9800GX2 benchmarks (56K, small screens warning)

[runawayprisoner]

Nah... not some 3DMark06 benchies anymore. Here are some results with Zotac 9800GX2.




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Crysis





FEAR


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Unreal Tournament 3



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Enemy Territory - Quake Wars



Need For Speed Pro Street


Company of Heroes DtX9 et DX10




9800 GX2 Vs SLI de 8800 GTS 512


Quad-SLI vs single card.





Source: NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2 : Introduction

Guru3D review: BFG GeForce 9800 GX2 1024MB review

Hmm... IMO: $600 is waaaaaaaaay too expensive for this kind of performance... although... 4xAA with virtually no loss or very little loss (3fps) in performance is nice.

And hey, nice to know it works on chipsets that don't support SLI, too.

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[skoreanime]

Meh. I was kind of expecting more...and for that price, forget it

[runawayprisoner]

Well, it saves you the trouble of having to prepare a SLI-ready rig. But for the price, I think you might as well get a dual 9600GT or dual 8800GT/GTS setup. At least it beat 3870X2 in gaming performance. Yay?

Edit: And I find the card... looking suspiciously like a smaller PS2.

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[Coolsvilleman]

Why dont they compare it against the 8800GTX as well?

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ARGGG!!! I dont believe it!!!! My 8800 gt is beaten!!!! Anyway i have a question: Do we realy need a 9800gx2 for gaming???? Or just only for benchmarks????

i can see here that 2X 8800GTS 512MB can beat a 9800GX2. I wonder .. 2x8800gt will have better perfomance than 1 9800gx2????

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[Xtreme2damax]

Wow that performance is not much better than a 8800GTS/GTX/Ultra and they're going to be selling them for $600 a pop?

I thought they would at least gotten Crysis to run decently or at a constant 60 FPS or faster with this new card.

a 10 - 15 increase is hardly worth considering to purchase given that the slight FPS increase was mostly due to the two patches Crysis has had since debuting.

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[SCHUMI_4EVER]

Looks like nVidia finally managed to own themselves......

Dual cards and SLI...just aint cool....

Also Baxter Stockman...your 8800GT never was the absolute best....

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[Thanakil]

This card is powerful, but the price doesnt feel justified.

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[skoreanime]

Originally Posted by BAXTER STOCKMAN

ARGGG!!! I dont believe it!!!! My 8800 gt is beaten!!!! Anyway i have a question: Do we realy need a 9800gx2 for gaming???? Or just only for benchmarks????

i can see here that 2X 8800GTS 512MB can beat a 9800GX2. I wonder .. 2x8800gt will have better perfomance than 1 9800gx2????

Well, duh. How is it surprising Nvidias new flagship card beats yours ?

[SCHUMI_4EVER]

Alienware adds the NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2, nForce 790i to its Area-51 - Engadget

that was fairly fast

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[MrPink]

meh, i'm going to buy another 8800gtx for sli, especially since prices should be hitting $300 on those pretty soon.

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[StriderVM]

Yeah, I'd presume that it is for people who haven't really bought something like the 8800GT or above....

..... My question is, why are most GeForce9000 series aren't DX10.1 compliant? ATI's 3000 Series are compliant? Why do so? Seems fairly natural to add support.

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[runawayprisoner]

Seems like nVidia won't be releasing 10.1 compliant chips until 10.1 is widely used. I mean... 10 is BARELY used, talk about 10.1?

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[Thanakil]

Originally Posted by runawayprisoner

Seems like nVidia won't be releasing 10.1 compliant chips until 10.1 is widely used. I mean... 10 is BARELY used, talk about 10.1?

They are supposed to be at the front when new things come, the same should be true for 10.1.

After all, it won't increase the price that bad to add 10.1 + if they don't add it, it won't help make 10.1 more widely used. It's not like Ati had any problem adding 10.1, nor should it be that hard.

It's just stupid to wait for it to be widely used if they don't help it being used, nay?

My guess would be that they are simply waiting to get people to buy new shiny powerful DX10 cards so they can wait and use dx10.1 as a way to make them upgrade later on. Makes sense, make powerful DX10 card, wait for DX10.1 to be used, release new cards with dx10.1 to make people who don't need to upgrade actually buy a new card, for dx10.1.

I can't really see any other reason, since adding dx10.1 support ain't a pita. Adding 10.1 just makes sense. It helps make it more widely used since more cards support it + it's being nice with your customers, since they won't have to buy a new card to get access to dx10.1.
It's not like a 9800gx2 couldn't support dx10.1...

(Hell, if Nvidia is ready to buy Physx and work on adding it to their cards... They can work on DX10.1)

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BFG GeForce 9800 GX2 1024MB review

http://www.nvnews.net/reviews/geforc...2/page_4.shtml

http://www.hothardware.com/Articles/...orce_9800_GX2/

Legit Reviews - XFX GeForce 9800 GX2 1GB GDDR3 Video Card Review - NVIDIA Releases The GeForce 9800 GX2

PC Perspective - XFX GeForce 9800 GX2 1GB Review - Dual G92 is Sexy

http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/articl...50aHVzaWFzdA==

http://www.matbe.com/articles/lire/7...-gx2/page1.php

AnandTech: More Single Card Dual GPU Madness: NVIDIA's Flagship 9800 GX2

http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/...mance_preview/

[StriderVM]

Thanakil :

Hmm... That makes sense in a business perspective...... Just release card right now to fool customers into thinking the 9000 series are improved versions then release the 10000 series with DX10.1 into forcing customers to buy them when DX10.1 comes, makes sense....

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[runawayprisoner]

@ most conclusion pages. Yeah... this thing is HEAVILY priced... even more so than the PS3. And heck...? I mean... even higher priced than a PS3??? Thank you. I know consoles reign now. Gee... and to think the PS3 has an... nVidia GPU inside. Talk about irony.

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[Cid Highwind]

From a marketing POV this is an important card. They've got the crown again, which helps building the image that therefore all the other nVidia cards must be better than ATi in general as well. It's simplistic reasoning that works for most who don't know much about it, and don't care. You pay a big premium that in my opinion just isn't worth it, but well, there is a market for it. I'd rather wait for a completely new lineup and aim for a card that gives most performance/€.

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[d0x!]

its a preety decent card, but i cant stomach the cost of it.
nothing really new from nvidia.

im excited to see what ati's rv700 brings.

[Cheesus]

The card was never meant to have a good price to performance ratio. Its there to be the best, and from the looks of it, its done just that.

IMO the only bad news from the results is that most likely the 9800GTX isn't going to perform any better than this, and there isn't a particularly huge gap between the 8800 Ultra and the 9800GX2... so the way I see it, its not going to pull off any miracles in terms of performance...

On the other hand, this will give AMD a chance to get themselves together again.

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