Leadtek's $900 Performance Leviathan

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hmmm i think the oblivion outdoor benchie is up the ****..... why is the 7900gtx on top??? oh and the 8800gtx was outgunned by the 320 and 640 8800gts's... weired!
 
Just another gimick to take your money. Next they will start putting turbo chargers and ram air intakes on our video cards. You don't need to spend a bundle to get a good card and to me this is exactly what this article shows.
 
7900 gtx is on top..weird. It did have higher fps at 1024x768 and 1280x1024 (but does that even matter? 😱 ). And again at 2560x1600...that is very odd. Really shows that the $900 is totally worth the money :sol:

Just SLI 2 320mb OC'd 8800's...they will be cheaper than a gtx, and still outperform it
 
Definitely not worth it, but neat. The Oblivion outdoor bench is definitely messed up. I'd like to see what 2 of these in SLI would be like in comparison to 2 HD2900XT 1GB and 2 8800GTX.
 
lol 8800gtx or 2900xtx in sli/crossfire will cost about what one of these cards do, so I have no desire to see these "leviathan" cards in sli lol 1800 is a build not just the gpus. I dont think this could ever come close to being worth it ,$ vs performance , at least not at its current price.
 
Yes there is an error in the Oblivion Outdoor graphs. Sorry about that. The figures were placed into the worng rows when I was building the graph from a previous file. I am gettting it fixed.

It should go...

Card 1024x768
Nvidia GeForce 7900 GTX 24.33
ATI Radeon X1950 XTX 33.03
XFX GeForce 8800 GTS 39.96
BFG GeForce 8800 GTS OC 320 42.49
Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTX 42.88
ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT 53.03
Nvidia GeForce 8800 Ultra 54.53
Leadtek Leviathan GF 8800 Ultra 59.09
 
As for quad core vs dual core... wouldn't matter much if any. If a game is not coded for more than two threads than it won't matter at all unless there is a bunch of tasks that can handle a quad core running in the background (Which is not he case for individual game tests).
 


When I saw the card rankings so weird, I wondered if someone mixed up the card numbers and the results. They just don't make sense. I can't say its definately wrong, but it does seem to show the various cards don't perform to their advertising if the charts are correct.
 


It does look that way. But it should be kept in mind that the GTS 320 is an overclocked version, not the standard, so some numbers might be very close. Still, identical numbers point to someone making a mistake when filling in the charts. Also, even in the charts where the 320 and 640 versions seem very close, I think a standard GTS 320 would not have scored so well. Alternatively, the 640 version could have been overclocked and therefore put in better numbers.
 
Gota say id absolutly give anything to get a card like that lol. I bet it overclocks a HELL of a lot more then they have done, probably guessing that whoever buys it will overclock it more anyway.

Ill stick with my 7950gx2 for now though..

Might switch to that card in a year or so tho if it comes way down in price after the g92 stuff comes out.
 
its nice to see extreme bias, with no 2900 xt 1gb ddr4, its been out from sapphire and his for about 2 months yet toms wont bench the fastest card in their reviews, but they do the 2600 xt ddr4, i makes no sense why u would do one oem moded card and not the other

and if ur comparing dx10 cards u should run vista (nvida) , if some1 says first card for dx10 adn has an ad campeighn for vista by not bench on that, u will have to switch soon to play crisis, tf2, and quake why not start benching it now so that people can see what they are buying for a more modern platform
 
As a technical showcase for an overclocked 8800 card it only just beats XFX 8800 Ultra XXX using an AIR cooler.

http://www.xfxforce.com/web/product/listConfigurations.jspa?seriesId=730995&productId=1085635

Nvidia better get their next gen cards out soon because I think the 8800 chips are really being pushed to their limits by these overclocked cards and I wouldn't be suprised to see plenty of RMA requests in the not to distant future which will give Nvidia a bad name.

@zanzabar: I don't think you can call it 'extreme bias' but yeah I also would like to see the 2900 xt benched by Toms. We all know DX10 is the future whether it be on XP or not so why not test stuff with Vista to highlight were Nvidia are lacking and should pull their socks up (drivers). A comparison in DX9 is still justified though for those that have not/will not make the upgrade.
 


I agree with you. I'd like to see some "cheap" (<$900) SLI configurations compared to the single Leviathan in the benchmarks.
 
I was impressed with some of the rankings of the 2900. And these benchies really prove the strenghts and weaknesses of the card. AA & AF really change its performance, but without them the 2900 was almost on top. Even beat the Ultra on 3DMark, but was all over the place on the rest, was sad in Doom3 at the bottom.

Speaks alot to the power of the card, if they could only get the drivers to work with the AA & AF on.

As for the Leviathan, I can't see where it showed it was worth the extra money. Didn't seem to do all that much better than the other cards out there, for 900 bucks I'd was a huge gap in performance between it and the next version down. I'd crossfire a couple of the 2900's before even considering this card. Just seems like a waste.
 
Along with the installation manuals, the graphics card's package includes four self-tapping fan screws with which to mount the cooler. There is also a pair of adapter cables for the six-pin power connections for those with older power supplies. We would like to make it clear that you will need at least 35 W on +12V available to power the entire system with the Leviathan. This is the minimum specification Leadtek has made for this card.
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damn, only 3 amps on the +12V rail? I could power that with an old 250 watt power supply. No wonder the card costs so much money, they spent tons making it more efficient than an AMDs Northbridge, lol.

Oh and the 2900XT 1gb thing is maybe because they might not have gotten one yet. Toms and other places sometimes aren't able to test some products for quite a while.
 


$900 for a graphics card is nothing. Have you checked out the price on some of the highend nVidia Quattro cards?

Most readers of this forum will never have a need for such a card. I know I don't, but if somebody was passing them out for free I might hafta stand in line...twice.
 


Are you on Tomshardware's payroll or is it something different?
 
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