Originally posted by: Master Chief
Hey, I have a BFG 5900 and looking to upgrade. School just started and I don?t have a whole lot of money to spend. I was looking at the ATI X600 pro with 256 mb and the ATI X700 pro with 256 mb and I was just wondering, are either of those two cards better then the one I have?
I've just spent the morning making two-card comparisions of all the cards I've had and/or looked at over the past five years or so and had a blast with the place I'm about to list here:
No, I put something else in the clipboard since then. Sit tight. I'll be back before I post this.
OK, here is is:
http://www.gpureview.com/
The X700 is about the same performance as a 9800 Pro, which was faster than a 6600 plain, and that one in its own turn is faster than a 5900 plain. I didn't look at where any X600 VGA card fit into the matrix.
Is this an upgrade, downgrade from what I have, or just about the same?
The comparison is only at the most basic level, with only a single benchmark included, so it's only a starting point, but each of the cards I looked at seemed to have links to several reviews you coould look at.
I?ve seen these cards go for $150, tell me what you guys think, I don?t know a whole lot about video cards. Thanks.
The 5900 was almost as good as anything nVidia could offer two years ago (the 5950 was tops, just before the 66xx's came along). Graphics evolution has been rapid over the past 5-6 years, though.
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