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GX-Brandon (369)   Dec 10, 2007 - 07:28 am

Well, my texture quality in CoD 4 is set to "high" instead of "extra". Everything else is cranked up to highest settings. That would account for some of the difference. Looks like based on the date of that article he would have been using the demo, and therefore using FRAPS runs, which can't be repeated 100% and thus you get lots of variability from run to run. I'm not knocking the method, as obviously I use FRAPS to test CoD 4 too. » Login to reply to this  DanTheMathlete (235)   Dec 10, 2007 - 10:42 am » Method to the Madness a*AvgMaxFps - b*Price + c*Author = CardRating, where a,b & c are scalar values you determine and disclose. These values would weight how important you feel each category is. Compute the average fps on a game at a particular resolution, subtract the cost (this way $1,000 cards do not automatically win the contest just because they perform really well) and add the authors opinion (which can be a negative number if they don't like the card). Take the average of all games at the same resolution and divide by your highest scored value for any card to that date. Then you will have a scaled number which is more meaningful than a percentage and you can still editorialize your opinion about the card. obviously this is just a simple linear function and you could do more complicated equations, for example exponentially increase decrease any or all of the values or use a logistic function. You could form a Gaussian distribution and scale all your values by that, whatever floats your boat. » Login to reply to this

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GX-Brandon (369)   Dec 09, 2007 - 11:05 am

I don't think you're going to see 8800 GT prices rise any further. Remember that an unannounced new G92 GPU variant is almost upon us. So that's going to create a ceiling for 8800 GT prices, or at least it should on paper. We'll see what availability is like in the real world. » Login to reply to this

Martimus (158)    Dec 08, 2007 - 07:18 am

The HD 3850 destroyed the 8800 GT in Oblivion as well. (Which is my current addiction, darn that oblivicrack!) » Login to reply to this  GX-Brandon (369)   Dec 09, 2007 - 11:02 am Yeah I don't know what happened to the GT 256MB in Oblivion. I re-ran those numbers multiple times because it didn't look right, but the card's performance just dives at 16x12 w/4xAA for some reason in the foliage area. » Login to reply to this  deimos47 (434)   Dec 08, 2007 - 11:45 am | Edited on Dec 08, 2007 - 11:48 am Well, I was ingnoring the 4fps in Oblivion cases. But, rather than comparing to lowly HD 3850, notice how far behind the 256MB is behind the 512MB with AA: 70 vs 55 in FEAR, 110.7 vs 87.7 in COH, 55.2 vs 28.4 in Oblivion, 37 vs 25 in WIC, 81.7 vs 64 in HL2, and 28.6 vs 19.3 in LostP... no point of even thinking about AA in Bioshock and Crysis with your 256MB GT. So for $30-40 more the 512MB GT is 25%, 25%, 94%, 48%, 28%, and 48% faster with AA (once again ignoring those dysmal drops to 0-4fps range in Bioshock and Crysis -games apparently too unpopular and too modern to sway the review's score). Hey, I'm just saying if I want something a tad cheaper than Double bacon cheeseburger and get a plain cheeseburger, I'm not going to be 90% satisfied. » Login to reply to this

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GX-Brandon (369)   Dec 07, 2007 - 06:40 pm

What GPU are you running? Any R5xx or better GPU from AMD can run with HDR+AA and G8x supports it as well. It must be forced via control panel though. » Login to reply to this

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