Geforce FX5900 XT or 6800?  | | | 
August 30th, 2004, 04:41 PM
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| Geforce FX5900 XT or 6800?
Is there a significant difference between these two cards? The 6800 is £100 more than the 5900 and, not knowing much about computers, I can't see a real difference between the two. | 
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August 30th, 2004, 04:46 PM
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The 6800 runs DirectX 9, rather than the DirectX 8 that the 5900 runs. I also believe the 6800 has more pipelines - 12 vs 8, although I'm not sure. | |
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August 30th, 2004, 04:47 PM
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hmmm... what brands are you looking at, here in the US the difference is about $100 so the difference is two times less than in G.B. Yes, there is a significant difference both in preformance and features between the two cards... once you specify which brands you're looking at, I can give you more info....  | |
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August 30th, 2004, 04:48 PM
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Originally Posted by The Real Bingo The 6800 runs DirectX 9, rather than the DirectX 8 that the 5900 runs. I also believe the 6800 has more pipelines - 12 vs 8, although I'm not sure. |
they're both DX9 cards, and the 6800 does have 4 more pipes compared to the 5900xt and if you get lucky... the other 4 pipelines can get hacked/unlocked, making it have twice the number of pipes compared to the 5900xt  | |
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August 30th, 2004, 04:50 PM
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Then why does this article have the 5900 listed as DX8.1? Scroll down and you will see... | |
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August 30th, 2004, 04:53 PM
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Originally Posted by The Real Bingo Then why does this article have the 5900 listed as DX8.1? Scroll down and you will see... |
Cuz maybe they testeded it as a DX8.1 card  there's no way its 8.1, the FX series is DX9 http://graphics.tomshardware.com/gra...229/index.html | |
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August 30th, 2004, 04:55 PM
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it's a typo...my 5900 ultra is dx9. This was one of the major things about the FX series where nvidia was trying to improve over the 4 series and that was the blunder of not including dx8 with all their cards. So in the fx series they included dx9 on all of the fx cards.
BTW i would get the 6800 If you can't afford it, wait for the 6600 | |
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August 30th, 2004, 04:55 PM
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Originally Posted by The Real Bingo Then why does this article have the 5900 listed as DX8.1? Scroll down and you will see... | I guess that would be the perfect example on why you cannot believe everything you read lol. From the FX 5200 and up, they are all DX9.0 cards. 
Anyway I just bought the FX 5900XT and it's working good for me. If I had the money though, I would have bought the 6800. | |
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August 30th, 2004, 04:56 PM
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That's what I thought at first, before reading that. Thanks for the reaffirmation. | |
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August 30th, 2004, 04:57 PM
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NWO is correct All Nividia FX cards are DX9.
In my opinion the 6800 is worth the extra money..... But then again, it's not my money. | |
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