Card Comparisons and Testing Setup
The new Radeon HD 4770 512MB is supposed to start selling today for $99 with a $10 mail-in rebate and thus the comparison to NVIDIA’s lineup includes the GeForce 9800 GT ($99) and the newer GeForce GTS 250 1GB ($129). Also, just to mix things up I tossed in some results from the Radeon HD 4850 512MB card as you can find of these cards online for just $110 or so.AMD Radeon HD 4770 512MB
ASUS NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT 512MB
We are now moving away from Core 2 as our platform of choice and on to the world of Nehalem, the Core i7. Our system is built around an Intel Core i7-920 2.67 GHz processor on an ASUS P6T6 WS Revolution motherboard that sports both the X58 chipset and the NVIDIA nForce 200 chipset with 4 full x16 PCIe 2.0 graphics slots should would test the extreme cases of GPU scaling. 6GB of Corsair DDR3-1600 memory are used as well and a PC Power and Cooling 1200 watt Turbo-Cool power supply keeps everything running 100% stable.
Test System Setup |
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CPU |
Intel Core i7-920 @ 2.67 GHz
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Motherboards |
ASUS P6T6 WS Revolution X58 + nForce 200
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Memory |
Corsair 3 x 2GB DDR3-1600
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Hard Drive |
Western Digital VelociRaptor 300GB
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Sound Card |
Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Value |
Video Card |
AMD Radeon HD 4770 512MB
AMD Radeon HD 4850 512MB NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT 512MB NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 1GB |
Video Drivers |
NVIDIA: 182.08
AMD: Catalyst Beta |
Power Supply | PC Power and Cooling Turbo-Cool 1200w
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DirectX Version |
DX10
/ DX9c
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Operating System |
Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit |
Our thanks go out to Corsair for the memory for our test bed, to PC Power and Cooling for the 1200w beast of a PSU for the system and to ASUS for the P6T6 WS Revolution motherboard.
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