"Radeon X1900XTX is faster than Geforce 7800 GTX 512"

[Bartokomus]

good rant

 

[Cooler]

I am still waiting on AT article to see what it can do.

 

[apoppin]

X1900XTX number found inside

[x1900xtx] punts a GeForce 7800GTX/512 around by a rather large margin, 1000 points and outscores it's own sibling, the X1800 line by more than 1500. A single card, without tuning the heck out of the box, virus scanner running and all scores a hair under 11000.

The Crossfire rig is similarly 'stupid fast' running much closer to 14000 than 13000 with a similar setup.

edited

 

[TSS]

at this point it really doesnt matter anyways. tomorrow we will have the official benchies, and we'll see how it performs.

and about those 3dmark scores: their '05. i'd much rather see how it performs in games, but more importantly, '06. since that uses much more shadereffects. compared against a 1800xt, 7800gtx 256 and 512. with and without AA.

so no more of these half arsed speculations and "blacked out scores". we'll see how it competes against the G71, once that's released.

 

[Topweasel]

Originally posted by: apoppin
X1900XTX number found inside

[x1900xtx] punts a GeForce 7800GTX/512 around by a rather large margin, 1000 points and outscores it's own sibling, the X1800 line by more than 1500. A single card, without tuning the heck out of the box, virus scanner running and all scores a hair under 11000.

The Crossfire rig is similarly 'stupid fast' running much closer to 14000 than 13000 with a similar setup.

edited

Just upping the Core and memory on the G70 took it from about 7800 to about 9500 and that was with a 120 Mhz jump. The G71 is an extra 200MHz on that with an extra 12 pipes (while relateing ATI pipes to Nvidia Pipes makes no sense, compairing cards of the same design is fine) and an 100MHZ on the memory. MY guess is by default the G71 will hit 13500-14000 out the door. This doesn't include our favorite companies doing OC models.

Thats the thing bugging me about ATI cards. Every comparison benchmark only compaires the cards to the Reference Nvidia cards. Even though ATI gave the manufacturers the OK to start overclocking them, no-body has. So while we see numbers one way, Who knows how the actuall retail cards will perform since No ATI board maker over clocks, and you can't walk through a computer store with out tripping over an OC Nvidia based cards.

Oh forget my obligitory short ( but in the end really long) summary of the point I am trying to supply. If the X1900 is anywhere withing equal graounds with the Reference GTX 512 (not even when talking about the OCed versions). Then it is really easy to predict with the improvements that the G71 will bring, that their will be little to no competition between the two (X1900 and 7900) and Nvidia will have "won" this round with little effort like the last one.

 

[apoppin]

Originally posted by: Gstanfor
I am certainly not a great supporter of the inquirer, however, it seems to me that most of the leaks/hints we have been getting up until now have been in close agreement with each other.

And then there is the small matter of bias. If the news were reveresed and nVidia looked in trouble rather than ATi, every fanATic with 'net access would be crowing it as loudly as possible, as often as possible.

Freud, if he were alive today would *love* to get some fanATics on his examining couch to see what made their brains tick...

Otoh, Freud would consider nVidiots *incurable* . . . but he'd be pleased to accept two nVidiots at a time into therapy and charge each of them double [which they'd gladly pay]. 😉



😀

in case you haven't noticed, theInq has good "relations" with ATi
:Q