That was about ATi's use of brilinear filtering (a mixture of bilinear and trilinear), it was brought up by die hard nVidia fans to put some dirt onto ATi, but was found out that nVidia ALSO uses the same method of mixing the two, but ATi's version of it produces a better, clearer, image. So the whole thing was null and void.
And about 6800's "more room to overclock," this isn't true. The 6800 is comprised of over 220 million transistors, over 50 million more than the x800 series due to support for PS3.0 and VS3.0. This many more transistors causes imbalances and more heat to be generated, which is why the 6800 is only clocked at 400 Mhz for it's core and the slightly overclocked extreme addition is only 40 mhz more on the core.
An overclocker had to use dual cascade cooling to bring the temperate of the core down to -98C to get a 600 Mhz clock on the core. Stock cooling can get you maybe 40-80 Mhz on the core for a 6800 Ultra, stock cooling can get you 80-120 mhz on the core for a x800 pro/xt. The highest clock for a x800XT is ... I believe... 750-800 Mhz set by Macci, one of the best overclockers in the world at ATi's presentation of the x800XT to show the massive overclocking limits of their new card.
And about 6800's "more room to overclock," this isn't true. The 6800 is comprised of over 220 million transistors, over 50 million more than the x800 series due to support for PS3.0 and VS3.0. This many more transistors causes imbalances and more heat to be generated, which is why the 6800 is only clocked at 400 Mhz for it's core and the slightly overclocked extreme addition is only 40 mhz more on the core.
An overclocker had to use dual cascade cooling to bring the temperate of the core down to -98C to get a 600 Mhz clock on the core. Stock cooling can get you maybe 40-80 Mhz on the core for a 6800 Ultra, stock cooling can get you 80-120 mhz on the core for a x800 pro/xt. The highest clock for a x800XT is ... I believe... 750-800 Mhz set by Macci, one of the best overclockers in the world at ATi's presentation of the x800XT to show the massive overclocking limits of their new card.