AMD Radeon HD 4850 and 4870
Snatching the price:performance crown from Nvidia?
23rd July 2008 11:02 GMT
Put two HD 4850s together in CrossFire and you might expect great things but the results are even more miserable than they are with the Asus HD 3850 X2, which is two 3850s hardwired together in CrossFire. It’s a strange sight to behold but on our test system SLI and CrossFire graphics limp along and yield none of the benefits that we see in synthetic benchmarks such as 3DMark Vantage and PC Mark Vantage.
3DMark Vantage Results
Performance Mode
Longer bars are better
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Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Dual Core Processor (3GHz, 6MB, 1333MHz FSB, LGA775 Socket T)
Intel Core i7 I7-920 Quad Core Processor (2.66GHz, 4x256kB, 4.8GT/s QPI, LGA 1336 Socket B)
AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ Dual Core Processor (3.1GHz, 2MB, 1000MHz FSB, Socket AM2)
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Processor (2.40GHz, 4x2MB, 1066MHz FSB, Socket T)
AMD Phenom X4 9950 Quad-Core Processor (2.6GHz, 2MB, 2000MHz FSB, Socket AM2+)
