X-bit labs

Started by: Mr. BonBon | Date 01/09/08

Comments: 10 | Last Comment:  01/12/08

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1. Oh boy. I hope for their sake, they manage to work wonders with their next driver releases otherwise this thing won't be worth it at all.

"In 3DMARK06 at 2560X1600 , benchmark scored 9573 ((SM2.0: 4494, SM3.0/HDR:4476). Lower resolution benchmark numbers are not mentioned in the original article".
http://my.ocworkbench.com/bbs/showthread.php?p=425431#post425431

Sort of disapointing score with such a powerfull CPU. They better hope they get their drivers right this time.

did you notice the resolution???
at 1600x1200, 4AA, 8AF the ULTRA gets 28xx with a slightly better CPU (source: tom's hardware charts)

this resolution has almost twice the amount of pixels, but the test was probably done without AA.

so im guessing its 20-30% better than the ultra.

Yes I did but every benchmark I look at is like an apples to oranges comparison. At the insane 2560x1600 with 4AA16AF the x2 gets 8153 (good scaling though the AA in and AF in the original is hard to understand) babel fish help on the same link.

I am estimating 15% higher now with your estimate on future driver releases. Still not good versus a card introduced almost a year ago. The R700 better bring the goods or they need to put more resources in drivers.

Don't believe that much in 3DMarks, R600 lost every single benchmark across the board in every single resolution against the G80, yet R600 gets higher overall score, and don't ask me how did that happen or why !

2. It is bulky and power demand

3. awesum!!

4. I hope it totally beats the ultra and gives nvidia some competition. But it looks like the gx2 is going to be faster.

5. Meh.

Crossfire is theoretically suppose to scale better. Now if a pair of these will run Crysis at 60fps with a min fps of 30 at everything set to max, then I'll be interested.

i am really astonished that ppl everywhere are setting crysis as the ultimate benchmark for whatever new GPU product out there. I think there were problems reported regarding crossfire not being supported by crysis, and bad gpu multi scaling with this game as well, moreover, their patches to improve performance are delayed ... etc..

Anyway, i think this card should be GREAT if it hit the market within the 400-440$ price range because then it will be competing with the rumored 9800GX2 and selling within the same price range.

Things to hate:
more delays for the R700, but i don't care actually, as long as there are realizable performance gains.

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