ATI Readies OEM Special: Super RV770 To Challenge GeForce GTX 260, 280

[wonderlust]

Looks like the next few months may be interesting...:evil:

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/ATI-AMD-RV770,5796.html

[alexnifty]

Aren't they comparing watercooled, overclocked 4870's to stock X280's?

They should compare one of EVGA's watercooled beasties with these 4870's:

ATI 'Super' RV770: 32-byte x 4.8 Billion Transfers/sec = 150 GB/s
Nvidia GT200: 64-byte x 2.2 Billion Transfers/sec = 138.37 GB/s
EVGA 280 HC (http://www.evga.com/products/moreInfo.asp?pn=01G-P3-1289-AR&family=GeForce%20GTX%20200%20Series%20Family): 155.52 GB/s

280's 'Crown' intact.

[Lynx]

Surely BT's dont determine performance, but rather bandwidth?

[wonderlust]

Yes you are correct, but it shows that the speed of the chip AMD provided for the reference design has a fair amount of head room.

I know the reference ATI cooler is supposed to be fairly good, but it would be interesting to see if a board shipped with one of the top performing aftermarket coolers (and I am not talking water/tec) would compare to Nvidia's offerings under the same conditions.

Do you think the cards are more closely matched that both sets of reference designs show?

[alexnifty]

Well that EVGA 280 HC is supposed to be their top performing card, I would guess theres not much more to extract from a 280 after that.

So in theory the cards bandwith is close. Thats really all we can say.

[wonderlust]

Make you wonder if AMD were a little conservative with the clocks on this one...

As I said in the first post there are interesting times ahead, especialy is AMD can die shrink the 48x0 series we could have a real performance war on our hands.

Which is good for all of us.

[marsey99]

we will see how far these cards go when the bench teams get them under sub zero cooling, then we will know who is king.

dont forget that the 2900 pwn 8800ultra in the subzero cooled arena but in realworld use....

[Monkey]

we could have a real performance war on our hands.

Which is good for all of us.
Thats true performance wise, but it also depends on prices weither or not itll be good for us :P

[wonderlust]

Well as the AMD cards are already cheaper that may mean that Nvidia will reduce prices, time will tell.

Competition is a good thing, it wasn't long ago that Dual cores were top end now they start at the bottom end (E1x00 or AMD x2s)

[psychochief]

we will see how far these cards go when the bench teams get them under sub zero cooling, then we will know who is king.

dont forget that the 2900 pwn 8800ultra in the subzero cooled arena but in realworld use....


you got a cheap supply of liquid nitrogen then marsey :mrgreen: