First R600 test against the 8800GTX

Good find.

Looks like R600 will be new king.

Although I doubt the credibility of the site. :?

Yeah me too. I will remain a skeptic until more reviews surface For now I love my 8800GTX

Now thats a good question.
Hey, I'd throw the benchmarks at a forieqn website first too.

Something really weird is that in this benches oblivion is not playable fluently but there is a movie in youtube of a gay that plays oblivion on 1600*1200 res and all the filters all the way up and it plays smoth personally I think it's a fake!

My votes gonna be FAKE!

If you go to the homepage of that website, There is only one article, the R600 one. And if you check their information, the terms were updates on the 28th of this month.

-DW

If this turns out to be fake which it is looking to be then what a bunch of dumb FAGGOTS.

I'm betting 2500 dollars worth of an oc'ed Quad Core and SLi 88GTX's would do that trick.

Nah, read my other post involving my friends setup. Its not 1600X1200 but its close enough that it would not be a big diff if any at all.

The only good reason that I can think of for no pictures is if there was an agreement not to show the thing before the release date. If so, the tests might be real. The tested card may also not be the standard retail one. Too many questions here to believe the article as it stands, even if it is true.

Hard to say if its fake or not huh? I wouldnt like to call it either way

That was the only valid reason I could think of, a non-disclosure that allowed a sample test, but no pictures. I really have my doubts this is real as well, but who among us really knows? We'll just have to wait until some other reputable sites start publishing reviews to know for sure, or wait until the card gets publically released, whichever comes first.

That's hard to test, you dont know wich part of the game they used for the benchmarking.

But it doesnt mather any way, we still have to wait till we can buy these cards. And real benchmarks will arive when ati is ready for it.

Personally i dont believe those benchmarks. But they have made it up pretty well. It looks like it can really be like that.

But we'll see 8)

Alrighty. Here are some benchmarks:

Specs: C2D E6700 stock speeds, 2GB Corsair XMS2 DDR2 800 4-4-4-12 , eVGA 8800 GTX

Settings:
[*:6a95e755a1]Tips (iPreloadSizeLimit=104857600, bUseWaterReflectionsStatics=1, bUseWaterReflectionsTrees=1, bForceFullLOD=1, iMinGrassSize=120) from here.
[*:6a95e755a1]Resolution: 1680x1050
[*:6a95e755a1]4xAA (forced in NVidia control panel), 16xAS, HDR
[*:6a95e755a1]Full Distance Sliders, Large Texture Sizes, and Max Shaders
[*:6a95e755a1]Open Cities Mod (Gives a large performance hit around cities - disabling this mod vastly increased fps)


Screenshots (with FPS shown in upper right corner):







I think that R600 Vs. 8800 GTX test is a bunch of B.S.

Their homepage as you mentioned - probably was just created -
Disclaimer - updated 28 Dec 2006
About Us - updated 28 Dec 2006

It's a Fake - it was nice - while it lasted

My screenies show I average about 55 fps in Oblivion at 1680x1050 with some added things that cause performance hits (increase water visuals, added Open Cities mod which equaled a big hit to performance). It won't let me go above 60 fps in Oblivion (I'm sure that's a setting I can disable somewhere though), but still, let's do some math:

1680x1050=1,764,000 pixels
1600x1200=1,920,000 pixels

The difference really isn't that large, certainly not enough to make the latter drop in performance to a mere 35% of the original. Besides, Tom's showed that the 8800GTX can almost handle Oblivion at 2560x1600 with smooth performance.

Do you think the GTS will handle Supreme Commander at 1680x1050 with a load of eye candy on? (sorry to hijack the thread)

It fake (for the millionth time, sorry) r600 will be faster than this based on the memory bandwidth figure of 140GB/s which seems to be consistant around the web, thats if it is true. They wouldnt make a chip with a memory bandwidth that high unless it needed it! (8800GTX memory bandwidth is 86.4GB/s). The DDR3 version has been cancelled, theres several articles on www.theinquirer.net and www.hexus.net. Search for r600

For the guy asking about SupCom, get a fast dual core CPU, and you should be well away with any high end-ish graphics card! A DirectX 10 card would also be of use as SupCom will be released supporting both 9 and 10.

