both
Firingsquad and
Anandtech sing a differnt tune:
"How does the board compare against its new competitor, the Radeon X1900 XT 256MB? Overall we?d have to give the performance advantage to the ATI card; the X1900 XT 256MB not only performed better in the benchmarks ATI cards traditionally do well in (Call of Duty 2, Battlefield 2, Oblivion), the X1900 XT 256MB also outperformed the stock GeForce 7950 GT in titles we normally see GeForce cards come out ahead, such as Quake 4. The X1900 XT 256MB also put up a strong showing in F.E.A.R., outrunning the GeForce 7950 GT by 15% at 1600x1200."
"First, the X1900 XT 256MB is cheaper than the 7950 GT. Both flavors out perform the 7950 GT in multiple games. Where the 7950 GT does lead the X1900 XT 256MB in a couple cases, it never leads the 512MB version. "
even the article you quote states,
"The Radeon X1900 XT 256MB matches or outperforms the GeForce 7950 GT most of the time because its GPU is faster, even though it has less onboard memory"
while i can't really comment on their credibility (i've read an article from their site here and there, but not many) one way or the other, i certainly have found AT and FS to be very objective sources.
and oh, yea.. the XT is still alot cheaper, so even if you want to say that AT and FS are paid off by ATi, even taking techreport's word for it (the 256mb XT is overall slightly faster), the XT offers alot more performance for the $.
but again, i've always found AT and FS to be credible, so....
Limited support and not always playable as many have stated.
your excuses would be amusing if they did not reek of such desperation. regardless, it does not change the fact as i stated it, and as this is a game the OP is obviously interested in, it's quite relevant.
they are not running HQAF, are they?
nice try tho.
I see so IQ is not subjective and this is? Good luck with that, not showing any bias in that opinion no sir...
? what are you talking about? i stated driver quality is a preference/opinion. reading comprehension 101. take it.
Many have complained about stability, bloat and games not working until a patch is issued. Not to mention lesser dual screen support and LCD support.
many have complained about issues with nv drivers, as well - or are you not going to mention that which doesn't support what you say? there will always be a few vocal people on both sides that have problems/issues, or an obscure game that has a bug, but by and large both are very stable.
the "not to mention" items i already mentioned....
yet another weak rebuttal.
Except EVERY review site says it sucks. Even Rage3D an ATI fan site.
http://www.rage3d.com/articles/mgpuworldtour%5Fp8/index.php?p=7
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NVIDIA?s SLI is clearly more stable and mature than ATI?s Crossfire, there is no debating that fact. I never experienced any game crashes or rendering errors with SLI, and the one game I was expecting to have some problems with (Pacific Fighters) was apparently recently fixed and now works and scales fine. With Crossfire not only did most games not scale, but I actually had to disable Crossfire just to get them to launch. Elegant degradation is not in ATI?s vocabulary, apparently.
Not only is stability on NVIDIA?s side, so is ease of use and practicality. There is no master/slave stuff and there is no giant pain in the ass dongle with thumb screws that break off and are way too small and cables that are way too stiff to bend nicely like the monstrosity you get with hardware Crossfire. NVIDIA?s SLI bridge-board is elegant, easy to use, and doesn?t get in your way. Granted you can?t defend yourself against hordes of evil undead zombies with it like you can ATI?s dongle, but really, who wants zombie goo all over their computer anyway."
beating that horse again, eh?
we've covered that before, aside from being an old article (crossfire support increased alot with the latest catalyst, and will continue to do so.
i also stated SLI had wider compatibility and is more elegant, so aside from your weak attempt to slam ati, what's your point? i gave sli it's dues. unlike you, i don't have to make poor attempts at trashing one product to make another look better. i'm more than happy to give credit where credit is due.
Well since we ARE talking about the 7950, no high end card can touch the XFX model as far as less noise. You are just changing things to try and support your limited view point.
not at all. 99.999% of them are noisy. the XFX AFIK is the only card with passive cooling (they actually have 2 models), and i think that's great - even better if they hold up over time (we all know the issues with overclocked 7900's from multiple manufacturer's).
I backed up my statments with links to prove my point. Your opinions however need a lot of work.
not really.. other than the overexaggerated (and old) article slamming the dongle (which i don't like either, but in reality once it's in it makes little to no difference one way or the other), you offered nothing, other than maybe pointing out some things i already mentioned in favor of nvidia
basically all you've shown is that you ignore anything which doesn't support your less than objective opinon while trying to unduly slam the competition.
unlike you however, i don't have an agenda so i have no problem pointing out or acknowleding good and bad points of both products.
edit: i take that back; the passive cooling was a good point that missed earlier....
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