R520 info thread #(9!)^9

I am so happy angle dependant AF is biting the dust. AF quality has really taken a back seat to performance the last few years, I'm glad it is finally going to go back to the way it was during the 4600/5900 days. When angle dependant AF was first introduced it didn't bug me that much, but after spending years with it, you really begin to see it's weaknesses, that and all the other crazy optimizations ATi and nVidia have done to compromise AF quality over the years. This will no doubt cause nVidia to follow suit and dump angle dependant AF soon too (if it is not hardwired on the 6800/7800, their next gen card for sure). Here's to hoping we see the unoptimization of AF.

 

With 2x speed improvement for 6xaa, adaptive aa, and improved texturing quality, Tinkerbell has been moved from intensive care to a semi-private room in "guarded" condition.

But, in the long-honored tradition of graphics enthusiasts everywhere, I shall now blithely stick all of that in my pocket and commence to bitching.

2x the speed at 6xaa and 512mb of memory. . .why the bloody H are we still at 6xaa??

 

Considering the X1800 has OC headroom, I think its going to be quite, quite sexy. Now i'm almost done "anticipating" r520, time for r580...

Nice for the FEAR game though, thats just good.

 

I stopped reading there. FEAR is faster on Nvidia cards ~20%.

http://firingsquad.com/hardware/fear_beta_performance/page4.asp

 

FEAR is also title that I believe will have SLI support out of the box.

 

And CoD2. (Dual VPU support)

 

huh? on old hardware from ATI, yes?

 

Power point slides take how long to fudge up?

 

i have no doubt its faster on a GTX when compared to ATI's current cards, i'v known that for awhile. My point is that they're using high performance drivers for the show, and since Nvidia is a sponsor of Monolith it really doesnt come as a surprise they're bosting such a huge difference comparing a GTX to an X1800. If they found that they had that, they may as well use it. It is something to be proud about considering how demanding the demos have been on hardware. I said nothing of the R4XX line of cards so i dont see why thats an issue.

 

True, and there is a mistake on one of the X1600 slides, but we'll all know in a couple of days.

 

6800 Ultra is ~20% faster than a X850 XT PE, no need to even compare 7800GTX.

It looks like you are nitpicking everything, even the AA images. From the looks of it, they are PR slides so there will be something to nitpick, duh !

 

Did I see that correctly? I thought that the x1300 series was not going to support Crossfire. But according to the sell sheets it is...

All in all it looks like we could have some winning cards here. I would have preferred to see the x1600 matched up against the 6800 vanilla rather than the 6600gt

 

i dont understand what you're having a problem with? We're not talking about ATIs current cards...why are you bringing it here? Also im a tad bit tired and not typing too well, the game is actually a WIMTBP game, so oops to Nvidia thats kind of embarassing.

 

What I love

It is funny to me anyway...

 

Not to mention that you're up at 2am cramming for oh, something or other, in a couple days, having been handed what is probably an impossible assignment to get done by the deadlne?

Yeah, I'd be cranky too.

 

FEAR is actually a TWIMTBP game.

 

He was talking about those FEAR benchmarks that he linked too. And the 6800U does appear to be faster than the X850XT PE in that game.

 

i know but i never questioned that...

 

What is fear doing that makes it run better on nvidia cards?

 

yeh yeh I just hate having to apply the bullshit filter to so much in the technology world. Have to update that filter as much as my spam and virus filters