Quote Originally Posted by DilTech View Post
To those who waited for this card, my condolences.

Even I'm shocked by how bad this card really is.

Even in DX10(thank you guru3d) the 8800GTX wins.

I hope AMD doesn't lose too much due to this, as the R600 is now AMD's GeForceFX mistake.
Actually if you read it at all:

Breathtaking is what this benchmark is. Initially when ATI handed out this demo I was a little reluctant as well ... It could be tainted as it's handed out by ATI. So we started testing an 8800 GTX with this software, and stumbled into bad performance and weird performance issues. The HD 2900 XT and 8800 GTX where equal performance wise. And what this review definitely shows, is that it can not really be the case. Later that evening NVIDIA noticed that the press obtained the demo and one day later issues a driver which was showing excellent performance and no weird stutters or anything anymore. The driver is the 158.42driver which be will be released to the public this week.
G80 has been out for quite a while now, and just now they released some beta drivers optimized for the demo. I don't think ATI has the time to do things like this right now... not to mention that review was done with the older 8.37 driver. They chose to not use the newer ATI drivers, yet they used the latest nvidia beta not available officially for just that one benchmark and the rest of the review was done with 158.22. Lame.

All I can say to that is, at least ATI had it working perfectly from day one. Now they need to make it work better...

If you want to talk about untapped power, I think the 2900XT is the best example we got right now.