DailyTech have some early benchmarks of the upcoming GeForce 8800 GTX. Performance vaults ahead in a manner typical of this sort of major architectural advance - between half and double that of a Radeon X1950 XTX.

The margin is only likely to increase as NVIDIA tunes the drivers, and even more at the release of Windows Vista. It would appear at this point however that the rumored specifications may have been exaggerated or the card is extremely bottlenecked by the CPU and memory subsystem, as the G80 should be at least 3 times faster than the R580. This will all become clear in the coming weeks, as the launch is expected soon.

DailyTech reports.