A quick eye opener...

[lertt]

The Geforce 6800 GT beats the heck out of X800XT in Duke Nukem Forever benchmarks. ATI really needs to work on their driver's vaporware capabilities.

 

[jrphoenix]

Originally posted by: shady06

Originally posted by: Zebo
It's gonna be real hard me to buy this card unless it overclocks massive. Every reviewer out there is telling me X800XT is the best video card and now it can be had for less than the mid range GT.

thats my deciding factor as well, if it doesnt acheive massive OCs, i'm definately going the X800XT route

There was some bad news by Anand in an issue of Computer Power User magazine last month. Here is what Anand said in the June issue:

All this comes at a cost, the NV40 is bigger than Intel?s largest desktop chip (at 220M transistors) and you can estimate an almost Itanium-like die size. It doesn?t matter much to end users, but don?t plan on overclocking NV40 much. Also, the company needs a smaller manufacturing process to bring NV40 to the mainstream.

 

[BugsBunny1078]

What do I care how big the die is? a square half an inch or a square 3/4 of an inch means what to me?Even if it is 2 inches on each side it stilll fits on the card its all good right?

 

[nitromullet]

Originally posted by: BugsBunny1078
What do I care how big the die is? a square half an inch or a square 3/4 of an inch means what to me?Even if it is 2 inches on each side it stilll fits on the card its all good right?

Well, the greater the number of transistors and size, the greater the heat, power consumption, and possible manufacturing defects, which all equate to greater cost.

 

[jrphoenix]

Originally posted by: nitromullet

Originally posted by: BugsBunny1078
What do I care how big the die is? a square half an inch or a square 3/4 of an inch means what to me?Even if it is 2 inches on each side it stilll fits on the card its all good right?

Well, the greater the number of transistors and size, the greater the heat, power consumption, and possible manufacturing defects, which all equate to greater cost.

And the greater the costs to Nvidia to manufacture the larger chip (larger than ATI's).... theoretically they would pass this added cost onto the consumers... maybe they'll just have to go with slimmer margins to be competetive?

 

[Bartokomus]

Originally posted by: SgtZulu
*yawn*

Wake me when Newegg is selling them for $150

ditto