Monday, December 14th 2009
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NVIDIA Pitches GeForce GTX 300 Series to Clinch Performance Crown
NVIDIA's latest DirectX 11 compliant GPU architecture, codenamed "Fermi," is getting its first consumer graphics (desktop) implementation in the form of the GeForce GTX 300 series. The nomenclature turned from being obvious to clear, with a set of company slides being leaked to the media, carrying the GeForce GTX 300 series names for the two products expected to come out first: GeForce GTX 380, and GeForce GTX 360. The three slides in public domain as of now cover three specific game benchmarks, where the two graphics cards are pitted against AMD's Radeon HD 5870 and Radeon HD 5970, being part of the company's internal tests.
Tests include Resident Evil 5 (HQ settings, 1920x1200, 8x AA, DX10), STALKER Clear Sky (Extreme quality, No AA, 1920 x 1200, DX10), and Far Cry 2 (Ultra High Quality, 1920x1200, 8x AA, DX10). Other GPUs include GeForce GTX 295 and GTX 285 for reference, just so you know how NVIDIA is pitting the two against the Radeon HD 5000 GPUs, given that the figures are already out. With all the three tests, GTX 380 emerged on top, with GTX 360 performing close to the HD 5970. A point to note, however, is that the tests were run at 1920 x 1200, and tests have shown that the higher-end HD 5000 series GPUs, particularly the HD 5970, is made for resolutions higher than 1920 x 1200. AA was also disabled in STALKER Clear Sky. NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 300 will be out in Q1 2010.
Update (12/15): NVIDIA's Director of Public Relations EMEAI told us that these slides are fake, but also "when it's ready it's going to be awesome".
Source:
Guru3D
Tests include Resident Evil 5 (HQ settings, 1920x1200, 8x AA, DX10), STALKER Clear Sky (Extreme quality, No AA, 1920 x 1200, DX10), and Far Cry 2 (Ultra High Quality, 1920x1200, 8x AA, DX10). Other GPUs include GeForce GTX 295 and GTX 285 for reference, just so you know how NVIDIA is pitting the two against the Radeon HD 5000 GPUs, given that the figures are already out. With all the three tests, GTX 380 emerged on top, with GTX 360 performing close to the HD 5970. A point to note, however, is that the tests were run at 1920 x 1200, and tests have shown that the higher-end HD 5000 series GPUs, particularly the HD 5970, is made for resolutions higher than 1920 x 1200. AA was also disabled in STALKER Clear Sky. NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 300 will be out in Q1 2010.
Update (12/15): NVIDIA's Director of Public Relations EMEAI told us that these slides are fake, but also "when it's ready it's going to be awesome".
189 Comments on NVIDIA Pitches GeForce GTX 300 Series to Clinch Performance Crown
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i expect fermi to be better than cypress but i don't know the% so we must wait....
But, important point is that i never saw an official Nvidia or Ati slide to contain actual numbers, they only contain percentages.
Again, examples of official PR slides.
They never include actual performance numbers, just percentages.
In fact, by a large margin in diffrent games, i would say 5870 is about on PAR with 295 with the latest driver.
I don't recall any of those games being more ati friendly than nvidia friendly.
You still get biased hardware sites that favour one camp. I had a 295 and ditched it for 2 5850's. I can speak for both camps. Based on the reviews i read before purchasing my 5850's (i read practically every english review on the web - i'm that careful) these benchies are fabricated. Stalker is the key here - NV performs poorly in clear sky - it's an ATI game. Here are some reviews that contain a 5870 beating a 295 in other games than stalker.
www.guru3d.com/article/radeon-hd-5870-review-test/18
www.guru3d.com/article/radeon-hd-5870-review-test/16
www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/hardware-canucks-reviews/23415-sapphire-radeon-hd-5870-1gb-gddr5-review-16.html
www.legitreviews.com/article/1080/6/
and the most amusing from this very website you amnesic puppies
www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ATI/Radeon_HD_5870/20.html (for Stalker SOC)
www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ATI/Radeon_HD_5870/21.html (for stalker clear skies)
So, before the camps go to war, do your research... and beware false prophets.
Oh and welcome to the forums the54thvoid, don't forget to fill in your System Specification.
A GTX 300 seems to have about double the performance of a GTX 285, which is not unreasonable.
And you gotta admit my point is reasonable. After all, the 5870 roughly doubled the performance of the 4890, didn't it?
There will be an HD5980 or equivalent. ;-p
Probably a 512bit GDDR5 HD5890... As we all know the HD58xx series is very bandwidth starved... giving it that extra bandwidth should pull it ahead of almost everything Nvidia can throw out...
Look at the closeup, someone pasted in the numbers in photoshop, it's really obvious.
You can notice the heavy pixelation around the numbers. Cheap stuff
Let me show you what i crafted in 5 minutes... Jen Hsuang gave me this bench himself. Do you believe me?
And i can make as many versions, with whatever scores you want.
380 looses more than 50% cores number gain when compared to 360.
That means there would not be any sence in dual GTX3XX configuration (the productivity gain will hardly be about 5%). So, in high-end gaming it's a looser.
I made another zoom in, even further in...
See what i mean. Do it yourself, you will see it as well. Really shabby work from the guy who faked it.