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ATI, Nvidia Reveal New $250 Graphics Cards
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."
I'm not sure on how to analyze that post after reading TFA. It seems that the radeon beat the nvidia in most of the cases, even at the $ per average FPS..
Thus why is this tagged with nvidia as the winner ?
yea...but don't think it's a "they"...just one crusader (don't think he wears a cape): Charlie Demerjian
He just hates nVidia with a passion.
Supposedly, there was some sort of "tiff" between them...them, like many companies, wanting to limit negative reviews, etc.
either way, grains (not just grain) of salt required for his articles regarding NV.
Kind of a useless test from my point of view, that of someone that would be looking to upgrade, for one simple reason.
These comparisons never seem to include the last generation of cards, and thus of no real value to me since I cannot determine how much of an upgrade I would be getting.
I don't care how many fucking cores it has if it doesn't perform better then what I have right now.
Benchmark testing my own machine(as a comparison tool) is sort of useless as well since the REST of my machine may be totally different then what they used.
Which is better then which is an entirely moot point if neither is better then what I have.