4850 Crossfire vs. 8800 GTX KO Superclocked

[TommyD]

Which is faster?

 

[nRollo]

Originally posted by: TommyD
Which is faster?

4850 Crossfire.

 

[21]

Originally posted by: nRollo

4850 Crossfire.

+1 Especially at higher resolutions such as 1920x1200 and 2560x1600.

 

[nRollo]

Originally posted by: 21

Originally posted by: nRollo

4850 Crossfire.

+1 Especially at higher resolutions such as 1920x1200 and 2560x1600.

Heh- yeah- a 4850 CF rig will be much faster than any 8800GTX, sometimes faster than a GTX280.

Two newer cards FTW in this decision.

There will be some games that don't scale where the 8800GTX would be the better choice, but anywhere the 4850s scale well they would be much faster.

 

[DaveSimmons]

If you meant "2 8800 in SLI" read the AnandTech 48xx review, the "mulri-GPU" pages.

It depends on the game but the 4850 CF wins most of them and should have a better minimum framerate in games that aren't SLI/CF friendly since the 4850 is faster than a 9800 GTX.

 

[nitromullet]

A single 4850 is generally on par or faster then a single 8800GTX, so even if scaling isn't up to what it could be the 4850s will still at least meet the 8800GTX.

 

[TommyD]

Thanks for all the info guys.

I went ahead and bought 2 of the 4850's today and they blew away the performance of my old 8800 GTX KO. After modifying the fan control from 20% to 65% the idle/load temperatures (60c/74c) on the card went to what I consider acceptable levels.

I'm just waiting on my Thermaltake DuOrbs and Ramsinks to come in the mail and I'll be set!

Thanks again.

 

[ShawnD1]

Originally posted by: TommyD
I went ahead and bought 2 of the 4850's today and they blew away the performance of my old 8800 GTX KO.

Why would you do this? I have an 8800GTX and it's able to run TF2 at 1680x1050 with 16x AA and 16x AF, and even then it's still heavily CPU bottlenecked by a C2D 6600.

Unless you're using some kind of water-cooled 4ghz overclocked Intel processor, you'll see only marginal performance gains, at best.

 

[tuteja1986]

Originally posted by: ShawnD1

Originally posted by: TommyD
I went ahead and bought 2 of the 4850's today and they blew away the performance of my old 8800 GTX KO.

Why would you do this? I have an 8800GTX and it's able to run TF2 at 1680x1050 with 16x AA and 16x AF, and even then it's still heavily CPU bottlenecked by a C2D 6600.

Unless you're using some kind of water-cooled 4ghz overclocked Intel processor, you'll see only marginal performance gains, at best.

http://www.firingsquad.com/har...performance/page14.asp

Half life 2 episode Two 2560x1600x32 8xAA/16xAF
4850CF :83.9 275%
9800GTX :30.4 100%

Oblivion HDR 2560x1600x32 8xAA/16xAF
4850CF :46.3 356%
9800GTX :13 100%

Company of heroes 1920x1200x32
4850CF :66.5 228%
9800GTX :29.1 100%

ET Quake War 2560x1600x32 8xAA/16xAF
4850CF :72.6 246%
9800GTX :29.5 100%

 

[Jessica69]

Originally posted by: ShawnD1

Originally posted by: TommyD
I went ahead and bought 2 of the 4850's today and they blew away the performance of my old 8800 GTX KO.

Why would you do this? I have an 8800GTX and it's able to run TF2 at 1680x1050 with 16x AA and 16x AF, and even then it's still heavily CPU bottlenecked by a C2D 6600.

Unless you're using some kind of water-cooled 4ghz overclocked Intel processor, you'll see only marginal performance gains, at best.

He did it because in quite a few games, the 4850CF setup blows the doors off everything but the 4870CF and the GTX280 SLI.....for the cost of a single GTX280.

While it's true that a single 4850 is sometimes marginally faster than an 4400GTX at 1920x1200 resolution with AA enabled, in many other cases it's quite noticable.

Add to that the fact he can move off the horrid and notoriously bad nVidia chipset motherboards for Intel cpus to the much more stable, faster, and in many cases cheaper Intel chipset motherboards, and you have a win/win situation.

And even die hard nVidia proponents admit that nVidia motherboards for Intel are horrible.....just cruise XS and ask around the forum there. While nVidia is a very viable option for AMD cpus, it's in the trash bin for Intel cpus......and why would someone choose the worst performing combination of cpu and motherboard these days when the better performing combination is no more expensive and in many cases cheaper.......much like the new ATi video cards.

 

[Rhino2]

Originally posted by: Jessica69
He did it because in quite a few games, the 4850CF setup blows the doors off everything but the 4870CF and the GTX280 SLI.....for the cost of a single GTX280.

Actually, a 4850CF setup costs about $250 less than a single GTX280...

 

[Magusigne]

Originally posted by: Jessica69

Originally posted by: ShawnD1

Originally posted by: TommyD
I went ahead and bought 2 of the 4850's today and they blew away the performance of my old 8800 GTX KO.

Why would you do this? I have an 8800GTX and it's able to run TF2 at 1680x1050 with 16x AA and 16x AF, and even then it's still heavily CPU bottlenecked by a C2D 6600.

Unless you're using some kind of water-cooled 4ghz overclocked Intel processor, you'll see only marginal performance gains, at best.

He did it because in quite a few games, the 4850CF setup blows the doors off everything but the 4870CF and the GTX280 SLI.....for the cost of a single GTX280

While it's true that a single 4850 is sometimes marginally faster than an 4400GTX at 1920x1200 resolution with AA enabled, in many other cases it's quite noticable.

Add to that the fact he can move off the horrid and notoriously bad nVidia chipset motherboards for Intel cpus to the much more stable, faster, and in many cases cheaper Intel chipset motherboards, and you have a win/win situation.

And even die hard nVidia proponents admit that nVidia motherboards for Intel are horrible.....just cruise XS and ask around the forum there. While nVidia is a very viable option for AMD cpus, it's in the trash bin for Intel cpus......and why would someone choose the worst performing combination of cpu and motherboard these days when the better performing combination is no more expensive and in many cases cheaper.......much like the new ATi video cards.

Sorry to get into this but one minor point here. CF (most people have at least a P35 board) CF 4850's cost at most 325 AR and rival the 280GTX Which hasn't come down past 600 (to my knowledge) in just about everything. nRollo will point out the differences but for now they are much cheaper. Sure you might argue that you need an X48 board to take full advantage...but then again you need a nice 780i board too for nVidia