Quote Originally Posted by [XC] hipno650 View Post
Im not really sure which type of 4890 you had but I can't remember them being faster than the GTX 285 at all... they were good cards don't get me wrong but it was like the GTX 580 compared to the 6970 is now. a small handful of games puts the 6970 on top but the vast majority the GTX 580 was faster. thats how I remember things playing out anyways I remember the GTX 275 and the 4890 trading blows pretty good.
now im not sure what 285 u were looking at, when both cards were current they were about even and the 4890 is xfire did alot better than the 285 in sli, and the 4890 oced better and scalled better with the OC. now once the 285 was outdated there was the image quality nerf that made it quicker but u always needed more AA with the 285 and the 285 did not do proper MSAA so it was costly were the 4890 did dx10.1 so it was free 4x and low cost 8x.