$400 Video Card

[Blastman]

With AA/AF the X800pro and GT are very close in performance. The X800pro competes well with the GT ? a recent review (July 28) ? xbit at the most probable resolution setting for the X800pro/6800GT ?

12x10-4AA/8AF? 6800GT/X800pro

COD ? ? ? ? ? ...100.6/107.3
UT4 (1) ? ? ? ? ... 82.4/85.5
UT4 (2) ? ? ? ? ... 83.0/82.3
Farcry (1) ? ? ? ? 47/50.5
Farcry (2) ? ? ? ? 56/61
Farcry (3) ? ? ? ? 51.4/53.4
Painkiller ? ? ? ? ..162.7/161.3
Firestarter ? ? ? ? 185.4/171.4
StarWars KotoR ? ? 40.2/40.6
Splinter Cell ? ? ? .. 52/57
POP ? ? ? ? ? ? ..135/100
Max Payne 2 ? ? ? 145/157
Lock On ? ? ? ? .. 17/18
Collin McRae R4 ? .. 79.4/88.7
Perimeter ... ... ... ... 18.5/18.6

Lets see, I count the X800pro actually beating the GT 11-4 ? many of the benches are very close. There is not a big difference in overall performance between the cards. The X800pro has the advantage of a usable 6AA above the 4AA the GT is basically stuck at. (8AA on the 6800?s kills frame rates).

 

[Gamingphreek]

AA doesn't kill the Geforces, AF fiiltering kills the Geforces as it uses a Pixel Shader or ALU in the process.

That X-Bit labs review uses older drivers than available now. Also that review is on a Asus X800Pro with , so it is essentially an X800XT as Asus uses the 1.6ns RAM and uses the X800XT core, the only thing is it has some of the pipes disabled, which can be reenabled.

Also something seems a bit weird as the Geforce 6 series of card regularly drop 90fps when higher resolutions are enabled. Yeah they suffer a larger performance drop than the Radeons however 90-100fps is a little out of the ordinary.

-Kevin

 

[Rage187]

^ I dont play games at 1280x1024


If I pay $400 for a video card, its doing 1600x1200 out of the box.


Not everyone plays games on LCD's, so that probable crap is pure nonsense.

 

[Acanthus]

Dont forget your image quality with the X800 and the obvious texture shimmering in some stiuations because of their Adaptive AF, which is the only feature keeping them competitive with AA+AF enabled.

 

[iamskew]

Originally posted by: NJDevil

Originally posted by: iamskew
there's a reason Nvidia's stock prices are going down...everyone knows ati owns the vid card industry

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

I cannot stop laughing.

I didn't think people this silly knew how to use the internet.

granted, i am retarded

 

[drsatan]

The ultimate choice is up to you, but I can say that I'm very pleased with my AOpen 6800GT. I've had zero issues with drivers, crashes, etc. Games play smooth as butter. I do really miss ATI's TV out though... I guess you can't win them all.

I can't say for sure, but I do believe that a 6800GT is a better long-term investment. I guess we'll see who is right when game developers start choosing engines and feature sets. *cough, Unreal Engine 3* *cough* *cough* And that is not mentioning that performance for the 6800-series cards seem to be slowly improving with newer drivers (65.62, 66.00).