Benchmarks :o

[JynxDaddy]

These benchmarks worry me, not because I have an nvidia card, but this shouldn't happen, its fishy .

http://www.driverheaven.net/showthread. ... post423812

for people too lazy to read it all..

Test Setup:

Connect 3D ATI Radeon X800 XTPE 256mb

Reference Nvidia Geforce 6800Ultra 256mb

Athlon64 FX-53

1gb Corsair PC3200LL

MSI K8T neo2- FIR

80gb Samsung 7200rpm 8mb Cache SATA Drive

Windows XP SP2

DX 9.0c

Nvidia Forceware 61.77

Catalyst 4.8 WHQL

Each test was run 3 times and the middle result shown in the graphs, Nvidia optimisations were on for the testing.

benchmark graphs of interest.

http://www.driverheaven.net/V3/12_9_48.JPG

http://www.driverheaven.net/V3/16_12_max.JPG

At maximum detail, the Radeon X800XTPE just streaks away from the Geforce 6800 Ultra and ends up 65% faster.

:\ good for ati peeps

Conclusion:

Shocked is one word that comes to mind looking at these results. Where Nvidia has beaten ATI by a reasonable margin in Doom3 the results completely reverse and then some on the Source engine, a 30% performance difference ( 74fps to 52fps ) is, to be honest, a massive dissapointment if your a Geforce 6800 Ultra user. We had fully expected to have a very close contest when running the benchmarks however that has not proven to be the case, hopefully Nvidia have a new driver in the works that will bump up performance enough to make things competitive.

[Mazy]

I did sorta expect this (ati being better in hl2), but the difference is just insane

I mean even with Doom 3 the difference between nvidia n ati cards wasnt this crazy

Still, Im gonna wait until Ive seen some more benchmarks, but I am happy (cuz im getting a x800 xt pe !!!)

[JynxDaddy]

I am happy (cuz im getting a x800 xt pe !!!)

I am happy because I have a ... G4ti4200 .... fuqinrichalienwarebastrd

[Duff-e]

next thing i buy is another 512 stick of corsair xms pc3200

my 9700 pro runs doom3 pretty well considering how old it is

[Mazy]

http://www.vr-zone.com/?i=1181&s=1

[Duff-e]

i like the "memories" menu option on the menu bar

[KidDynamite]

this just reminds me of the original OFFICIAL benchmarks by id software where NV beat the shit out of ATI. But then when Doom 3 actually came out the cards were more comparably closer. *shrug* this def won't sway my decision one way or another.

[Mazy]

more~

http://www.techreport.com/etc/2004q3/so ... dex.x?pg=1

http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/half-life2_vst/

[KidDynamite]

btw Mazy some of those are the CS:S test, and they aren't running the same full shader blah blah blah shit that HL2 SP will be and thats why its more even, or atleast thats what i read on one of the forum posts from a hl2 forum, so they run alittle smoother.

[Izuno]

hopefully nvidia will respond with a driver that closes the gap somewhat. I'm not about to junk the 6800u and drop $500 on the X800

[InsaneSingingBlender]

my brother bought a 6800 gt today