ATI Radeon X800 Pro and XT Platinum Edition: R420 Arrives
by Derek Wilson on May 4, 2004 10:28 AM EST- Posted in
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EVE: The Second Genesis Performance
CCP have previously stated that they are working on adding benchmark functionality to EVE in order to help make our lives easier. Currently we have to log on to the EVE servers and hide in lonely areas of space to do our testing in this game. But such is the difficulty of benchmarking a persistant world MMORPG.
Without AA and AF, the R420 brothers are at the top of the heap, followed very closely by the 6800 Ultra running a previous beta driver revision.
When AA and AF are turned on, however, the X800 Pro drops a few spots to exactly the same performance level as the 6800 GT part. We might think that his relative drop might have something to do with the scalability of the 12 pipe version of R420 except for the fact that the 8 pipe 9800 XT maintains its position so well.
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saechaka - Tuesday, May 4, 2004 - link
wow. very impressive. i was set on getting an nvidia but just don't know anymorePhiro - Tuesday, May 4, 2004 - link
The message is clear; Matrox has failed!Brickster - Tuesday, May 4, 2004 - link
Show me the money!MemberSince97 - Tuesday, May 4, 2004 - link
Advanced features are worthless if your driver team keeps breaking them..f11 - Tuesday, May 4, 2004 - link
kinda starting to feel sorry for nvidia now. each generation they stuff their cards with more feautures than they need to, end end up with a slower and more featured card. If anyone's expecting SM3 to be a big hit, remember that the original FX line had lots of extensions to DX9 and they never really made much a difference.