Here comes the new 512MB video cards

LVCapo · Post by **LVCapo** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 1:14 pm

http://www.bfgtech.com/6800U_512_PCIX.html

Oh baby!!!!

gvblake22 · Post by **gvblake22** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 12:27 pm

Those look pretty sweet, but do you really think it will increase performance that much? Do you think it will be worth the price premium?

LVCapo · Post by **LVCapo** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 1:36 pm

to be honest....not many games even take advantage of everything a 256mb card has to offer......call it video card envy.

gvblake22 · Post by **gvblake22** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 2:17 pm

capper5016 wrote:to be honest....not many games even take advantage of everything a 256mb card has to offer......call it video card envy.

Thats kinda what I was thinkin too

InFuZiOn · Post by **InFuZiOn** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 1:51 am

My thought is the same. Look at windows....its just now coming out with an OS that fully utilizes the 64 bit processors and we're already getting stuff that we can't fully utilize in the video card area!! :D

I am looking to get a better card than my Jaton nVIDIA 6800 128mb tho...

infinitevalence · Post by **infinitevalence** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 10:16 am

Thats not that bad a card, chances are you would loose more money trying to upgrade than just sticking it out until there is a real advantage to upgrading. IE going from a 9600pro to 6800gt/X800XL. you would be spending alot for only a small increase in performance.

gvblake22 · Post by **gvblake22** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 10:45 am

infinitevalence wrote:Thats not that bad a card, chances are you would loose more money trying to upgrade than just sticking it out until there is a real advantage to upgrading. IE going from a 9600pro to 6800gt/X800XL. you would be spending alot for only a small increase in performance.

You're saying that going from a 9600pro to a 6800gt/X800XL is only a small increase?!?! I'm sorry, but I'm gonna have to disagree with you on that one...

You could argue that an X600pro 128 is roughly equal to the performance of a 9600pro 128 and if you look through the following review, you will notice that the X800pro and 6800GT cards are roughly twice as good as the X600pro in prettymuch every benchmark and game at only 1024x768 resolution with NO AA and AF enabled. With "eyecandy" (4xAA and 8xAF) and still only at 1024x760, the performance gap grows more. THEN, when you increase the resolution to 1600x1400 with eyecandy, well, I'll let the fps charts speak for themselves

. It is not even playable on the X600pro whereas the 6800GT still gets very playable framerates.
http://graphics.tomshardware.com/graphi ... _mark_2005

EDIT: Just noticed that maybe you were using the 9600pro -> 6800GT/X800XL as an example of a worthwhile upgrade; in which case I would have to strongly agree with you

Sorry for the confusion.

infinitevalence · Post by **infinitevalence** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 11:21 am

Its all good.