6800 GT vs. Ultra, what is the difference?

Just wondering what is the difference between the two besides clockspeed?
Same number of pipelines, texturing units etc.?

Thank you,
Luke

Clock speed.

Luke Piasecki wrote:
Just wondering what is the difference between the two besides clockspeed?
Same number of pipelines, texturing units etc.?

Thank you,
Luke

shuffle wrote in message news:a_NSc.87282$J06.5180@pd7tw2no...
Clock speed.

Luke Piasecki wrote:
Just wondering what is the difference between the two besides clockspeed?
Same number of pipelines, texturing units etc.?

Thank you,
Luke



Its pretty easy to get a 6800GT to 400/1100. I can get to about
420/1140 on mine. Although I keep it at 400/1100 just to give it a
little room to breath. There is nowhere near $100 worth of
performance increase out of the Ultra. I'd say the difference is less
than 5-10%.

Eric

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Clock speed.

Luke Piasecki wrote:
Just wondering what is the difference between the two besides
clockspeed?
Same number of pipelines, texturing units etc.?

Thank you,
Luke



Its pretty easy to get a 6800GT to 400/1100. I can get to about
420/1140 on mine. Although I keep it at 400/1100 just to give it a
little room to breath. There is nowhere near $100 worth of
performance increase out of the Ultra. I'd say the difference is less
than 5-10%.

Eric

But just as you can oc the GT to get Ultra out-of-the-box speeds, you can oc
the Ultras to get beyond that basic speed. So the differetial remains.
Whether that's worth $100 is a moot point but clearly many believe it is.

Clock speed is the only difference... which is why the 6800GT is still
priced pretty high.

And yes, like with some ATi cards, you can enable the additional four pipes
on the plain 6800 with RivaTuner, though success is not assured.

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Just wondering what is the difference between the two besides clockspeed?
Same number of pipelines, texturing units etc.?

Thank you,
Luke

Its pretty easy to get a 6800GT to 400/1100. I can get to about
420/1140 on mine. Although I keep it at 400/1100 just to give it a
little room to breath. There is nowhere near $100 worth of
performance increase out of the Ultra. I'd say the difference is less
than 5-10%.

Eric

But just as you can oc the GT to get Ultra out-of-the-box speeds, you can oc
the Ultras to get beyond that basic speed. So the differetial remains.
Whether that's worth $100 is a moot point but clearly many believe it is.

The point is its exactly the same card versus the 6800nu that has
differences other than clock speeds. Given the same cooling on both
cards they would probably clock to near the same levels. Those arctic
coolers are only $30. Even with the grappy cooling on my GT I get
420/1140. But I run 400/1100 because the difference is less probably
2%.

Eric

On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 17:27:26 GMT, "Luke Piasecki"
wrote:

Just wondering what is the difference between the two besides clockspeed?
Same number of pipelines, texturing units etc.?


A bit more speed.... and $100~150 more price...

In Doom3, its about 6fps (when its already over 60fps)

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2146&p=3

Of course... you need to have a 64BIT CPU to approach this... Having
a 2000Mhz/class CPU won't cut it....

Here is a good example on a 6800Ultra running Doom3

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets...spx?i=2149&p=7

Where anything under an AMD 3000 or P4-2.4Ghz is about 50fps (vs 8-+
fps)


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