NV40 Reviews Up Now

[BenSkywalker]

Anand's

B3D (Algere is da man)

Hardware Analysis

Firing Squad

Tom's(props Algere)

HardOCP (Props JB)

HardOCP Tech Article(read the first page and found numerous errors- take it with a grain of salt)

ExtremeTech (Props Algere)

Guru3D (Algere is cleaning up )

GameSpy (Take a guess... Link now fixed)

Hot Hardware (Algere is pretty good at this)

TechReport

nVNews

PCPerspective

Hexus (Algere again)

XBit (No surprise)

 

[JonnyBlaze]

nice. thanks

JB

 

[Algere]

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[Dman877]

Wow, looks like a winner, those af/aa quality comparisons at firingsquad are telling and the performance with aa/af is unbelievable. I wanna see 6800NU benches now .

It's cpu-bound in UT 2K4 until 1280x1024 with 4xaa/8xaf and at that res its only barely starting to work, thats rediculous.

 

[VIAN]

SO EXCITED! OMG! SOMEONE HELP ME!

 

[VIAN]

The sites are slow!

HOLY FREEHOLES!! Minimum recommended PS is 480WATTS!!!!!

HAHA. Be prepared to waste 500 bucks on that monster and then some 200 on a PS.

2 independent power cables!

 

[reever]

I wonder if all the cards reviewers get have that extra capacitor thingie soldered onto the back of it

 

[Lonyo]

I love THG, saying it's an unprecedented leap.

It's 1.5~2x faster than current cards from what I've read so far.

The 9700Pro was about 2x the speed of the Ti4600 with AA/AF (mostly what's being used for all the benchmarks at the moment), so it's about average for a new card.
Looks promising so far.

 

[JonnyBlaze]

hardocp's preview is up

JBlaze

 

[VIAN]

wow... that was nice.

I am a jealous man - who do I have to kill. huha huh

Where is ATI?

 

[NYHoustonman]

I graduate in June ... Gotta get some $ for one of these things.

 

[Draco]

Hardocp's "preview" seems retarded. They've taken it upon themselves to say what is "good playable" setting then compared it to what they think ATI's "good playable" setting is. To subjective. They should of used the same settings across the board, not different resolutions and aa/af settings. Having said that the 6800 still looks great.

look forward to Anand's review.

 

[NYHoustonman]

NVidia.com was just updated as I was refreshing it... Wierdest thing I've ever seen. Looks good, though...

 

[Insomniak]

All those "The Way It's Meant To Be Played" Logos have just been justified...until ATi launches anyway

This is very good news indeed. Hopefully we'll see some vicious competition at the high end this year, forcing prices to come down fast

 

[chsh1ca]

HardOCP's review at first makes the 6800 look pretty damn bad for a new card, but you have to watch out in their benchmark, as they are running at completely different AA/AF levels. Performance wise, even given the AA/AF difference, it doesn't appear to be that great a new card. The FX5950U over the FX5800U was about the same margin, but I suppose that is more in line with the increase in performance we should be seeing. I'd have to say, given some of the hype the people on the boards put on this card, it is going to be quite the upset, especially in an area where it counts (ie: MolexMark). When you take into account that this monster will need a beefier PSU than a lot of people probably already have, and doesn't offer the blazing 2x the performance of the Radeon 9800XT some were claiming, I'm not so sure that many of these cards are going to make it into systems. All I can say is I hope it lowers the price of the 9800XT/FX5900U enough that I can afford one.

I would like to see an anandtech review.

 

[Insomniak]

Originally posted by: chsh1ca
HardOCP's review at first makes the 6800 look pretty damn bad for a new card, but you have to watch out in their benchmark, as they are running at completely different AA/AF levels. Performance wise, even given the AA/AF difference, it doesn't appear to be that great a new card. The FX5950U over the FX5800U was about the same margin, but I suppose that is more in line with the increase in performance we should be seeing. I'd have to say, given some of the hype the people on the boards put on this card, it is going to be quite the upset, especially in an area where it counts (ie: MolexMark). When you take into account that this monster will need a beefier PSU than a lot of people probably already have, and doesn't offer the blazing 2x the performance of the Radeon 9800XT some were claiming, I'm not so sure that many of these cards are going to make it into systems. All I can say is I hope it lowers the price of the 9800XT/FX5900U enough that I can afford one.

