Can a single 7800 GTX run 2560x1600

[bamacre]

Can a single 7800 GTX run 2560x1600? I'm not up on these insanely high resolutions, and I have a customer looking at a system I have with a single 7800 GTX. He has a Dell 3007FPW, or plans to at least have one. Is the one card capable of handling this resolution, regardless of gaming peroformance?

 

[imported_Finny]

Um, it kinda depends. I'm assuming you're talking about the 256 meg version.

To answer your main question, yes, it can support the resolution. If I recall, all GTXs have dual-DVI.

If the guy's hopin to run games like FEAR, CoD2, and the like at that resolution, that monitor will simply laugh at it for a while, then kill it... Horribly.

If he's playin some slightly older games, it might be functional. However, it wouldn't make much sense to dish out such a large amount of cash to play older gams.

 

[Corporate Thug]

yes, the GTX has dual DVi so it can power it. forget about running any game at that resolution though

 

[bamacre]

Thanks guys. One more question, can he scale down the resolution and play games at maybe 1680x1050 on the monitor with decent performance?

 

[otispunkmeyer]

dual link DVI is present on all GTX's, or at the very least i should hope it is.

so running that monitor will be fine, if hes jus doing 2D, and light 3D gaming with older games.

if you want a serious set up to game on that thing, then i believe the only choice for that is X1900XT's in CF. though in 7 days you should be able to bag 7900GT in SLI for cheaper, or 7900GTX in SLI for roughly the same?

 

[otispunkmeyer]

Originally posted by: bamacre
Thanks guys. One more question, can he scale down the resolution and play games at maybe 1680x1050 on the monitor with decent performance?

yeah he can, it will either stretch to fill the screen, making it look a little blocky, less detail etc. or you can jut tell the drivers to "centre the output" that way it will light up 1680x1050 pixels in the centre of the screen, with black bars round all sides.

 

[Ronin]

Actually, the monitor has 3 settings to choose from to facilitate this, rather than using the drivers.

1:1, Aspect, and Fill.

 

[Crescent13]

Yup it'll run it because it has a dual-link DVI port. DO NOT CONFUSE DUAL-LINK DVI WITH DUAL DVI!!! Completely different things. Dual DVI means 2 DVI ports, Dual-Link DVI means twice the bandwidth coming out of one DVI port.

 

[bamacre]

Wow, great. Thanks a lot for the info guys.

 

[Elfear]

You might want to check how that monitor scales though. The 2005fpw and 2405fpw scale pretty well but generally you're talking about a small resolution drop. Going from 2560x1600 to 1680x1050 is a pretty big drop and might not look all that great.

Also something to think about, 1680x1050 is even a little much for a 256MB 7800GTX in some games.

 

[bamacre]

Originally posted by: Elfear
You might want to check how that monitor scales though. The 2005fpw and 2405fpw scale pretty well but generally you're talking about a small resolution drop. Going from 2560x1600 to 1680x1050 is a pretty big drop and might not look all that great.

Also something to think about, 1680x1050 is even a little much for a 256MB 7800GTX in some games.

I beg to differ there. I have a 256MB GTX, and it plays all of my games fine at 16x12, including FEAR. And it's paired with a Pent 630.

 

[Crescent13]

^^

I agree with you on this one. My 7800GT OC'ed to just a bit faster than 7800GTX speeds (i get 8200 in 3dmark05) ran COD2 with 8xAA and 16xAF at 1600x1200 just fine. Some people can't stand lower than 60FPS, so that might be why he says it'll have a hard time with it.

 

[Elfear]

Originally posted by: bamacre

I beg to differ there. I have a 256MB GTX, and it plays all of my games fine at 16x12, including FEAR. And it's paired with a Pent 630.

Well if you mean with no AA/AF and maybe some eye-candy turned off than I believe you. After using SLI'd 7800GTs@550/1300 and having them struggle a bit at 1600x1200 4AA/16AF in FEAR and COD2, I'm sure a 7800GTX at the same settings would get killed. As evidenced here and here.

I'm not flaming on 7800GTX's. I've had one and it was a good card but I know it's limits too.

 

[Elfear]

Originally posted by: Crescent13
^^

I agree with you on this one. My 7800GT OC'ed to just a bit faster than 7800GTX speeds (i get 8200 in 3dmark05) ran COD2 with 8xAA and 16xAF at 1600x1200 just fine. Some people can't stand lower than 60FPS, so that might be why he says it'll have a hard time with it.

You sure about that?

 

[bamacre]

Originally posted by: Elfear

Originally posted by: bamacre

I beg to differ there. I have a 256MB GTX, and it plays all of my games fine at 16x12, including FEAR. And it's paired with a Pent 630.

Well if you mean with no AA/AF and maybe some eye-candy turned off than I believe you. After using SLI'd 7800GTs@550/1300 and having them struggle a bit at 1600x1200 4AA/16AF in FEAR and COD2, I'm sure a 7800GTX at the same settings would get killed. As evidenced here and here.

I'm not flaming on 7800GTX's. I've had one and it was a good card but I know it's limits too.

No, everything on and with AA/AF, except FEAR. To me, as long as the min fps is at 30 or more, I'm fine.

 

[Elfear]

Originally posted by: bamacre

No, everything on and with AA/AF, except FEAR. To me, as long as the min fps is at 30 or more, I'm fine.

Well you must have one uber 7800GTX than. My 7800GTs averaged about 40-45 and I'm sure they dipped into the low 30's during certain parts.

 

[bamacre]

Originally posted by: Elfear

Originally posted by: bamacre

No, everything on and with AA/AF, except FEAR. To me, as long as the min fps is at 30 or more, I'm fine.

Well you must have one uber 7800GTX than. My 7800GTs averaged about 40-45 and I'm sure they dipped into the low 30's during certain parts.

Sys Spec's
FEAR Results

 

[Ichigo]

The benchmark isn't that great for real game performance, because the actual scenes rendered in game are much more stressful than anything in the benchmark.

 

[bamacre]

Originally posted by: Ichigo
The benchmark isn't that great for real game performance, because the actual scenes rendered in game are much more stressful than anything in the benchmark.

Even if that is true, I've been through the entire game, and haven't noticed any slow downs.

 

[Elfear]

Originally posted by: bamacre

Sys Spec's
FEAR Results

I was talking more about COD2. I gues I should have specified that a little better. The FEAR results look about right for 1600x1200 no AA/AF and maybe some of the details turned down (?)