The battle for top spot in the GPU market has been fought between two major competitors for a long time now, Nvidia and ATI. They have both been on top at different times, with Nvidia most recently pretty much annihilating ATI with the 8000 series. But are the times changing once again with ATI releasing the 4000 series of graphics cards? It appears they may be. Nvidia are currently having to deal with defective hardware and revenues short of what they expected and now they have to deal with ATIs 4850 and 4870 cards, selling for $235 and and $399 respectively. And soon to come the 4870x2, ATIs monster card that will be sporting 2Gb of GDDR5 memory.
Benchmark with the 4850, 4870, 9800, 8800 and 3870
After looking at that it clearly shows the best two cards as the Radeon 4870 and GeForce 9800 GTX+
The 4870 costs $399au while the 9800 GTX + costs inbetween $450au and $500au. So really making the decision rather one sided considering ATIs high end card the 4870x2 hasn't been released yet and when it does it will probably only be a little more expensive than the 9800 GTX + and judging by what shows in the benchmark it will murder anything out by Nvidia at this moment.
And to shame Nvidia even more Tom's Hardware HD 4870 better than GTX 260!
Nvidia GTX260s can go for up to $550au and Nvidia GTX280s can go for up to $899au. For the difference in performance, I don't think anyone could justify the purchase of an Nvidia GTX280.
Look at the results and judge for yourself. I myself am happy to see ATI back up on top and will be interested to see how the 3870x2 performs.
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