Leaked NV40 Benchies from HOCP

[Helevitia]

get them while they are still up!

http://mbnet.fi/elixir/NV40/

I can't believe the performance in Far Cry is barely beating the 9800XT? Did I miss something?

[Helevitia]

OK, i see the difference, 4xAA vs 2xAA. Big deal. If that is all you get for the 6800U in DX9, I'll pass.



Dave

[bsdgeek]

You're conspiring with those Commie Canucks, aren't you?!?!!! I'll teach you to paint an unfavorable picture for nVidiamerica!

But seriously, it seems to do well in everything else:










Check out that Call of Duty! Nvidia really does love Q3 games.

[Tjalfe]

They all look to be the same generation card..the NV40 is not consistantly beating any of the others.. I guess we will get a more complete picture tomorrow when they are officially launched.

[Chrono_Wanderer]

I think we will see the power of NV40 once high precision Pixel Shaders kick in

[XHotKolaX]

Hmm.

Far cry has NV40 at 2X the AA level of the 9800XT.

Flight sim one has it at 2X the AA level and AF level

UT has NV40 at 4X AA and 2X the AF level. 9800XT using no AA

Spinter Cell has NV40 at 1.67X higher res and 8X AF. 9800XT using no AF

Battlefield has NV at 4X AA and a 1.50X higher res. 9800XT using no AA.

CoD has it at 1.46X higher res.

With driver work still to come. I think it looks pretty good, actually. Here's hoping it's standard with dual DVI.

[Helevitia]

Originally posted by XHotKolaX
Here's hoping it's standard with dual DVI.

Gigabyte already announced the Dual DVI 6800U. Not sure about the rest.

Dave

[Helevitia]

Originally posted by Chrono_Wanderer
I think we will see the power of NV40 once high precision Pixel Shaders kick in

Uh? which shaders are you referring to? The Far Cry benchmark shows that the 6800U pretty much sucks ass with shaders. If you are talking about PS3.0 then that is a moot point since there are ZERO games out that have it. And probably by the time it gets used, the R460 or R500 will be out and support PS3.0.

Dave

Actually, I forgot that Far Cry added PS3.0 to the latest patch(not sure how much though)

Improved shader speed (up to two times faster) for NVidia Geforce FX cards on very high settings
- Fixed fog bug with NVidia drivers
- Added support for NVidia NV40 chipset
- Fixed realtime shadows from blended trees
- Made improvements to lighting shaders on very high settings
- Fixed bug with lake reflections
- Added support fro PS3.0 shader profile

I believe all of the benchmarks were run with PS2.0 though.

Dave

[Chrono_Wanderer]

Depends on what the settings for far cry is in this test. I think only in the "higest quality setting" it provides 2.0, even high setting uses only 1.x shaders. But then they may be using PS2.0... whatever lol

but, I wonder what kind of PS2.0 they use... I think its likely to be the FP16 format for the competibility (ati and nv supports them on their hardware).

What I mean was full precision, i.e. FP24/FP32, and lots and lots of pixel shaders 2.0 programs. By reading the info released, it seems like NV really focused on the PS development.

they claimed:

http://mbnet.fi/elixir/NV40/10813058804U5m1JdTdm_3_2_l.jpg

8X shaders performance comparing to NV35 (of course that is total BS but NV40 must be dramatically improved anyhow). Interesing thing is they said "4X the pipes", lol, so maybe now they are admitting NV35 has only 4 pipes while NV40 has 16. hahaha.

An another interesing thing is:

http://mbnet.fi/elixir/NV40/10813058804U5m1JdTdm_3_8_l.gif

2 shaders units/clock

[Admiral]

I'm looking forward to a 6800 non Ultra to replace my 9700 Pro that I'll be giving to my brother, to replace his GF3 Ti200 in turn.

[DGhost]

Originally posted by Helevitia
Uh? which shaders are you referring to? The Far Cry benchmark shows that the 6800U pretty much sucks ass with shaders. If you are talking about PS3.0 then that is a moot point since there are ZERO games out that have it. And probably by the time it gets used, the R460 or R500 will be out and support PS3.0.

Dave

Actually, I forgot that Far Cry added PS3.0 to the latest patch(not sure how much though)

Improved shader speed (up to two times faster) for NVidia Geforce FX cards on very high settings
- Fixed fog bug with NVidia drivers
- Added support for NVidia NV40 chipset
- Fixed realtime shadows from blended trees
- Made improvements to lighting shaders on very high settings
- Fixed bug with lake reflections
- Added support fro PS3.0 shader profile

I believe all of the benchmarks were run with PS2.0 though.

Dave

of course, you are still forgetting that it is doing the same level of performance at 2x the AA mode as the 9800XT, and the same level of performance as the 5950 Ultra which had AA and AF disabled entirely.

[Maggi]

anybody got a clue what this apples-with-peaches-comparison-bs is about ???

I mean, what conclusion can you draw from those charts, other than "at differing settings, you get differring results" ?

what a surprise ...

[Chrono_Wanderer]

rofl@Maggi

its [H], can't blame them

[Maggi]

FYI

http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/article/1708.1/

[Fluff]

yum, should shut those ati fan boys up for a few minutes.
The previews in 3DS Max should look nice, and quick...
Wonder what the quadro will be like.