ATI Hardware Physics Demo

A demo of Hardware Physics by ATI. Made at Computex 2006

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Howto & Style

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• ATI
• Hardware
• Physics
• Computex
• 2006

[cyther39]

nvidia cards are always over prized for its performance!.. ati is better hd4870 is way more powerfull than gtx260 yet gtx260 is much more expensive...

[pokerface3699]

it depends on the card, not the company

[haxfactory]

I got my 4830 for $60 and I got an 8800 GT SLI setup for about $80. The sad thing is they will still max most games out at 1080p. Hell, a single 8800 GT played Crysis all settings highest at 1080p with no AA. In SLI, it easily maxes it out.

[haxfactory]

Then you have to remember some games scale better to ATI and some scale better to nVidia. So the difference is somewhat irrelevant.

I should mention that the GTX 260 is quite a bit more powerful than a GTS 250 (which like i said is a rebranded 9800 GTX+) though. The additional core unlocked revisions were even more powerful. If you overclocked (which does go better on nVidia to core and shaders not being linked) it could have been even more power and 4870s could overclock well.

[haxfactory]

@cyther39 The 4870 was not more powerful than the GTX 260. A 4870 was about as powerful as a 9800 GTX+ (aka the GTS 250). ATI boasted some huge raw GFLOP numbers that didn't show up in game performance. A 4830 in real life performance is about as good as an 8800/9800 GT. I should know, I have them. 4830 and 4850 aren't too different in performance a decent overclock and the 4830 can out perform it. the 4850 and 4870 aren't a very big gap either. The 4830 can't quite match the 4870 overclocked.

[minotauros91]

@cyther39 That's because you pay for quality. A nvidia card will last you *LONGER* and nvidia card's go !GREAT! paired with a intel processor so your card wont need a GPU. There fore a gtx260 with a core i7 extreme and your pc is *guaranteed* to last you a very long time, depending on how you take care of your pc.

[point6000x]

@cyther39 same 2 years later. 6990 = better than 590, CF 6970 even moar better then 6990 even if its nearly the same.

[d34d10ck]

@d3tach3d

Never. This was non interactive physics, which is totally outdated nowadays.

[greyfoxzero]

@mkri96 A 4870 1gb will compete with a gtx 260, depends on the game. Plenty of benchmarks out there that show the perform pretty close to each other. Some games even favor it and that goes for the 5770, some titles show the 4870 being faster than the 5770 while others show it worse. All 3 cards perform very close for most games.

[MrRenar11]

well i have ati radeon x700 (bad)

[ViennaMoose]

@mkri96 A 4870 and 5770 are pretty much the same speeds, just different architecture.

[d3tach3d]

and this was over 4 years ago......when are fucking games going to really use this shit.