What is the ATI equivalent of an Nvidia 6800 GT PCI-Express?

[mwmorph]

Originally posted by: Acanthus

Originally posted by: mwmorph

Originally posted by: housecat

Originally posted by: jakobkraft
Not too thrilled with the latest nvidia drivers, being that they're not terribly friendly with some older games (choppy as hell mouse movement in Morrowind, not very good AA support in all others).

Got the 6800 GT for free, so wouldn't mind actually paying for equally strong ATI card? Any suggestions?

There is no equivalent card from ATI.
No ATI card has SLI capability or DX9C support.

So you can get one with equal performance, but not equal hardware features.

oh god. dont you read the news? ati's sli(AMR) is supported by al r3xx and up chips.
when it comes out, you could possibly sli cards as low as 2x 9600pros.
dx9c isnt that important, are you telling me, you would pay $100 more to run dx9c and sm3? the 800xl is faster than the 6800gt in dx9 and is $100 less! the x850xt is faster than the 6800ultra and is comparable(sometimes a little less) in price.NO gmae requires sli to run smoothly right now, so it dosent matter who has it now, only who has it when it's needed. in a few mnoths when dualie x850s are put in AMR mode, it'll blow the 6800u sli setup scores out of the water. besides, dx9c isnt that much a improvement over dx9b. theres no incentive ot use the new "features in dx9c or ps3.0 cause you'll hardly be able to tell the difference.

1. The "supported" cards have to be pci express.
2. If it was already "supported" then why isnt it out?
3. Far cry with HDR requires SLI to run smoothly
4. There are games coming out with no SM2.0b paths, so its PS3.0 or PS1.1.

1. true. but the x600(a port of the 9600 core will be sliable)
2. i dont knwo. ask ati they say the amr support is built inot the r3xx series chips.
3. but hdr runs without aa. that is a dealbreaker for most. you have a choice between jaggies and textures/water.
4. which major games?

 

[rbV5]

3. but hdr runs without aa. that is a dealbreaker for most. you have a choice between jaggies and textures/water.

Higher Resolution makes Jaggies less of an issue, so there is your choice. If it takes SLI to run HDR smoothly however, you have to hope that it's because of Far Cry's implementation of HDR, otherwise it doesn't speak well for HDR support in future games on existing hardware even if it does support SM3.0.

 

[Drayvn]

HDR ran on my X850XT-PE

Tho this was using the Far Cry real time demo called The Project...

 

[Drayvn]

Originally posted by: housecat

Originally posted by: jakobkraft
Not too thrilled with the latest nvidia drivers, being that they're not terribly friendly with some older games (choppy as hell mouse movement in Morrowind, not very good AA support in all others).

Got the 6800 GT for free, so wouldn't mind actually paying for equally strong ATI card? Any suggestions?

There is no equivalent card from ATI.
No ATI card has SLI capability or DX9C support.

So you can get one with equal performance, but not equal hardware features.

Not even the X850XT-PE is good enuf i suppose.

 

[Creig]

Originally posted by: mwmorph
ati's sli(AMR) is supported by al r3xx and up chips.
when it comes out, you could possibly sli cards as low as 2x 9600pros.

Don't forget that the cards still need have a PCI-E interface.

 

[Creig]

Originally posted by: Drayvn
Not even the X850XT-PE is good enuf i suppose.

Most people would take one a heartbeat.

 

[mwmorph]

Originally posted by: Creig

Originally posted by: mwmorph
ati's sli(AMR) is supported by al r3xx and up chips.
when it comes out, you could possibly sli cards as low as 2x 9600pros.

Don't forget that the cards still need have a PCI-E interface.

please read my second post. i mistyped it. it should be x600(same core as 9600 but with a agp to pci-e bridge chip)