so once again, performance is going to be pretty close between the two, and which is "better" comes down to antialiasing, Crossfire implementation, and general features.
Anand has the details about r520,rv530,rv515
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Jawed said:
I tend to listen when Digit-Life talks, but you are right, this article does seem a bit out of whack. But hey, it seems to be crazy season! Anything can happen*! (and will) I am fully expecting the Internet to explode at any minute now.
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geo said:
Seems to be a lot of handwaving and guesswork in there too. Doesn't look like they have anymore info than anyone who's been reading the B3D forums for the last few months.
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Only if you believe it.
Sure, it is entirely possible that the goal of Andrzej and Chris Hook over the last few days is to make sure I make it my especial duty and pleasure to start torturing them over a slow fire starting on Announce day. Edit: Our Friend, the Emoticon.
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http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/showthread.php?p=568979#post568979radeonic2 said:I wonder if you'll be able to use TAA and superaa at the same time
for the love of god
geo said:
And what exactly would Nvidia gain financially by a knee-jerk reaction to an R520 that is faster? They were happy to let the PE take the crown last generation and that worked out fine for them. As demonstrated before, effective execution is far more important that a 5% performance advantage at the ultra high end. I get the feeling that margins on the GTX are very high even at the sub $500 level, so if they just keep pumping them out they'll be raking in the cash no matter what ATi does a month from now.
Of course, all this is assuming that the R520 isn't faster by some embarrasingly large margin - and there is no evidence so far that this is the case.
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plus they are simply wrong.
geo said:You pour an awful lot of content into "interesting"!
Actually I was responding to this bit - "I begin to get the sense that a 7800Ultra is not going to be enuf to "take" 1800XT."
geo said:
Of course he won't be happy. And I remember a quote somewhere stating that they were going to their best to reclaim the performance crown. But what I was getting at was that another G70 variant may not necessarily be a wise economic decision upon the launch of the R520 even if it is faster.
What strikes me as very strange is that the XL will be available before the XT - have we ever seen a case where the slower SKU is released first even though it's based on the exact same chip except with lower clocks? It just sounds to me like the XT is going to be hand-picked XL's that are capable of higher clocks.
There's absolutely nothing preventing ATI from changing the sample positions per-frame with SuperAA enabled, since when running SuperAA, just as with the other Crossfire modes, each video card has no idea that it is running in tandem with a second card. So the only question remaining is whether or noT ATI will program the support (which would seem trivial, given that they already have implemented the "temporal dithering" AA).radeonic2 said:
