OK. I'm impressed...

Just got my new Galaxy 8800GT OC 512Mb 650/2000 card today ($260Cdn) and
stuck it in my Opteron 185 2.8Ghz system and did the first
benchmark...3DMark03. My EVGA 7800GTX 512Mb did 17,500 stock....the 8800GT
does 34,750 at stock clocks.Wow..

"Augustus" <no_one@nowhere.net> wrote in message
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> Just got my new Galaxy 8800GT OC 512Mb 650/2000 card today ($260Cdn) and
> stuck it in my Opteron 185 2.8Ghz system and did the first
> benchmark...3DMark03. My EVGA 7800GTX 512Mb did 17,500 stock....the 8800GT
> does 34,750 at stock clocks.Wow..

Er... why are you using an outdated benchmark that doesn't test current card
features? Of course new cards will perform old benchmarks well.

RF.

"Franky" <fick@fack.net> wrote in message
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>>> Just got my new Galaxy 8800GT OC 512Mb 650/2000 card today ($260Cdn) and
>>> stuck it in my Opteron 185 2.8Ghz system and did the first
>>> benchmark...3DMark03. My EVGA 7800GTX 512Mb did 17,500 stock....the
>>> 8800GT does 34,750 at stock clocks.Wow..
>>
>> Er... why are you using an outdated benchmark that doesn't test current
>> card features? Of course new cards will perform old benchmarks well.
>>
>> RF.
>>
>
> perhaps he was curious to see how it stacked up to his old card...

While a comparison like that works.. it still begs the question.. why use
the 03 version? It still uses v1.1 shaders. It gives zero performance data
relevant to the current shader implementations, making it completely
non-applicable to the current shaders.

RF.

Dell is shipping mine on the 12th. Glad to hear it.
Be interested in knowing how it does in Aquamark3.

johns

"Franky" <fick@fack.net> wrote in message
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>>> Just got my new Galaxy 8800GT OC 512Mb 650/2000 card today ($260Cdn) and
>>> stuck it in my Opteron 185 2.8Ghz system and did the first
>>> benchmark...3DMark03. My EVGA 7800GTX 512Mb did 17,500 stock....the
>>> 8800GT does 34,750 at stock clocks.Wow..
>>
>> Er... why are you using an outdated benchmark that doesn't test current
>> card features? Of course new cards will perform old benchmarks well.
>>
>> RF.
>>
>
> perhaps he was curious to see how it stacked up to his old card...


That's all it is....it was the only benchmark I had installed when I
switched. I don't do a whole lot of synthetic benching. I'm d/l'ing
3DMark06 and Aquamark as we speak. I'll stick the 7800GTX back in to test.
I'm pretty sure the newer benches will show even more dramatic gains..

RF wrote:
> "Franky" <fick@fack.net> wrote in message
> news:475d1d30$0$25509$5a62ac22@per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au...
>>>> Just got my new Galaxy 8800GT OC 512Mb 650/2000 card today ($260Cdn) and
>>>> stuck it in my Opteron 185 2.8Ghz system and did the first
>>>> benchmark...3DMark03. My EVGA 7800GTX 512Mb did 17,500 stock....the
>>>> 8800GT does 34,750 at stock clocks.Wow..
>>> Er... why are you using an outdated benchmark that doesn't test current
>>> card features? Of course new cards will perform old benchmarks well.
>>>
>>> RF.
>>>
>> perhaps he was curious to see how it stacked up to his old card...
>
> While a comparison like that works.. it still begs the question.. why use
> the 03 version? It still uses v1.1 shaders. It gives zero performance data
> relevant to the current shader implementations, making it completely
> non-applicable to the current shaders.
>
> RF.

It would, however, be the benchmark that would tell him the raw increase
in ability the new card had over the old card on a playing field that
doesn't prohibit the old card - sure, an old card that can't run Shader
2.0 or something is going to look slow on a newer benchmark, that isn't
going to tell him how much faster the new card is compared to his old at
least on those tasks he was used to running with the old one.

If he plays Quakeworld, benchmarking CoD4 isn't going to tell him
anyting useful...

Venger

Augustus wrote:
> Just got my new Galaxy 8800GT OC 512Mb 650/2000 card today ($260Cdn) and
> stuck it in my Opteron 185 2.8Ghz system and did the first
> benchmark...3DMark03. My EVGA 7800GTX 512Mb did 17,500 stock....the 8800GT
> does 34,750 at stock clocks.Wow..
>
>
NCIX customer, eh? That card looks ok but I wonder about the quality of
the HSF. I'm holding out for the new 8800GTS.

> That's all it is....it was the only benchmark I had installed when I
> switched. I don't do a whole lot of synthetic benching. I'm d/l'ing
> 3DMark06 and Aquamark as we speak. I'll stick the 7800GTX back in to test.
> I'm pretty sure the newer benches will show even more dramatic gains..

For anyone interested, the Galaxy 8800GT 512Mb did 10,035 at stock settings
on my Opty 185 2.8Ghz box in 3DMark06 1.1

"Augustus" <no_one@nowhere.net> wrote in message
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>> That's all it is....it was the only benchmark I had installed when I
>> switched. I don't do a whole lot of synthetic benching. I'm d/l'ing
>> 3DMark06 and Aquamark as we speak. I'll stick the 7800GTX back in to
>> test. I'm pretty sure the newer benches will show even more dramatic
>> gains..
>
> For anyone interested, the Galaxy 8800GT 512Mb did 10,035 at stock
> settings on my Opty 185 2.8Ghz box in 3DMark06 1.1

That was the 1280x1024 default run....