How come that FarCry bench comparison thread only has one result for the X800Pro vs. 6800GT.
They link to many sites that review the X800XT vs. 6800U (such as Anandtech) but only show one link for the X800pro/6800GT comparo. If you look @ AT, the results for the 6800GT vs. X800Pro aren't nearly as conclusive as the single source they showed. In fact, according to AT's benchmarks, the 6800GT is much, much closer to the X800Pro (and often ahead) so I'd be interested in knowing more about the specific driver settings that created such a discrepancy (again I must question why sites rarely specifically mention what optimizations they may or may not have used).
One other interesting thing is that the ATI card performs very well with 16X AF, whereas the NV card takes a big hit. I saw the same thing on HardOCP, where ATI performs about the same with 8X AF or 16X AF. I don't know much about AF, but that similarity in performance makes me wonder whether those settings actually make a difference. In other words, if both cards were benched with 8X AF instead of 16X, how would that affect the results? Finally, does anyone know if NV will be able to improve their AF performance, or is the performance hit due to their implementation @ the hardware lavel (I seem to recall something about how NV was using the same parts of the chip for AF as they used for other effects, so the AF could cause a performance hit for that reason, although I might be getting it mixed up with something else).
Anyhow, thanks for the benches, the more info we have, the better we can choose the card that is best for us.
-D'oh!
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