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I hear ya man. Just for the record, Im not calling BS on you guys or anyone for that matter. I trust your reviews as God's own words. Just saying that something is amiss somewhere.
I figure that since a single 5870 is much faster than a GTX460, the hardware angle of the ATI cards is obviously squared away. But if putting 2 of them together results in half assed results, then the problem has to lie in the software end......right?
Im definitely not smart enough to be an engineer so Im just guessing here but I do know its something AMD needs to figure out cause, like I said earlier, there's becoming fewer and fewer reasons to recommend ATI over Nvidia these days. And Im an AMD fanboy!!
Guys, I have re-run the BC2 test on 5870 CFX, after re-installing latest Cat 10.7a and latest Crossfire Application Profile update, to verify the results, and the numbers are the same, same performance. I have verified that CFX is working in the game as previously stated also. We've done our best to ensure that our test setup is correct, we are using fresh installs of the games, latest drivers, and latest profile update.
What about at multimonitor resolutions like 5760x1200? I've read that the 460s start to lose their advantage as resolutions increase and I'm wondering if SLI 460s still beat 5870 CrossFire at ultrawide resolutions or does the 5870 CrossFire setup eventually overtake and win out against SLI.
Somebody should make 5870 in cf 10.5 vs 10.7 . I played
Also, a question for anyone with an nVidia card and a 3D TV, are their drivers able to output 3D to 3D TVs (Samsung for example)? I have a 5870 right now, and even with iz3D's 3D driver I can't get 3D to be outputted correctly.
Kyle, you're getting the business over there at OCN.
http://www.overclock.net/hardware-news/797025-h-gtx460-1gb-sli-v-s.html
I tried, I really did...
hhahahahaha, I swear I love you sometimes, this is why i keep coming here. But there is some seriously wrong shit going on, i just reverted back to 10.5a myself, on my single 5850, and noticed rather huge gains in all my games.
HardOCP GTX470 review said:The HD 5850 is the clear value winner when compared to the GTX 470. We have been telling you that the Radeon 5850 is the best value in enthusiast video cards since last year and the GTX 470 does nothing to change that.
We see no reason to purchase a GeForce GTX 470. It provides no gameplay advantages compared to the competition, and will actually end up costing you more power and dollars for the exact same performance you can get with the Radeon HD 5850. Factor in the power consumption, and it doesnt seem worth it. If you have an HD 5850, stick with it, the GTX 470 is not an upgrade
HardOCP GTX480 review said:The GeForce GTX 480 consumes more power than the HD 5870, produces more heat, and costs more money (which might also include the cost of a new PSU). It doesnt seem like the best value with all this factored in.
Factor in the cost and power, and include the ability to run Eyefinity on a single GPU, the Radeon HD 5870, to us, seems like the better value for the gamer right now.
FWIW we have been in contact with AMD today on this issue and BF2 never came up. AMD is concerned with AvP numbers
Yeah that was funny. A guy with two 5870s said that 2560x1600 was an unrealistic benchmark.
People are running Eyefinity setups that makes 2560 look low res. AMD is getting killed in AvP.
The 460s shows that the tide is shifting. I need some official info on Southern Islands before I make my final decision on switching from ATI.
2500x1600 scales poorly on ATI CF cards from what I have seen. 1920x1200, CF scaling is much better.
For some reason, 2500x1600 + 4xAA slows down ATI CF a lot more. It might be a driver problem at that resolution.
I'm really sorry, Mr. Bennett. I won't go there again.
Yea I read that too man. Why would you spend all that money to run at low resolutions? I think one guy was saying that and talking about adding a 3rd 5870. That thread was so full of QQ, I thought a flash flood of tears might overcome their servers.