We are going to have to wait for both the Geforce 6800 and X800 to
start shipping and for DirectX9.0c to become available before we can
see some reputable benchmark results to know what the real answers
are. Even then, we have the Geforce 6800 Ultra coming out first,
followed by the Geforce 6800 Pro a few weeks later and the X800 coming
out first followed by the X800XT a month after that, so there is going
to be a time gap there before we have both sets of the highest end
cards to be compared with each other. ATI thinks they have the edge in
core and clock speed and they are saying that is going to make up for
some admitted feature ommissions and Nvidia is saying they have the
additional features that are going to make up for a slightly slower
core and clock speed. Right now, we have about two sites that have
done some sketchy benchmarks on pre-production Geforce 6800 cards with
basically beta drivers with beta DirectX9.0c with about 2 dozen sites
linking to those tests and making all kinds of conclusive assumptions
from those results. How can anybody come up with any meaningful
conclusions from that? It does seem like 3Dmark needs to get cooking
on 3Dmark04 and Aquamark needs an 04 update as well.