More Nvidia 6800 Video Card Previews

By Ian Bell April 17, 2004

Quote from the preview at HardwareZone:

“This is the sixth generation of GeForce series and it has significant advances in features and hardware capability over the fifth generation. It is so well equipped that it greatly eclipses the advancements made back then when GeForce FX 5800 Ultra (NV30) was made available. NVIDIA had been working hard with many key industry partners and game developers all through the design of their GeForce 6xxx series to firm its features and capabilities. If you recall the debut of the original GeForce series, it touted the first Transformation and Lighting (T&L) engine on a graphics card as a big breakthrough. In those days, hardly any games took advantage of this feature until a very much later timeframe. ”

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Quote from the preview at Digit-Life:

“Yesterday brought us a series of presentations held by NVIDIA and its partners worldwide. The Taiwan event was interesting because it gathered most NVIDIA partners, which showcased “live” cards or their prototypes. Our friends from Hong Kong VR-Zone made a nice video report and we now offer you its most interesting excerpts.”

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I tested AMD’s RX 7800 XT against Nvidia’s RTX 4070, and there’s a clear winner

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The RX 7800 XT was, from the get-go, said to be the competitor to Nvidia's RTX 4070, but in reality, these GPUs differ both in price and performance. We've tested the RX 7800 XT and compared it to the RTX 4070, and we now know which of these two GPUs is the one to pick.
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The RTX 4090 graphics card sitting on a table with a dark green background.

A reliable leaker has just revealed that Nvidia might be abandoning the idea of releasing an RTX 4090 Ti. If the project hadn't been canceled, the RTX 4090 Ti would have ended up becoming the best GPU by a mile -- or at least the most powerful. That spot is currently held by Nvidia's own RTX 4090.

But don't worry -- if the report about the cancellation is true, it's not such a bad thing at all. In fact, it might be for the best for pretty much everyone involved. Here's why.

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Nvidia’s peace offering isn’t working

Two MSI RTX 4060 Ti 16GB GPUs over a black background.

Nvidia's RTX 4060 Ti 16GB is here, but you wouldn't know it if you didn't follow GPU news closely. It seems that the GPU might just be so far behind some of the best graphics cards that Nvidia isn't advertising it too much. As a result, early benchmarks are scarce.

MSI has released some benchmarks of its own, comparing the 8GB and the 16GB versions of the RTX 4060 Ti. It turns out that the new GPU might actually be slower. Is this why Nvidia didn't even make its own version of this card?