[QUOTE="hofuldig"]probbly slightly worse than a 4670tab132
a 9600 GT out performs a 4670. I'm tired of people never checking their facts, and to the OP, a 3870 out performs a 4670. http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/gaming-graphics-charts-q3-2008/Sum-of-FPS-Benchmarks-Totals,795.html
and to OP since he orginally brought up the 9800, the 9800 is just a repackage of the 8800GT, there for the benches are just about the same, and yes they're supiror to the 4670.
Yes. The 3870 will outperform the 4670. Get the 3870.
2- Buying a lower-end new generation model over a higher-end old generation model. It's newer, so it must be faster!
Not so quickly. When in the majority of cases, this is true, it is not always true. So? Well, you might miss out on a really good deal, as stores tend to lower prices on older generations, to get rid of their old stock, to make space for the new stock.
Now, the mistake some of you make is to choose your card by using the generation number first. You'd think that a 4xxx card from ATI is automatically faster than a 3xxx model. If you take a Radeon 3870, it'd trash a Radeon 4350 or be faster than a Radeon 4650.
Let me quickly explain how model numbers work, using ATI's 4850 model as an example.
4850: The first number refers to the generation of the card. A higher number there means that the video card is based on a more recent generation, which always brings in improvements over the previous generation.
4850: The second number refers to the range of that card. Same here, higher is better. In Ati's case, for the 4xxx series, it goes mostly like this:
- 3: Low end
- 6: Mid range
- 8: High performance
4850: The last two numbers refer to the place of that model, within the hierarchy of that range of video cards (See second point, for the "8″); within a generation (See first point, for the "4″). In the vast majority of cases, a higher number means higher performance, but both ATI and Nvidia tricked people in the past with crippled GS/SE models, so keep an eye open for the suffix if there's one. No, SE does not mean special edition!!
http://www.hardware-revolution.com/mistakes-when-buying-video-card/
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