Nvidia 6800XT?

wow first ati takes nvidia's GT then nvidia takes ati's XT

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=25475

 

oh, i got worried for a second there, lol, whats the point of making a card to match up to the x800gt, and the 6800xt only has 8 pipelines.

 

yeah it does only have 8 pipelines, why would nvidia do that?! when the have 6800 series cards with 16 pipelines....it doesnt seem right...

 

the 6800le has 12 pipelines or is it 8?

 

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/GeForce_6800.html
it has 8

 

oh my mistake, got 6800 and 6800le mixed up.

 

i think the 6800XT was suppose to match up with the X800GT but im not to sure

 

It's so pointless now, both companies have so many cards out now the performance difference is extremely minimal to warrant a whole new card. It could easily be reached with a mild OC. There's little point of the X800GT when there are X700Pro's and X800SE's and X800 Vanilla's to fill the gap (though I must admit it's a great deal, though the X800 is still almost the same price). Then the X800XT's, from XT to PE the differnce is all in the OC. Then the X850Pro's are similar to the X800XT's and the X850XT is similar to the X800XT PE and so on.
NVidia is just as bad, they have 6600's, 6600LE's, 6600GT's, 6800XT's now, 6800LE's, 6800's, 6800GT's, and so on, do they really need all those? Me thinks no.
I guess the marketing ploy is the make each card out to be blisteringly fast so the customer gets confused and just ends up buying the more expensive model as they assume it's better. Seems to be working though.

 

just get rid of them all, and just have one type of card from each manufacturer lol.

X800XT PE V 6800GT
x850xt pe v 7800gtx (yes in some benchmarks there is only 20 fps difference between x850xt pe and 7800gtx)

 

yeah it is confusing, there's all those diffeent cards, and then there's those cards with dual video chips on one board, plus then theres 128MB, 256MB and 512MB versions of a lot of those cards...there's so many diferent combinations its just insane!!

 

just bin the 512mb 6800ultra, my card would blow it outa the sky anyday unless it gets backup

 

yeah it brings in its SLI buddy, but anyway there are so many cards its hard to know what to compare with what...
"Card A is comparable to Card B"
"Yes but Card B in SLI with another Card B is comparable to Card C"
"Yes and card C is comparable to Card D, but when card D is in SLI it blows everything else out of the water"

 

yea lol, BUT even 2 6800ultra's 512mb in sli still can ge beaten by one x800xt pe or x850xt pe, so card c= 7800gtx, and 2card b's = x800xt pe= blows one 7800gtx out of the sky.

nvidia is wasting resources on all these card tho

 

Yeah really when SLI or crossfire comes into play the whole sense of structure goes to hell. What was once a so so card is suddenly up with the big boys but for $100 less. So is it worth it, well I'll need a new mobo which will make it more expensive than the comparable single card, but in SLI these cards do better at FEAR than the single comparable card, I love fear but is it worth the extra hassle etc.
If it was up to me it would be the $50 uber budget card, $100 lowend card, $200 midrange, $300 lowend highend, and $400 mega card. All cards have a designated amount of memory or are upgradable by popping in extra GDDR3 dimms.

 

i still dontsee why the suffixes have to get so confusing though, i mean now people who dont know much about the graphic card industry might get fonfused with the suffix thing, i mean they could see a 6800XT and think ATI has made it, its just silly, i think ex's idea is good, i dont see why nvidia and ati have to keep coming up with new longer, more confusing suffixes for their cards...i know they adjust things but adding more letters/names afterwards does just make things confusing

 

Good points, it would be so much easier if they just changed the numerical value only to denote performance, like a 200 would be a crappy card and a 1000 would be kick ass. That way people would know what cards would perform better regardless of the price. There will always be a tricky situation choosing ATI over nVidia or vise versa but that's a given. I guess they don't kind the numbers to get too high or they think they're too boring. But it would make the process so much more simple. Every time they refresh their product line they switch to a new number series, similar to the GeForce 6 to 7 change but without the weird suffix stuff.

 

is there, every going to be new agp type that current agp cards can go in, like dual agp, becouse then, ATI would be leading

 

I don't really see how dual-agp would make sense now as you'd still need a new mobo so why not just go with PCIe? Though it might work if it would work with older cards if that was what you were implying.

 

hmmm, i need water cooling :\

 

u just got a lovely freezer 4, why do you now want to change again?