"It is unclear why reference GeForce 6800 graphics card provided by NVIDIA Corp. and used by X-bit labs’ laboratory in Tallinn, Estonia, scored identical fps in Xbitmark and 3DMark03 vertex shader..."

Because it was provided by nvidia, you didn’t choose a street one, it is obvious.


Why is everyone pushing UP Intel and nVidia.
If some company other then the regular one pushing up very good products, is average “quality”,
if it's one of the top ones, is excelente, money well expend, features that you dont need but who cares, price is not important, ….

“Intel will, with certainty, enter the 64-bit arena with its Pentium 4 720 in the late fall of this year. The resulting high-end systems can be viewed as investments well worth their money, due…”
http://www.tomshardware.com/motherboard/20040719/intel_9 5xe-19.html

Err, what does this have to do with what Toms writes?

Anyway, am I the only one who wondered about this headline and the immediadely following text?
"NVIDIA: No News on GeForce 6800 Vertex Pipelines
NVIDIA Confirms Lower Amount of Geometry Processors on 6800 Chip"
There's no news, and yet they got confirmation from NVidia? :P

This is ridiculous! I remember that when the first specs for the cards were released, it was patently clear that the 6800 non-ultra had 5 Vertex pipes. This has NEVER been an issue. There are still some mid-July 'reviews' which even say this!

ah