Well it seems all review sites have been looking at 3DMark05, so also Bjorn3D has put his review online. If there is one benchmark that has stood tall over the years, it is the 3DMark series from Futuremark. Ever since the release of 3DMark99 back in 1998, Futuremark has continued to provide us users (and reviewers) with a way to compare our video cards in a reproducible way. True, the benchmarks have been surrounded with some controversy the last few years, and many have questioned the use of synthetic benchmarks.
id Software has released the first Patch for Doom 3. The 1.1 update for Doom 3 includes a number of improvements and fixes for both single player and multiplayer components. The update also includes a new "Dedicated Server" executable.
HotHardware compared an ASUS Extreme X600 XT 128MB PCIe versus a MSI GeForce PCX5750 128MB PCIe graphics card. Here we offer a side-by-side comparion of today's value-based cards. With newer offerings looming on the horizon, these value-based models may become tomorrow's ultra-affordable PCI-E solutions. So, depending on your needs, they may warrant a closer look. Let's take a look at their respective retail packaging, then we'll get more familiar with the cards themselves. The potential benefits of PCI-E over AGP are dramatic, offering peak bandwidth of 4GBps (8GB concurrent), which more than doubles that of AGP 8X.
And also Hexus has posted some
article on the new Futuremark's 3DMark05. If, like many of your enthusiast peers,
you've been staring at the counter on Futuremark's website for the past couple of days, wondering
when 3DMark05 would make its debut, wonder no longer. If you're
reading this, it's past 1pm on Wednesday, 29th of September 2004, and we're
allowed to talk about the biggest deal in PC hardware
benchmarking.
DriverHeaven also has published an acticle about the new version of Futuremark's 3DMark. Its been 20 months since the release of 3DMark03 and that's a long time in the graphics industry. Many cards have come and gone as has the 15k barrier and so it was getting time for someone to really push the latest graphics cards to their limits. That company is Futuremark and today the NDA lifts on their latest product, 3DMark05. At Driverheaven they have been lucky enough to have access to the benchmark in advance of its launch and have run nVidia and ATI's latest and greatest cards through the benchmark with some rather surprising results. Read on to find out exactly whats new in this version of 3DMark and also to see how the results panned out...
Well the first reviews & articles are getting published on the new 3DMark05 Benchmark Suite. The Tech Report was one of the first websites to have an article about it online. Futuremark intends its new version of 3DMark to give us a glimpse of the future yet again, and if 3DMark05 is any indication, the future of 3D games looks very bright indeed. Read on to see what Futuremark has wrought and how thirteen of the latest graphics cards perform in this new benchmark.
Well since the counter was already running for som days, it finally reached the end. So as of now the new version of 3DMark05 can be grapped from the futuremark website.
Well somehow I think a lot if us where waiting for this... And PCUnleash has done it. We have
to admit that a fairly long period of time has passed between the day PCUnleash came out with their
notorious X800 mod, and today, well they are able to share the long-awaited
6800mod. One of the reasons it's taken so long is that it took a while to
perform the necessary research for something as ambitious as the 6800mod. To be
honest, PCUnleash had had
the idea of modding the 6800, even while they were publishing the X800pro mod.
However, they didn't have the entire 6800 series at there disposal at the time,
so they could not yet verify if such a mod was actually going to
work.
And what about Tom's Hardware Guide? Well they have reviewed the following graphic cards : Leadtek A400 TDH, Leadtek A400 GT TDH & Leadtek A400 Ultra TDH. With its newest line of cards, nVidia-only card maker Leadtek continues on with the unique nomenclature of its products. Now, the naming scheme has reached 400, or A400, to be more precise. The name is easily explained - take the codename of a given nVidia chip, in this case the NV40 of the GeForce 6800 line, and tack on a zero.
The next generation Xbox chip will be ready as soon as the end of the first quarter of next year. This chip comes as a derivatove of the R520 chip better known under its code name Fudo and will be of a similar architecture to the upcoming desktop chip. The only main difference will be an integrated frame buffer that you don't see that often on desktop cards.
GLY GTX275 (OC) PCIe 0896MB - Rev 01
