From the Anandtech article:
I suspect it has to do with their OC skills with various cards. Once you step into the OC'ing realm, you really need to have quite a bit of knowledge on how to maximize the performance of any individual card. The NordicHardware review was a stock out of the box comparison.
Here's another review to chew on.
9800 XT vs. 5950 Ultra
Quote:We are going to overclock each card to its highest stable core and memory speed, and then run a few select benchmarks to cover the most recent few DirectX releases as well as OpenGL. All told, 23 cards were benchmarked, so we didn't have the ability to run a whole suite of tests on each one.
I suspect it has to do with their OC skills with various cards. Once you step into the OC'ing realm, you really need to have quite a bit of knowledge on how to maximize the performance of any individual card. The NordicHardware review was a stock out of the box comparison.
Here's another review to chew on.
9800 XT vs. 5950 Ultra