Shibathedog Posted January 1, 2007 Share Posted January 1, 2007 sorry for the again comment <--ATi Fanboy If one of your New Year's resolutions involved spending a massive chunk of change to kick out as many frames per second as technologically possible, you may want to put the brakes on that impending NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX purchase. Lvl505 got their palms on a pre-release ATI R600 graphics card and put it up against the best NVIDIA currently has to offer, and the results thus far show ATI's device as "the clear winner." Of course, these benchmarks have to be taken with a certain grain of salt, as the drivers used were "a modified version of a 32-bit Vista pre-build version," which should have yielded less-than-optimal results; interestingly, the R600 still ran all over the optimized NVIDIA setup. Testing the cards on an Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700-powered machine with 2GB of RAM, the single R600 card bested the solo 8800 GTX in basically every benchmark they tried, with common applications seeing minimal gains, but games saw between ten-percent (Half-Life 2: Lost Coast) and 42-percent (1701 A.D.) hikes. Apparently, the R600 was exceedingly impressive, as reviewers actually suggested that you "return your NVIDIA" card as soon as humanly possible while patiently waiting for January 22nd, when you can gleefully drop your $630 or so to pick up your very own R600. Oh, and you might end up paying somewhat of a monthly surcharge to use this bad boy too, as the 230-watts (which beats the estimations, actually) it'll require to operate could kick your power bill up a notch or two. Nevertheless, it's not exactly shocking to see a newer graphics card outgun one that's been on the shelf a moment or so, but we're still holding out for a finalized unit before making any final judgments on the combatants. Via Engadget Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mooney Posted January 1, 2007 Share Posted January 1, 2007 YEAH! ATI FTW! Oh man, I may have to sell my Radeon X1600 PRO for one of these... and a new power source... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wizard Posted January 1, 2007 Share Posted January 1, 2007 Wheres my less-volts more power video cards eh eh eh? I'm someone who wants good power consumption with good power. Seems nothing will top my 9800 Pro till then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mooney Posted January 1, 2007 Share Posted January 1, 2007 Wheres my less-volts more power video cards eh eh eh? I'm someone who wants good power consumption with good power. Seems nothing will top my 9800 Pro till then.I have a 9800 PRO as well as an X1600 PRO, and I really think it's worth the upgrade. It doesn't need a huge amount of wattage, and it definitely looks nicer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wizard Posted January 1, 2007 Share Posted January 1, 2007 Sadly anything these days beats a 9800 Pro, so I'm sticking to it until something meets it's creteria of being built like a tank. So far none of the current cards can match it's tankness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agozer Posted January 1, 2007 Share Posted January 1, 2007 Yeah, 9800 Pro is definitely old, but I think it gets old gracefully. Still a good card. If I were to get those new cards (where the hell would I even get the money?) I'd probably have to upgrade my CPU and RAM as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rag Posted January 1, 2007 Share Posted January 1, 2007 I'm also an ATI user but I can't stand the CCC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shibathedog Posted January 2, 2007 Author Share Posted January 2, 2007 personally i cant wait till these cards come out so i can get an X1950XTX for way cheaper the ATi 9800 series imo is one of the best series of video cards ever made, Its rare that a card could still remain a good contender for so long. In fact i cant think of any other examples (When the GeForce 4 series came out, that was kinda close, but not really) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gryph Posted January 2, 2007 Share Posted January 2, 2007 I just saw that the X1950 comes in AGP which is awesome. I may be able to delay the inevitable PCI-E switch! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shibathedog Posted January 2, 2007 Author Share Posted January 2, 2007 yeah but it costs way more. On the mobo i have now it has PCIE and AGP, But im gonna go with PCIE because its cheaper, and when i upgrade to a better mobo it will probably not have both. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gryph Posted January 2, 2007 Share Posted January 2, 2007 I didn't check the price. I didn't know it was way more expensive. flock that crap then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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