Seems that everybody is making their own GeForce 6800 thread. Why shouldn't I make mine?
Here's my opinion about GeForce 6800 and upcoming R420 cards.
GeForce 6800 Ultra
- Great perfomance leap from pervious generation NV/ATI cards.
- Very suitable for playing currnet games at 1600 × 1200 resplution with 4x AA
- Still has few weak points, in few games not that faster than ATI. Maybe due to CPU limitaton
- Needs some IQ fix, probably shipping cards with publicly available driver won't have these problems
- Overall, a great card if you have money and adequate PSU.
About uppcoming R420 cards
- X800 Pro shouldn't be far behind. Performance difference maybe like R9500 Pro vs. R9600 Pro
- X800SE will probably won't have chance aginst 12 pipepine GeForce 6800
- X800 XT should be as good as 6800 Ultra or better
Pixel Shader 2.0 vs. 3.0: Seems somewhat PS 1.1 vs 1.3. The thing that matters is PS 2.0 performance, and I think NV doesn't have NV3x generation problems here.
BTW, when should I add GeForce 6800 in my graphics card buyers' guide? Maybe when cards ship, or after X800 Pro review (since it's only less than 2 weeks away)?
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Here's my opinion about GeForce 6800 and upcoming R420 cards.
GeForce 6800 Ultra
- Great perfomance leap from pervious generation NV/ATI cards.
- Very suitable for playing currnet games at 1600 × 1200 resplution with 4x AA
- Still has few weak points, in few games not that faster than ATI. Maybe due to CPU limitaton
- Needs some IQ fix, probably shipping cards with publicly available driver won't have these problems
- Overall, a great card if you have money and adequate PSU.
About uppcoming R420 cards
- X800 Pro shouldn't be far behind. Performance difference maybe like R9500 Pro vs. R9600 Pro
- X800SE will probably won't have chance aginst 12 pipepine GeForce 6800
- X800 XT should be as good as 6800 Ultra or better
Pixel Shader 2.0 vs. 3.0: Seems somewhat PS 1.1 vs 1.3. The thing that matters is PS 2.0 performance, and I think NV doesn't have NV3x generation problems here.
BTW, when should I add GeForce 6800 in my graphics card buyers' guide? Maybe when cards ship, or after X800 Pro review (since it's only less than 2 weeks away)?
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<A HREF="http://geocities.com/spitfire_x86" target="_new">My Website</A>
<A HREF="http://geocities.com/spitfire_x86/myrig.html" target="_new">My Rig</A> & <A HREF="http://geocities.com/spitfire_x86/benchmark.html" target="_new">3DMark score</A>