Well 3d mark 06 has come out and we are all having our systems judged yet again, the joys! Everyone is going crazy with the usual, OMG my PC got 0wn3d and thats fair enough! But really why upgrade purely because of it!
In terms of performance we have seen the GTX 512 at top of the mountain as expected but then the GTX 256 follows it which to many will probably be a surprise!
Then the next card is the ATi x1800xt 512 but that is again closely and I mean closely followed by the 7800 GT! I slight overclock and the GT takes over the x1800xt with ease!
But in reality this is not the case as we have seen from the games we play today with the results usually swapping the 256gtx and the x1800xt round and then the x1800xl comes onto a level playing field with the GT!
I'd sayj the results were pretty unexpected, i admit i never expected them tocome out the way they did but hey, thats probably due to NVidia's better SM 3.0 engine which is technically in its 2nd Generation whereas ATi's is in its 1st!
With new games coming out this year and a lot of these technologies being implememented do you think the 3dmark 06 results will happen in games? I severely doubt it! Just trying to get a fairly good discussion on all our cards and technology so feel free to add to this.
P.S anyone got the 1024x748 results for 3D mark 06 yet as that would be interesting to see if the performance hit was as severe as bumping the res up as well as all the added effects.
In terms of performance we have seen the GTX 512 at top of the mountain as expected but then the GTX 256 follows it which to many will probably be a surprise!
Then the next card is the ATi x1800xt 512 but that is again closely and I mean closely followed by the 7800 GT! I slight overclock and the GT takes over the x1800xt with ease!
But in reality this is not the case as we have seen from the games we play today with the results usually swapping the 256gtx and the x1800xt round and then the x1800xl comes onto a level playing field with the GT!
I'd sayj the results were pretty unexpected, i admit i never expected them tocome out the way they did but hey, thats probably due to NVidia's better SM 3.0 engine which is technically in its 2nd Generation whereas ATi's is in its 1st!
With new games coming out this year and a lot of these technologies being implememented do you think the 3dmark 06 results will happen in games? I severely doubt it! Just trying to get a fairly good discussion on all our cards and technology so feel free to add to this.
P.S anyone got the 1024x748 results for 3D mark 06 yet as that would be interesting to see if the performance hit was as severe as bumping the res up as well as all the added effects.