Realistically : Will I notice a difference from gf3 ti 200 to redeon 8500?

[TimidOCer]

I cant decide which to get....

Will you notice a difference in real life ? I mean 3d quality would you even really notice a difference? wouldnt they look almost identical?

I Really want to do some fsaa and I wanna know which will handle it best ... I mainly play halflife mods (counterstrike firarems DoD) and I play like need for speed 3 , 4 , and 5.... I play other games too but those ones are the ones that get me addicted..


I have $200 to spend so that means either oem 8500 or ti 200... and NO best buy gf3 ti 200 for me please lets just say they were equal price aight? hehe aight thats a funny word.

 

[Vegito]

you will have a lot of problem with 8500 till they fix the driver for hf & cs, check rage3d, a lot of user has to disable smoothvision before getting decent frame rates.. ie.. 5fps w/o disable

 

[bevancoleman]

I don't think there would be much difference in HL, assuming that ATI drivers are upto scratch.

What a few sites have noted though is that while SmoothVision is better at AA jagles or of lines/edges it also blurs texturers quite a lot decreasing detail. You can see it on any comparision of Gefore vs Radion with SmoothVidion, there is a good one in one of these forums of a comparision using Max Payne, while the image was ment to compare the aliasing on his leg, you can also see a marked drop in texture detail.

In comclusion, if quality is important check comparision images of your fav game and decide if texture detail more/less important than AA. To some people it will be, to some it wont (personally I think it is important)

 

[BFG10K]

If the drivers were up to scratch you'd probably see a noticeable difference.

Unfortunately in the current state I would have to say that the difference would be minimal.

 

[Mem]

From gaming point of view go with Nvidia their drivers are better IMHO.

 

[Erioll]

bevancoleman, I think you've got the texture stuff backwards. Just look at the screenshots from Anand's review of the new drivers here . They clearly show that even at the "performance" setting, the 8500's textures look MUCH better than GF3's, and at the "Quality" setting that they blow nvidia away.

Erioll

 

[richleader]

That's *only* in FSAA, and we all expect quincunx to be slightly blurry, but it is the performance leader after all.

No, going from a ti 200 to an 8500 would be a complete waste of time and money being that NV25 is headed here in january. An 8500 would be a decent upgrade from a slower card though and if I had it to do over, I would have gotten one instead of my Geforce 3 classic.