NVIDIA's Tiny 90nm G71 and G73: GeForce 7900 and 7600 Debut
by Derek Wilson on March 9, 2006 10:00 AM EST- Posted in
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Battlefield 2 High-End Performance
We have finally ironed out our issues with BF2 and SLI, so this time around we get to compare ATI and NVIDIA in multi GPU configurations. DICE has said in the past that results over 100 fps are not always reliable. It will suffice to say that CrossFire leads SLI at the low two resolutions. Putting a finer point on it goes against what we know of the benchmark's behavior. Interestingly, at higher resolutions (above 1600x1200), while the 7900 GTX and 7900 GT fall further behind ATI's single card solutions, SLI is able to take the lead from CrossFire. This would seem to indicate that SLI has a bit more of a CPU limitation at the low end than CrossFire, but that it is ultimately much more efficient in BF2.
We have finally ironed out our issues with BF2 and SLI, so this time around we get to compare ATI and NVIDIA in multi GPU configurations. DICE has said in the past that results over 100 fps are not always reliable. It will suffice to say that CrossFire leads SLI at the low two resolutions. Putting a finer point on it goes against what we know of the benchmark's behavior. Interestingly, at higher resolutions (above 1600x1200), while the 7900 GTX and 7900 GT fall further behind ATI's single card solutions, SLI is able to take the lead from CrossFire. This would seem to indicate that SLI has a bit more of a CPU limitation at the low end than CrossFire, but that it is ultimately much more efficient in BF2.
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Regs - Thursday, March 9, 2006 - link
Or am I going to have to look for myself? Im too lazy Derek.DerekWilson - Thursday, March 9, 2006 - link
well... since the 7900 GT performs the same as the 7800 GTX ... and the 7800 GT performance relative to the 7800 GTX is well documented :-)You're right though, it might have been good to make this more clear.
Regs - Thursday, March 9, 2006 - link
So I suspect a 5-10% difference going from a 7800GT to a 7900GT.Phantronius - Thursday, March 9, 2006 - link
Derek, why are only the first graphs hightling the 7900' series in orange while the rest are totally blue? It makes it hard to compare them to the 7800 series.DerekWilson - Thursday, March 9, 2006 - link
sorry, we've had some problems with our graphign engine today -- I will make sure to update the colors on the rest of the graphs so they are more readable.my plan is to make the new single cards orange and their sli counterparts green.
I understand that it is a lot of data in one place, but I hope this helps.
Thanks,
Derek Wilson
coldpower27 - Thursday, March 9, 2006 - link
I though sites reported that the die size of the R580 is supposed to be 313mm2 not 353mm2 as stated in the article???
APKasten - Thursday, March 9, 2006 - link
Man, I've been reading this sight for like two years now and they always find a way to make me feel like a noob. Can anyone tell me what 'the IC' is? Didn't see the long form in the article.DerekWilson - Thursday, March 9, 2006 - link
Sorry ...Integrated Circuit.
It is the term for what is commonly refered to as a "chip"
APKasten - Thursday, March 9, 2006 - link
Oh man that's embarassing...for some reason I just couldn't figure that. Sometimes the brain just doesn't work right.4AcesIII - Thursday, March 9, 2006 - link
Not an ATI fan anyways but it does seem that these boys favor ATI in almost every review. Now having had experience with ATI it makes me wonder how they can sleep at night knowing what sort of reputation, and consistant reputation ATI has for absolute crap software/drivers. Some of the TV cards they've put out aren't supported by themselves, left to 3rd party software and powervcr at that. Both ATI and Nvidia have good hardware the huge difference between them is implimentation via drivers and software. Nvidia can do it, ATI can't and they've proven it over time. Nvidia drivers are compatible with more of their older cards until you go back to 2mb TNT cards. ATI wasn't able to do this. I don't find Anandtech impartial anymore, they don't put out anywhere near the amount or quality of articles they used to and there's some plagerism claims about them floating around the web. Because of all this I only keep this link for amusement it's not considered a serious source of info anymore.