Originally Posted by perkam
A. The 4870 is priced a third lower than the GTX 260, so there is NO expectation for it to get the same mark.
B. Even if it had similar performance, Vantage has had an Nvidia bias since launch and though that was remedied with the ATI vantage hotfix, you can't rely on Vantage alone for performance benchmarking.
C. 480 or 800, it will be a killer card for the price
The scores arent TOO bad at all, considering what the 4850 can do with voltmods.
Perkam
Why not?
Vantage is still really shader limited (3850 > 9600GT) but unfortunately RV670 doesn't have enough TMUs to not get bottlenecked.
RV770's popular TMU number aka 32, should be enough to not be bottlenecked. G80 proved that.
And also, 4850 is heavily bottlenecked by bandwidth. Can't wait for a 2.2Ghz DDR3 version to come, I smell some 9 series slaughter.
Plus, XFastest.com has REAL screenshots of the 4850 in Vantage, see the feature test scores. They confirm 800SPs, and much better scores in the 6 feature tests (more important for me than the overall score)
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