The the time of testing, two Radeon HD 4870s were the same price as a pair of GeForce 9800 GTX, however at the time of writing the results pages the GeForce GTX 260s have dropped in price to match that of the Radeon HD 4870.

Crysis

Publisher: Electronic Arts


On the AMD platform, a pair of GeForce 9800 GTX on the nForce 780a with NF200 chip offering SLI optimisations and two PCI-Express 2.0 x16 lanes (albeit then forced into just one x16) seems to work slightly better than a pair of Radeon HD 4870s on the AMD 790FX with two PCI-Express 2.0 x16 lanes. Interestingly even though the Gigabyte 780G board is working with just PCI-Express x16 and x4, it still performs better than the Gigabyte 790GX with its dual PCI-Express x8 by x8.

Enemy Territory: Quake Wars

Publisher: Activision


In ET:QW the all Nvidia solution eeks out a few FPS again ahead of the AMD, but in this instance the AMD 790GX comes out top and the 790FX ever so slightly slower although all the AMD chipsets seem to work within a single FPS of each other. The slower CPU in the 780G seems to make no difference here.

World in Conflict

Publisher: Sierra


World in Conflict performance for the nForce 780a and AMD 790FX match each other here, with on the 790FX fractionally faster in minimum FPS. In comparison, both the AMD 780G and 790GX perform almost identically too, but are several FPS off the pace of the other boards.