little) on different days.