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Originally posted by: Avalon
Let's all post a bunch of letters. Why? Because it's...
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Originally posted by: Lonyo
They're posting random letters that spell the word REPOST, because this thread is a REPOST (it's already been posted about)
Originally posted by: Jeff7181
Ya know what I find odd? 33% more pipelines = 10-15% more performance... in their 3DMark2003 tests at least. Looks like the rest of the card (memory system) may not be strong enough to handle all 16 pipelines.
Originally posted by: CaiNaM
why would you find that odd? it's not like the XT is 30% faster than the PRO....
Originally posted by: Jeff7181
Originally posted by: CaiNaM
why would you find that odd? it's not like the XT is 30% faster than the PRO....
Well supposedly the x800 is a pixel shader powerhouse... so I figure in a game like Far Cry where pixel shader performance is critical, a >30% increase in pixel pipelines (not to mention clock speed) would provide more than 10% more performance. Unless of course, as I said, it's being limited by memory bandwidth.
Originally posted by: CaiNaM
Originally posted by: Jeff7181
Originally posted by: CaiNaM
why would you find that odd? it's not like the XT is 30% faster than the PRO....
Well supposedly the x800 is a pixel shader powerhouse... so I figure in a game like Far Cry where pixel shader performance is critical, a >30% increase in pixel pipelines (not to mention clock speed) would provide more than 10% more performance. Unless of course, as I said, it's being limited by memory bandwidth.
far cry? there are no fc benchmarks.. the only point of comparison we have is (and the one you referenced) is 3dmark03.
my point was that the higher clocked xt w/ 4 additional pipes isn't 30% faster, so why would a modded pro be any faster?
6800UE: 12759
X800XTPE: 11895
6800U: 11868
x800PRO: 9639
http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/geforce_6800_ultra_extreme/page5.asp
my PRO w/o MOD: 10963
That's probably why the XT comes with much faster memory than the Pro. I agree with you though. The softmod alone only seems to be yielding 15% performance, to get the full 25-30% you'd probably need a nice memory overclock.Anyway... for the third time... maybe there isn't enough memory bandwidth available for 16 pipelines whether it's a modded Pro or an XTPE... would be interesting to see what effect increasing JUST the memory speed has
Originally posted by: GeneralGrievous
That's probably why the XT comes with much faster memory than the Pro. I agree with you though. The softmod alone only seems to be yielding 15% performance, to get the full 25-30% you'd probably need a nice memory overclock.Anyway... for the third time... maybe there isn't enough memory bandwidth available for 16 pipelines whether it's a modded Pro or an XTPE... would be interesting to see what effect increasing JUST the memory speed has
Originally posted by: GeneralGrievous
That's probably why the XT comes with much faster memory than the Pro. I agree with you though. The softmod alone only seems to be yielding 15% performance, to get the full 25-30% you'd probably need a nice memory overclock.Anyway... for the third time... maybe there isn't enough memory bandwidth available for 16 pipelines whether it's a modded Pro or an XTPE... would be interesting to see what effect increasing JUST the memory speed has
Originally posted by: DAPUNISHER
I expect once this card is readily available I'll be seeing a lot of them in the refurb section![]()
Originally posted by: CaiNaM
why would you find that odd? it's not like the XT is 30% faster than the PRO....