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Clash of the Titans - AMD v NVIDIA

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At AMD's invitation (and expense), we put a pair of ATi Radeon HD 2900 XT cards in CrossFire mode, up against a single NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra - in near identical systems - why? Because they cost about the same. <BR><BR> In advance of a full head-2-head being completed by HEXUS Labs, this promotional feature then showed these PCs running the latest DX10 benchmark available at standard settings. Guess which setup was victorious?

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Posted by [GSV]Trig - Mon 09 Jul 2007 11:20
Would it not be better to run 2 tests.
Both cards in the same board, but use 2 different boards, one an AMD/ATi based board and the other an NVidia based board, so your showing both cards in a “home” and “away” situation?
Posted by Cozwin - Mon 09 Jul 2007 11:50
as much as i dont want to say this these results are a little bogus, the game tested is ati sponsored so will be tweaked for ati cards, also im guessing vista was used? as ati drivers on vista vastly beat the ones of the 8800, also comparing price is a little silly as you could just buy a gtx for alot cheaper and overclock it yourself, there is alot of things to take into consideration but i wouldnt trust those benchmarks myself.
Posted by pollaxe - Mon 09 Jul 2007 11:56
Well I haven't watched all of this but my idea about who'd ultimately win the test was formed when I saw:

1) AMD branding everywhere
2) Two bigwigs from AMD on the panel

Not accusing Hexus of overt bias, btw - but it did seem a bit obvious. Perhaps it could be relabeled ‘two new cards beat one (older) one shocker?’ ;) Just teasing, I have an 8800 GTX so I'm biased in that respect but I have no foot in any camp, I like to see the market vibrant and giving the best choice for us poor consumer saps. I'm also assuming that in this test ATI's drivers are better than Nvidia's?? (Shock! Horror! Nvidia in poor driver scandal, surely not!?!) :D
Posted by Cozwin - Mon 09 Jul 2007 12:55
tbh i think we can say nvidia will probably end up saying something to hexus about it
Posted by gilgamesh - Mon 09 Jul 2007 13:15
Steve
http://www.hexus.tv/amd/

If I didnt know any better I think AMD/Ati are desperate for publicity.

Nvidia and Intel has well and truly trounced on them in all areas,. Amd have lost the plot!

They maybe at a same price point but think, lol it takes TWO top of the range ATI cards to beat ONE nvidia card?. I think to TRULY test then let us see who well they fare against TWO 8800 ultras? I bet this then would be a whole different ball-game!

Granted thje price point is the same as I have mentioned
However this is NO reason for AMD to brag, lets face it if it takes two top of the range ATI cards to beat a single 8800 ultra, then really it shows NOT how good AMD/ATI is but how good NVIDIA is. I think this is going to have a backlash against AMD.

Oh well


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