BFG 6800 oc Vs 9700 Pro? shocking news/conclusion.

[Idleuser]

We'll I decided to take the jump and upgrade since I got a friend who worked at bestbuy so I got the employee discount plus the rebate and the card only ended up costing me less than 150 bucks. Anyways I did some rough benchmarks yesterday with final fantasy 11 benchmark 3. It turns out my highest benchmark with the nvidia was 4705 while the 9700pro was 4750.

9700 Pro w/ arctic silencer and tweakmonster ramsinks
overclocked to 335/380
the drivers i'm using at the offical catalyst driver 4.11

http://img.photobucket.com/alb...3rman/Xanga/9700oc.jpg

6800 oc unlocked to 16x6 from 12x5 running at 350/700mhz
the drivers i'm using are forceware 67.03 (only one that would work without deinterlace with video playback)
I also used the 66.93, 67.20 and the newest beta 6742. video used to play step into liquid.

http://img.photobucket.com/alb...3rman/Xanga/unlock.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/alb...3rman/Xanga/masked.jpg

System specs:

Asus A7n8x-e
Athlon 3000 xp barton core
Pqi 2-2-2-5 (samsung tccd)
Ultra x-connect 500w psu

Now someone tell me is there something wrong with my setup ? I also tried overclocking the 6800 oc using stock vertex/pipelines at 12,5 and was able to achieve 370/775 before coolbit wouldn't let me pass the test anymore and the benchmark came out to be 4651 on the benchmark 3.

 

[otispunkmeyer]

aa and af?

 

[Idleuser]

Not sure if the ff11 benchmark has it but it turns out that when I used aquamark it gave me 2 scores roughly 74xx and 75xx for the 6800 oc and that has 4x AF while the ati score came out roughly the same.

 

[LTC8K6]

Not enough CPU?

 

[Hikari]

Think you can also run 3dmark03 and 3dmark05 for us?

 

[CraigRT]

I upgraded from a 9800p to a 6800GT and performance increase was definitely noticeable.

 

[apoppin]

Although the perf jump from a 9700p to a 6800Standard is not huge, you should see something (much) more significant than you are reporting . . . .

Did you remove every TRACE of ATI drivers?

MB drivers up-to-date?

Please run 3D Mark 03/05 and report back . . . .

 

[DusterAZ]

I have a BFG 6800 OC also and am at 16x1, 6vp @ 380/805. My CPU is at 2.2 Ghz which is pretty close to yours and I'm on nForce2 also. Run 3DMark03 and see what you get, I get just over 11K with my setup.

 

[Idleuser]

thank I will try 3dmarks05 today. and post you guys with the results.

 

[mickyb]

I would think it does have something to do with AF. The 6800 does full trilinear (supposedly) now instead of brilinear like the new ATI drivers and the GeForce 5xxx series. Is the slider on the Trilinear optimization on or off? Also, I am not sure if 3dmark ignores that setting or not. I also read that when using optimizations in a game vs. the control panel, the control panel gives better performance which probably means that it goes to brilinear.

 

[Idleuser]

I just benched it and i'm quiet happy with the results. Here are some screenshot, and the number speaks for itself. However, I believe the bottleneck in my system is the cpu and right now it's running at stock spec 350/700.

http://img.photobucket.com/alb...an/Xanga/bfg6800oc.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/alb...an/Xanga/9700bench.jpg

Not earth shattering but it's a great upgrade at 150 bucks now all i need to do is wait for my athlon 64 to come in to post more results.