You miss the point, it's exactly the same idea.
The 5200 is completely different. It uses a .15 micron process were as the other fx cards use .13. Two totally different chips.
And how is that different from the X800 and the R9800 0.15/0.13+more pipes+ faster clock + added functions?
Understand now? Seriously look a little deeper.
And yes Nvidia 6800 lets you turn on trilinear filtering.
Actually no you can't not on all. The initial drivers you could, but not anymore.
And most of the ATI fan boy sites..
No bias on your part of course, right?
..used that to benchmark against the x800 pro , xt and pe because they thought it was apples to apples.
Yet with IQ comparisons they didn't find a difference, while the AF optimized option they did see a difference. And that's the point. If the IQ is almost exactly the same then it's a fairly good optimization, if it's terribly obvious, like the nV optimized method, then it's not a good optimization. Just like SSAA and MSAA like I said, and we know how ha's turned out.
...The results are remarkably close to the x800 pro
granted I'm not using the same test bed as the reviewers but its very close.
And those results would also be very close to the NV40 also. Like I said, both cards are far from what we expected and really should have received as so long a wait.
Despite that, I'm sure your results are nowhere near equal, maybe close. Care to post some and compare to SpeedUK's air cooled X800Pro? Post 3Dmk03 results, I doubt you can get within 1K of his.
And since you mention it again;
Will you want to spend $500 more bucks on a card that looks and performs like your 9800
Well you could do that or spend $400-500 on an FX5950 and get less performance than an R9800XT. I'd offer the GF6800s up for comparison except you can't acually get one. As I said before you compare your publish results to Speed's and show us how equal you can make your card with that extra coin for the watercooling solution of yours.
As for your dissapointment, so be it, stick with your current card. I may sitck with mine until the R480 comes (which may be this fall), it depends on the results of the PCI-EX cards, by which time much more will/should be known about these architectures, both their limitations and benifits.
However refine your statements to at least be able to recognize a counterpoint. Don't let the Quadro name fool you, I chose the 3000 instead of the 4000 specifically to prove my point, but if the FX5900/5950 or even 5700 works better for you, use that too.
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