ATI Radeon HD 4890 vs. Nvidia GeForce GTX 275

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Gamers looking to spend some $250 on a brand new graphics card were given two new options last month when ATI unleashed their Radeon HD 4890 and Nvidia countered with the GeForce GTX 275.

Starting with the Radeon HD 4890, this new card is in essence an overclocked Radeon HD 4870 with far greater overclocking abilities. ATI has fine-tuned the RV790 XT core allowing for incredible core frequencies. The GeForce GTX 275 is also a derivative from an existing product, borrowing its GPU from the GeForce GTX 295, which is a dual-GPU graphics card. The GTX 275 uses a 55nm GPU featuring the same amount of SPUs and TAUs as the more powerful GeForce GTX 285, while only as many ROPs as the GeForce GTX 260.

Today we will put both cards to the test and find out which is faster in a wide range of games using the latest drivers. We will also be looking at their maximum overclocked performance to help you decide which is the best value option for enthusiasts and PC gamers alike.

View: ATI Radeon HD 4890 vs. Nvidia GeForce GTX 275 @ TechSpot

#1 Recon415 on 11 May 2009 - 13:06

Great review.

(2 replies) #2 solgae on 11 May 2009 - 13:40

I see some discrepencies between anandtech review and this - call of duty world at war, crysis warhead, and left 4 dead are all won by AMD in anandtech review except on the highest resolution. The test specs are nearly the same too - the driver techspot used for nvidia is just a couple hundredth's revision ahead of anandtech's, and ATI driver is just labeled as "8.60 beta" in techspot - presumably the same as anandtech's, though I don't know if the hotfix is applied, and I dunno if it matters. Only discrepencies I found is the motherboard and the hard drive, which I don't believe it will affect the results, if any. Am I missing something here?

#2.1 a1ien on 11 May 2009 - 17:27

If you've been looking for reviews for a long time, you'll know that different sites' results frequenty contradict each other. You have to decide for yourself which review you'll give more weight to when buying a card. I personally trust tom's hardware the most.

#2.2 Intelman on 12 May 2009 - 14:16

Trust Anandtech.

#3 Typhon on 12 May 2009 - 10:18

I had a 4890 about two weeks ago. It just was not as good as I thought.

(1 reply) #4 Intelman on 12 May 2009 - 14:18

Wonder if we will ever return to single slot designs. Nvidia's 5800 series was like this (and it sucked), then the 6800 came out as a single slot design. Some 7xxx series was single slot as well.

#4.1 a1ien on 12 May 2009 - 18:25

I don't think so... not in CMOS anyways. If you can build a card in a 1 slot thermal envelope, you can build a faster one in two slots.

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