ToTTenTranz
Power Member
ATI MADE A wonder driver that we reported about here and this is how the fight for the 3Dmark05 crown started.
When Nvidia saw that it would lose to the X800XT PE, it had to react fast and it introduced an SLI score based on two Geforce 6800 Ultra and managed to score approximately 7200 points. We reported about that here.
As ATI just could not leave it at that, some of its friends did some frenzied overclocking and managed first to come close to Nvidia's number, then later that day to equal it, then first to outperform it and finally significantly outpace it. You can check the highest score so far based on an ATI card here.
This score was brought to the world by the famous Finnish overclocker Sami Makkinen, the guy that did the overclocking for ATI in Barcelona at the X800XT PE, XT and PRO introduction.
He happens to be one of the few people to have X800XT PE, still almost a mythic card, a veritable hen's tooth.
Anyway he used dry ice to get that kind of score and that’s not something that you can run 24 by 7, but those numbers can still be used for marketing purposes to impress the crowd who clamour for gladiators and bread. ATI will come to the conclusion that its X800XT PE card is a better performer than two Nvidia 6800 Ultra SLI cards, but may forget to remind you that Nvidia cards are default clocked while its is heavily overclocked. If 806MHz clock is not high, I don’t know what is. The default clock of RX800XT PE is only 520MHz.
What's next? Nvidia overclock two of their cards and release the numbers? I would not be surprised at all as long as we have Gainward standing at Nvidia's side. Benchmarketing. We invented the term. µ
* WE ARE informed that Sami used a Cascade Compressor system to cool the graphics card and this setup can actually run twenty four hours a day.
Uma X800XT a ultrapassar duas 6800Ultra em SLI.. hehehe..
A X800XT tá a 800Mhz.. mas prontos..
EDIT: btw, esse score é do macci.