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Round 4 is here the duking started back in 2000 with the 9700pro now then went on to the FX vs. the pros now to ULTRAS vs. XT.
NOW XT950XT vs. G70 and G80 i know the ATI is expected to use now its said GDDR4 with 512MB as well as 24pixle pipes 950mhz core to 1000mhz and RAM of 1.4 to 2.8 effetive. With 512-bits of mem interface. Yes the G70 should be similar but shouldnt be out till September while the X950XT should be out in late MAy earily JUNE.
The latest list of rumored specs for the R520 include : 24 Pipelines 950MHz Core 512-bit 512MB 1.8GHz GDDR4 Memory (Effective 2.8ghz) 57.6 GB/sec Bandwidth (at 1.8GHz) 32 Texture Units 96 Arithmetic Logic Units (ALU) 192 Shader Operations per Cycle 134.4 Billion Shader Operations per Second (at 700MHz) 300-350 Million Transistors 90nm Manufacturing Shader Model 3.0 ATI HyperMemory ATI Multi Rendering Technology (AMR) Performance Improvement of 3X Over Radeon X800 XT 16x stochastic FSAA FP32 blending, texturing
BOth cards seem to be great However while deciding a winner you have to take into account how they play in games.
In this case However the X850XT PE beats out the 6800Ultra as we've seen time and time again, it is the winner in the single card soultion once again.
When we look at overall performance leader it will sit with SLI or the 6600GT DUAL CORES.
However this will all change when the 520chip comes out from ATi this March or May it will be it will have 512 DDR4 as well as 24 pixle pipes and i dont think SLI will be able to compete with this one -_^
Another thing to note is that when cards get up to this quality its important to note that the performance on both sides is commendable and extremly fast on both sides so the differiential between the cards isnt much of a difference that we will see with our nekade i's so this being the case when compitiion is this close just go with your favorite company as for me im with
