Intel nForce 4 is a Performance Humbug

Our exclusive benchmarks run today tell us that the top of the range Intel system running nForce 4 with 2 6800 Ultras scores fully 4000 less 3dMark05’s than the top of the range AMD rig outfitted similarly. An Nvidia representative yelled to us that we ‘Shouldn’t compare Intel and AMD!!’ Why, pray tell thee?

At the press conference, Drew Henry from Nvidia stood up and showed the world 55 FPS on Doom 3 using the platform. He was in rapture, because he said that a single GeForce 6800 would only score 30FPS at these settings. We learned, however, that the scores are quite different and that Nvidia’s original plan was to demonstrate the prowess of the platform by showing the frame rate with SLi turned off in the driver then turned on. However, with SLi off, the system scored 45FPS and with SLi on, the system scored 55FPS - hardly the 90% performance increase that Nvidia claim.

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