No. The price, and the dual-gpu setup on the ATi cards is better. The performance of the NVidia cards are about 10-20% better in most benchmarks. A 8800GT or a 8800GTS is around $250-$350. A HD 3870 is $200, and the HD 3850 are about $160.
Crossfire of 2 HD 3870 is better than SLi of 2 8800GT for price and about 5% better I believe. The new 790FX can support up to 4 video cards. The new NVidia motherboards can support up to 3 cards.
nope. when i got mine though it was 220 dollars compared to 300 dollar 8800gt's it was an amazing deal. and it games great too. crysis on almost all high settings
Ouch... that hurts me deep down = ( but I must say, the 512 8800gts is about on par with the GTX, the GT is a bit below, and the old GTS isn't much far behind in gameplay.. but the benchmarks will not go over as well. They are all great cards imo though, and can play almost anything out there. I don't really care much about crysis... I will play it, and save it for 2 years down the road or so.
As far as overall performance goes, would getting an 8800GTX be a better choice than two HD3870's in crossfire for the same price, or the other way around?
As far as overall performance goes, would getting an 8800GTX be a better choice than two HD3870's in crossfire for the same price, or the other way around?
Tzarro
A single-card setup is more consistant and reliable, but I wouldn't get an 8800GTX at this point in time. the 8800GTS 512MB is just too good of a card at a great price to recommend the 8800GTX any more.
As far as overall performance goes, would getting an 8800GTX be a better choice than two HD3870's in crossfire for the same price, or the other way around?
Tzarro
Hmm, I think it would be better, but not too sure.
As far as overall performance goes, would getting an 8800GTX be a better choice than two HD3870's in crossfire for the same price, or the other way around?
RayvinAzn
A single-card setup is more consistant and reliable, but I wouldn't get an 8800GTX at this point in time. the 8800GTS 512MB is just too good of a card at a great price to recommend the 8800GTX any more.
i think the smartest thing now would be to wait to see what ATI and Nvidia have up there sleeves for next year
8800GTS 640MB beats 2900XT in Crysis. (I think) :D
lol i get really confused these days as to how they do overall because some do good in some games... i say back to the good old days of GTX>>640>>320 and thats all you needed to know.. :)
If you look at the product specs though, it shows the GT as having both higher clock and memory speeds. Is this because they are overclocked? And if so, would that result in much higher temperatures?
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