Budget video card shootouts... Radeon 7200 vs GF3 Ti200...

[MTDEW]

Anyone know where there is a review benckmarking & comparing cards that in clude the ATI Radeon 7200 64mb & the Gainward Golden Sample GF3 Ti200 64mb.

I know its an odd request, i got a friend who has the Radeon 7200 & they need to know how much of a step up in performane a Gainward GF3 Ti200 will be if it replaced the Radeon 7200.

It would be real nice to find a video card shootout with these 2 cards on the list.

So if ya have a link to one, post here, would ya.

 

[MTDEW]

Sheesh.
Id settle just for a decent review of either card.

I cant find a decent review of the Gainward Geforce3 Ti/450 64mb Golden Sample anywhere doing a search on google.
(Gainward calls their GF3 Ti200 a GF3 Ti/450 cuz of its OCing capabilities)

And Radeon 7200 64mb reviews are even more scarce.

Surely theres a site with some decent archived reviews of one of these cards.

(actually im sure there are reviews hidden in archives somewhere, just havin no luck finding some decent ones)

 

[MTDEW]

Nevermind, i found some.

Go back to the Radeon 9700 posts.... lol

 

[rogue1979]

The Radeon 7200 is the original Radeon DDR. The Geforce 3 Ti200, especially the Gainward which is an excellent overclocker, absolutely demolishes the Radeon DDR, not even close. For a good budget card try looking for the Radeon 9000 to be had for $66 shipped on pricewatch.

 

[AnAndAustin]

The Rad7200 was a fair bit faster than RadeonVE/7000 but not as fast as the Rad7500 (bet you didn't see that one coming). IIRC Rad7200 often o/c to about Rad7500 perf, of course any GF3TI200 o/c to within 10% of GF3TI500 while the Gainward GS TI200 tended to exceed TI500 perf! Rad7500 gives about GF2GTS or GF4MX420 type perf, GF2TI and GF4MX440 are a a fair bit faster while the GF3, Rad8500 and Rad9000 cards are hugely better and more capable with full DX8 in hw. Rad9000 is likely to be about 20% slower than the Rad9000PRO which tends to be a fair bit slower than Rad8500LE which in turn is about 10% slower than Rad8500. Since I'm sure this is all more confusing than helpful on to some reviews:

Tech Report Rad7500/8500 vs GF3 and GF4MX/TI
AnAndTech Sub-$200 review (Rad7500, GF2MX400, GF3, GF4, Rad8500 inc CPU scaling from 800mhz to 1.7ghz)