Quote Originally Posted by cadaveca View Post
Problem lies in nVidia card being there first, and not a fresh install of Windows, such as I have. This leads to a totally different sytem environment, which, in my case, leads to better numbers.

You'll also notice that some of the benches I have posted are a fair bit higher than others have been able to get at the same clockspeeds...

I chaulk it up to reviewers using drivers that the public currently does not have access too, or using incomplete drivers, as I hsve similar performance using CAT7.4, but the update offered on ATI's website leads to far different numbers than what review websites have.

And of course you can't currently compare...you don't have the cards. I do tho, and it paints are far differnt picture.


Anyway, I will add this, which you will like...most reviews did not mention 2d crashes, 2d rendering errors, and numerous other niggles that I have been dealing with since getting my cards. These problems are evident on all of the 6 cards I have currently, and this points quite obviously to driver issues.

I mean really, Diltech...498gflops in r600, 347gflops in G80...it's IMPOSSIBLE for G80 to be faster unless there are driver issues.
Since when has GFlops always meant real-world performance, just out of curiousity? It's very possible for a card much faster in GFlops to be slower, so I have no idea where this "it's impossible" comes from, because that's far from the case.....

Going by your logic, the R580 would be faster than the G80. That isn't the case in reality though, now is it?

Also, you make it out that I want this card to suck, and that's not the case. Infact, I want the competition between NVidia and Daamit to be steeper, so as to call for bigger price cuts, which is better for all consumers. As it stands currently though, the competition just isn't there.