how much better is a 6600gt than a 9500pro ?

[OhioState]

hello all im currently using a 9500 pro card playing fear and cod2

my system is
2800+ athlon xp
1gig 2700 memory
160 gig hd 8cache 7200 rpm

would a change from a 9500 pro to a 6600gt net me much of a gain.
Or is the rest of my comp the bottleneck ?

i play fear on medium settings now and it plays fine would a 6600gt let me play on high ?

thanks all for your time

GO BUCKEYES

 

[Malladine]

You're probably looking at 75%+ faster in those games depending on settings of course. No, no bottlenecking

Medium with a 9500pro in fear huh? at 640x480 maybe...:laugh:

Yes, the 6600gt is alright at max quality/1024x768 with no aa or af, though you may find 800x600 is smoother.

 

[Munky]

A 6600gt would be a significant improvement in most games over a 9500p, but you've just managed to list the 2 most demanding games currently available, and a 6600gt is nowhere enough to play those at high settings. You'd need at least a 6800gt or a x800xt to play those games at high settings, and even those cards will drop to under 20fps during complex scenes with a lot of smoke and effects.

 

[3chordcharlie]

Your CPU is a little dated, but would be a good match for a 9800 pro; a 6600GT will give you much better performance.

With a 6600GT the cpu may start to be your bottleneck, but not if you want to turn on eye-candy. In that case you will still be gpu-limited.

Despite that, I wouldn't spend the extra to get a higher end video card than the 6600gt, since your next system will almost certainly be pci-e, not agp.

 

[selfbuilt]

To give you a personal comparison, I went from a 9500pro to 9800xt about a year and half ago, and was quite disappointed by the increased performance on games at the time (typically only 20-30% increase, although up to 50% in some games in AA/AF modes). A 6600GT is not that much faster than 9800xt, except on OpenGL games (otherwise pretty equivalent).

I would think you would be better off going for something like a 6800GS or X800GTO for a more meaningful upgrade.

Edit: this might help you make a comparison, shows you FEAR running max settings w/out soft shadows on the x800gto and vanilla 6600, among others:
Tom's Lower-End Card Review

Keep in mind that's on a A64 3700+ test bed ... your FEAR scores would likely be a bit lower.

 

[will889]

If you plan on staying with that XP2800 for a while then the 6600GT would be a pretty fair upgrade IMO,9800 Pro to a 6600GT=20% gain in the lower resolutions with no AA-AF or 2XAA-AF - if you don't mind playing at resolutions no more than 1152x864.