first r420 review leak

[Ulukay]

thgs review was up for a few minutes, a member of the 3dcenter board made screens

source: http://www.forum-3dcenter.org/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=140688

 

[Joe DeFuria]

And here I thought X-Bit would be the leakers...

Still, good ol' Tom's using "god knows what's in them" 61.11 drivers for nVidia. I'll give Tom's some credit for at least highlighting the scores with official drivers in green.

I expect worse from Anand.

Did they get AA / Aniso benchmarks?

 

[PatrickL]

Lars made the review ?

I saw the Tom Hardware logo that s why i asked

I always kept a shortcut to that page from Lars: http://www17.tomshardware.com/graphic/20030127/geforce_fx-29.html

It adds a grain of salt when i happen to see something from him

 

[Eronarn]

Woo.

Funny to see that the X800's are beating the hell out of the 6800's in Far Cry.

 

[Joe DeFuria]

Lars made the review ?

I don't know if Lars is the actual author of this particular review, but there is a rather prominent "Tom's Hardware" logo on the charts...

 

[Lecram25]

Some extreme pipe lines.

 

[jvd]

well if these are real there is no way the xt is going to sell for 599$ usd

 

[surfhurleydude]

Can't say I'm not disappointed in X800XT speed based off of these benchies...

 

[sonix666]

Judging on these two benchmarks, it seems that ATi and nVidia both have similar performing cards. I hope that this is the case also with full reviews. It would be better for us consomers.

 

[dr3amz]

probably fabricated... speed difference between the xt and pro is nothing, /me smells something fishy.

 

[Joe DeFuria]

Um....

These are non AA / Aniso benchmarks from what I can tell. Wouldn't surprise me in the least that they are mostly CPU limited on the X800 at these settings.

 

[Godmode]

Woo.

Funny to see that the X800's are beating the hell out of the 6800's in Far Cry.

Look at the min FPS!!

and in 1024 without AA/AF it is CPU limited!

 

[Johnny Rotten]

well if these are real there is no way the xt is going to sell for 599$ usd

Indeed. Considering the Pro is supposed to be clocked slower AND have 25% less pipes that is a pretty minor performance gap. Odd actually. Will have to wait and see I guess.

 

[Jimmers]

hmm....

code:--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Known 61.11 driver bugs:

117597 [TWIMTBP]NV40,WinXP: Corruption when trying to take a screenshot with AA enabeld in Far Cry.

117561 [TWIMTBP]NV38/40,WinXP: Corruption of some weapons in Far Cry.

117474 [TWIMTBP]NV40,WinXP: Fog broke in Far Cry.

113476 NV38/40-WinXP: Lighting/shadow problem in FarCry.

117575 [TWIMTBP] NV40/38: Banding visible from wall in FarCry.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

FW 61.11 looks like it's going to start a ton of flame wars over IQ. And I thought this was over.

Scroll to second page in thread, halfway down, posted by LovesuckZ

 

[Clashman]

Can't say I'm not disappointed in X800XT speed based off of these benchies...

It's kind of hard to make judgements off of two benchmarks run at 1024x768 and when using drivers on certain cards which seem quite likely to be cheating. Let's wait till we get a more complete review, here.

 

[surfhurleydude]

Um....

These are non AA / Aniso benchmarks from what I can tell. Wouldn't surprise me in the least that they are mostly CPU limited on the X800 at these settings.

Perhaps, but if they were CPU limited, the X800XT wouldn't have higher FPS than the X800 Pro, assuming they are both using the same driver set. These don't say much, AA + AF will tell the whole story.

 

[Sanctusx2]

Why are the XT's 4 extra pipes making so little of a difference?

 

[flick556]

Um....

These are non AA / Aniso benchmarks from what I can tell. Wouldn't surprise me in the least that they are mostly CPU limited on the X800 at these settings.

Perhaps, but if they were CPU limited, the X800XT wouldn't have higher FPS than the X800 Pro, assuming they are both using the same driver set. These don't say much, AA + AF will tell the whole story.

Perhaps they are only cpu limited in certain parts of the benchmark, explaining why thier min fps is the same.

 

[Joe DeFuria]

Perhaps, but if they were CPU limited, the X800XT wouldn't have higher FPS than the X800 Pro, assuming they are both using the same driver set.

??

I said mostly CPU limited. No game test is either going to be 100% one way or the other.

These don't say much, AA + AF will tell the whole story.

Agree there. Hell, even 1600x1200 with "high quality" settings would tell a better story than 1024x768 with normal quality...

 

[AlphaWolf]

probably fabricated... speed difference between the xt and pro is nothing, /me smells something fishy.

Its a 3.2 gig p4, running in 1024x768 with no AA or AF.

If you want the full benefit of the higher end part no doubt you will need a bleeding edge cpu and AA/AF applied. I would reserve judgement before you see a full complement of tests.