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Originally posted by gmat
Duh. Never consider any bench *before* the actual card is out on the market, drivers are being developed until the last minute, and in the case of NVidia, even after the product release... And they *do* make a heck of a difference.
(and AA is not "rendering details" - the real test is 'high polygon count' scenes from games, with lots of *rendered* effects)
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Nvidia has had A LOT of time fine tuning their drivers while waiting for 0.13micron and DDR2. Look at anandtechs review btw where they are quite thorough and compare IQ and THEN benchmark using same IQ settings, the GFFX is overrun. Also HardOCP managed to overclock their GFFX to 530/535 which is far from stellar. While on a radeon 9700 pro u can easily get it to lets say 380 on core and 340 on memory (450/380 with good cooling and Vmod). Radeon 9700 pro is out now and will cost less than GFFX. Nvidia will have a tough time up ahead.
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