Benchmark Results: Grant Theft Auto IV
There’s no point in enabling anti-aliasing here, as Grand Theft Auto IV doesn’t support it.
This platform-limited title really isn’t able to do much over 60 frames, even with vsync disabled. The GeForce GTX 275’s higher shader count allows it to put a significant lead in over the GTX 260 Core 216 and Radeon HD 4890, which perform similarly.
As we can see at 2560x1600, the Grand Theft Auto IV is able to benefit from the Radeon HD 4870 X2’s second RV770 core. But it still gets bested by the single-GPU GeForce GTX 285.
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I expected the 4890 to be faster
I'd take the benchmarks with a pinch of salt...kinda get the feeling they're pro nVidia here!
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquire [...] cal-gt275s
The main question is if the boards the reviewers get are going to be different to the ones that appear on sale. Or is the Inq just having a go at nVidia because they don't like them at the moment.
yeah im gona wait a couple of weeks after the wide release before making my mind up. by then should have more of an idea on price and performance, and hopefully the 185 drivers will be fully released.
then i shall decide on which card to get
Anandtech has the 4890 beating the 275 in 7/8 benchmarks. It's just getting to be farcical now tbh.
Can't we go back to the good old days of naming conventions on nVidia cards (such as the Geforce 2) where the low end part was the MX, then the Geforce 2, then the GTS & then the Ultra? Now there are so many model names, memory configurations & die sizes, I'm suprised even they know which card is best any more!
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquire [...] cal-gt275sThe main question is if the boards the reviewers get are going to be different to the ones that appear on sale. Or is the Inq just having a go at nVidia because they don't like them at the moment.
Charlie is definitely an ATI fan, have a read of more of his articles and you'll see that. It's a shame that there are not many sites that are neutral when it comes to hardware reviews.
www.novatech.co.uk already have loads of both cards on sale. They were available from midnight. How come all the review sites apart rom this one show the radeon 4890 to be faster in most benchmarks, but this is the opposite way around?
Can't we go back to the good old days of naming conventions on nVidia cards (such as the Geforce 2) where the low end part was the MX, then the Geforce 2, then the GTS & then the Ultra? Now there are so many model names, memory configurations & die sizes, I'm surprised even they know which card is best any more!
I agree, David. They should offer degree courses in this stuff. The honours would go to the those who summise that just because a card has a higher model number doesn't necessarily mean it's better. Unfortunately by the time those people are ready to collect their degrees they'll be old hat since by the time the ink's dried on the certificate there'll be yet another set of cards to decipher
ATI needs to push some of the developers with games like Nvidia are doing to get the scene moving.
each to their own with games, but i still get 90+ fps with 1x gtx 260 on cod 4 & 5 @ 1920, so what's the point in buying a newer card? if you wanna keep up with the "Jones's" then you are a fool with $$ or ££'s to waste.
We need some new games...games that are gonna push graphics to the limit...make us want, sorry, NEED to spend money on new hardware.
Bottom line is NVidia can't produce these and make a profit so the halo effect of a higher end card will not do them any good when they can't produce them in volume (won't in fact either as they lose money on them)and ATI will just drop the price on their gpu anyway.
NVidia are stuck with a die too big to OC, and too expensive to produce in volume unless they are massively faster ... which they are not.
Goodbye NVidia ... IBM or Intel are about to buy you.
I like how they stress the importance that the drivers are still in beta here, but on the 4890 review they don't mention it at all.
and to quote:
"Update: In fact, it looks like ATI is aiming for $220 with mail-in-rebates, which gets us a little closer), we’d be much more likely to step up from the Radeon HD 4870 1 GB to a retail HD 4890 and try our hand overclocking the 4890 even farther."
However for this review they didn't overclock it at all. They overclocked it a titchy wee bit in its own review.
Here though theis implies that they are running an overclocked card against a stock Nvidia card which is simply not the truth.
'I expected the 4890 to be faster'
Hahaha...confused? That is right, m8. This review is a wrong call.
The article is comparing a ATI's 4890 to Nvidia's 260 and 285 by using a driver for the new 4890 that actually does not support fully this card and on the other side a well updated and well tested driver for the Nvidias' counterparts.
That is why the conclusions about the cards' performance are ill founded.
Wait until the release of the new catalyst 9.4 and you will see that 4890 does not only kill NV 280, but also NV285 at this price range.
I'm sorry, but I think this is something you should look into:
DirectX 10.1 in Stalker - you say, that "all are running DX10 to keep it consistent", but which player would play a game at dx10, if there's an option to improve performance with dx10.1? therefore the whole comparison is pointless for me.
Same point with Physx - you should put the results in the same table as the rest of the results when a game supports physx, so people get a better overview, not just some artificial results that don't tell the whole story.