burningrave101 said:We aren't saying wait for anything. You are. Your saying wait till they are WHQL approved. The new drivers are already out and nVidia is getting ready to release ANOTHER update that likely bring even more performance. ATI has already proven they can't do anything in the way of large performance gains with their drivers.
A couple of years ago ATI's cards were shit compared to the nVidia competition. nVidia has been in the lead for a long time. It wasn't until the 9500 pro and 9700 pro that ATI even began to be in the running as far as i'm concerned. ATI has alot of catching up to do before they achieve what nVidia has already in the world of GPU's.
I never said anything about the drivers being WHQL. Yes its true that NVidia used to crush ATI, and I had NVidia cards until the 9700pro came along. If you think all the 9700pro did was put them in the running then you are the biggest fanboy of them all. The 9700pro was such a step forward that it took NVidia totaly by surprise. They had nothing that could compete with it for a year. That however is history and in PC hardware its what have you done for me lately. ATI is still right at the top and finally getting some compitition from NVidia. As for the drivers who the hell ever said that ATI can get no preformance gains from thier drivers? What NVidia makes the only GPU that benifits from new drivers? Are you nuts? Can't you just admit they both make good cards.
By the way whats the deal with this from Driverheaven?
"A week ago we published some results showing the 6800 Ultra running the default DirectX path which removes the Nvidia specific optimisations from the game and also improves the image quality by increasing the use of pixel shader 2.0. Additionally the default DirectX 9 path fixes the flickering textures and other graphical glitches experienced at the default settings for the 6800 Ultra Included in the next graph are the 6800 Ultra results to show how they compare to the X800 (which runs the normal directX path i.e. full quality by default).
In Farcry the results show the 6800Ultra and X800 pro as reasonably well matched. Not much separates them without AA/AF when the 6800 Ultra is running the lower quality Nvidia path. When running the default directX9 path the 6800 ultra does however fall behind the X800 Pro especially in minimum fps. Turning on AA/AF and the X800 Pro again shows its strength and remains playable where as the 6800 Ultra has a few big drops to 10fps."