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New Drivers Cause HD3870 to Beat 8800GT with High RES & AA

I guess only the ATI owners understand the implications of these latest improvements and what it will mean for the near future in driver improvements.

We've all been with ATI before, we know, once a product beds in, the drivers make tremendous improvements. Something nVidia have never really been able to do. ATI seem to know how to continually tweak their hardware for better performance.

It's why people who have been with ATI before weren't dissapointed with the initial benchmarks. They know ATI will get it right once they get the hardware right, and the hardware seems about right this time.
 
Yes they are tweaking the drivers, but i still don't get how the non overclocked 2900 XT with the latest drivers is getting the same frames as it was getting with the old drivers, yet the overclocked 2900 XT is getting more frames with the new drivers than it did with the old. :confused:
 
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Soul Rider said:
I guess only the ATI owners understand the implications of these latest improvements and what it will mean for the near future in driver improvements.

We've all been with ATI before, we know, once a product beds in, the drivers make tremendous improvements. Something nVidia have never really been able to do. ATI seem to know how to continually tweak their hardware for better performance.

It's why people who have been with ATI before weren't dissapointed with the initial benchmarks. They know ATI will get it right once they get the hardware right, and the hardware seems about right this time.
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Well its took em nearly 8 months man to get em right!
 
willhub said:
Well its took em nearly 8 months man to get em right!
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Riiiiiiiiiight :





From 20+ to 4 fps with 4x extra aa?
:rolleyes:

Also why is anno the only game they've tested?


Also, since when is the 1950xtx better than an old g80 GTS ?
 
This is what that is saying :- (i made this up as an example) :p

Standard 2900 XT COD 4

1280x1024 65 1600x1200 72 = old drivers

Standard 2900 XT COD 4

1280x1024 65 1600x1200 72 = new drivers

Overclocked 2900 XT COD 4

1280x1024 72 1600x1200 77 = old drivers

Overclocked 2900 XT COD 4

1280x1024 85 1600x1200 92 = new drivers

As you can see , makes no sense at all, overclocked 2900 XT with new drivers should also read :-

Overclocked 2900 XT COD 4

1280x1024 72 160x1200 77 = new drivers, the same as it does with the old ones.

Overclocked 2900 XT being the 3870, as thats all the 3870 is.
 
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Dudes, there are like 15 pages of reviews of biosock, crysis, Prey, Stalker, do you guys not know how to read a review???

Also you guys are slagging off THE BIGGEST AND MOST RESPECTED computer review site in Germany. Can you not see the difference in the reviews between the old drivers and the new drivers?

Why do you guys come into threads and start talking absolute nonsense about things you obviously don't understand.

This is showing how much of an improvement there is on the drivers from 7xx-8xx. If you notice the GT performed just as badly the first time round, because they used the same benchmarks. They didn't retest the GT. Just so happens first time the 3870 was worse at 8xAA, just happens that their driver fixes have solved their AA issues.

I would expect people on this forum

1) to have a little more respect.

2) ACTUALLY READ THE REVIEW BEFORE RUBBISHING IT.

If you are not prepared to do the above, you are not welcome to post in my thread.
 
Soul Rider said:
If you are not prepared to do the above, you are not welcome to post in my thread.
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The results are questionable though, how can an 8800GT go from 26 FPS to 4 by adding 4x extra AA additionally ?
And why is an 1950XTX faster than an old 8800GTS ?

Both of these things should never happen, and probably don't.
 
Just finished installing the drivers and yes some additional FPS at 1920x1080 with and without AA enabled, nothing to get excited over though. Biggest improvement is that Crossfire support seems to have been improved over 7.12 so my 2x3870's are actually paying for themselves in some games that I was having difficulties with before the driver release.
 
I take it those scores are for the 256Mb 8800GT and NOT the 512Mb so they are very misleading... at 2560x with 512Mb on each the GT will only be 20% slower than the GTS at the most... giving a score of around 10fps not 3.8.

Obviously this is also tied to a specific game - I've clicked through the rest of their benchmarks tho and I can't really seriously consider the validity of their 2560x benchmarks with high levels of FSAA theres to many disrepecancies...

Theres no denying the 3870 is a good card tho and unlike the 2900 series I wouldn't be embarassed to admitting to owning one if I had one... but if I was gaming at 2560x I wouldn't be buying the 8800GT or the 3870 so any gains one has over the other there is a moot point.
 
willhub said:
So you getting dramatic improvement with AA?
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getting some signs of deja-vu here.

not gonna name any names but there was this one guy who has a 2900xt and he used to post threads like this all the time showing benchmarks where the 2900 came close to or beat the 8800gtx.
a month later the guy made a complete mockery of himself and bought a 8800gtx.

the op reminds me of this guy, expect a 3870 in the members market next month and notch up another 8800gt sale for ocuk.

:p
 
Mav, you make a mockery everytime you post with your fabricated misinformed bull****, I don't think you need to worry about other people :)
 
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