This review realastic?

Stick to the well known sites for review, those results are way off.
 
I hink the results are believable.

They are running an FX60 at 2.6GHz, my CPU is 2.4GHz. I did the same test with my X1900XTX, stock speeds, max everything, 4x fsaa 16x AF 16x12 just like them, got an average of just under 7000 3dmarks where they got 7642. If I had crossfire I would see how good the ir CF scores are but I don't.

I can believe their single X1900XTX scores are good, 3dmark05 uses cpu (software rendering) as part of it's score and since I don't have an FX60 CPU, I can't say for completely certain.
 
i think its about right. Its high res with eye candy way up. Thats where the 1900's shine. But remeber its also being compared to the 7800gtx 512, NOT the 7900gtx. It wasn't JUST a die shrink, and there is a difference in performance.
 
There isn't that much difference between a 7800GTX 512 and a 7900GTX 512.

A forumbuddy just sold off a 7800GTX 512 (couldn't find another for SLI) and picked up a pair of 7900GTX 512s. When he compared a single new board to his previous board, the increase in Aquamark3 was very very slight - like 104K trimark compared to 106K trimark.
 
Yeah, they are most likely forcing Nvidia's quality setting to HQ.
 
R1ckCa1n said:
Yeah, they are most likely forcing Nvidia's quality setting to HQ.
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So you don't play with HQ?

Thats the whole point of having a high end card.
 
markintosh13 said:
There isn't that much difference between a 7800GTX 512 and a 7900GTX 512.

A forumbuddy just sold off a 7800GTX 512 (couldn't find another for SLI) and picked up a pair of 7900GTX 512s. When he compared a single new board to his previous board, the increase in Aquamark3 was very very slight - like 104K trimark compared to 106K trimark.
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Hmm, must remember to use only aquamark to test my vid cards ;)

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to the OP, some of those results are way out.
Crossfire getting more than twice the performance of the same single card is a bit wrong.
 
I just bumped my FSB to 227 MHz, CPU to 2.5 GHz and got 7580 with same settings, all quality settings maxed out 4x AA 16 x AF 1600x1200.

If anything, they might be a little low on their single X1900XTX score.
 
First of all, it's the Crossfire and nVidia scores that people are questioning, not the XTX. Second, 3DMark's relevance to results in real game tests is limited at best.
 
Commander Suzdal said:
First of all, it's the Crossfire and nVidia scores that people are questioning, not the XTX. Second, 3DMark's relevance to results in real game tests is limited at best.
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First of all, I was questioning the XTX scores so thats not true.
Second, I'm not sure why you want to dictate the discussion here, Soyo13 is the OP.
:D
 
While it's true that 3dMark results may not have an accurate representation of real world game play, it does provide some releative benchmark for the features tested.

3dMark05 was revamped with the newer 3dMark06. 3dMark05 only tested the first release of DirectX 9. 3dMark06 has added all the extra bells and whistles of DirectX 9.0c and also focuses on Shader Model 2.0, 3.0 and HDR.

To get a more accurate result of "current" gen graphics cards it's important to use a benchmark that tests current gen features. 3dMark05 does help paint a picture of pervious generation games feature sets performance on the cards. But you'll notice that they all have sufficient scores to show that you'll get plenty of FPS in those older titles even with a single card.

As each card scales up, older benchmarks become semi-irrelevant. This is why you don't see CrossFire versus SLI comparisons using 3dMark2001SE.

Of course, the best benchmark is to see a comparison of scores in the actual games you are interested in.
 
Chernobyl1 said:
First of all, I was questioning the XTX scores so thats not true.
Second, I'm not sure why you want to dictate the discussion here, Soyo13 is the OP.
:D
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FIrst of all, I was replying to BBA's series of posts, not yours. Second of all, my commenting on other people's points in the discussion does not detract from the OP's general theme in any way. Third of all, hmmm, don't see the title "moderator" after your screen name....
 
Commander Suzdal said:
FIrst of all, I was replying to BBA's series of posts, not yours. Second of all, my commenting on other people's points in the discussion does not detract from the OP's general theme in any way. Third of all, hmmm, don't see the title "moderator" after your screen name....
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You didnt reply to BBA, you replied to everyone. There was no mention of BBA in your post. What you said was also incorrect.

Its odd you are commenting on my not being a moderator after I was commenting on your trying to be the moderator. You said:
"it's the Crossfire and nVidia scores that people are questioning, not the XTX"
We were talking about single card scores as well so the single XTX was part of our considerations.
You can check back a few posts to verify that we did indeed discuss single cards before you insisted the discussion isnt about them.

Also the OP said this in the first post
"Crossfire completely SMOKE SLI.. and MURDERED Single mode."
Therefore the comparison is between Crossfire, SLI and single cards.
 
this review is how old? :eek:

January .2006

The 7900 gtx has a core boost of 18%. Add 18% to the shader tests (3dmark) when looking at them if you want to compare to the 7900. Not to mention there were a few driver tweaks which improved the shader performance of the g7x line. And game specific performance boosts were there too.

So no this review is not releastic, look at the FEAR results, the fillrate bug is still very apperent in these benchmarks, which was fixed in the 90 release drivers.
 
Chernobyl1 said:
You didnt reply to BBA, you replied to everyone. There was no mention of BBA in your post. What you said was also incorrect.

Its odd you are commenting on my not being a moderator after I was commenting on your trying to be the moderator. You said:
"it's the Crossfire and nVidia scores that people are questioning, not the XTX"
We were talking about single card scores as well so the single XTX was part of our considerations.
You can check back a few posts to verify that we did indeed discuss single cards before you insisted the discussion isnt about them.

Also the OP said this in the first post
"Crossfire completely SMOKE SLI.. and MURDERED Single mode."
Therefore the comparison is between Crossfire, SLI and single cards.
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My reply immediately followed BBA's post. If the implication isn't clear to you that I was replying to him, my reply to you should be enough to correct that understandable but mistaken assumption on your part. At which point I would think that continuing to argue the point puts you in a rather unfortunate light.

As to who is moderating whom, this makes two posts now on your part trying to tell me what to say, and zero on my part telling anyone what to say. I shared my opinion on the flow of discussion as I understood it at the time. You could have simply noted that you do dispute the single-card scores for the XTX rather than taking an adversarial tone toward me.

And, to speak of the actual thread, if you DO dispute the single-card scores for the XTX, how do you account for BBA's ability to reproduce scores in the same ballpark with the same settings? Surely that would be a far more fruitful and informative line of discussion than arguing with me about my right to my opinion.
 
General Crespin said:
Commander Suzdal, you were BANISHED for your unspeakable act. WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE!?
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They forgot to weld shut the manhole covers on the sewer line--please pardon the smell...
 
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