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Leadtek outs RV670 performance?

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This image is taken directly from leadtek's website. Note the little performance graph on the box? I'm struggling to work out what the benchmarks are (the second looks vaguely like Company of Heroes) but it says the 8800GT performs 10-35% better.

Propaganda to be taken with a pinch of salt? Leadtek is an exclusive nVIDIA partner...

Edit: the page the image is from: http://www.leadtek.com/eng/3d_graphic/overview.asp?lineid=1&pronameid=383
 
Precisely why I think this is a bit dodgy. I won't be surprised if AMD make them take this down - but presumably it's actually printed on the box?!
 
It does look like it's printed on the box, maybe they do know something we don't?

Either way, I suppose that the perforance of the RV670 is rumoured to be around 10-20% below that of the 8800GT so maybe they're right...
 
It certainly would, which is why it may be true.

Deep down though I am hoping that its performance exceeds that of the 2900XT...
 
If it's true then I don't see any reason it should be printed on the box.

If not then Leadtek officially suck, but I've always liked Leadtek for cheapies-but-goodies.
 
How would leadtek even know about the RV670, no details have been released yet and they dont even manufacture ATi cards afaik.

It's all just marketing BS, if I were after a card i'd be waiting 2 more weeks before making any solid choices as the GTS refresh is out along with ATi's refresh also.
 
If it's wrong I can smell a lawsuit. Part of me is hoping for a monster ATi card to really shake things up. The alleged 'free' 4xAA would be a nice start and even things up a bit. The box also doesn't seem to show which RV670. AFAIK there's the HD3850 and the HD3870. Would be a cheap shot to use the lower performing card in the example.

If this is really how it performs £90 to £120 would be a nice price point but can they afford to do that? I can't see it.
 
Thinking about it, the first graph is probably Call of Juarez. 2900 series do very well in Company of Heroes.

Fud says RV670 is slower than 8800GT. Inq says it's faster. They've gone out to reviewers already so we should find out soon.
 
Industrial espionage? A joke? Lies?

Strangely only the standard version has it. The site shows that Leadtek's overclocked version has a very similar box but no graph:

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simonnance said:
Yeah..... most of that seems to come from you.....

:rolleyes:
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Cheque's in the post from the green team, I thought Loadsa had more knowledge than to go around spouting unfounded crap. :rolleyes:

Anyway, it's impossible to see what performance they're measuring - it's easy to make a graph look exactly how you want it to.

"8800GT vs RV670 Performance" then in small text it says "at making toast".

:D
 
Tute said:
"8800GT vs RV670 Performance" then in small text it says "at making toast".

:D
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That made me laugh for about 5min......

TBH, we have heard squat info about the RV670 apart from the obvious, and TBH we have known there will be a die-shrunk R600 for oh....... 6 months? AMD are tight lipped, but if it were just a die shrink surely they would have snuck it in quietly like the 65nm rev to their 90nm CPUs? And why are Nvidia cutting prices all of a sudden... they are hardly the company to do it out of the "goodness of their heart" considering the constantly stable 8800 prices untill now.

Hey, maybe RV670 will be a load of crud, and another R600 scale dissapointment (though hopefully AMD will stay price/performance competitive) but here's hoping for some real competition. I need a new gfx soon anyhow so i want as many options as i can get, and since i have a X38 in the mail to me, crossfire looks mighty tastey if it has the balls to tango with the 8800GT on performance.

Nov 19th is D-Day for AMD, let's just hope it's not a re-run of Omaha Beach......

EDIT:

Fresh out of the rumour mill...... Crossfire technology demonstrated on an Nvidia board! http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/10/29/crossfire-work-nvidia-intel-amd

So while 8800GT wont Tri-SLi, you might be able to plug 3x 38xx cards into a 680i mobo.....

What ever will they think of next?
 
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