LOL, fastest GPU on the planet with resolved noise, thermal and power consumption and you call it crap!...LMAO!
Cant please some people....
Guys, Fermi was crap. This card has slightly less crap. Runs a little cooler and quieter. This is a polished turd.
68xx Xfire has been raping everything else at its price point? Read the AT review and see for yourself
LOL, fastest GPU on the planet with resolved noise, thermal and power consumption and you call it crap!...LMAO!
Cant please some people....
On the planet? Seriously, why don't you wait for 69XX. Also the 5970 is just as fast with a gimped driver, same power specs (don't know about noise and temps but those are related with fan profiles), and cheaper. I know its the fastest GPU, but as it has been said a bajillion times, we buy graphics cards not GPU's (though the day when that comes will be cool, think cpu).
Happy, the 6870x2 is almost = to a 480 GTX SLI in some tests. Even assuming that we need to increase quality, it still beats the 470 sli (I think). Are the 6870 and the 470 even the same price?
Happy, the 6870x2 is almost = to a 480 GTX SLI in some tests. Even assuming that we need to increase quality, it still beats the 470 sli (I think). Are the 6870 and the 470 even the same price?
Last I checked, xfire and SLI both depend more on per-game optimizations than the single-GPU cards do. Has this changed recently?
Nah, just use cheaper GTX460's and o/c. done deal.
Also 6850 oc'ed and xfired will beat the 460
Also the 5970 is = or better with a gimped driver meaning its about the worst case scenario for most of these games. So while it depends on profiles, xfire is getting better. For the same price I'd get the 580, but still the 5970 is quite competitive for a year old product.
10.7 had bad scaling even for the 5XXX series. Notice in some games it only gets 20% more than 5870. 6XXX series so far has better scaling than the 460 (it goes 5XXX<4XX<6XXX in scaling). The 68XX have better tessellation performance in unigine if you didn't notice.
10.7 had bad scaling even for the 5XXX series. Notice in some games it only gets 20% more than 5870. 6XXX series so far has better scaling than the 460 (it goes 5XXX<4XX<6XXX in scaling). The 68XX have better tessellation performance in unigine if you didn't notice.
I would think sli/ crossfire (with gtx460's) are about even now.
Back in July the gtx460's scaled 90% with release drivers.
I'm sure there have been improvements since then.
There was a thread that put 6800 scaling around 88-90% when compared over a number of reviews. The 460s where much lower than that. So 6800 do have better scaling than the 460. the fact that 6870xfire is faster than 470SLI should prove that.
90% right there in that chart for gtx460 with RELEASE DRIVERS.
The 460's scale much better then the gtx470'/480's do.
I would bet the gtx460 scaling with the newest drivers are over 94% by now.
I'm not going through all the searching to prove it. If they had 90% on release day, I'm sure its more by now. That chart I posted was from July 27th.
Guru3d's review has them at 1.8x and 1.9x on July 13.
I was comparing it to the 5870 of course... 50% faster than GTX480 is something only a fanboy would dream of
And btw, looking at the computerbase ratings (I love that they do this, spares us the trouble), the 580 is actually 25 to 30% faster, except at 2560x1600 where it takes off because of 1.5GB memory, obviously
Also cant help but think Nvidia rushed the 580 out for a reason... Anyone who buys one now instead of waiting is either rich, or a fanboy
Quick comparision of GTX 580 vs GTX 480 vs. 5870:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc...lU2QXlQVEZoRnJlQ2ZUV3c&hl=en&authkey=CJKDzrcH
There was a thread that put 6800 scaling around 88-90% when compared over a number of reviews. The 460s where much lower than that. So 6800 do have better scaling than the 460. the fact that 6870xfire is faster than 470SLI should prove that.