My 6800U vs X800XL vs 6600 Benchmarks

[BFG10K]

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Comments, questions and discussion is welcome. Enjoy. 🙂

 

[imported_Kensai]

Funky. 🙂

 

[jim1976]

Nice job BFG10k thanks

 

[nRollo]

I can appreciate the work that went into that, good job.

In a nutshell:
It shows the x800xl on a A64 4000+ 2GB dual channel to be on par with a 6800U on a A64 3200+ 1GB single channel.

Which I guess you'd sort of expect with X800XL barely behind a 6800GT.

I'd still flip those cards to maximize the hardware I had, but to each their own.

 

[BFG10K]

You make a valid point Rollo but the two cards are on a different interface (AGP vs PCIe) so it's not really possible to mix-and-match them.

In any case the X800 XL is only really an interim card until I see how the current generation pans out with ATi and nVidia.

 

[CP5670]

This is quite useful; I haven't seen many tests of older games played on modern cards, which I do quite a bit. Nice to see some of my old favorites like Unreal and Descent 3 in there as well as the 19x14 resolution. Do you have any minimum framerate readings?

 

[BFG10K]

Do you have any minimum framerate readings?

Actually I do. Do you want me to put them up?

 

[dug777]

very nice mate 🙂

Cheers for the effort 🙂

 

[CP5670]

Originally posted by: BFG10K

Do you have any minimum framerate readings?

Actually I do. Do you want me to put them up?

yeah, I actually find those much more useful than the averages in general.

 

[Avalon]

You get a thumbs up for all the effort that took. I've never benched more than half of what you did, and I know it takes forever to get so many results.

 

[Todd33]

Originally posted by: Rollo
I can appreciate the work that went into that, good job.

In a nutshell:
It shows the x800xl on a A64 4000+ 2GB dual channel to be on par with a 6800U on a A64 3200+ 1GB single channel.

Which I guess you'd sort of expect with X800XL barely behind a 6800GT.

I'd still flip those cards to maximize the hardware I had, but to each their own.

So in a nutshell, Rollo has to take a few backhanded swipes at ATI even if the numbers don't merit it. You are like the Energizer bunny.

 

[McArra]

Well, 6800U is using worse hard and a very old driver so is not apples to apples comparison.

 

[blckgrffn]

Nice, though 🙂 I have used all those cards as well...

 

[blckgrffn]

Originally posted by: McArra
Well, 6800U is using worse hard and a very old driver so is not apples to apples comparison.

The 6800U itself is well over a year old at this point, I personally think that that the 71.89's are plenty current for the games tested.

LOL, it wasn't intended to come across as a "true" apples to apples comparison anyway, look at the platforms used and between a 3200+ and a 4000+ there is a good gap. Too bad you don't have a NF3 250 board so you could push that 3200+ up to about 2.5ghz and give a more true picture.

Regardless, :thumbsup: That took a lot of time!

 

[Powermoloch]

An effort well done my friend :beer:

 

[nRollo]

Originally posted by: Todd33

Originally posted by: Rollo
I can appreciate the work that went into that, good job.

In a nutshell:
It shows the x800xl on a A64 4000+ 2GB dual channel to be on par with a 6800U on a A64 3200+ 1GB single channel.

Which I guess you'd sort of expect with X800XL barely behind a 6800GT.

I'd still flip those cards to maximize the hardware I had, but to each their own.

So in a nutshell, Rollo has to take a few backhanded swipes at ATI even if the numbers don't merit it. You are like the Energizer bunny.

So in a nutshell, Todd33 doesn't understand my post (as usual) and bellows out some insult. :roll:

I made no "backhanded swipes" at ATI Todd. :roll:

What I was thinking when I wrote that is that his benches illustrate that if you give a 10-15% slower video card 25% more CPU and some faster RAM you balance the equation.

I said I'd flip the cards (mistakenly thinking he had two PCIE or AGP boards) thinking it makes the most sense to have your most powerful GPU mated to your most powerful CPU, because that combination might allow you the best possible gaming experienceat the games that require the most computer.

Pretty radical stuff, flamer. :roll:

It's too bad you never have anything at all to contribute to a thread except: "Waaaaahhhhh! Todd not like what Rollo say!" :roll:

 

[BFG10K]

yeah, I actually find those much more useful than the averages in general.

Alright, I make no promises but I'll see what I can do.

Well, 6800U is using worse hard and a very old driver so is not apples to apples comparison.

Yeah there is a bit of a gap between the 7189 and 7772 driver but the drivers changed in between my system transition so I couldn't go back and re-benchmark the 6800U. As has been pointed out though the 7189 should be pretty optimal for a 6800U.

 

[Avalon]

Originally posted by: Todd33

Originally posted by: Rollo
I can appreciate the work that went into that, good job.

In a nutshell:
It shows the x800xl on a A64 4000+ 2GB dual channel to be on par with a 6800U on a A64 3200+ 1GB single channel.

Which I guess you'd sort of expect with X800XL barely behind a 6800GT.

I'd still flip those cards to maximize the hardware I had, but to each their own.

So in a nutshell, Rollo has to take a few backhanded swipes at ATI even if the numbers don't merit it. You are like the Energizer bunny.

Where is he taking backhanded swipes at ATI? If anything he's complementing the card for being on par with a 6800U, with the X800XL rig having only a relatively small boost in CPU speed and dual channel memory bandwidth/cache as its advantage.

Quit trolling.

 

[xtknight]

Cool, even Quake 2 benchmarks, lol (hence "BFG"). Interesting how Q2 is lower than Q3, probably because the engine is so ice-age.

Thanks.