NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 3-Way SLI vs. ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 Quad CrossFireX

[veg1992]

q9650 @ 4ghz > e8600 @ 5ghz in benchmarking?

Just 3dmark06, but who gives a crap about that

 

[zedman3d]

Just 3dmark06, but who gives a crap about that

What about Vantage?

 

[NosBoost300]

06 and vantage love the cpu!

 

[veg1992]

Not too sure about it, but I think it is

 

[NosBoost300]

physics test is in it.. and quad core > dual core with physics big time

 

[zmatt]

wouldn't that have more to do with an nvidia card with phyisX since thats what 3d mark uses?

 

[zedman3d]

OOooo good point ^.

 

[NosBoost300]

wouldn't that have more to do with an nvidia card with phyisX since thats what 3d mark uses?

in case you havent caught the news a month or two ago.... vantage no longer allows the onboard physics of nvidia cards

 

[zmatt]

Yeah but that doesn't explain away 3dmark 06


At any rate this is probably a good thing
By nature a quad core should out perform a dual. So the fact that 3d mark now has the support to fully utilize it means that software may jsut be catching up.

 

[wafflehammer]

in case you havent caught the news a month or two ago.... vantage no longer allows the onboard physics of nvidia cards

do they allow the use of havok or whatever the ATI card uses? if so, that's bs