Huh??????? The benchmark in 3Dmark uses 3 CPU scores. One third of the score profile comes from the CPU tests. I'm getting nervous here! Let me ask you all this: The 6800xt cards are only 8 piplines but have the same core and clock frequencies as their GT/GS relatives. Is it not ture that these cards acting in Sli actually function as if they were one card with 16 virtual pipelines(as was the case with the original monster PCI dual card setup)? There are a lot of issues here that are now raising my intellectual interest given that I am completely new to SLi buses. Example.....someone above said that the 6800xt is just a jacked down 6600gt. The 6600 gt has only a 8+/- Ghz bandwidth. The 6800xt is 24 ghz. And the PCie bus matrix has 4x the bandwidth than AGP pro. As I understand it, the memory and GPU architecture of the 6800 cards are profoundly different than the 6600 generation cards, pipelines notwithstanding. When I OC'd my AGP 6800gt, my 3dMark05 values only went up by 120 points so there is a **** of alot more to the benchmark protocols than core and clock speeds I.e., band width of PCie vs AGP pro. Memory bus and memory clock speeds, CPU bus and clock rates. The video function is never completely free of the CPU, chipset and Northbridge bus speeds and I presume that oveall great performance is a composite of all of the factors here, Mobo chipset, bios setup, bus architectures and memory etc. Right? This has been great for me becasue now I'll be doing alot of reading and questioning in an area that I have not spent a whole lot of time. Thank you all for your information..you all rock!
