Quote from article: "These are of course in no way official and we can't say for certain where they come from. The only thing we know is that the numbers are not unreasonable........"
http://www.nordichardware.com/news,7809.html
OK everyone, I just came across this over at NordicHardware and figured I'd share it with you all. I actually think this may be good for ATI (if the benchies are true that is). First of all, this is just another 3Dmark score comparison (and we don't know if real gameplay will offer better performance to the ATI cards); second, as mentioned in the article, ATI's cards should improve with newer and better drivers; and thirdly, the 4870X2 is not included in the comparison.
Given that it is pretty much two 4870s in Crossfire (and I've read that it may be more than that, and that scaling should be largely improved over the previous generation), and assuming that with newer drivers it could see something like 80% scaling (in 3Dmark at least ), that would yield a score of ~4600-4700 (which beats the GTX 280s score of ~41xx).
Or just forget about all these assumptions and simply realize that if the 4870X2 gets more than about 63% scaling, it will outperform the GTX 280 (again, in 3dmark Vantage).
This will be an interesting summer to say the least........
http://www.nordichardware.com/news,7809.html
OK everyone, I just came across this over at NordicHardware and figured I'd share it with you all. I actually think this may be good for ATI (if the benchies are true that is). First of all, this is just another 3Dmark score comparison (and we don't know if real gameplay will offer better performance to the ATI cards); second, as mentioned in the article, ATI's cards should improve with newer and better drivers; and thirdly, the 4870X2 is not included in the comparison.
Given that it is pretty much two 4870s in Crossfire (and I've read that it may be more than that, and that scaling should be largely improved over the previous generation), and assuming that with newer drivers it could see something like 80% scaling (in 3Dmark at least ), that would yield a score of ~4600-4700 (which beats the GTX 280s score of ~41xx).
Or just forget about all these assumptions and simply realize that if the 4870X2 gets more than about 63% scaling, it will outperform the GTX 280 (again, in 3dmark Vantage).
This will be an interesting summer to say the least........