| ssj12 said: so basically the 9800 GX2 will be faster. ATI's fastest video card title will be short lived.. |
I'm guessing not. That card is two G92 on one PCB, and I think ATI's better driver will match Nvidia's better core to give actual competition at the high-end.
R700/G100 is yet to come though; that will be the real decider.
ATI will be dragged down by AMD's losses, however - AMD's stock has lost three-quarters of its value in a year.
"I am currently expecting this to debut at around $700-800 (hoping to be pleasantly surprised otherwise) and by the time it drops into a reasonable price nVidia will likely have the 9k series launching. "
And ATI will have their next-generation too, R700.
"Oh hell, this isn't even a proper benchmark yet, I'm sure its indicative of aproximately where the card will be at in performance but until its benchmarked under a proper setup this seems a bit premature. The difference in scores could grow or shrink by as much as 1.5k just based on the other hardware. "
You're right; I would expect the performance to increase realtive to the 8800 Ultra because the Ultra tests were done on faster hardware (2.93GHz vs. 2.4GHz Conroe) and the driver isn't finalised.
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