CrashHelmut
14-07-2008, 12:29 PM
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Please keep in mind that this is a PREVIEW of the ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2, a.k.a. “R700.” The video cards we have for evaluation today come straight from AMD as engineering samples, the final retail version of this video card will have a newer BIOS than what we are using here today. Also, there will be a newer driver set ready when these video cards officially launch later this summer. That said, we think you will still be very pleasantly surprised by the performance evaluated today in this early hardware and software stage of the Radeon HD 4870 X2.
Our gameplay experiences with the ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 were phenomenal, especially once we raised the antialiasing setting to high levels. In Crysis, we found 1920x1200 with all in-game settings at “High” was playable on the Radeon HD 4870 X2, which is an impressive feat for Crysis. This matched the same gameplay experience as the BFGTech GeForce GTX 280 OC. Once we setup our 4870 X2 CrossFireX configuration we were able to take a few in-game settings to “Very High,” but most importantly we were able to turn on 4X AA at 1920x1200. At 2560x1600 CrossFireX did not scale well, however looking at Crysis as a whole, and keeping in mind that AMD has stated that scaling is not up to what they want, the end result is still very impressive for beta drivers and engineering sample hardware.
Age of Conan truly shows the potential within the Radeon HD 4870 X2. In this game we were able to utilize Custom Filtering AA modes, enabling edge detect using the shaders at high AA levels. At 1920x1200 we found the game very playable with 12X CFAA enabled plus Adaptive AA to smooth out alpha textures as well on the Radeon HD 4870 X2. This surpassed the image quality provided by the BFGTech GeForce GTX 280 OC in Age of Conan at 1920x1200. With ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 CrossFireX we found a tremendous amount of performance was available to us, allowing us to flat out max out the image quality in Age of Conan. At 1920x1200 we were playing Age of Conan at the highest settings possible on the ATI hardware, 24X CFAA plus Adaptive AA with the highest in-game settings. At 2560x1600 we were able to turn on 8X AA plus Adaptive AA as well, providing better image quality than GTX 280 SLI.
This preview has shown a very positive light on AMD’s ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2. Usually previews can go two ways, either it is going to perform really badly, or it is going to outperform our expectations. This was the latter; the ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 outperformed our initial expectations. Even in this preview state the hardware and drivers have a very solid feel to them. The CrossFireX experience was easy to setup and worked without any fuss.
From this (http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTUzMSwxLCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdA==) HardOCP article.
Anandtech's preview (http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3354).
Please keep in mind that this is a PREVIEW of the ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2, a.k.a. “R700.” The video cards we have for evaluation today come straight from AMD as engineering samples, the final retail version of this video card will have a newer BIOS than what we are using here today. Also, there will be a newer driver set ready when these video cards officially launch later this summer. That said, we think you will still be very pleasantly surprised by the performance evaluated today in this early hardware and software stage of the Radeon HD 4870 X2.
Our gameplay experiences with the ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 were phenomenal, especially once we raised the antialiasing setting to high levels. In Crysis, we found 1920x1200 with all in-game settings at “High” was playable on the Radeon HD 4870 X2, which is an impressive feat for Crysis. This matched the same gameplay experience as the BFGTech GeForce GTX 280 OC. Once we setup our 4870 X2 CrossFireX configuration we were able to take a few in-game settings to “Very High,” but most importantly we were able to turn on 4X AA at 1920x1200. At 2560x1600 CrossFireX did not scale well, however looking at Crysis as a whole, and keeping in mind that AMD has stated that scaling is not up to what they want, the end result is still very impressive for beta drivers and engineering sample hardware.
Age of Conan truly shows the potential within the Radeon HD 4870 X2. In this game we were able to utilize Custom Filtering AA modes, enabling edge detect using the shaders at high AA levels. At 1920x1200 we found the game very playable with 12X CFAA enabled plus Adaptive AA to smooth out alpha textures as well on the Radeon HD 4870 X2. This surpassed the image quality provided by the BFGTech GeForce GTX 280 OC in Age of Conan at 1920x1200. With ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 CrossFireX we found a tremendous amount of performance was available to us, allowing us to flat out max out the image quality in Age of Conan. At 1920x1200 we were playing Age of Conan at the highest settings possible on the ATI hardware, 24X CFAA plus Adaptive AA with the highest in-game settings. At 2560x1600 we were able to turn on 8X AA plus Adaptive AA as well, providing better image quality than GTX 280 SLI.
This preview has shown a very positive light on AMD’s ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2. Usually previews can go two ways, either it is going to perform really badly, or it is going to outperform our expectations. This was the latter; the ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 outperformed our initial expectations. Even in this preview state the hardware and drivers have a very solid feel to them. The CrossFireX experience was easy to setup and worked without any fuss.
From this (http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTUzMSwxLCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdA==) HardOCP article.
Anandtech's preview (http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3354).