ATI X800 XT PE

[XMachine]

GeForce 6800 Ultra Extreme
450 -(Core Clock)mhz
16 -pixel pipeline
7200 -Peak fill rate (Mpixels/s)
1 -texture units per pixel pipeline
7200 -Peak fill rate (Mtexels/s)
1100 -Memory clock (MHz)
256 -Memory bus width (bits)
35.2 -Peak memory bandwidth (GB/s)
VS.

Radeon X800 XT Platinum Edition-
520 -(Core Clock)mhz
16 -pixel pipeline
8320 -Peak fill rate (Mpixels/s)
1 -texture units per pixel pipeline
8320 -Peak fill rate (Mtexels/s)
1200 -Memory clock (MHz)
256 -Memory bus width (bits)
35.8 -Peak memory bandwidth (GB/s)

A little late on the news...(May 4th, but I want to hear your thoughts.)
Both still fairly close in benchmarks, but one thing NVIDIA's card does will make the diff.

Go check out ATI's site as well for a demo as well, not as interesting as NVIDIA's display, but the benchmarks and specs are what matters.

Info found at- http://techreport.com/reviews/2004q2/ra ... dex.x?pg=7

Feel free to read the page before hearing my thoughts...

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The new Ati Gpu, IMO will have the advantage over all, and I am agreeing with the site, it will win because it does not need a huge 480+watt PSU. I have 500 watts but not everyone does, and in the article it stated the more watts a card consumes the more heat is produced from the card. Many will agree(The people who have a 300watt PSU, or not.) having to dish out the extra $$ for the 6800 is not worth it if there is a GPU that is more efficent and reliable( Reliability IMO.) which does not require more watts.

Opinions start rolling. (I currently have a ATI 9800pro (128mb.) never had a problem with it on the games currently out...

[PCguy]

For some reason, I always stick with nVidia. Don't ask why. You would think I would be bitter that they helped kill 3DFX. But I guess I got over that.