FX5800 a flop. 5900 out next week!
Category / Hardware
This Register story claims Nvidia admits 5800 was a dud (and who are we to argue with that?). I'm still confused about the whole 5xxx range. So the 5800 Ultra was only limited cause it was stupidly loud and we've got the budget versions 5600 and 5200 which kind of suck... so where's the killer product? Did we ever see any 5xxx cards in Australia? The latest ATI card seems to beat the pants off the 5800 and with much less noise, power and space. Way to drop the ball Nvidia!
Anyway, now w're meant to forget the 5800, cause here comes the 5900! The Reg story points here from where I've ripped off this image (It's supposed to be a super secret exclusive or something):
[Update] This site's got benchmarks! If you can't get past the MySQL 'max-user' errors the results are:
FX 5900: 5981
Radeon 9800 Pro: 5496
FX 5800: 5429
And it appears (because the site's in French) that by using some spiffy det drivers they got the 5900 up to 6678 3DMarks.
