New Ultra High End Price Point With GeForce 8800 Ultra
by Derek Wilson on May 2, 2007 9:00 AM EST- Posted in
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Battlefield 2 Performance
Without AA enabled, our BF2 performance numbers are very CPU limited even up to 1920x1200. Even our 4xAA numbers peg the CPU at 1600x1200, but they do show a little more detail at the higher resolutions. Gamers who like the Battlefield series won't be losing anything by avoiding the 8800 Ultra.
BF2 performance in game is limited to 100fps, so any performance over this will be capped. Compressing our scores even more clearly shows that nothing faster than an 8800 GTX is going to make a real performance difference in BF2. Our 8800 Ultra is only slightly faster than the EVGA card, and comes in at a little more than 10% faster than the 8800 GTX.
Without AA enabled, our BF2 performance numbers are very CPU limited even up to 1920x1200. Even our 4xAA numbers peg the CPU at 1600x1200, but they do show a little more detail at the higher resolutions. Gamers who like the Battlefield series won't be losing anything by avoiding the 8800 Ultra.
BF2 performance in game is limited to 100fps, so any performance over this will be capped. Compressing our scores even more clearly shows that nothing faster than an 8800 GTX is going to make a real performance difference in BF2. Our 8800 Ultra is only slightly faster than the EVGA card, and comes in at a little more than 10% faster than the 8800 GTX.
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redbone75 - Wednesday, May 2, 2007 - link
You meant we will not "accept" them;)redbone75 - Wednesday, May 2, 2007 - link
But anywho, I completely agree with you. I just built a complete rig for a buddy of mine for barely more than that. And I mean, complete, he needed everything from monitor (Samsung 941BW) to keyboard and mouse and speakers(7.1). Core 2 Duo based (E6320 on a Gigabyte DS3, 2 gigs of Corsair DDR2 800, 320GB hdd, X1900 GT). All for under $1100 USD after rebates. Not a gaming rig for sure, but a respectable system nonetheless. Even if I had the money I wouldn't see any justification in buying an $830 card that offered only marginal gains over it's less expensive sibling.kmmatney - Wednesday, May 2, 2007 - link
What do you mean not a gaming rig? You can game fine on that, the video card can handle native resolution for most games. I game with a slightly lesser system than that.strikeback03 - Wednesday, May 2, 2007 - link
If you buy a Ferrari and don't crash it, you can probably resell in 5 years for 80% or more of the cost new. Try that with a video card.Sunrise089 - Thursday, May 3, 2007 - link
Please look up exotic car prices. You will find you do NOT get an 80% return on anything other than a few tiny examples of cars that were generally unavailable at the time of their initial offerings. Also note that when you take advantage of the gouging to non-established customers of exotic cars, the depreciation will often be even more than adds would appear to indicate, as the orginal paid-for price may have been much higher than MSRP.strikeback03 - Thursday, May 3, 2007 - link
the "few tiny examples" are the ones that appreciate, such as the Enzo. If you were one of the 399 that bought one from the factory for around $650k, you now have a car worth over a million, and likely to keep heading up as dumb comedians crash them. Something relatively common though, such as a 355 from 10 years ago, is still worth over 50% of new (assuming you bought one through a dealer, not paid extra to get one immediately). Even NSXs from the early 90s are still worth $25-35k. And judging by the current market, even in 20-30 years, the Ferrari will still have some value because it is a Ferrari, independant of actual performance relative to current models. Any computer hardware, unless extremely limited production so that it is a collectors item, will be essentially worthless by the time it is 3 or 4 generations old.coldpower27 - Wednesday, May 2, 2007 - link
There is a difference in the pace of advancement between these 2 industries a new Ferrari from 2003 is not so much inferior compared to the Ferrari from 2008 perse.You can barely compare video cards that are 5 years apart. If the pace of advancement was slower video cards would hold their value longer as well.
ss284 - Wednesday, May 2, 2007 - link
Voodoo 5 6000swaaye - Wednesday, May 2, 2007 - link
Except that V5 6000 was never released to consumer retail and thus it's incredibly rare. So its value is just due to obscurity.Samus - Wednesday, May 2, 2007 - link
looks like teh sux0rs.unfortunately, ATI still doesn't have anything that can touch any of the 8800's :(