First 9800GTX Benchmarks!!! - Nearly GX2 performance for Half the Price!!!!!

Wow, just wow. I feel sorry for all the kids who got a GX2...

http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/1356/1/page_1_introduction/index.html

At $300, it hangs with a GX2 in games like CRYSIS, WIC, Half-life 2, and even Unreal Tournament 3... :shock:

dgsag

I'd just like to point out that HL2 came out in 2004 and UT3 isn't very demanding at all. :|

Can you get a single card which gives the performance of the GX2?However you can get which gives the performance of the X2.Musacircuit_2

No, but if you're going to spend $600 on the 9800GTX, you'd be better served saving $200 on two 8800GT cards, and spending the extra $200 on a decent SLI motherboard and beefier power supply.

You'd might be able to pull of something similar with the HD3870X2 and the 9600GT cards, but you'd be cutting it a bit closer to the wire. Not saying it's impossible.

[QUOTE="animemog"][QUOTE="Menfear"][QUOTE="firefox59"][QUOTE="Menfear"]

[QUOTE="firefox59"][QUOTE="Menfear"]A slovenian computer company already has the GTX on stock, the asus one.SearchMaster

$432

That is the european price, US is way cheaper, around 330 probably

http://sector29.com/PRODUCT_PAGES/286/286-72049-ZT-9800GTX.html

They don't really have it in stock... Do they?

[QUOTE="Cranler"][QUOTE="Musacircuit_2"]

The industry of CPU's is not moved by what is better for gaming whereas for the GPU's,it's all about gaming and what's beter for it.

And as for long lastivity,Musacircuit_2

If Nvidia was all about gaming and whats better for it we would have a true next gen card already. Like most companies Nvidia is all about making money.

The word you were looking for is longevity.

And they should release new cards just for one game ya right.:roll:

Maybe they dont have the technology yet?

I fail to see your point how releasing the next uber card based on a new architecture the best thing for gaming.When current technology is good enough for all but one game which time will tell whether it is unoptimized piece of **** or just current technology is not good enough.

Maybe it's better for YOU but not for everybody as we can max out games on our current cards for longer.

Where did I say that there should be no mid range cards available?

If the GT200 or whatever they call it was already out your 8800 wouldnt last as long? Is that what your saying? If devs took advantage of the new tech you could still play at med settings.

Maybe some of us want to play at super high res with 60+ fps without having to sli. How does that affect you?

Crysis the only game that needs a better gpu? What about Call Of Jaurez and COH in dx10?

This is the longest Nvidia has gone without a big step in horsepower and it just happens to be when they have no competition. Thats not a coincedence, its called milking a product.

its called milking a product.

Cranler

wich is why im not entirely happy with nvidia right now, they have been known to try to psh the boundries when it comes to raw power and performance. Now they are just either a: reaching the limit with what they can do with a single core (doubt it) or b: mmilking the 8*00 series till AMD gives them a problem (which they will with the new cores comming out, that is if the 55nm die shrink goes as planned for nvidia) then i guess AMD/ATI will be ontop for a little while yet again. Just ranting a bit but what i saidis a little true, i know they are just trying to do well in buisness (failing in every other market except high end GPU's for PC's) but it should be about the consumer, not profits.

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I love it how musacircuit bashes the 3870 X2 because it's a dual GPU card, yet praised the 9800 GX2 as the gospel when it launched. :roll:

Musacircuit_2

You missed my point. :|

You criticise the HD3870 X2 due to its dual GPU nature, yet you totally ignore the faults of dual GPU cards in the case of the 9800 GX2. :roll:

Further, I never remembered you praising the HD3870 X2 for its record breaking performance when it launched. :roll:

[QUOTE="Musacircuit_2"][QUOTE="Wesker776"]

I love it how musacircuit bashes the 3870 X2 because it's a dual GPU card, yet praised the 9800 GX2 as the gospel when it launched. :roll:

Wesker776

You missed my point. :|

You criticise the HD3870 X2 due to its dual GPU nature, yet you totally ignore the faults of dual GPU cards in the case of the 9800 GX2. :roll:

Further, I never remembered you praising the HD3870 X2 for its record breaking performance when it launched. :roll:

i love how he manipulates what others say to his own advantage. Kinda what the cigarette companies are doing (woh did i just compare the cigarette comapny to nvidia?) :P