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NV40 Celebration Thread!

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The performance of this sucker does justify the power requirement. But it's definitely not enough to over look the power requirement. But I guess that's just how things will evolve from now on.

Far Cry 80 FPS @ 1280 x 1024 Max Details does sound exciting right about now. The only thing I was confused about was UT2K4. I was expecting to see well over 80 FPS in that game. What happen? Doesn't fit the consistency of the other benchmarks which are off the charts.
 
Stop jumping the gun you nVidia Fanbois. ATI hasen't even released their latest competitor yet. Patience young grasshoppers...

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Originally posted by: xerosleep
Dang this card rules! I severly doubt the new ATI card is going to come very close. If it does that would be great but I'm thinking no. This is how card upgrades SHOULD be. Non of this 10% better junk we've been gettting for so long.
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I am not an Nvidia fanboy BTW. But i must say the 3dmark2001se looks lacking....then again this card is made for latest DX9.0 games with PS2.0-3.0 so who cares about past performance of DX8.0.

On the ATI remark, I strongly disagree. ATI X800xt is rumoured to have 600/1200 clock speeds and 16 full pipelines VS. 400/1100 speeds of the NV40 and its 16 pipelines. So, unless ATI is a lot less efficient per clock cycle, I see it not only tying NV40 for performance but being slightly ahead by say 10%.

Also 6800 non-ultra will have 128mb of ram and "only" 12 pipelines instead of 16 putting it now head to head with x800Pro. But Ati's card is again rumoured to have 500/1000 clock speeds putting it very well within the reach of NV40's performance for non-ultra card.

In conclusion, do not count ati out, because on paper it looks JUST as good (apart from video encoder and PS3.0 support)
 
Originally posted by: xerosleep
Dang this card rules! I severly doubt the new ATI card is going to come very close. If it does that would be great but I'm thinking no. This is how card upgrades SHOULD be. Non of this 10% better junk we've been gettting for so long.
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Well even if ATI does come in and prove you wrong or for the least bit tie them on the performance level, this is still a remarkable accomplishment. Nvidia has definitely earned much of the respect back that they rightfully deserve from the Research/Development of this card.

Finally, a real new card. The next step forward.

But sadly, we really don't learn the flaws of the product, until the other competitor shows us something better. So we just have to sit in awe.

The company who won over Microsoft, the company who brought you the "revolutionary" 9700 core, brought you efficient AA/AF, has yet to enter the ring.

It's a game a poker. Who has the better hand. Does the one who shows last normally shows a bluff?

 
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