Nvidia Claims Performance Crown

[imported_X]

Some of you may have seen this info a few days earlier from Xtreme Resources. Looks like ATI's victory with the X850XT PE was pretty short-lived. Nvidia has taken back the crown with a new high in 3DMark05:

NVIDIA COULD not be any happier these days. An executive VP at the company run over Fudo, "Fudo" R520 is suppose to be delayed and Nvidia cards are performing and shipping. Best of all it's winning all the benchmarks.

Just a few weeks ago, ATI broke Nvidia's record with Cthe rossfire system and two X850 XT PE cards and Nvidia is finally ready to take the crown back. ATI kept it for just a few weeks only.

DFI's Nforce 4 SLI motherboard powered with 600W OCZ PSU, two Geforce 7800GTX and a FX55 CPU scored 16086 in 3Dmark05. If we are talking about older 3Dmark03 we are talking aboutan amazing 34891 score, of course in an SLI system with two cards.

A single card scores 9922 in 3Dmark05 and managed to clock it at 549MHz core and 1439MHz for the memory. In 3Dmark03 the card will score 21168 while in good old 3Dmark01 you will score an impressive 41646.

We have to underline that Crossfire is yet to be shipped while Nvidia G70, Geforce 7800GTX cards are shipping as we speak and you won?t have any troubles getting FX55, or even FX57 and any of those components.

The guy known as Oppaniter manage to reach this score using PCIce -90C cascade cooling and he cooled two Nvidia cards with recognisable Swiftech MCW-50 blocks and water cooling. We played with this one as we find it very nice.

You can check more details here.

I wonder if Nvidia will hold onto the trophy longer than ATI managed to do...

 

[SynthDude2001]

Meh, this doesn't mean much to me since it requires so much specialized cooling equipment. But then again, following that same line of thought I guess I could say that I don't care too much about 7800GTX SLI scores since I can't afford such a system.....

It's a pretty nice accomplishment though.

 

[ryanv12]

I guess I'm not into the "benchmarking culture" because I fail to see the importance of that.

 

[Dman877]

Sweet, I can't wait to play 3dmark when I get my 1500$ video card setup.

 

[imported_X]

ATI crowed about taking the crown with the X850XT PE in Xfire, so it seems they put stock in the benchmark as well. While I agree that 3DMark05 doesn't necessarily reflect real world performance, it has still become the default performance standard in these games of one-upsmanship.

Personally, I enjoy seeing the crown being handed back and forth. It is the consumer that ultimately benefits from the competition that represents.

 

[otispunkmeyer]

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001
Meh, this doesn't mean much to me since it requires so much specialized cooling equipment. But then again, following that same line of thought I guess I could say that I don't care too much about 7800GTX SLI scores since I can't afford such a system.....

It's a pretty nice accomplishment though.

oppainter managed similar results on water

though yes his 3.6Ghz FX55 was cascade cooled, the two 7800's where on water though

 

[HDTVMan]

I hate benchmark programs. They are the dumbest and biggest scam out there.

Real world game performance should overshadow any benchmark program because thats truely what games are using.

Benchmark programs can skew results in favor of anyone willing to pay an extra couple bucks. Hey pay us 50K and will make sure smartshader 3.1 results in an extra 500 3d marks becuase will tweek the code so if it isnt smartshader 3.1 it will be slower. You get the idea.

The same goes for I believe is SYSMark which is funny because its funded by Intel. If you go by the benchmark programs it will tell you the P4 is much better at nearly everything over an Opteron but real world applications show the exact opposite. Almost as skewed as THG's benchmark results.

 

[deadseasquirrel]

Originally posted by: HDTVMan
Real world game performance should overshadow any benchmark program because thats truely what games are using.

I agree. But which games? You'll have the ol' ATI HL2 vs. nV D3 argument going on. Games have the same possible downfalls of the benchmarking program-- both can be optimized for, and both can be paid-off.

I'm not a fan of 3dmark either, but I don't see an alternative at this point.

 

[Drayvn]

How much difference was there between the X850 Xfire to the 7800 SLi?