Quote Originally Posted by Xion X2 View Post
In some games, an overclocked XT can catch or pass a stock GTX. I've been benching my card against several guys over at the Nvidia forums. My OC'd XT is ahead in R6 Vegas and is neck and neck in Oblivion. DIRT performance is on par w/ a stock GTX:

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/show...&postcount=413

Benches on the XT were done on the Alphas (8.37.4.2) and 8.38s. That's a rather long thread, but there are tons of benchmarks between the cards across different games if you want to have a look. We've tested Lost Planet, Oblivion, R6 Vegas, DIRT, Riddick, and several other games. The 2900XT is more than holding its own.

Don't believe everything that you read in reviews; a lot of them are probably on Nvidia's payroll. Hardocp and a lot of those other review sites weren't using these performance drivers; they were using very unoptimized sets. It's crazy that ATi let them get away with it, but they did.
The guy in question that we're speaking about already owns a 8800GTX, he asked if he should sell his GTX and buy a HD 2900xt, which honestly he shouldn't and I think we can both agree on that.

As for forum numbers, I now have a hard time believing anyone making claims, even with screenshots showing said claims...

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...=147978&page=2

I'm not saying you can't trust forum members numbers, I'm just saying that after that I'm having a rather difficult time believing claimed numbers from people regardless of which card they have.