***Official*** NV40 Benches (Updated as they go live) ANANDTECH Review Added

[rbV5]

The benches look designed to show the highest settings to get similar performance.

 

[GTaudiophile]

Originally posted by: SirDude
those can't be right...I'm waiting for Anands review tonight.

What, not impressed?

From the looks of it, a 9800XT can hang wit it...

 

[NFS4]

Originally posted by: mchammer187
anyone know if Anand will have benches @ 12:00 am?

looks in NFS4's direction

nueve

 

[Scifience]

These are bull....the cards aren't even all running at the same settings, so you can't compare anything.

I think this is someone's idea of an elaborate joke or something because no good site would benchmark a card like that.

 

[Corporate Thug]

guys, take a closer look. the 6800U is being benchmarked @ higher resolutions than the 9800XT

 

[Alkali]

very interesting...

Looks like nVidia will have some driver updates soon, the Radeon 9800XT does very well keeping within 4fps on Need for speed: Underground for example. Shame the review doesnt use the same (or similar) settings - based on their effect I mean rather than just number.

150fps average on call of duty 1600x1200, 4xfsaa, 16xaf is insane

 

[Megatomic]

Originally posted by: Dug
If any of this is true, Nvidia better go back to the drawing board. As there's no way I'm giving up my 9800 and pay out another $400 for this.

That's what I was thinking. My 9800 Pro is looking better and better every day.

 

[LTC8K6]

It shows that the 6800U is considerably faster than the other 2 cards, since it is using higher quality settings.
It doesn't bode well for the regular 6800 though.

If it's true.

 

[Luthien]

The only game benches that show the 6800 kicking butt is with call of duty towards the bottom and the rest show the 6800 as a worthless upgrade. Something is definately wrong more than the differences in the card settings compared. With Call of Duty using a higher resolution and higher AA FF or whatever the 6800 is a LOT faster. Dont know we all have to wait for the official reviews.

 

[dguy6789]

think about it this way. The geforce 6800 is running ALOT higher settings then either of the other 2 cards, and it still is faster. 4Xaa on 6800 is faster then nothing at all on a 9800xt. pretty impressive. also look at call of duty, it murders the other cards there.

 

[Dug]

Originally posted by: shady06
guys, take a closer look. the 6800U is being benchmarked @ higher resolutions than the 9800XT

Not with the links that GTaudiophile put up. They were all benched at the same resolution.
The most you get is 4xAA instead of 2xAA. You'd be hard pressed to spend $400 for that.

 

[Megatomic]

I am guessing that a driver update or two will fine tune the 6800 cards. It might not be as bad as I initially thought especially considering that the 6800 is often running at higher settings than the other two cards.

 

[Corporate Thug]

COD is the only thing that is impressive right now. IF these are legit, there is no reason to upgrade from say a 5900/5900U/5950/9700/9700p/9800/9800p/9800xt

 

[Luthien]

oh and I dont see differnce in the quality of the screenshots at first look. I really hope that the reviewer who took that data messed up because based on it the 6800 wont be any faster than a 9800XT in many games and only a few will show a big difference so it looks like the prices make a lot of sense now. All I can say if this is true is that both Nvidea and ATI can go to hell and I am not giving them a dime.

 

[Corporate Thug]

Originally posted by: Dug

Originally posted by: shady06
guys, take a closer look. the 6800U is being benchmarked @ higher resolutions than the 9800XT

Not with the links that GTaudiophile put up. They were all benched at the same resolution.
The most you get is 4xAA instead of 2xAA. You'd be hard pressed to spend $400 for that.

COD, BF vietnam, and SS: PT are being ran at higher resolutions and higher AF with the 6800U

 

[Alkali]

Originally posted by: shady06
COD is the only thing that is impressive right now. IF these are legit, there is no reason to upgrade from say a 5900/5900U/5950/9700/9700p/9800/9800p/9800xt

This would be true except for the fact that there is a huge difference between 4fps average difference on NfS:Underground and 50fps at better settings on Call of Duty. Looks to me like the driver is set up to take advantage of the hardware in CoD, but not for the other games yet... Could this be right?

 

[GTaudiophile]

Wonder how many ATi engineers are pouring over these pics...

 

[fsstrike]

The 6800 is good, but not a big enough leap. 8500 - 9700 = BIG leap. 4600 - 5900 = big leap. 5900 - 6800 = average leap. It looks to me like the 6800 is only about 50% better if even that.

 

[klah]

http://mbnet.fi/elixir/NV40/10817474486qLMOmeutS_2_1_l.gif

400/1100. Is this the Ultra or non-Ultra?

 

[LTC8K6]

Perhaps it will take faster CPU's to see a leap in perf with NV40 / R420?

 

[T9D]

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[Leon]

I still have a strange feeling that these are fake, but here is a avg breakdown anyway.

Battlefield Vietnam

1280 1024 4x/8af GF6800U 52fps
1024 768 0x/8af 9800XT 49fps

COD

1600 1200 4x/16af 6800u 147fps
1280 1024 4x/16af 9800xt 107fps

UT2K4

1280 1024 4x/16af 6800u 46fps
1280 1024 0x/8af 9800xt 45fps

NFS4 Underground (CPU limited0

Flight Sim 04

1280 1024 4x/16af 6800u 45fos
1280 1024 2x/8af 9800xt 34fps

 

[reever]

Originally posted by: Alkali

Originally posted by: shady06
COD is the only thing that is impressive right now. IF these are legit, there is no reason to upgrade from say a 5900/5900U/5950/9700/9700p/9800/9800p/9800xt

This would be true except for the fact that there is a huge difference between 4fps average difference on NfS:Underground and 50fps at better settings on Call of Duty. Looks to me like the driver is set up to take advantage of the hardware in CoD, but not for the other games yet... Could this be right?

Except that CoD is more than playable with todays hardware, you might as well be comparing Q3A

 

[Dug]

Originally posted by: shady06

Originally posted by: Dug

Originally posted by: shady06
guys, take a closer look. the 6800U is being benchmarked @ higher resolutions than the 9800XT

Not with the links that GTaudiophile put up. They were all benched at the same resolution.
The most you get is 4xAA instead of 2xAA. You'd be hard pressed to spend $400 for that.

COD, BF vietnam, and SS: PT are being ran at higher resolutions and higher AF with the 6800U

Like I said, you'd be hard pressed to spend $400 for that, especially if you ran a 17-19" lcd.
I'm not saying it isn't faster, just not the leap I would have expected.

Hopefully these are all wrong or it really isn't an Ultra. I would like to see more speed.

Or in other words, I would like to plug in a video card and run every game out there smoothly.
Dipping into the 20's or 30fps doesn't cut it.

 

[agnitrate]

I'm not believing it until I see official reviews. This is way too close to have all this hype behind it. If it's true, then this was a waste of time.

-silver