Crossfire x1950xtx vs G80

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If I get an x1950xtx crossfire setup, ya think it would be as good or maybe just a tiny bit slower then a g80?
 
I don't see any reason to go with the crossfire considering its likely to be more expsensive than a G80 and it possibly might be ever so slightly faster, I really dont know, But I'd go with G80 for dx10 alone
 
See I dont know if i wanna jump on the Dx10 band wagon so soon. I rather wait for the refresher cards, plus we wont be seeing alot of full Dx10 games for atleast around 8 months after Vista's release.
 
lvlarvin said:
See I dont know if i wanna jump on the Dx10 band wagon so soon. I rather wait for the refresher cards, plus we wont be seeing alot of full Dx10 games for atleast around 8 months after Vista's release.
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Just cause DX10 games won't mature for a while doesn't meen the G80 won't own DX9 games.
 
Im not saying G80 wont own DK9 games, I know the G80 & x1950xtx Crossfires will own DX9 games.
 
Unless you already own one X1950XTX, I would not bother and get the 8800GTX.. for DX10 ALONE.
 
I say forget DX10 until there are games that require it, which will probably be in a year or more. By then, you probably won't be wanting to use the first G80's.

That said, the 8800GTS is surely a better value than a crossfire setup, unless you already own one x1950xtx and have a crossfire motherboard.
 
lvlarvin said:
See I dont know if i wanna jump on the Dx10 band wagon so soon. I rather wait for the refresher cards, plus we wont be seeing alot of full Dx10 games for atleast around 8 months after Vista's release.
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I'm gonna laugh when a crap load of DX10 games come out a week after Vista is released. :D Maybe Microsoft will release a simultaneous Halo 3 launch for the 360 and Vista as well, which would require DX10... :p But I'm probably wrong.
 
Well I jumped the gun and bought a x1950xtx crossfire setup for $725 shipped from a great guy on this forum. Im sure this will hold out for a long time, but Im sure SLI G80's will be faster...then again thats going to cost a whole lot more.
 
It's looking like the 8800 series might be real screamers, but even so, I doubt one 8800 GTX would be faster than Crossfired X1950 XTX's. If you don't care about DX10 support and really don't want ot wait a month (prices for the first two weeks could be astronomical), I say go for it. Otherwise, get the 8800.
 
Wouldn't it be best to see what the G80 actually has to offer, other than a few leaked benchmarks with 4+Ghz processors?

I'm really interested to see if the G80 has improved IQ, mainly AF and if all of the features actually work. If not I will skip the G80.
 
The rumor is that the GTS will cost $449. So my vote would be SLI 8800GTS


StevetheFox said:
to make sure I'm on the same page.
G80=?
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The next gen chip from NVIDIA.
 
StevetheFox said:
to make sure I'm on the same page.
G80=?
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You are in a videocard section of the forums, if you still cant piece it together
Search is your friend. Oh and welcome to [H]ardforums. :)
 
A single G80GTX might almost be as fast as X1950XTXs CF. If i were buying a single video card right now and had the money, i would buy a G80GTX when it debuts. However, i decided to get a single X1950XTX until R600. Your call.
 
Endurancevm said:
However, i decided to get a single X1950XTX until R600. Your call.
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I'm planning on taking this route (one x1950XTX), even with the R600 coming. Even if a single R6000 is uber-more-powerful than the x1950XTX, so what? The x1950XTX will probably STILL own every game out there right now at my settings (1280x960, 2-4x AA), and until we start seeing tangable games that REQUIRE DX10, it's kinda pointless to jump on the bandwagon and shell out another $600+.

So yea, if you already have an x1950XTX, go ahead and buy the CF master. If you're running a low-res (I find it amusing that I'm saying that in reference to 1280x960 :p) monitor, stick with your one for now, or just get one (it'll be MUCH cheaper than the R600 and still run all games out there right now). Finally, if you're running higher resolutions, it's really your call. Performance between CF x1950XTXs and the R600 will probably be about the same, so it's really "when do I want it".
 
