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Inquirer.net has tested X1800XT & 7800GTX with Quake 4. For X1800XT benchmarks has been done with Memory Controller \"FIX\" and older drivers side by side, as you can clearly see, Memory \"FIX\" is working very well for ATI X1800XT, Kudos to ATI for releasing such a great \"FIX\"
\"When you turn Ultra high quality Nvidia card is still faster by just a few frames than ATI but ATI card is getting very competitive with new drivers. ATI managed to increase its performance by averagely 25 FSP, a lot we would say. It's again FSAA 4X and Anisotropic filtering 8X that will show the big difference. ATI is just 0.2 FPS faster in 10x7 but at 12x10 you can see 13 FPS lead while at 16x12 ATI is leading by 15 Frames per second. You can clearly see what is the fastest option to play the Quake 4, the way it meant to be played but sarcastically enough its ATI card that gains the best scores at highest resolutions.\"
Conclusion:
\"ATI driver team did a great job, we will keep our eyes opened for some kind of cheating and non allowed optimizations but so far we can tell that driver is fine, cheating free, picture quality is good. Surprise, surprise Radeon X1800XT becomes the world fastest Quake 4 Open GL card and not even the most optimistic ATI lovers could expect such a turn. For the first time in the last three years Nvidia is losing its performance crown in OpenGL and oddly enough Doom 3 and Quake 4 are the only two games where you can see dramatic performance increase in ATI Radeon X1800XT compared with its Geforce 7800 GTX parts. New Open GL king is here, so hail to ATI X1800 XT for this one, and from this perspective it looks like FireGL R520 might give Nvidia's Quadro much more trouble that any of use believed as for a chance ATI can run OpenGL really fast. Just for the record you can buy Geforce 7800 GTX now while you have to wait for Radeon X1800XT for at least three more weeks, but Radeon X1800XL that can make Geforce 7800 GT run for its money, especially in Quake 4 is already in the stores. ?\"
Looking good. Has anybody heard of the Reference X1850 XT card yet? Because I have a website review which benched it LOL,
Like I said before, when ATI get's there drivers straight, the X1800's are going to fly high B)
Reference X1850 XT Benchmarked !!!!!!!!!!!! Quote: Here is the link, but they are using ATI's older drivers. Don't know the spec's, but it seems to use the integrated 512-Bit mem controller, but needs new drivers.
This proves that a faster CPU will not bottleneck your graphic's card as much & will boost FPS ;)
If you look, there is a performance gain of around 1% for alot of the tests when they went from 2GHz to 2.35GHz. Not that much. Now, in Far Cry, it gained about 9%, but just for that one.
The entire GPU/CPU \"bottlnecking\" thing is a little overrated. A friend of mine runs an Athlon XP 3200+ and recently purchased an X850 XT PE, and, as expected, his games run just fine.
The entire GPU/CPU \"bottlnecking\" thing is a little overrated. A friend of mine runs an Athlon XP 3200+ and recently purchased an X850 XT PE, and, as expected, his games run just fine.
Chelax.
You are right in a sense, but trust me when I say that faster CPU's really help the GPU run a lot better.
In other words, if you pair a P4 2.40 GHz say with a X1800XT or a 7800GTX, then you have wasted your money on the Graphic's Card, because you will be killing your cards performance by @ least 50% +.
This has already been proven in \"Real World\" benchmarks & even \"Non Real World\" benchmarks.
Why does the Athlon 64 run smooth with high end cards? Even the Pentium M runs smooth with high end cards right? Why is this for both cards?
Because these CPU's are high efficient & fast, not by clock speed but by there design ;) I bad mouth the Pentium 4, because it?s garbage though LOL,
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