The Radeon HD 4870 1GB: The Card to Get
by Derek Wilson on September 25, 2008 12:00 AM EST- Posted in
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Age of Conan Performance
This is one of a couple games where we saw the Radeon HD 4870 perform very strongly in the first place. The additional RAM actually boosts performance to more than that of the GTX 280. In fact, the 1GB 4870 is a little more than 14% faster than the GTX 280 at 2560x1600. For the way I play MMOs, 25 frames per second is just at playable, and running at native resolution is worth the trade off in framerate. But that's a very subjective thing, and others may prefer to drop back to 1920x1200 on this title.
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ZoZo - Friday, September 26, 2008 - link
Comments like yours is exactly why NVIDIA decided to rename the GeForce 9 line to GT 100.Griswold - Friday, September 26, 2008 - link
So, you claim that the rebadged GF8 aka GF9 is the same as the two GTX models they have at the top now? Go take a nap...homerdog - Monday, September 29, 2008 - link
No, NVIDIA is supposedly releasing some G92b based cards under the moniker of "GT 100-series".http://techreport.com/discussions.x/15585">http://techreport.com/discussions.x/15585
SiliconDoc - Friday, October 3, 2008 - link
Oh forgot the stupid google linkhttp://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=2560x1600...">http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=2560x1600...
SiliconDoc - Friday, October 3, 2008 - link
Gosh I only need $1,549.99 to get me my 2650x1600 monitor - yeah wouldn't I spend and extra 20 bucks on that 1 meg videocard...Yah buddy, makes sense me - I'm a hick from hickville - gonna gets me that corporate CAD monitor real soon now.
(good gawd)
No worries I love anandtech - it's just we don't get all the superfreebies - so ya know the 2 grand monitor is kinda wife-repelling.
fcx56 - Tuesday, December 16, 2008 - link
Ha, consider yourself lucky! I paid $3K for mine back in 2004, WITH the student discountSiliconDoc - Saturday, December 27, 2008 - link
Yes, you and almost noone else is the point. BTW - keep that student grant money spending thing on the low low. :-)Oh, yes of course Chancellor, my education woul;d have absolutely suffered immeasurable harm without my 2560x1600 gaming... err..uhh... ahh.. unmmm. I meant cad workshop / artistic design monitor. I thank you Sir, and the taxpayers, for your concern.
harbin - Thursday, September 25, 2008 - link
but i am no gamer, i really don't know.