ATI Radeon HD 3870
PCMark Vantage
PCMark® Vantage is the first objective hardware performance benchmark for PCs running 32 and 64 bit versions of Microsoft® Windows Vista®. PCMark Vantage is perfectly suited for benchmarking any type of Microsoft® Windows Vista PC from multimedia home entertainment systems and laptops to dedicated workstations and hi-end gaming rigs. Regardless of whether the benchmarker is an artist or an IT Professional, PCMark Vantage shows the user where their system soars or falls flat, and how to get the most performance possible out of their hardware. PCMark Vantage is easy enough for even the most casual enthusiast to use yet supports in-depth, professional industry grade testing.
Looking at the results above you can see that the ATI Radeon 3870 performed higher than the BFG NVidia. In all of the gaming suites tests, the ATI Radeon performed higher than the 8800GTOC which in turned made the overall PCMark score higher.
CineBench R10
MAXON CINEBENCH runs several tests on your computer to measure the performance of the main processor and the graphics card under real world circumstances. The benchmark application makes use of up to 16 CPUs or CPU cores and is available for Windows (32-bit and 64-Bit) and Macintosh (PPC and Intel-based).
Because this is a review on a graphics card we dont need to look at the Single-Core and Multi-Core performance of the processor, rather we will be looking at the OpenGL graphics test. The ATI Radeon recieved 3246 points while the NVidia recieved 2327 points. Here there is a rather large significance where the ATI Radeon 3870 performs much better.
The ATI Radeon 3870 is available from the vendors below at an affordable price: