NV40 & R420, Performance Testing

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Spodes Abode have thrown up part 2 of their review, which looks at the Performance of Nvidia's NV40 and ATi's R420 GPU's! Here's a snip.

Following up on Part 1, we have now had a bit more time with the cards in question, so we can give a more accurate comment on their performance. Over the past few months drivers have been released, fixing bugs, increasing performance and image quality from both sides. Retail cards are not exactly plentiful, but when they are we will certainly follow up with a round up similar to the Christmas DX9 round up.

To best show off these next generation products, we will be comparing them to their previous generations and then finally against each other. The following cards where tested: 5950 Ultra 6800 6800 Ultra 9800XT X800 PRO X800XT PE