Graphic Cards Ultimate Testing of 17 GPUs in 30 Games

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The Fastest Graphics Cards of Summer 2005: Ultimate Testing of 17 GPUs in 30 Games

From Xbitlabs

X-bit labs undertakes another attempt to choose the best-among-the-best hardware for every buyer. Today we test a massive amount of graphics cards in unprecedented – 30 – number of benchmarks just to find out the best solutions at different price-points.
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The summer season being over in the northern hemisphere, we all get back from our vacations back to work or study and of course to playing our favorite games. There’s always summer in the virtual jungles of Far Cry after all!

An appropriate graphics card is needed to get the full satisfaction from newest game releases and we, at X-bit labs, are offering you the results of our comprehensive test session with 17 graphics cards and 30 benchmarks. This review was conceived to be a shopper’s guide for the time being and to make your choice of a graphics card in any price category easier. But before we see how fast popular games run on currently available graphics hardware, we want to remind you in brief what happened in the first half of this year.
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seen that 2 days ago .... too big goin thru' all the pages is boring .... they have not added NFS in 30 games ... :( ....
 
Ultra High End

This class is represented exclusively with NVIDIA’s products in this review:
GeForce 7800 GTX SLI
GeForce 7800 GTX
GeForce 6800 Ultra SLI
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So, the NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT card is the best buy in the below $500 category.
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So, the ATI RADEON X800 XL offers the highest performance among performance-mainstream solutions, but the NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT features a better price/features ratio. The choice depends on your personal tastes.
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So, while the RADEON X800 GT is unavailable, the GeForce 6600 GT is the best choice.
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As for our recommendation, we would advise you to buy an ATI RADEON X700 rather than a GeForce 6600, their prices being similar. The RADEON is just faster in almost all modern games, with rare exceptions like Doom 3. Try to find a card with PGA-packaged memory as it overclocks better. Avoid the RADEON X600 XT which is an obsolete and slow graphics card.
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Looks like nvidia wipe the floor with ATI in all except the entry level segment. ATI needs to pull its socks up.
 
The X800GT is available in Retail actually. That would definately steal the trophy from the 6600GT.
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hmm... i think nvidia will be more than happy, having managed to retain that particular trophy for almost 3/4ths of a year ;)

i expect the 7 series' 6600GT equivalent (7600?) will render that trophy obsolete :p
 
Ein said:
hmm... i think nvidia will be more than happy, having managed to retain that particular trophy for almost 3/4ths of a year ;)
i expect the 7 series' 6600GT equivalent (7600?) will render that trophy obsolete :p
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Well not to spoil anything but the midstream Nvidia 7 series haven't been announced yet but ATi already has the X1600 ready in numbers. Just waiting for the hi-end launch and within a few weeks of time the whole top end to bottom end will be launched.
 
zhopudey said:
Sure, it'll be launched. But will it be available? :bleh:
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Yeah about the mid range (r530) and low end (rv515) you can safely bet that it will be available easy. And since ATi went through retaping the r520 as well to improve yeilds, the situation should improve over time.
 
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