The guys over at
Vr-zone have got their hands on three GTX 280's and they decided to run Vantage with Tri-SLI. This was tested with the QX9650 @4.0ghz. The overall score is very good, but i don't know what two of these can do and how good the scaling is. You guys can post your own 3dmark Vantage scores to compare these against and the 4850 crossfire scores.
The 4850 has been tested in crossfire with 3dMark Vantage. According to the score of P11918 with a
QX9650 @4.0ghz this beats one GTX 280 running the same specs. This is great news for the people who like ATI and running Crossfire. We have still yet to see a 4870 and 4870X2 run these sort of benchmarks, but I am still waiting.
As a result of the 4800's being so well priced Nvidia is now scared. The have announced that they will lower the GTX's to start off at $399 while the 4870 will still be $349. This is great because now we can start to see some price pressure against the two company's. I am also really hoping that we will not see anymore $500-$600 dollar cards, no-one can afford the except for
Maxishine.
Finally we have official word straight from ATI that they have benchmarked the 4870 against the 9800GTX with AA and AF. This is a beat down of the 9800GTX by the 4870, but it is still not the GTX 280 or 260. This is really good for ATI considering that the 9800GTX was only released a couple of months ago and they beat it with their new technology.
The 4850 also has a considerable margin of victory over the 8800GT, which is still a great preforming card. What I am interested in is the margin between the Crysis. As I recall the 3870X2 was beat by the 8800GT with Crysis. This is outstanding benchmark by the 4850, but I want to see a benchmark where they show the FPS and not 1.4X better.
