Review: Inno3D GeForce GTX 260 OC vs. Gigabyte Radeon HD 4870: the aftermath

by Parm Mann on 27 January 2009, 12:57 2.8

Tags: GeForce GTX 260 OC, Radeon HD 4870 1024MB (Cat 9.3), Gigabyte (TPE:2376), AMD (NYSE:AMD), NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA), Inno3D, PC

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Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts

Company of Heroes: OF (high-end) 1,680x1,050 4xAA 0xAF
Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 X2Gigabyte Radeon HD 4870XFX GeForce GTX 280Inno3D GeForce GTX 260 OC
83.3258.3790.7781.8


Company of Heroes: OF (high-end) 1,920x1,200 4xAA 0xAF
Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 X2Gigabyte Radeon HD 4870XFX GeForce GTX 280Inno3D GeForce GTX 260 OC
75.1550.9576.1168.09


Company of Heroes: OF (high-end) 2,560x1,600 4xAA 0xAF
Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 X2Gigabyte Radeon HD 4870XFX GeForce GTX 280Inno3D GeForce GTX 260 OC
52.1734.5649.3544.49


Here's a title that clearly doesn't bode well with the AMD hardware, envisioned by the fact that the dual-GPU Radeon HD 4850 X2 is slugging out neck-and-neck with the GeForce GTX 280.

At 1,920x1,200, the GIGABYTE Radeon HD 4870 1GB performs some 25 per cent slower than Inno3D's GeForce GTX 280 OC. Note, also, that this is using AMD's yet-to-be-publicly-released Catalyst 9.1 beta drivers.