Wednesday, January 21st 2009
Radeon HD 4870 X2, HD 4850 X2 Faster and Better Than GeForce GTX 295, 285: AMD
AMD started its marketing offensive against NVIDIA's new dual-GPU GeForce GTX 295, and single-GPU GeForce GTX 285 accelerators, in an attempt to put the Radeon HD 4800 X2 series accelerators ahead of its competition in terms of performance on a "broad scale", and used the cards' availability in non-reference designs as a USP against NVIDIA's offerings using a uniform company-specified design. All this, in an internal presentation leaked to Donanim Haber. As for those wondering why, ATI and NVIDIA have a history of picking on each others' flagship products by means of such presentations, with which they intend to influence OEMs and channel vendors, though it always happens so, that these presentations reach public domains. Viral marketing or something plausible? Find out for yourself:
Source:
Donanim Haber
145 Comments on Radeon HD 4870 X2, HD 4850 X2 Faster and Better Than GeForce GTX 295, 285: AMD
GTX 295 pwns them all :rockout:
I think this is believable.
At a technical level so many of those figures are wrong in terms of better performance. The comments are as stupid as saying 100 arrows are better than 1 machine gun, because 100 > 1.
I never knew that AMD were so stupid like that.
I guess they think that we are so unintelligent to the point that we won't even recognize their BS ?!
This made me lose my respect for AMD, they were so direct and rude -.-
They could get sued for this right ?
This thing reminds of the latest Asus VS Gigabyte war xD
In the end AMD will apologize :P
(Too many thoughts in my mind right now :P)
marketing is where it's at
Call of Duty 5
BiA: Hells Highway
Crysis Warhead
Performance Summary from TPU
May be AMD-ATI has something we don't, and that's ATI CCC 9.1.
so we will wait for new driver from AMD.
ATI is blowing smoke out of their a$$... Where is Catalyst 9.1? instead of trying to rain on Nvidia's parade ATI should go back to work on their own drivers.
the test from the thread are with AA 8X
so... let compare same apple ... not an apple with an EGG
They purposefully set Crysis @ 2560x1600 with 4xAA, knowing that at exactly that setting the GTX 295 crumbles only because of memory capacity, and then yell at our faces bluntly provoking the lie that the 4870X2 is better.
Simply unbelievable.