Scyles said:
I say forget DX10 until there are games that require it, which will probably be in a year or more. By then, you probably won't be wanting to use the first G80's.
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this is exactly my thinking also, but since i have 80 days left for my eVGA step up, i might as well stepup to the g80.
 
lvlarvin said:
If I get an x1950xtx crossfire setup, ya think it would be as good or maybe just a tiny bit slower then a g80?
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3D mark says: Crossfired X1900s/X1950s > G80. course G80 SLI = O-O-OMG!

yeah but im not going with a G80 till i get some numbers. that mistery chip that we believe to have a 128 bit bus with what we believe to be 128/256mb (making up for the 12 dimms, 4 are deticated to this chip... we believe), i wont buy. I know nothing of the architecture. I dont know how uniform the "single unified shader" on the G80 is.

for all i know that mistery chip is a G71, subsidizing the scores for the crappyness the unified shader architecture NV came up with.
 
SNIP3R said:
You are in a videocard section of the forums, if you still cant piece it together
Search is your friend. Oh and welcome to [H]ardforums. :)
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Well using me inferior power of deduction I ran into a bit of a speed bump.

6800
Geforce6800

7800
Geforce7800

Now I'm given this "G80"

I think Well G obviously stands for Geforce
So Geforce 8800 ... wait a second.

I see no G88! (at this point my tiny mind is sent into a chaotics spiral into hell) and if it were referring to simply the 8 thousand series why would it be G80 as opposed to G8 or G8000. Are they jumping to G80thousand!
(has a stroke)

So as you can see Nvidia's deviation from their normal pattern is what completely fried my circuitry. Thanks for the enlightenment.
 
StevetheFox said:
Well using me inferior power of deduction I ran into a bit of a speed bump.

6800
Geforce6800

7800
Geforce7800

Now I'm given this "G80"

I think Well G obviously stands for Geforce
So Geforce 8800 ... wait a second.

I see no G88! (at this point my tiny mind is sent into a chaotics spiral into hell) and if it were referring to simply the 8 thousand series why would it be G80 as opposed to G8 or G8000. Are they jumping to G80thousand!
(has a stroke)

So as you can see Nvidia's deviation from their normal pattern is what completely fried my circuitry. Thanks for the enlightenment.
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...7900 series were the G71 chips, and other cards were similarly named...safe to assume the 8900 may be the G81...so it goes from there I guess...and in any of the billion threads on this forum about the 8800's, the terms g80/8800 are everywhere now! :)
 
I say go crossfire x1950s, get them folding and go from there.




 
dont current GPUs in XF and SLI pwn current games so hard G80 doesnt even matter? I just got my 7950gt and it plays my 20007 very well. I think i will wait as i dont like spending for nothing. I dont see C&C3 or CS3 or BF3 requiring A G80 core. Hell maybe in 8-10 months there will be a G81 Card that is faster,smaller,less power AND dx10. Imagine that.
 
strikeout said:
dont current GPUs in XF and SLI pwn current games so hard G80 doesnt even matter? I just got my 7950gt and it plays my 20007 very well. I think i will wait as i dont like spending for nothing. I dont see C&C3 or CS3 or BF3 requiring A G80 core. Hell maybe in 8-10 months there will be a G81 Card that is faster,smaller,less power AND dx10. Imagine that.
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I agree that people shouldn't necessarily jump on the 8800 bandwagon when they already have a good card or if they don't have an ultra high-res monitor to take advantage of it, but he's talking about buying Crossfired X1950 XTX's brand new instead of an 8800 GTX. The XTX's might be slightly faster (and might even be slower), but would be more expensive, use almost twice as much power, require a motherboard that's Crossfire capable, lose to the 8800 GTX in games that don't show huge gains from Crossfire, and aren't futureproof for more than a year or so. This is not a smart buying decision, and the only reason to do it is if someone really couldn't wait a few weeks for prices on GTX's to come down to MSRP. That's assuming the 8800 series won't be a hard launch like the 7800's and 7900's. If it is, then there's really no justifiable reason to choose Crossfired XTX's over an 8800 GTX.
 
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