ATI HD4870X2 vs NVIDIA GTX 280 - High-End VGA Comparison

Videocards/VGA Reviews by jmke @ 2008-08-12

ATI launches their high end single VGA card today, the HD4870X2 is compared to NVIDIA top offering in this review using 8 different games to see which ones comes out on top. Read on to find out!

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Leadtek Winfast Geforce GTX 280

Leadtek Winfast Geforce GTX 280

ATI releases the HD4870X2 to take on NVIDIA fastest GPU to date, the GTX 280. Leadtek was kind enough to send in a sample of their high end product, the Winfast GTX 280.

Leadtek follows the reference NVIDIA design with their GTX 280 unit, the card is as big as the HD4870X2 length wise and also takes up two slots. The heatsink shroud does increase the total dimensions of the card, so make sure your case has room.

The Geforce GTX 280 we’re testing is based on 65nm fabrication process; there are rumors floating around that a revised 55nm based product will be released in the coming months, for now we’ll have to settle with this one.

• Transistor Count: 1400 Million
• Core Clock: 602Mhz
• Shader Clock: 1296Mhz
• Memory Clock: 1107Mhz GDDR3
• Stream Processors: 240
• Texture Units: 80
• ROPs: 32
• Memory Bus: 512-bit
• Memory Size: 1Gb

The specifications of the GTX 280 put it on par with the HD4870X2, same amount of Texture Units and ROPs, but lower Core clock, GDDR3 vs GDDR5, but a 512-bit dedicated memory bus. All in all a worthy successor of the popular G80 8800GTX high end card.

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Inside the package Leadtek provides a Driver CD and ….. There’s also a HDTV-out cable and…

Your power supply should not be a 1000W if you only plan to run one of these in your system, but you do have to have a spare 6-pin and 8-pin connector to make this card power up.

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Comment from jmke @ 2008/08/12
If you liked our review, please Digg it!
Comment from jmke @ 2008/08/12
Came across this cool shot from the MSI R4870X2:

Comment from nigel @ 2008/08/12
Ah this is what I was waiting for to read
Comment from jmke @ 2008/09/02
two complete systems overclocked running with 2x24" monitors and 9600 GT cards draw as much power as one single HD 4870 X2 setup

 

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