Another 480M vs 5870M vs 5870M CF Test

I know all of this has been discussed a few times, and nothing too surprising. Tom's Hardware just did a pretty decent test comparison article using a Eurocom X8100 comparing a 480M against a 5870M and a 5870M in Crossfire. They also tossed a desktop 5850 machine in there for good measure.

Enjoy!! 5870 and 480M Review

 

GTX 480M had a surprisingly large advantage, in Call of Duty and Priyapat.

The 10 frame lead, at Ultra + 1080p, is impressive.

But, I still say that waiting for the 470M is the smart move.

 

the 5870M crossfire punes the 480M... and for the price , its worth it.

 

i'm surprised about the idle power consumsion of the 480m vs the single 5870 given the agressive powersaving featur included in the 5xxx serie


unless it's the specific vbios wich have a lees then worth it powerplay value

 

EDIT: I didn't read enough....

 

I am patiently waiting for the 470M and I bet it will be worth the wait.

 

I haven't looked at desktops for a while; how "good" is the desktop 5850 compared to other desktop cards?

I'm loving my crossfire babies , but how did they run Crysis in xfire? I can't find that option anywhere

 

Benchmark Results: Modern Warfare 2 And Crysis : Mobility Radeon Vs. GeForce M: The CrossFire Advantage

Last two charts.

 

In call of duty nope, but in Stalker it sure did. A 10 frame difference between 60vs 70, and 24v34 is not the same.

I guess the massive memory ammount and bandwidth help push the details at such res for the 480m.

I say mobile GPUs need to step up their games we need more power! heh. 470m will be the real good high end card from nvidia, but its performance/price just won't be that good. Considering how a single HD5870m fares right now, I would actually recommend 460m or sli 460m over any other nvidia solution. They seem to run cooler and have a nice overclock headroom.

But yeah, 470m could be a surprise and end up totally defeating 480m, specially overclocked since the new fermi are better overclockers.

 

But with AMD closer to releasing it's 6XXX series, this still leaves Nvidia in the position of "playing catch up". No doubt the GF104, 106, 108 are nothing like original Fermi, but they still share the same problem of being a little late and too pricey. Waiting for a 470 sounds like a wise decision, but then it arrives deciding to wait for a 6870M BART card will sound just as wise.

 

how compatible is the 5870 cf?
a few months ago i saw threads of people complaining it was a pita to get it work with many games, and they ended up using a single card more than half the time.
has the situation changed since?

 

Mobility 6870 could be a total game changer, depending on how they have to downclock the Bart core. Overclocked, it will threaten the desktop 5850.

 

Yeah but who knows when it's coming out, I heard rumors it's going to be relatively soon but you never know, I just hope it's swappable with the 5870 with no problems.
I wonder how much more power there going to use(6000 series) over the 5870?

 

i don't know on the asus verison but the dell version got mostly fixed dell rolled out many fixes and a vbios upgrade

 

Works fine. Dell released a new vBios. The reason why some M17X R2 owners are upset is not the CF HD5870M. They didn't have that much problem to begin with.

The big gripe I read is that Dell has CPU Overclocking limited on the Bios itself. At least that was my impression.

 

Anyone done a SLI 480m comparison yet? Looking at Kobalt's website they have models for both CF 5870m and SLI 480m available for retail. It should be neck and neck either way but the price differential should be interesting.

 

I've had very few proble ms with mine. Only two games spring to mind.
HitmanBlood Money where I had to force it to use SLI and the new HD Serious Sam-I think it only uses one card as I"m not getting very good performance in it.

 

If anyone has problem with either SLI or Crossfire can be because the game doesn´t utilize multi GPU´s anyway. I don´t know how it is for you ATI users but I create my own SLI profiles using Nhancer. Isn´t there any similiar small nifty tool for you ATI users?

Basically Nhancer is an extended version of the profile management in the Nvidia Control panel. It is a great tool.

 

I think it is the same for CF users, that they create profiles for games so they can utilize multi GPU in some games that don't seem to support it out of the box.