eVGA 285 GTX vs. Sapphire HD 4890 vs Crossfire

[tajoh111]

I have a problem with this statement.

Other thoughts:
Performance:
If, as some people claim, 275 performs better than 4890, that means 275 also performs better than 285. It just doesn’t make sense. HD4890 and 285 gtx perform very close.

Final verdict:
HD4890 and 285 GTX perform roughly the same in 3D applications. 4890 is cheaper but much noisier. 285 performs a tad better overall. Crossfire is a gamble. It usually doesn’t work/scale in most of the scenarios (so doesn’t SLI). I am puzzled as how did people like the guys at TPU make 4890 CF scaled 90% in most of the games? I am open to any suggestions.

You overclocked the 4890 close to 20 percent. My 4890 with 100% fan plus 300cfm of air cannot even stabilize at 950mhz with all programs. If one was simply looking at the graphs, without reading the testbed(the graphs should mention the 4890 is OC to 1000mhz), they would be totally mislead. Which I think people like railmeat and matsjuw seems to have missed. Did you run standard fan profile to run 1000mhz? Was it actually game stable. It might work for 5 minutes but what about 2 or 3 hours.

This review is almost designed to make NV bad(whether that was your intentions or not).

I find three flaws with this review, running a card that overclocked to unrealistic levels for most people while running the gtx 285 at plain stock,

Running 8x AA which is unplayable for both cards. People want to max playable settings, this test just seems to make NV look bad because 8x and above is especially troublesome for NV cards. It might have a point if AMD could run with that settings, but it can't not even close.

I know it is a mini review but you needs more games, I have never seen a review where the synthetic tests are so similar in number to the number of games.

I think matsjuw, might have made a premature decision, if he wanted absolute performance, as the 4890 is definitely better for price for performance as well as the gtx 275.

Considering fallout3 has been a 4890 biased games.
http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3555&p=15
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/vid..._11.html#sect1

And you tested with NV newest drivers which are supposed to bring up performance.

The gtx 285 when both are stock might just smash the 4890 considering it beat it, in a 4xxx favoured game, and the 4890 was heavily overclocked. On the same grounds, a gtx 275 looks to do very well against a 4890 since it very similar in speed to a gtx 285 and when overclocked, it outperforms it.