2012-12-21-121

[Rumour] GF100 Benchmarks vs. Radeon HD 5870

Chinese website Pcinlife has leaked benchmarks of a GF100 based cardsimply titled "A Card" vs. the Radeon HD 5870. The two cards arecompared in Crysis Warhead, Dirt 2 and Unigine. Interestingly, theproducts are mentioned as GTX 360/380, but this may be because thesample tested is an engineering sample, with an A2 stepping GPU, beforethe cards were branded Geforce GTX 470/480.

The "A Card" performs well below the HD 5870 in Crysis Warhead and Dirt 2DX11. It puts in a strong showing in the Unigine synthetic benchmark, surpassing the HD 5870.Also, it performs well in Crysis Warhead 8xAA. This might have somethingto do with the GF100's presumably higher frame buffer as the HD 5870seems to be crippled.

The "A Card" is seemingly the lower variant, or the GTX 470, or its pre-final branding GTX 360. Of course, these numbers should be taken with a grain of salt, but seems to be in line with the rumours floating around the internet. Also, these are only from an engineering sample, rather than the final shipping product, with a potentially immature driver.

Reference: PCinlife