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Nah I suspect you'll be buying something other than a 4890.
The problem is that it will obviously be better to get the newest card so I am at least up to date for a year or so, but it won't necessarily mean I'll get more performace for the same price bracket. I'll probably have to form out £200 which I don't really want to...Originally Posted by sammorris
That depends how much the new cards cost. The 4870s didn't cost as much as £200 even when they first came out.
That's the 512mb version though. I reckon if I want 1GB then the 4890 will offer better performance at the £150 price point. By christmas though, prices might have fallen considerably!
It could work out perfectly...
True but I would imagine that, like the 4890, the standard will be 1GB. I wouldn't have thought they'd start with a card as powerful as the (5870) and give it only 512MB of memory, but who knows.
Personally I'm rather hoping for a 4GB (2GB per GPU) X2 card rather than the standard 2GB one. 2GB is usually enough but for some games at 2560x1600 maxed (which is the reason I'll be upgrading) 2GB doesn't quite cut it, especially with AA (Or for GTA4 :S)
Would be upward of £450 for 4gb you'd have to guess. I'll leave that one to you then
I won't be able to afford any replacement hardware until mid-october, so I'll see what the situation is by then...
You could think about getting a few of these 4870s with 2Gb memory and put them in x-fire...
Two 4870 2GB in crossfire would not be better than his current 4870x2 2GB in crossfire.
As for this whole thread. You can't take hwbot top scores into account to compare like for like with ati and nvidia cards, there are some very good tweaks out there that can make all the difference when you are at the very limit.
with the 4890 at £126 not 150, your statement is wrong. For £150 a newer card will be avaliable.
The R800 promises almost double the performance of the previous, so the £100 card (probably 5850) will be like a 4890 or more?
wow!
That will make the top of the range cards phenomenally quick then!
Peter, surely adding an extra 4GB of memory buffer would be beneficial? Or is that overkill and you're better buying a card with more horsepower?
Last edited by laywill; 23-08-2009 at 06:15 PM.
Unless youve got some uber h4x monitor with a resolution of 9999*8888 4GB is pointless.
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for all intents it seems to be the same card minus some gays name on it and a shielded cover ? with OEM added to it - GoNz0.
All the tests I saw found no benefit to having the additional memory on those cards... no card out there can move quickly enough to use it
wellt eh GTX275 is made by being based of a GTX295, so id say that the GTX295 is 2 downclocked 275s.
yes 275 in SLI si better, but the actualy GPU it self is the same.
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