Guru 3D have thrown up their latest review of Nvidia's GeForce 6800 GT plus a performance comparsion againist the Radeon x800 Pro x800 XT, GeForce 6800 Ultra and of course previous generation graphics cards! Here's a snip.
When I first saw the specifications for GeForce Series 6 back in March I was like, wow... the rumors were true. This NV40 is going to be everything that the GeForce FX missed out on, a gun in the consumer graphics card arena, accurate, tough and with a license to kill. All in all a very impressive product judging from the specification sheets that I saw. Those documents did not show what we see now, multiple NV40 based products. The competition is stiff and NVIDIA needed an answer for every possible scenario, even the unlikely scenario's. Example: when the Radeon x800 XT Premium Edition was released NVIDIA exactly that same day released the GeForce 6800 Ultra Extreme Edition. This says something about the scalability of this generation chipset, it can go higher. It's diverse in core frequencies from top to bottom and that, my friends, means good business.
That Extreme Edition was a snap decision from someone at NVIDIA's management who got scared when he realized the scores of the mighty x800 XT Platinum Edition were awfully close to the 6800 Ultra. Now with newer drivers it's clear, there's no real need for that Extreme Edition anymore. In fact, to position the product even better on the market we can see an even slower clocked product then the Ultra. Why? RAW horse power versus a better price, less heat and only one Molex connector.
GeForce 6800 GT
When I first saw the specifications for GeForce Series 6 back in March I was like, wow... the rumors were true. This NV40 is going to be everything that the GeForce FX missed out on, a gun in the consumer graphics card arena, accurate, tough and with a license to kill. All in all a very impressive product judging from the specification sheets that I saw. Those documents did not show what we see now, multiple NV40 based products. The competition is stiff and NVIDIA needed an answer for every possible scenario, even the unlikely scenario's. Example: when the Radeon x800 XT Premium Edition was released NVIDIA exactly that same day released the GeForce 6800 Ultra Extreme Edition. This says something about the scalability of this generation chipset, it can go higher. It's diverse in core frequencies from top to bottom and that, my friends, means good business.
That Extreme Edition was a snap decision from someone at NVIDIA's management who got scared when he realized the scores of the mighty x800 XT Platinum Edition were awfully close to the 6800 Ultra. Now with newer drivers it's clear, there's no real need for that Extreme Edition anymore. In fact, to position the product even better on the market we can see an even slower clocked product then the Ultra. Why? RAW horse power versus a better price, less heat and only one Molex connector.
GeForce 6800 GT