I would like to see an anandtech-style review where everything is run at the same settings.

Uh, go look at the reviews bro...it DOES offer 2x the Raddy 9800XT in most situations....

 

[Dman877]

Originally posted by: Insomniak
All those "The Way It's Meant To Be Played" Logos have just been justified...until ATi launches anyway

This is very good news indeed. Hopefully we'll see some vicious competition at the high end this year, forcing prices to come down fast

ROFL, yeah right competition lowering prices, we have yet to see that in this industry. High end = 400$, midrange 200- 250$ low end 100 - 150$, that won't change.

 

[BenSkywalker]

I would like to see an anandtech-style review where everything is run at the same settings.

Click on anything other then the H articles. General consensus goes something like-

In the industry, we call this opening up a can of whoop-ass on the competition, and this is a particularly big can.

Of course this is against the last gen parts

 

[Insomniak]

Originally posted by: Dman877

Originally posted by: Insomniak
All those "The Way It's Meant To Be Played" Logos have just been justified...until ATi launches anyway

This is very good news indeed. Hopefully we'll see some vicious competition at the high end this year, forcing prices to come down fast

ROFL, yeah right competition lowering prices, we have yet to see that in this industry. High end = 400$, midrange 200- 250$ low end 100 - 150$, that won't change.

Note the bold, underlined, italiced, effective word there skeezix.

:disgust:

 

[Draco]

Originally posted by: chsh1ca
HardOCP's review at first makes the 6800 look pretty damn bad for a new card, but you have to watch out in their benchmark, as they are running at completely different AA/AF levels. Performance wise, even given the AA/AF difference, it doesn't appear to be that great a new card. The FX5950U over the FX5800U was about the same margin, but I suppose that is more in line with the increase in performance we should be seeing. I'd have to say, given some of the hype the people on the boards put on this card, it is going to be quite the upset, especially in an area where it counts (ie: MolexMark). When you take into account that this monster will need a beefier PSU than a lot of people probably already have, and doesn't offer the blazing 2x the performance of the Radeon 9800XT some were claiming, I'm not so sure that many of these cards are going to make it into systems. All I can say is I hope it lowers the price of the 9800XT/FX5900U enough that I can afford one.

I would like to see an anandtech-style review where everything is run at the same settings.

Skip Hardocp's. Read FiringSquad This chip's a winner.

 

[chsh1ca]

Well, I finished some of the other benches, and it looks to me like this means playable Halo and Splinter Cell framerate at high res, and some incredible 3DM03 scores if you put much stock in them. It seems to be about an average of 1.75x the performance of the FX5950U, which is nothing to shake a stick at. Now we just have to wait and see if the R420 delivers the speed increase it promised.

Insomniak: If you are only looking at 1600x1200x32, yes, you're correct, but that is not "most situations".

Is it me, or did FS forget to disable VSync in UT2K4?
http://firingsquad.com/hardware/nvidia_geforce_6800_ultra/page19.asp

 

[Pandaren]

The message is clear - The Empire Strikes Back! Glad to see that nVidia is back in the game. The 6800 series looks awesome

 

[InlineFive]

Having a fully programmable GPU is impressive. Not to mention that it can hardware all those video formats. Perhaps now it will be possible to write DC clients to run on these FPU monsters.

-Por

 

[Draco]

Originally posted by: Pandaren
The message is clear - The Empire Strikes Back! Glad to see that nVidia is back in the game. The 6800 series looks awesome

I concur. Very impressive.

Down with the haters.

 

[daveybrat]

The only downside i see here is the addition of the 480watt power supply!
By the time you add the $400 dollar price tag with the $100 power supply, ouch!

Unfortunately this card won't be for me........but i sure hope the cheaper 6800 is!
I sure hope it's the same card with just a slightly reduced clockspeed.

Very impressive!