BF2S Forums My video card dilemma

I would go for the X1900XTE's, they are much superior from what I have read, and perform much better than most cards out there.  Just like the X1800 which was the equivilant and much better than the 7800GTX, the X1900 is supossed to out perform in every area.  Its suppossed to be 3 times as powerful as some of the leading cards but I dont know if thats true or not.

By the way, how much did you find them for?

*whistles* wow, now thats expensive! Dont suppose you want to lend me your computer eh?

I'd say buy a single of the next generation. Dual cards are really overrated.

I voted SLi Nvidia, but im an Nvidia fan, my suggestion is don't buy anything until they release their 7900 series. Now that series will have some serious sex appeal.

7900s ...7800s are already out fella,  just wait for the 7900 and see if the x1900XTX can compete

Do you have or are you going to get a Crossfire ready MB?
If no then 2 1900 would not be very useful to you as they will not work

ST19AG_WGreymon wrote:

The ATI cards do better in benchmarks, but the Nvidia 7800s do better in games. So unless you're going to be playing benchmarks, I'd say go with the Nvidia cards.

This makes no sense at all. Anyways get the 2 ATI, no matter what any of these fanboys say. ATI does not suck, here look at this review of the new ATI's, and look at the comparison pictures, ATI has superior graphics, and perform better.


http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2679

sixshot wrote:

I'd like to also suggest cross-referencing the GTX 512 SLI numbers with those to get a better overall picture to the performance differences between the two.  The AnandTech link only had numbers (at first glance) on the Crossfire X1900 setup so for those viewing and reading, they'll only see one half of the extreme.

As I said, ATI is oerforming better, and heres another link.

http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/01/24/ … pipelines/

psychotoxic187 wrote:

sixshot wrote:

I'd like to also suggest cross-referencing the GTX 512 SLI numbers with those to get a better overall picture to the performance differences between the two.  The AnandTech link only had numbers (at first glance) on the Crossfire X1900 setup so for those viewing and reading, they'll only see one half of the extreme.

As I said, ATI is oerforming better, and heres another link.

http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/01/24/ … pipelines/

With a link like that, I refuse to believe what's documented there at all.

ATi's latest cards are only performing better due to the fact that it's a new product right now... Considering that the X1800 product is in competition with nVIDIA's 7800GTX, this is a natural result.

A little debunking on the notion that ATi is performing better... let's take into consideration that while some of the benchmark numbers show ATi leading in many of the tests, the margin of victory is small in those handful of tests done.  Also take into consideration that they won using 48 pipelines to accomplish this... if you were to scale that with nVIDIA's hardware, you'll see the difference in which one is more efficient in performing per pixel pipeline.

I'm not saying that NV is still the winner overall.  Right now, it's good to see ATi leading the pack for the moment.  I'll wait until the numbers are in for the GF7900 series and we'll then determine who has the better hardware and factor in the price the hardware sells at to judge for ourselves just who the 3D King for Round 1 of 2006.

lmao l33t neon ftw....! o yeah ahem, go with the 7800's

Maj.Do wrote:

sixshot wrote:

psychotoxic187 wrote:

As I said, ATI is oerforming better, and heres another link.

http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/01/24/ … pipelines/

With a link like that, I refuse to believe what's documented there at all.

ATi's latest cards are only performing better due to the fact that it's a new product right now... Considering that the X1800 product is in competition with nVIDIA's 7800GTX, this is a natural result.

A little debunking on the notion that ATi is performing better... let's take into consideration that while some of the benchmark numbers show ATi leading in many of the tests, the margin of victory is small in those handful of tests done.  Also take into consideration that they won using 48 pipelines to accomplish this... if you were to scale that with nVIDIA's hardware, you'll see the difference in which one is more efficient in performing per pixel pipeline.

I'm not saying that NV is still the winner overall.  Right now, it's good to see ATi leading the pack for the moment.  I'll wait until the numbers are in for the GF7900 series and we'll then determine who has the better hardware and factor in the price the hardware sells at to judge for ourselves just who the 3D King for Round 1 of 2006.

Exactly, also dont forget ATi does not have the resources to do reseacrh every 6 months like Nvidia, Nvidia releases new things like more pipelines while ATi releases higher clockspeeds, If ati did SOME reseacrh maybe they could make a high clockspeed 24 pipeline card,

ATi do research? Have you read about their architechture? Sixshot, those are legit benchmarks, against the 7800gtx 512, which is still new hardware, as it's mostly vapourware. These cards are to battle the 7800gtx 512, as Nvidia just wanted them out to claim the crown. It beats nvidia at a cheaper price at that, you cannot debunk any of the benchmarks. So, by your logic you canot compare the x1800xt to the 7800gtx, because ATI is using less pipelines.



I am just surprised at how fanboyish some people are, read about ATI's new architechture, they are always ahead in the way of 3D processing. Do research? Please read the Anandtech article, and then look into unified shaders, as that will be ATI's next baby.

razz wrote:

The 7900 GTX is un-beatable, with 32 pipes and 700-750Mhz clock speed, memory @800-900Mhz, it will pwn anything ati can throw at it. I will buy one as soon as they are released . And mid year i'm going SLi. With these 2 puppies I will lay the smack down of FPS.

Again, such fanboyism, it's pathetic. ATI is already using 48 pixel processors, and when they go to unified shaders, it will be that much more efficient. ATI will trump them, yet again, this is just the way it is, Nvidia is king, then ATI is king, it will always go back and forth. But, to say Nvidia is the best at games, and the ATI sucks, is pure ignorance. Look at that article, and compare screenshots from Nvidia, and ATI, ATI has the better looking graphics.