Graphics Quality 260M vs 8800GTX

Subjective oberservations:

Contrast
260 = A
8800 = B-
wonderful gradiations of contrast on the new geforce 260ms, props to nvidia

Color Vibrancy
260 = A
8800 = C
if the stock default color vibrancy doesnt wow you, im not sure what will.

Clarity
260 = A+
8800 = B-
again, the 260 is crisp, detailed, vibrant, and fast.

Although i greatly like ATI cards, they currently dont match crispness i've been observing with these latest Nvidia graphics chips.

Image Quality
260M > ATI crossfires > Nvidia 8800/9800 series

 

Your kidding me right ?
this is in the same laptop correct? and with the same drivers ?
So the LCD doesn't have anything to do with how you see stuff ?

 

Hmm no offence guy, but what I think you are seeing is something called The Placebo Effect. :laugh:

 

Ppl said the same when the firsts AA/ANISO quality comparison between ATI and Nvidias (before 8xxx series) come out

BTW... It's probably LCD/drivers

 

For sure it has to be drivers/LCD, if he is using the exact same LCD with the exact same drivers and the exact same settings on those two different cards, the only difference would be frames per second and Placebo effect lol.

 

for clarification, the 8800gtx is on my other alien, same lcd screens
the ATIs are on my work partners m17

you'll see when you put em side by side

 

good job with the charts. However, I think that an overclocked 7600 would beat out a 260 GTX, can you back my research up?

 

curious....why should he back up your inquiry? your the one with the theory no?
and aside from that, is it about 260 vs 8800.

 

I thought I was going to win the award for most pointless post for the day... RATS!

This is just all personal observations... Show Benches or it doesnt mean anything... opinion in this number controlled market is pointless.

 

This has nothing to do with the cards and everything to do with the screen/drivers/software. You could simply have a different color profile on one and it'd make EVERYTHING look different. Delete all the color profiles on both rigs, line up every image/display/resolution setting to match, then if there's STILL a difference, see if you can't match it by changing the settings on the one that looks worse.

"Graphics Quality" (aka, image quality) is a comparison that can only really be observed in things like shadows, anti-aliasing, anisotropic filtering, fog, polygonal clipping, etc... These things are technology based and will have no real affect on the things you've listed here (color, contrast, clarity).

Hope this helps!

 

Also, a side note... the 2 cards you're comparing are the same chip, same architecture, only differences being that the 260M benefits from 16 more stream processor cores and higher frequencies all around thanks to a die shrink to 55nm (from 65nm).

The GTX 260M is a smaller, slower 8800 GT (desktop version).

 

my thoughts exactly. +rep for Praze.

 

So, just to be sure, please correct me if I'm wrong..

The 8800GTX > 280M GTX > 260M GTX ?????

If you could include a 9800 GT which is what I have on my current laptopd that'd be great.

 

if you want to include quality you need pictures. and settings.

 

lol my first post still stands.... ARE you kidding me

 

no i get what you mean and i fully agree about the lcd but i want to see the diffence between nvidia and ati in screenshots. i heard that nvidia shaves off some quality improve performance and i want to see if that's true.