Well...when I originally started this thread, I was not out to "damage" the GFFX possibilities. As the review site stated, it was just kinda disapointing that Nvidia wasnt leaps and bounds ahead of what ATI was offering now.
Also, DRIVERS will make a huge difference when they are officially released. Nvidia is after all a SOFTWARE company making hardware to back up their products. I must say that with all my expereince with drivers and the likes, Nvidia does and excellent job at making their drivers fast and stable. It is really too soon to make speculations, I just thought that it would be interesting to see how far along the FX was comming.
I really hope that they do find some way to get rid of that hairdryer though. Even with modern day machines sounding like vacuum cleaners more and more, the FX will not help matters much (but does look cool
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BTW The FX uses 128bit DDR2 modules which can be clocked much higher than DDR1 units however the Radeon uses 256bit DDR1 units at a slower pace. The actual bandwith numbers comes out with the Radeon 9700Pro @ 19.2Gbps where the FX base is only 16.8Gbps. Nvidia is counting on Compression to boost the bandwith to about 48Gbps. So straight hardware to hardware, the Radeon 9700Pro does have an advantage over the FX already. It will be up to the drivers to determine if the FX will be able to reach its theoretical 48Gbps or not. Sometimes faster is not allways better (wow, did I acutally just say that
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