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08-15-2008, 01:33 PM
Atomic Magainze this month test the new ATI range with crossfire (series 4) against the lastest nVidia card with SLI.
These cards were ATI's 4870 CF and 4850 CF and nVidia's 260 SLI, 260 TriSLI and 280 single.
After a whole lot of gibberish and tech talk the conclusion was this.
I quote directly from the latest ATOMIC Magazine.
And the winner is...
You! With the graphics market becoming incredibly competitive, and performance at such a high and cheap level, high-end performance is accessible to pretty much everyone. When we get down to the nitty-gritty though, ATI and its Crossfire technology simply can't be beaten. Performance completely ousts NVIDIA, and SLI can't hope to keep up (as long as driver support remains frequent)> As long as you keep them cool, two ATI cards in you system is the absolute best you can ask for in a performance rig right now. If you're a diehard green team player [NVIDIA for you non-tech talkers], you'll be lacking in potential top performance, but still experiencing a decent speed.
Crossfire is Atomic's choice of multi-GOP tech with this latest round of cards, and it seems that the performance crown has been passed.
The Rumour Mill
Rumors have been sighted around the internet about the defection of two major NVIDIA partners, XFX and EVGA. The interesting part is, they haven't signed on to ATI, but with a third party. We can only guess that Intel's new graphics core (the Larrabee) is the possible culprit, but for now we're not hearing a peep from EVGA, and XFX told us that have many new NVIDIA products in the pipelines over the next couple of months.
These cards were ATI's 4870 CF and 4850 CF and nVidia's 260 SLI, 260 TriSLI and 280 single.
After a whole lot of gibberish and tech talk the conclusion was this.
I quote directly from the latest ATOMIC Magazine.
And the winner is...
You! With the graphics market becoming incredibly competitive, and performance at such a high and cheap level, high-end performance is accessible to pretty much everyone. When we get down to the nitty-gritty though, ATI and its Crossfire technology simply can't be beaten. Performance completely ousts NVIDIA, and SLI can't hope to keep up (as long as driver support remains frequent)> As long as you keep them cool, two ATI cards in you system is the absolute best you can ask for in a performance rig right now. If you're a diehard green team player [NVIDIA for you non-tech talkers], you'll be lacking in potential top performance, but still experiencing a decent speed.
Crossfire is Atomic's choice of multi-GOP tech with this latest round of cards, and it seems that the performance crown has been passed.
The Rumour Mill
Rumors have been sighted around the internet about the defection of two major NVIDIA partners, XFX and EVGA. The interesting part is, they haven't signed on to ATI, but with a third party. We can only guess that Intel's new graphics core (the Larrabee) is the possible culprit, but for now we're not hearing a peep from EVGA, and XFX told us that have many new NVIDIA products in the pipelines over the next couple of months.