Finally there is a review that will show what the r700 is capable of in a good light and a non cpu bottlenecked state.

http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/arti [...] VzaWFzdA==

I direct you specifically to the 24xCSAA with ADAA enabled to show you what this card is truly capable of:

http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/arti [...] VzaWFzdA==

Age of Conan 2560*1600, 8xADAA - 4870x2 Crossfired:

http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/imag [...] 9sLnBuZw==

Any X2 card, or sli cf setup with these latest cards will be cpu bottlenecked. I almost like [H] way of doing reviews, it is different, and brings a few insightful things

hey guys, I have a hardly used 8800 gts 512 with original box for only 500.00....it was only used on sundays by a little old man to play bingo !

LOL, trade ya straight up for a slightly used GTS320....PLUS Ill throw in a slightly used 1900xt512mb

i'd trade you my 9800 pro.. but i don't have another agp card for my athlonxp box >_>

Nice performance and with pre-release drivers so it should be very interesting soon. I am running a single 8800GT @ 1920x1200 and I can play all my games maxed except Crysis and still neither of these setups even SLI and Crossfire can do that so I think I might have to wait for the next generation to upgrade.

I have doubts that release drivers are going to catapult it any further than it is, but the performance is good to say the least. A release driver might bump up Crysis performance though, seeing as they are communicating through an onboard XF bridge.

On most dual gpu setups with mature drivers (AMD or Nvidia), the scaling for Crysis is about 50% of the framerate of a single gpu; so I would say there will be some improvement there.

O.O

Wow... just... wow...

I don't think release drivers will make a night and day difference but they should certainly improve the scaling in Crysis where the performance of 2 cards was actually worse.

Yea, and you criticized me for calling a test on a 3.2 ghz cpu a fluff test

Now do you understand how much a higher clocked CPU can show the potential of a gpu?

Anyways..

Just think. All of these benchmarks will have to be re-ran when Nehalem is out.

Nah, by the time Nehalem is out we'll have a whole new suite of games to bench on...

Far Cry2 and Stalker : Clear Sky being the two most anticipated for next gen graphics.

It was only at 3.6 though, I bet you can spend half the money on a Q9550 and get the same performance.

All the cpu "experts" criticised me for saying this a few months ago, that common cpus will bottleneck this gen of gfx cards, makes me wonder if they arent all caught up in a bunch of hype. Like more cores? Whats funny is, gpus are the parallel processors heheh

Or buy a C2D and clock it to 4.0ghz for even less for the same performance in these titles

But really, there is a pretty markable difference between 3.2 and 3.6 on a quad core as far as eliminating cpu issues goes, especially in titles like Crysis and AoC that will actually use the helper threads when possible~