8800GT(G92) Reviews !!

[DilTech]

Im sorry , but didnt nvidia cheat in somef iq tests?

its allot easier for nvidia to release drivers cause there freeware , ati shall soon release open source driver goodness then we shall see

That was during the FX days, and mind you ATi got caught as well(UT2003 anyone? If you don't remember, google it). Infact, I seem to remember not all too long ago ATi's drivers actually detected if you were doing a mip-test on the image quality and actually upped the iq levels. A clever tester discovered it when they noticed the frame rate dropped when they ran the tester when it shouldn't have.

Also, what exactly do you mean NVidia's drivers are freeware... Both companies don't charge you for your drivers, you realize that right?

Hmm...
So a pure marketing move is now considered running from the HD2900 name?
Then why didn't the use a different name for the Pro or GT?
AMD made a marketing decision with the original R600 that didn't leave them enough room for the refresh. Call it what you will but it makes a decent amount of sense to rename these new cards.

As for IQ, Nvidia has a small upper hand in the AF department and AMD has the upper hand in AA. I didn't realize that a tie is now somehow changed to Nvidia wins.

A market move, yes. It's considered smart business when you have a product line that flops to move away from that name as soon as humanly possible. They did they stick with the HD 2900 name for the pro? Simple, they're the same exact card, it's just ATi's way to sell the rest off.

As for the IQ, ATi(I will NEVER call the R600 amd's project) never had the upper hand in AA. They both only go up to 8x Multi-sampling, and both use almost identical multisampling algorithms. You can bring up the filters, but I'll simply remind you of the fact that it's known to actually lower image quality by a blurring of the image. This is well documented across the web.

Check the beyond3d article on the R600, and you'll find that even they will tell you the 8 series has better image quality on a technical level. Equal AA and Better AF = better image quality.

[MotF Bane]

ATi(I will NEVER call the R600 amd's project)

Then why does my HD 2900 have the words "Hinge" and "Latch" near the GPU core, and a little triangle that is used to denote the orientation of a CPU?

[Soulburner]

As for the IQ, ATi(I will NEVER call the R600 amd's project) never had the upper hand in AA. They both only go up to 8x Multi-sampling, and both use almost identical multisampling algorithms. You can bring up the filters, but I'll simply remind you of the fact that it's known to actually lower image quality by a blurring of the image. This is well documented across the web.

Check the beyond3d article on the R600, and you'll find that even they will tell you the 8 series has better image quality on a technical level. Equal AA and Better AF = better image quality.

Maybe but consider this. ATi has that sweet 6xAA mode. I always loved that one...you got great AA without having to take the performance penalty of 8x like on Nvidia cards. It was a nice sweet spot for me back in the day, anyway.

[DilTech]

Maybe but consider this. ATi has that sweet 6xAA mode. I always loved that one...you got great AA without having to take the performance penalty of 8x like on Nvidia cards. It was a nice sweet spot for me back in the day, anyway.

6xAA is gone, it was replaced by 8xAA in the R600.

[Soulburner]

6xAA is gone, it was replaced by 8xAA in the R600.

Uh why? Are they bringing it back?