ATI Radeon X800 Pro vs. nVidia GeForce 6800 Ultra @ TweakTown
JemyM
The review states that "Ultra" is Nvidia's fastest card... but its not is it? Is it not right, that it should be: "6800" vs "X800" "PRO" vs "ULTRA" "Extreme Edition" vs "Platinum Edition" ???
Hyde
nope 6800 vs x800 6800GT vs x800pro 6800Ultra vs x800XT 6800Ultra-ED vs x800XT-PE
JemyM
The product simply marketed as "6800" is a cropped version of the real card, that doesnt match the specifications of the 6800 product line. There is also no pure "x800" card, as "x800pro" is the lowest product from ATI, at least according to the testssites ive read, and ati's website.
JemyM
Pricewise, it should (unfortunate to nvidia) be Platinum Edition vs Ultra... As XT is cheaper!
apathy
I concur, although I love my 9800xt I think my next card will be whatever the fastest nvidia has to offer 2 months from now, I find myself playing open_gl games more and more and the ati just doesn't compare in either performance or quality under gl.
thomas997
Who plays opengl games anyway.. Id say 90% of what I play is DX Plus the scores look fairly close to me. Other than quake 3 but again, who the hell plays that?
JemyM
Many people prefer Open GL prior to Direct X.
TSThomas
Being that the vast majority of games are Direct3D what does it matter what people "prefer", you're usually not given a choice in the matter anymore even. It makes more sense to use the graphics card that works better in 80% of games than the one that might in the other 20%.
apathy
This is true but gl is still better IMO and most of the games I have purchased lately use it and although the 9800xt doesn't run them as good as my brothers 5950 does the ati smokes in D3D games. Call of duty, KOTOR, jedi academy, elite force2, MOH, wolfenstein (both ET and GOTY) are all gl games and all the quake and HL series have gl available and doom3 will be gl.
Jaybo
Has anyone noticed that this is a Pro against an Ultra? It should be the XT against the Ultra.
