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Warp2Search.net » News » May 2004 » First Online Review X800XT vs 6800 on a Spanish Site

First Online Review X800XT vs 6800 on a Spanish Site

Posted by: [NT] on: 05/04/2004 11:34 AM [ Print | 6 comment(s) ] · 1873 views

There you can see the first comparative betweenn nvidia 6800 ultra and Ati's X800Pro and X800XT. Meristation Spanish Review

It's in spanish, so if you don't understand the language, find a good translator.

thnx eXteR






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MagamiAKO
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#53383 Posted on: 05/04/2004 12:28 PM
Well, if people would get off of the 'image quality' case and get to the performance of the cards (after all these minor image quality differences won't affect a majority of the people out there and they'd sooner have to worry about their monitor displaying their image wrong than the card), then I would say we've got a pretty good match up.

Both cards seem to perform relatively the same, although there seems to be a bug in Call of Duty on the 6800 card, or their testing methods were a bit off.

It'll mostly be down to which company can get higher yields out of the chips and the lowest prices as possible. Still, we probably won't see any significant price drops on these cards until much later this year. I'm expecting < $400 for the highest end versions of these cards by the time the year's out.

In one sense though, it seems ATI does have a leg up because their card doesn't seem to have such 'strict' power requirements utilizing 2 molex connectors. But it's not that big of a deal.

What I find most interesting is that Nvidia's card is only clocked at 400/1000 versus ATI's 520/1120. Nvidia's planning on clocking the 6800U higher apparently, which could be rather interesting.

Either way, I wouldn't lay that much out on a video card given the imminent PCI Express move this year. Even if I had the $, I would hold onto it.

I'm personally more interested to see how both do with hardware encoding. Hopefully we'll see more related to this in a couple of months.

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El_Coyote
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#53386 Posted on: 05/04/2004 01:10 PM
pci express? its my oppinion that people overrates the impact it will have on gaming... if you look at the doubeling of agp from 4x to 8x.. what happened? nothing - its all good for video editing and such but /me thinks that we wont see a very big difference between 800XT and 880XT.

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#53388 Posted on: 05/04/2004 02:11 PM
PCI express move sucks !

If you're planning to buy an high end card, you cannot, cause, you won't be able to use your high end AGP card on your next PCI express only mobo.



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MagamiAKO
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#53389 Posted on: 05/04/2004 02:56 PM
Regardless of what you think the impact will be on video performance, PCI Express will have a huge impact on the performance of the system as a whole. Right now we understand the bottlenecks exist between every other device in the system, and an upgrade to all of these will be welcome.

I don't see why you people are so hesitant about new technology. "PCI EXPRESS SUCKS OMFG I DON'T WANT TO UPGRADE". Fine. Don't upgrade right now. The technology will be there when you change your system in the future. I'm not looking to move to it yet, but I will move to it during my next system upgrade.

Again, what I am saying is why purchase a $500 video card right now if you're looking to upgrade anyway? You might as well wait and save the money for the newer technology.

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MagamiAKO
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#53390 Posted on: 05/04/2004 03:00 PM
It shows that you are too young to remember when we moved from ISA to PCI, or PCI to AGP. It's only a couple of hundred dollars. I've seen people spend much more on other thing. I mean a whole decent system can be purchased right now for $1,000-$1,500 depending on the parts that you require. Obviously a bit less if you can re-use certain parts.

At least the move is less of a headache than PCI to AGP, because PCI Express is software compatible with PCI. To a regular OS (i.e. Windows XP), it will detect it and not have a heart attack about not supporting the hardware.

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BetrayerX
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#53391 Posted on: 05/04/2004 03:57 PM
Even from 2x to 4x there was almost no increase.

The site review is flawed, they have no idea that 8xAA on NV is another algorythm, they believe patch 1.1 for far cry enable PS 2.0, have no idea about temp AA.

And yes, they admitted they were forced to run COD with VSync...no explanation why.

Now...graphic cards tell me the same story as ever...NV wins in raw performance overall, and ATI wins once the eyecandy is turned up a notch.


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