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NVIDIA's GeForce 9800 GX2 - Early Test, OC test - TechAmok
NVIDIA's GeForce 9800 GX2 - Early Test, OC test - [hardware] 08:28 AM EDT - Mar,16 2008 - (1 comments)
TweakTown
compares the performance of the 9800GX2 against the HD 3870 X2 from AMD.
Here's an excerpt: "It out-performs the HD 3870 X2 in 3DMark06 under XP,
along with it also out-performing the AMD counterpart in Half Life 2: Episode
Two; a game that has always favored the AMD offerings. The card has potential,
and we can see it's got the power in some applications. It just needs to be
harnessed better. If you had been reading the reviews online and thought "Bugger
this, I'm off to get a HD 3870 X2", we would hold off, at least for a week or
two" Today they also have published
another article called' GeForce 9800 GX2 Overclocked and Tested' in which
they tested an overclocked NVIDIA's GeForce 9800 GX2. Here's an excerpt:
You can see as soon as we let the 9800 GX2 breath more with an increased CPU
overclock, we really begin to see some big numbers. Under 3DMark06 we can see we
were just shy of 20,000 3DMarks. NVIDIA's GeForce 9800 GX2 still isn't
perfect though but with a good driver it could really begin to shine in the
weeks to come but you get an early look with early drivers here today of what is
to come. In our opinion, NVIDIA could have taken a different approach to the
GeForce 9 series - instead of re-releasing the 8800GTS 512MB and introducing the
8800GT, these cards should have either not been released or released under the
GeForce 9 series. The problem is that the 8800GT bought with it such exceptional
value that NVIDIA were too high up on the podium. A new naming scheme should
mean big things. Unfortunately at the moment it doesn't look like its being
delivered.
The bottom line is spec for spec the 9800 GX2 is still lower than two 8800GTS
512MB cards. At least AMD didn't choose to release the HD 3870 X2 under a
different series - the name that AMD chose perfectly explains the card: Radeon
HD 3870 times two. This offering from NVIDIA is more 8800 than 9800 due to the
fact that NVIDIA chose to implement the G92 core into the 8800 series products.
The next thing we want to know is how two of these GX2 cards scale. If we can
bench Crysis at 1920 x 1200 and get an average of 80 FPS, we will be happy. If
we get a 5 FPS increase though we will be as disappointed with the SLI Quad GPU
setup as we were with a pair of HD 3870 X2 cards in Quad Crossfire.
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