Looks Like Nv40 Aint All That Impressive!

[adamp2p]

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Looks like ATi is still the KING! Can't wait for R420!

[tesco]

are those real benchmarks? could be fakes...although that pic of the card looks pretty promising...

too bad for nvidia

[adamp2p]

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[kaiweiler]

needs 2 molex...ouch
how come it takes all that extra power but doesnt give out any extra performance?! what is all that power being used for then? other then generating a lot of heat...
I'm trusting ATI will beat that by a large margin, ATI will always be the king of GFX IMO
EDIT wow that last benchmark is amazing, the 6800 is below the 9800xt the whole way through....

[bigdawgfoxx]

Those are some BS benchmarks...look at the AA and AF settings...the 6800Ultra is on 4X and 8X...they put the 5950 on NONE to make it look BETTER then the 9800XT, and the 9800XT is set to 8X AA on some of them...thats crap they need to all be equally set..

[adamp2p]

Originally posted by bigdawgfoxx@13 April 2004 - 19:11
Those are some BS benchmarks...look at the AA and AF settings...the 6800Ultra is on 4X and 8X...they put the 5950 on NONE to make it look BETTER then the 9800XT, and the 9800XT is set to 8X AA on some of them...thats crap they need to all be equally set..

These all have the same settings:

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[tesco]

Originally posted by bigdawgfoxx@13 April 2004 - 22:11
Those are some BS benchmarks...look at the AA and AF settings...the 6800Ultra is on 4X and 8X...they put the 5950 on NONE to make it look BETTER then the 9800XT, and the 9800XT is set to 8X AA on some of them...thats crap they need to all be equally set..

i think they were showing what kinds of quality you can have for similar performance with each card. so the new one can have the best quality settings and the 5950 has the worst quality for them all to have same performance.

[bigdawgfoxx]

Well damn...the 5950U beats the 9800XT...thats wierd I know it does in some benchmarks..but with that high of RES and high AA and AF I would say the 9800XT would win hands down...

Dont look too impressive...that SUCKS for Nvidia...

What are the core and memory speeds for that card? And doesnt it have like double the pipelines...how can it be such a small performance increase?

[tesco]

Originally posted by bigdawgfoxx@13 April 2004 - 22:27
how can it be such a small performance increase?

might be because the drivers havent been finalised for the new card

[adamp2p]

Originally posted by bigdawgfoxx@13 April 2004 - 19:27
Well damn...the 5950U beats the 9800XT...thats wierd I know it does in some benchmarks..but with that high of RES and high AA and AF I would say the 9800XT would win hands down...

Dont look too impressive...that SUCKS for Nvidia...

What are the core and memory speeds for that card? And doesnt it have like double the pipelines...how can it be such a small performance increase?

Well one thing that you need to keep in mind is the fact that it is well understood that Nvidia's algorithm for anti-aliasing is inferior to ATi's. Another thing that is well understood is Nvidia's image quality is considered by the enthusiast community to be inferior to ATi.

Thus faster frame rates at lower image quality does not equal better gameplay.