Late, noisy, HUGE!!! - makes 17k Mark...

I wish I could find that joke chart showing the Radeon9700 with 15,000 3dmarks, the NV30 with 35,000 3dmarks, and the R400 with 45,000 3dmarks, lol.

If only that were so...

 

bah, 3dmarks are overrated

 

17K is nothing special. I overclocked my 9700pro to 378/344 which is not that extreme, and I barely overclocked my 2400+ at all, I just use a lower multiplier with a high fsb. I certainly wouldn't consider getting 17K on a GFX much of an upgrade. Really need more details of the score, what FSB, etc.

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=5494651 17K
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=5597115 17K
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=5572599 16.9K
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=5596643 16.8K

At 1600x1200:

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=5608745 12K
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=5572768 12K

 

16592 on my 2.0 GHz Athlon (2400)

Score: 16592 On Air/ AMB@2000MHZ 200MHZ* x 10
Date: 2003-1-15
Res: 1024x768 32bit
OS: Microsoft Windows XP
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) XP/MP/4 2005 MHz
GPU: ATI RADEON 9700/9500 Series

 

looking at this thread and this card puts me in mind of the comments we saw when the Voodoo 5500 and 6000 were released:

It takes a separate power supply!
It's fricken huge!

How the tables have turned Still, if I could afford it I would probably get one. I got a 5500 after all, since it was the best thing you could buy at the time. I also had 3 slots taken up when I had Voodoo 2 SLI.

If anything, the release of this monster ought to bring the price of a 9700 down to realistic levels. 300 bux is crazy amounts of cash for a video card. 400 is insane. I didn't spend that for SLI cause I got a card for free

 

Well said...its getting out of hand when a entire card launch lives or dies with 3Dmarks scores

 

3D Mxxx here and there....
The Most Useless Bench Ever, it can´t be told enough. And for sure its one of the Most Manpulating Bench Ever. You guys are so experienced in the 3d internet community, i cant still understand why your give all the time so lot of your attention to this and waste your time. Please do yourself a favour and boycott this "nothing saying about real world performance bench", if not this crap will never end.
It doesn´t matter if the 3d Mxxx is cpu limited or not, the point is its tell nothing about real world performance.

17k? holy crap what a score, i dreamed of this score since the day 3d mxxx was released, almost every night, NO EVERY NIGHT. So its true: some dreams really come true.


THE WAY ITS MEANT TO MADE YOUR DRAMS COME TRUE - HOLY, KISSED BY THE POPE - DUST BUSTER GEFORCE 17kFX MXXX (tm) BY NVIDIA

 

Taking a seperate power supply is good IMO, eliminates issues with cheap motherboards...the Voodoo 5 was big for a reason, it has two 0.25 micron VSA 100's

 

Personally, i think the score is complete BS.

Well see what happens when the RELEASE DRIVERS are tested be hardware sites. Then we will know something. As it is.. There is no info on any of the indiviudual scores, the quality, or an explanation on how the hell they gained 3000 3dmarks with virtually the same nature score as a 9700...

Please.. Less CPU dependant.. to the tune of 3000 points??? On tests that have been proven to be extremely CPU dependant? in ways that have nothing to do with driver support..

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20$ says the score was closer to mid 16 something and the demo was running lower than 1024x768..
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I have a problem with the guys credibility who reported this in the futuremark post. He says he was too distracted by all the big breasted women to notice any of the individual scores. Yet he's not too distracted to get all of the details on the system the gffx was in, right down to the memory timings? What person in their right mind would ask about memory timings yet fail to get the individual scores? I'll believe it when I see it.

 

Man, sounds just like my prom date. And that was very sad too.

Tommy McClain

 

Notice on the sound card and even the nv30 itself (not the cooling device) the card does not extend beyond the bracket.

The cooling device itself goes right to the edge of the bracket.

Good luck putting anything in that PCI slot. It will fit, but it will probably be rubbing against that plastic.

on another note, Id be more concerned with the backplate and it coming close to northbridge cooling on alot of motherboards......

 

Yes. A decently OC'd 9700 (say 370/350 ish) with a 2400 at 10x200 FSB all on an nf2 mainboard (irony) will do about 17000. Bump Vcore and push that 2400 to 2.3 GHz and you'll be flirting with 18k.

Like I said, it'll be interesting to see how much OC headroom the GFFX has...

Mize

 

I'm not expecting any great overclocking with the GFFX, as it seems to be already overclocked! Again, I'm guessing nVidia has clocked it as high as possible in order to get ahead of the 9700Pro.....

 

I'm doubting....
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=5494651

 

Some more info from 3D Chipset -

http://www.3dchipset.com/index.php#1040

 

I didn't know GFFX even comes with a NIC attached to it

 

Cooool a Nic attached too

 

The problem with 3dMark2001 is that everyone always just looks at the overall score rather than the synthetic benchmarks to get an indication of performance. It's the users, not the product.