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keithwalton · 20-01-2006, 15:53

and ati's hardware stratagy becomes clear. the R580 (X1900) series of graphics chips contain only 16 pipelines and is rumoured to be able todo 48 shader operations per pass (that is up alot from the r520 and nvidia lot) so its going to kick ass at shader performance which just happens to be what 3dmark stresses most. I expect the x1900xt to be scoring 6000+ if not 7000+ points on this one.

The cpu test is mainly a physics test rather than a graphical one and supports the use of a ppu which when avaliable should make that section run alot faster.

Oh and out of interest my pc score 1011, (9800xt) the cpu tests heavily favour the amd chips as i score the same as a 1.8G A64 and i've got a 3G P4 (HT, 1000mhz fsb)

20-01-2006, 15:53	#27
keithwalton Inactive Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Southampton Age: 43 Posts: 1,089	Re: 3DMark06 Available Tomorrow... and ati's hardware stratagy becomes clear. the R580 (X1900) series of graphics chips contain only 16 pipelines and is rumoured to be able todo 48 shader operations per pass (that is up alot from the r520 and nvidia lot) so its going to kick ass at shader performance which just happens to be what 3dmark stresses most. I expect the x1900xt to be scoring 6000+ if not 7000+ points on this one. The cpu test is mainly a physics test rather than a graphical one and supports the use of a ppu which when avaliable should make that section run alot faster. Oh and out of interest my pc score 1011, (9800xt) the cpu tests heavily favour the amd chips as i score the same as a 1.8G A64 and i've got a 3G P4 (HT, 1000mhz fsb)