ATI claims SM3.0 supremacy

WE SAW some charts before our fright to Ibiza where ATI claimed that its R520, Radeon X1800XT solution will end up significantly faster than Nvidia's Geforce 7800 GTX.

A document seen by the INQUIRER claims that ATI will beat Geforce 7800GTX by as much as ninety per cent in the Fear Demo. ATI claims it will end up almost forty per cent faster in Battlefield 2, while it will top Nvidia's fastest card as much as twentyfive per cent in Far Cry.

In certain games, the Radeon X1800XT PE will end up less than twenty per cent faster than GTX. and we are talking about Splinter Cell and the Painkiller extension.

We are not sure what happens with the rest of the games, but we suspect that Nvidia might be faster in some of them. It's interesting that ATI hasn't mentioned Half Life 2 but we kind of expected that these results would be very tight. µ