7600GS vs. X1600Pro

[alizee]

What's the opinion about these cards, I'm in the market for one at this price range. AT hasen't really done any reviews for these (although I may have passed it over), and it's hard to find comparisons anywhere. I've seen a couple reviews, and it looks like the 7600GS is the better buy. Is that the consensus?

From the benchmarks I've seen, it looks the 7600 is the leader for most things, but is there a reason for getting the X1600 feature-wise instead of performance wise? I'm stuck at 1280x960 because of my monitor, so I'm looking for something that can pull off a lot of eye-candy at that resolution. One thing, though, the ati card has the video compression features, right? or is that just the X1800 and up. Another thing is the PPU upgrade path. If I get the X1600 and decide to get an X2800 or whatever the next gen might be called, I can use it as a PPU, eh? That might be one consideration.

Any thoughts?

 

[tuteja1986]

your current card X800GT is about same power 🙁 as 7600gs and x1600xt

 

[alizee]

Originally posted by: tuteja1986
your current card X800GT is about same power 🙁 as 7600gs and x1600xt

probably true, but my current card is going in my brother's system because I busted his X700 (well, fedex busted it and I didn't claim the insurence in time 🙁 )

One thing, though, is they both have SM 3.0 support, eh?

 

[GundamSonicZeroX]

They both have HDR and SM3.

 

[Captante]

I'd go with the 7600GS ... at default its about as fast as the x1600Pro, but should overclock very well.

 

[A554SS1N]

7600GS is faster than an X1600Pro - there's a review at firingsqaud.com I think.

 

[Shadowmage]

If you'll be keeping it for a while, then go Pro. R580 derivatives (with 3:1 config) only get better than their NVIDIA counterparts as time goes on.

 

[alizee]

Originally posted by: Shadowmage
If you'll be keeping it for a while, then go Pro. R580 derivatives (with 3:1 config) only get better than their NVIDIA counterparts as time goes on.

how do you mean?

 

[Gamer5389]

Traditional, video cards have an equal number of pixel shader and texturing units. ATI has taken the initiative predicting that pixel shaders will be much more important in the future and thus the R520 has 12 pixel shaders and 4 texturing units (3:1)

 

[orangat]

The 7600gs has the same number of pixel shaders as the x1600pro but twice the number of texturing units.

 

[Modular]

Hmmmm, why not just go 7600gt? They can generally be had for <139 when newegg has a sale.

 

[mancunian]

I'd go for the 7600GS as well.

The X1600pro is really not that good of a card.

 

[Fenixgoon]

the 7600GS is faster, but I kinda wish I had AVIVO for H264 acceleration sometimes. anyway, it makes a fine budget card🙂

<---- pround owner

 

[Cookie Monster]

Originally posted by: Fenixgoon
the 7600GS is faster, but I kinda wish I had AVIVO for H264 acceleration sometimes. anyway, it makes a fine budget card🙂

<---- pround owner

The 7600GS has h.264 acceleration. Grab the new FW 90 and you will see that pure video is as good or better than AVIVO.

 

[hans007]

the x1600 pro pretty much sucks.

it would almost be fair (though the x1600xt would still lose by a lot) if it were an x1600xt and you can get some for $120 sometimes on say ebay.

that said though, there are some $100 7600GS cards.

so yeah... i'd take the GS, its cheaper and faster.