Video Card Benchmarks at 1280 x 1024?

[RockGuitarDude]

Anyone see any anywhere? I am considering what I will buy in 2 months from now. Price is not really needed to be discussed as I have an idea where they will be and I don't have a problem having to save what it takes to get what is the best value.

My concern is that I will go out and buy a 6800GT and be disappointed as it is a good chunk of change and I will never run a game at anything but 1280 x 1024. All the benches I see are at 1600 x 1200... thats a difference of over 600,000 pixels to calculate. From what I think I know, it becomes dependent on Video Card as you move up in resolution. Will there be much of a difference going from the 9800 Pro to the 6800 to the 6800GT? (Ultra is out of the question).

 

[ts3433]

You should experience almost double the performance with the GT. The vanilla 6800's price and performance are very roughly the same as the 9800 XT, which will not provide a really noticeable difference over your Pro. If it's a 128MB Pro though, getting the 6800GT (256MB) would allow you to achieve greater texture detail in Doom 3 and probably more games to come.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Also look at the Doom3 benches at 1024x768: the 9800XT only manages 50 fps at 1024x768 medium quality, and 1280x1024 has 66% more pixels. Chances are the 9800 Pro is not going to be anywhere near 50 fps at 1280x1024.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

There's benchies right here@AT link a search will find many more. The point is though, if you look@those FarCry results@ 12x10 4x/8x the GT demonstrates that you will get double the performance for double the money=equity IMHO.

EDIT: I was looking@the 16x12 numbers but the lead@12x10 is still quite large in terms of performance.