Monday, December 14th 2009
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
LCDs can only do 60 FPS, with the exception of a few 120HZ ones on the market, so who cares if a 5850 gets 72fps and the (to be released) Gtx 380 gets 113fps, when an LCD can do 60 fps
Idle power consumption, and noise matter more to me than 120 vs 220 fps anyday
THe one thing that has perked my interest, though, is the resolutions the've used for the slides . . .
Taking a grain of salt that nVidia more than likely hand-picked any results to show in their favor (like all companies are good about doing), and the fact that at 1920x1200 they seem to perform near on par with the 5000 series . . . adn the scaling from 360 to the 380 doesn't look like much of a gain . . . I get the impression the GTX3xx series will be running neck and neck with the 5000 series . . . doesn't appear like there will be too much of a real performance gain over ATI's hardware.
If this does turn out to be true, hopefully the pricing game will be much closer, which will really benefit us consumers.
I never take any notice of PR releases. EVER. each camp uses it's own method to make theirs look better.
Truth be told though, Nvidia will most likely take the crown again, but WILL be the more expensive card.
Just to let y'all know - I personally predict the GTX 300 series to be capable of solving world hunger, ending the fighting in the Middle East, and can launch the space shuttle all at the same time.
You seem pretty set on these being fakes when practically everyone here knows PR stunts are fakes but you fail to see that people here are telling you the Stalker numbers are true.
And with a GTX280 at those settings i did get around 44fps avg. As to the only DX10 question, you cant add DX11 percentages when you want to compare them to other DX10 cards. So you use DX10 games. Thats pretty simple to figure out, but since your such a PR genious im guessing you already figured that out?
Edit: Post fail, i forgot this had 3 pages :laugh:
somewhere in there was proof that the human eye/brain combo(or whatever u want to call it) could register 200fps+, and used some USAF pilot testing as evidence
+1 F@H benchmarks. The fake ones released a month back were totally disappointing. I hate 73h liarz!
it takes a couple of hours to meld a cooler on a PCB and cut it.. it takes a couple of minutes to think of numbers and make a graph.myeah.. welcome to competition 101 -_-