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GeForce 6800 GPUs launched, benchs are here
Looking at figures from gaming benchmarks, you can tell NVIDIA has made sure there is a tangible gap between past performance leaders and its new GF6800 processor. But don't take my word for it and visit some of the reviews floating around the net: Anandtech, Tech-Report, Hexus, NVNews, Hardocp, HotHw.
Expect newer games and drivers optimizations to improve the 20-50%+ margin the 6800 Ultra currently enjoys against previous leaders, the real battle will come however once ATI's X800 is unveiled... and I'm not talking about speed only but feature-set, drivers stability and of course, price!
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---agissi---
on April 14, 2004 3:57 PM |
I think this will be very interesting.. lets see if nvidia can go back to what they were. |
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MaskedBurrito
on April 14, 2004 5:46 PM |
The power "recommendations" are insane. A 480 watt PSU and 2 connectors? I might have to stick with ATI if they offer comparable performance. |
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Rory7
on April 14, 2004 6:07 PM |
Well since ATI's card is coming out later, do you think they are waitng to see what they are up against, and to make a few..alterations? I stil have a feeling ATI are gonna Nail Nvidia, dunno why. |
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Julio
on April 14, 2004 6:08 PM |
480w seems a bit exaggerated to me, perhaps a good way to make sure the card will work properly in a wide variety of environments (you’ve probably heard of those crappy 400w PSUs that in reality can’t output much more than a quality 300w PSU). I just recently upgraded to an Enermax 420w PSU, supposedly to have room for future upgrades, etc... and getting a new unit is definitely not in my plans. |
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---agissi---
on April 14, 2004 7:10 PM |
With ATi's card coming out later, they have more time and room to make a better card. |
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Rory7
on April 14, 2004 7:55 PM |
Yeah, thats what im smoking agissi |
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BrownPaper
on April 15, 2004 4:14 AM |
nvidia's and ati's offerings look to be quite impressive. wow there's so many transistors on that nvidia card. it's like three P4 Northwoods. the problem is i don't know if my electricity company is going to let me run my computer anymore if i get the nvidia card. i would be consuming way too much electricity! |
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Strakian
on April 19, 2004 11:36 AM |
Let's keep in mind that on paper the Nvidia is more promising. Sporting 16 pipelines with 32-bit floating point as opposed to ATI's lower 24-bit floating point pipelines. Also, the ATI R420 is CURRENTLY not pixel shader 3.0 OR Vertex shader 3.0 compatible.... what the hell? I think they'll probably fix this in the future since they're taking more time though, perhaps waiting for the 3.0 spec to be more available to base a decision... because let's face it, if noone prgrams in 3.0 yet, it's a useless feature anyway right?I'm a budget gamer though anyway, I'm waiting on the new ATI one so I can pick up my 9800XT for 180 bucks :D |
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---agissi---
on April 19, 2004 5:51 PM |
you can pickup a 9800pro for 200 right now ;) |
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Strakian
on April 20, 2004 2:07 AM |
I want an XT :P |
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