9800GTX 9800GX2 3DMARK RESULT OUT!!!

How is that impressive? Certainly not the performance improvement that a 9xxxx series card should have. Why not just call it an 8900?

Yes this is a slight improvement of 8800 series... What happens when ATI 4000 series comes out with Core clock above 1000Mhz and uses GDDR5 with higher memory clock speed?

So, it is now the 18th of March officially.


Is the 9800GX2 for sale yet or what?

9800GTX is a disaster

look for the 9900

let me add too this:

the 9800GTX was held back do to lack of chips, they have low yield on the 8800GT - the 8800GT is a bad 9800GTX chip.

the performance of the 9800 was supposed to be much higher then it is, the gpu speed is pretty low compared to existing G80 chips

the 8800GTS 512 is great card - thats why they release it as the 8800GTS and held back the 9800

the 9800GX2 makes up for the lower then expect performance, clock speed and is a good match for the X2

ati as went from 40-50% to 80-90% of the performance.

nvidia was getting $700 for cards, now the X2 is $400 nvidia has lost the large lead.

triple crossfire yields up to 20k 3dmark06 scores at 720p vs 12k for 2900 crossfore at near the same price

triple sli is a disaster - i have one. again its relative nvidia has such a large lead and the 3-way is big let down. i paid almost $2000 for 3 cards - nvidia will not be selling many
but ati will be selling lots of 3-way crossfire setups at $600 for the cards

680i mobos are terrible - someday someone will write: they eat ram, they fail at high rights and the vdroop is so high i can run a spare cpu off it. (ok that was me ). failure rate is so high but people keep buying.

last year newegg - people rated the mobos 4 eggs and wrote things like: "evga tech support rocks i am on my 3rd mobo and got if fast" then give it 5 eggs

the ram issue is onreal - the 680i mobos do not just seat 2.2v ddr2 they eat 2.05v ddr2

nvidia need a kille product to keep the mobos going and ball rolling the 9800 disaster will lead the a quick 9900 or 10,800? intel is getting in too gpu's heavy. ati has a winner with spider as soon as the fix the cpu error issue

Compare some real benchmarks in a few days and I'm sure the Nvidia cards will not be too bad. Faster than the ATI anyway.
Remember in the future DX10 games will not scale well in multi GPU so better 2way or 3 way SLI with faster gpu's (GTX) than 4way(GX2 or Ati X2).
But I agree the price of the ATI cards is better.

The new GTX is the best single GPU card around for half the price of the ultra, what's not good about that?

I think poeple expect too much these days.
They want double performance for half the price after a year or two?

Anyway I'm happy, I might afford 3way SLI with these new prices...

*yawn* what a non-event the 9800GTX/GX2 is turning out to be. If you've already running a 8800GT512/GTS512/GTX/Ultra or 3870X2 already, how can this be worth an upgrade? Mainly for those without the former said cards. Staying with 8800GT512 for now until something better from either camp makes me sit up and take notice. Wake me up in six months time...

I just want the new generation right now, not this G92 refresh card and they branded it as the 9800 GTX. Great NVIDIA, you really screwed up big time. Releasing this card was just a complete waste of time.

Sorry, but the "9800 GTX" failed for me. Releasing it as a 256 bit really annoyed me and a 256 bit isn't worth being called a high end card anymore.

Bring on the GT200.

when you guys the GT200 series will come out?the 256bit memory bus is the limiting factor i guess.and i really interested to find out how much you can overclock the memory?since its all maxed out!!!

Well this is an outrage. The 9800GTX is clocked 4% faster than an 8800GTS and beat the 8800GTS by 3% in benchmarks. They are the same card, I bet the 8800 will beat it at equal clock speeds.

Do you guys think we will see a reputable benchmark done on it today?

I have to say, NVIDIA is really killing me right now. The benchmark they released yesterday showing crysis scaling nearly linearly really offended me. Its calling everyone who buys and follows NVIDIA products idiots. I love nvidia graphics cards, however, lately they have been slacking on driver updates and product updates. What are they doing? People keep talking about the next generation everytime something comes out. The next generation is right now and we have the same old crap. 8800GTX / Ultra can lay the smack down on any of these cards coming out and those have been available over a year now.

To add to this problem, i have an X38 Chipset, i can't even go tri/quad SLI and i really dont have any interest in the 780 chipset either, esspecially after the crap they pulled with the 680. I really hope they aren't adopting the AMD marketing strategy here, that would really bum me out.

Lol 599$ for 9800GX2 haha thats insane nVIDIA is crazy if they think seling this card for that price Just look at the benchmarks 3870X2 is close(or faster) for 430$

9800GTX is not worth of upgrating and dont even speak about 9800GT=8800GT

Again 9800GTX cost 359-399$ depending of brand...

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3266

review up at anandtech

Yeah. I wish they would have put 8800gt sli in their review instead of 9600 sli. Hopefully tom's will have it.

yeah... the card is too expensive for justifying it's performance. you could just go tri-xfire and get the same performance for the most part, once the drivers are more sorted

We've already seen that the 3DMark benchmarks mean nothing.... the card is beating the X2 hands down in quite alot of games... I think the X2 is still the better bang for buck though.

i just with everyone why didnt all the website didnt use the 8800GTS512 SLI to compare the difference?An order by Nvidia maybe?lol try to stop the truth(pricing) coming out?