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ATI, Nvidia Reveal New $250 Graphics Cards

Posted by timothy on from the short-and-sweet dept.

ThinSkin writes "As part of their 'Spring Refresh,' both AMD and Nvidia reveal new $250 graphics cards, the Radeon 4890 and GeForce GTX 275. ExtremeTech takes both cards and runs them through a gamut of gaming and synthetic benchmarks to decide which card triumphs over the other. Long story short, the GeForce takes the cake with impressive performance at its price, while the Radeon didn't show a high improvement over the cheaper Radeon 4870."

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  1. No improvement of the 4870?? by FreakinSyco · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yet HotHarware tests their 4890 and shows that it outperforms the 4870 in every category...

    http://hothardware.com/Articles/ATI-Radeon-HD-4890-RV790-Unveiled/

    and I quote:

    "In every test, the Radeon HD 4890 (Asus EAH4890) was faster than the 1GB Radeon HD 4870, and the overclocked 4890 (Asus EAH4890 TOP) simply increased the card's overall lead. In comparison to competing offerings from NVIDIA, the Radeon HD 4890 is faster than the GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 overall, but it didn't quite keep pace with the just announced GeForce GTX 275."

    1. Re:No improvement of the 4870?? by Ecuador · · Score: 5, Informative

      Replying to my own post above, I actually quickly went through the ExtremeTech article (ok ok take back my /. badge) and confirmed why it is not one of my "preferred" sites. To call the nVidia better they divide the cost by the FPS over the games they tested. Yes, the raw FPS over different games, doesn't need a PhD in statistics to figure out the problem here. Then, they admit that the ATI overclocks very well (with the included utilities from ATI and ASUS), while the nVidia does not, but instead of stating this as an advantage for the ATI card they complain about the cards not shipping at the higher speeds they can easily attain. And finally, they list the nVidia at "$250 street est." price, while the ATI as "MSRP $259" when the latter is right now selling NOW on NewEgg for $230 after MIR or $250 directly. Great Job ExtremeTech!

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  2. ATI 4890 on linux by MC68040 · · Score: 5, Informative

    This might be useful to someone like me, Phoronix just reviewed the 4890 on Linux with the ATI catalyst drivers:
    http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_radeon_hd4890&num=1 :)