Im waiting for the r600 release, regardless of whats more powerful price drops are inevitable

ahh I too am excited for SupCom But I think it might be more CPU intensive. They used the beta ver of SupCom to benchmark a quad core vs a dual core and the dual core scored ~53 FPS and the quad core scored ~70 FPS so it will indeed be multithreaded. I'll link the article later if you would like to see it(or it might be a forum).

On one hand, the results are what's about expected. Slightly better performance for R600 over 8800s. Thing is that at release time, 8800s will be selling at or below $550US and R600 will be selling at a premium. In addition nV will be countering with 8900 shortly thereafter. Looks like it will be a GPU leap-frog game as usual.

On the other hand, the Oblivion results look a bit off and no card photos. Also interesting there are no high res/widscreen tests. This could just be a well orchestrated fake...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radeo [...] onsumption

Id guess in the middle of this estimate, its a massive ~700million transistor chip but made on a smaller 80nm process, and with less power hungry GDDR4 memory.

What does the 8800GTX eat idle and under load anybody?

Verndewd, can you enlighten me please

Hmm very interesting *strokes virtual beard*

I replacing my 3 year old rig in Summer and Supcom is the game I want to play the most (I have the Total Annihilation soundtrack as my ringtone!) so I want to build my rig around it, seems in this case money into a faster processor as opposed to graphics card might be well placed. Would like to see that article if you get a chance.

This thread was dead/answered anyway!

I have to say I am still far more excited about Supcom than C&C, Supcoms doing something new, and Chris Taylor is behind it, C&C is just recycling old (but good all the same) stuff, and upgrading the engine as far as I can see!

the Benchmark looks great....hope its true.......because I am planning on getting one for my New System should be done by the 2/3 month of '07.

also all the R600 searches i did only comes up with rumors......I also ran across that there was NDA discloser on R600 until the release of Vista which will make R600 (ddr3) than around march it will be (ddr4) ofcourse this is all rumors for the time being.

Hmmmmm.........

You realize that a full DX10 game will not exist for several years? First you will need Vista, The earliest versions will not even have DX10 as it will be an add-on later. You will then need a GPU that can process the DX10 instructions.

M$ will continue to support XP for several years and most users won't upgrade unless they have to. Since XP will not support DX10, game companies will need to produce what they can sell, DX9/10 combos. No game devleoper is going to force a $600+ upgrade on users.

Edit: Don't know how the 8800's could be a flop. They are the two fastest single cards on the market running DX9, they just happen to have the ability to run DX10. By the time you will really need a DX10 card for gaming, year or two, there will be something better.

Ford_Prefect i agree. Dont forget the complete lack of a 64 bit driver in any form on the 8800GT S/X with DirectX 10 so far. As well as Nvidia's habit of deleting forum discussions on their website relating to problems with their hardware they would rather not have to fix! Although i guess ATI is taking freeking ages getting their card out with constant respins, somebody forgetting to connect the pathways letting the chip talk to the rest of the graphics card, D'oh!

Bitching aside, im on the SupCom beta, its fantastic C&C looks pretty good too (please dont fuck it up EA) I might just get both hehe

Games like Crysis (DX10 only?) and SupCom (which will definately work better with DX10) will persuade people to upgrade in the long run i would guess? If any good game runs way better and with more effects on DX10 then enthusiasts will jump right in, and thats what its offering right?

Anyone purchasing a G80 only for the purpose of DX10 is a moron. Period.
I bought mine because of how much ass it kicks in Oblivion and other demanding DX9 titles. Yes Im a graphics whore and proud of it! I like to run all the eye candy on high with blazing frame rates and refuse to have it any other way.