ATI 9600 pro -vs- nforce 5700. which is better?

[Bolivarted]

I'm looking at a videocard to get. Have read good things about both cards. The only reason I'm asking is that I've just recieved an Abit NF7-S from newegg and think that if you have a nforce board, maybe you should stick with an nforce videocard. Just to keep any incompatability problems from happening with the drivers. would like to know any thoughts on this issue. Truthfully, I'm leaning towards the ATI card.

 

[Bateluer]

To my knowledge, the 5700U is too close in price to the 5900NU, which makes it a very poor buy. The 9600 Pro is considerably cheaper than both cards however. Unless you want to step up to a 9800 Pro, I'd go with the 5900NU. Its lack of DX9 support not withstanding, its currently the best card in its price range.


Or you could just pick up a GF4 Ti4200 and wait until the nextgen DX9 cards come out in March?

 

[Blastman]

Well I'm going to assume you are talking 5700 (regular) versus 9600pro (they are about same price).

If we go by ? 5700U = 9600XT ?

9600pro is only 10-12% slower than a 9600XT, I estimated the 5700 (425/275) is ~ 40% slower than the 5700U (475/450).

So, the 9600pro is going to be much faster than a 5700.

EDIT: THis review has some benches with a 5700 9600pro etc. in it ...

http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/gffx/gffx-30.html

 

[nick1985]

5900nu

 

[sandorski]

There is no reason to choose an NVidia based vidcard over an ATI based one on an NForce motherboard. NVidia has done an excellent job at keeping the NForce chipset neutral in that regard.

Kind of a case in point: My MSI k7n2-L NForce 2 mobo had a few BIOS revisions where my ATI Radeon 9600 Pro would not initialize at boot. When the GeForce FXs came out they had similar issues. After MSI released a BIOS to fix the problem both NVidia based and ATI based cards worked properly.

 

[nick1985]

Originally posted by: sandorski
There is no reason to choose an NVidia based vidcard over an ATI based one on an NForce motherboard. NVidia has done an excellent job at keeping the NForce chipset neutral in that regard.

Kind of a case in point: My MSI k7n2-L NForce 2 mobo had a few BIOS revisions where my ATI Radeon 9600 Pro would not initialize at boot. When the GeForce FXs came out they had similar issues. After MSI released a BIOS to fix the problem both NVidia based and ATI based cards worked properly.

huh?

 

[Pete]

nF MBs should have no trouble with ATi video cards. I ran a 9100 in an nF1 w/IGP without a single problem.

I'd probably go for a 9600 Pro over a 5700, but I haven't really seen benches of either (and I'm not interested enough to follow the D-L link 🙂).

 

[lchen66666]

One factor to consider.

ATI chip generates less heat, has smaller heatsink fan, generate much less noise,
and more overclock room.

Performance 9600XT and 5700U are hard to judge because
DX9 games are faster on ATI 9600, while OpenGL applications
are faster on Nvidia 5700.

I personal would choose ATI because more and more DX9 games
will be in the next few months

 

[kylebisme]

Originally posted by: nick1985

Originally posted by: sandorski
There is no reason to choose an NVidia based vidcard over an ATI based one on an NForce motherboard. NVidia has done an excellent job at keeping the NForce chipset neutral in that regard.

Kind of a case in point: My MSI k7n2-L NForce 2 mobo had a few BIOS revisions where my ATI Radeon 9600 Pro would not initialize at boot. When the GeForce FXs came out they had similar issues. After MSI released a BIOS to fix the problem both NVidia based and ATI based cards worked properly.

huh?

he just answered the guy's question very clearly. 😀

 

[nick1985]

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