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NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra: The Next Step Forward

 by Derek Wilson on April 14, 2004 8:42 AM EST
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F1 Challenge '99-'02 Performance


Anisotropic filtering really helps in this game because since you are at such a steep angle to the ground it makes it look a lot more crisp. Smoke and dust from other cars are fairly realistic, and the texures of the scenery look better than average for a racing game. This game may not be DX 9, but the smoke and dust (blending) do have an impact on performance.




60% faster without AA (67% with 4xAA/8xAF) than NV38 in F1 Challenge is definitely not shabby. This kind of performance gain is more like it, and we are seeing nearly 2x the performance of the venerable 9700 Pro.
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  • Da3dalus - Thursday, April 15, 2004 - link

    I'd like to see benchmarks of Painkiller in the upcoming NV40 vs R420 tests...

  • Brickster - Thursday, April 15, 2004 - link

    Am I the only one who thinks Nvidia's Nalu is the MOST bone-able cartoon out there?

    Oy, get the KY!

  • Warder45 - Thursday, April 15, 2004 - link

    Did any reviews try and overclock the card? Is it not possible with the test card?

  • DonB - Thursday, April 15, 2004 - link

    Would have been better if it had a coax cable TV input + TV tuner. For $500, I would expect a graphic card to include EVERYTHING imaginable.

  • Pete - Thursday, April 15, 2004 - link

    Shinei #37,

    "Speaking of DX9/PS2.0, what about a Max Payne 2 benchmark?"

    MP2 doesn't use DX9 effects. The game requires DX9 compatability, but only DX8 compliance for full effects.

    Xbit-Labs has a ton of benches of next-gen titles as well, and is worth checking out. NV40 certainly redeems itself in the HL2 leak. :)

  • Wwhat - Thursday, April 15, 2004 - link

    Anybody happen to know if it's possible to use a second (old) PSU to run it, you can pick up cheap 235 watt PSU's and would be helped with both extra connectors and power.
    I'm not sure it won't cause 'sync' problems though as a small difference between the rails of 2 PSU's would cause one to drain the other if the card's connectors aren't decoupled enough from the AGP port.

  • Pumpkinierre - Thursday, April 15, 2004 - link

    Agrre with you Trog #59 on the venting. Also with DX9.0c having fp32 as spec., does this mean that FX series cards redeem themselves? (As the earlier DX9 spec was fp24 which was'nt present on the FX gpus causing a juggling act between fp16 and fp32 to match performance and IQ). Still, full fp32 on the FX cards might be too slow.

  • mrprotagonist - Thursday, April 15, 2004 - link

    What's with all the cheesy comments before the benchmarks? Anyone?

  • Cygni - Thursday, April 15, 2004 - link

    "what mobo and mobo drivers were used? i hear that the nforce2 provides an unfair performance advantage for nvidia"

    The test was on an Athlon 64 3400+ system, so i doubt it was using an Nforce2. But ya, i agree, the system specs were short. More details are required.

  • Brickster - Wednesday, April 14, 2004 - link

    Derek, what was that Monitor you used?

    Thanks!
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