Which is Better 8800-GTX or R600?

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I'm not sure weather I'm going to buy the SLI DQ6 Motherboard or the Crossfire Compatible one. I'm thinking that my tie breaker might be whichever comes out on top.

8800-GTX or R600?
 
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I would hope the R600 out performs the 8800GTX. But we won't know till the first reviews of the 600 start coming out.
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Which was meant to be at the end of January, but I here the R600 has been put back till March. :evil:
 
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I'm not sure weather I'm going to buy the SLI DQ6 Motherboard or the Crossfire Compatible one. I'm thinking that my tie breaker might be whichever comes out on top.

8800-GTX or R600?
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r600 should outperform g80, and it probably will.
but we will have to wait and see.

then again when the g80 refresh will or should beat r600.
 
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if we think logically, ATi has had about 3 months to look at the 8800 and make something that will beat it. so i'd probably say yes. then maybe nVidia will pull something like a 8900 and 8950gtx/gts out of their asses. :D
 
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if we think logically, ATi has had about 3 months to look at the 8800 and make something that will beat it. so i'd probably say yes. then maybe nVidia will pull something like a 8900 and 8950gtx/gts out of their asses. :D
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While i don´t know how long it took ATI to design their chip, i assume that the process of designing a new GPU chip is a time intensive matter that easily takes more than 2 years. If their chip couldn´t beat their competitiors design three months ago, the changes they could have made in those three months to the chip itself are unlikely to improve performance beyond the Nvidia design. In that case they might just use faster memory for the card which in the past always was a good way to increase overall performance. If that is the case, Nvidias answer is already clear and waiting for ATI or Nvidias follow up is pointless from a performance oriented point of view, unless of course price is taken into account.
 
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8900 /sarcasm
seriously what kind of comparison can there ever be between an existing card and a NON-existing card? perhaps NONE. When r600 comes out do your google search and if not satisfied with the plethora of sites benchmarking it to the death, then please come back and repost your question.
 
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8900 /sarcasm
seriously what kind of comparison can there ever be between an existing card and a NON-existing card? perhaps NONE. When r600 comes out do your google search and if not satisfied with the plethora of sites benchmarking it to the death, then please come back and repost your question.
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No need to be critical. I would defer to those who have been around a while, but there is always the chance somebody has picked up some info. Leaks happen. For all I know, somebody who worked on the R600 is in this room. I don't necessarily disagree with what your saying, but rather the manner in which it is said. :(
 
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Just to give you an example, here is something I ran across, but I'm new to hardware in general. I don't know if it's authentic.

http://level505.com/2006/12/30/the-full-ati-r600-test/1/
 
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Are people tired of these threads yet? This card isnt even out yet or any significant information available and yet people spam the same topic over and over.

AMD or Intel?

Xbox360 or PS3?

DX11 or DX12 card? Should i wait till they come out before upgrading?

To post or not to Post?
 
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I'm sorry that I was a little harsh but it's the 123445235 thread I read about the same thing. Also, based to credible sites like level5??? /sarcasm (oops here I go again!).

Pls be a little patient, r600 is very near.
 
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I think we all just need to think of a happy place, and get together in a big group hug!

I've been on here about a week, so please forgive me for the post. I suspect we will be seing more of eachother so lets all just try to get along. You have made your point.
 
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For you guys wanting to dump on the OP, I have a question for you. Was there something misleading about the title of his post? I mean, if you read the title "Which is better 8800-GTX or R600" and decided to jump into this topic, what did you expect to find? Were you expecting anything but speculation? Some of you seem to have this unnatural and pathological hatred of any educated guesses at what hardware might be better. OK - I don't come from that camp, but I understand why some people may not want to devote much time to that discussion.

What I can't understand is why somebody would jump into a message thread clearly devoted to a topic they don't like. Thats like going to a porn movie and then complaining about all the nudity. Maybe its just me, but it seems theres a simple solution to the posters who are irritated by the subject of this thread - read the subject line and then skip it. Save the flaming for misleading subject lines or is clearly putting out false information. Jeesh - how hard can it be?

Rob
 
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I'm not sure weather I'm going to buy the SLI DQ6 Motherboard or the Crossfire Compatible one. I'm thinking that my tie breaker might be whichever comes out on top.

8800-GTX or R600?
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The R600 will be faster but not buy much. If you're building now its a no-brainer as the R600 isn't out yet.

I always stay away from ATI as their Linux drivers are crappy and I run linux a lot.

Also AMD processors are crappy compared to Intel these days so I wouldn't buy the crossfire board if it meant an AMD CPU.
 
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For you guys wanting to dump on the OP, I have a question for you. Was there something misleading about the title of his post? I mean, if you read the title "Which is better 8800-GTX or R600" and decided to jump into this topic, what did you expect to find? Were you expecting anything but speculation? Some of you seem to have this unnatural and pathological hatred of any educated guesses at what hardware might be better. OK - I don't come from that camp, but I understand why some people may not want to devote much time to that discussion.

What I can't understand is why somebody would jump into a message thread clearly devoted to a topic they don't like. Thats like going to a porn movie and then complaining about all the nudity. Maybe its just me, but it seems theres a simple solution to the posters who are irritated by the subject of this thread - read the subject line and then skip it. Save the flaming for misleading subject lines or is clearly putting out false information. Jeesh - how hard can it be?

Rob
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I see your logic, but when you spend as much time in here as I have... it gets old seeing the main graphics page cluttered with stupid topics. Logic somehow gets thrown out the window. I suppose you're right, replying in the thread only perpetuates it. But it's still fun to yell at n00bs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9q2jNjOPdk
 
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