Should I switch to a Radeon 7500?

[Zedtom]

A friend is offering me a belated X-Mas gift that he has no use for. It's new and has never been installed.

The card is an ATI Radeon 7500, with 64 MB DDR, and DVI out. I currently have a VisionTek Xtasy 5864 that I got from Best Buy on Black Friday a year ago. I'm using a Dell E-171FP Analog LCD monitor, so I can't utilize the DVI. I'm tempted to switch, cause I may upgrade to a digital LCD down the road.

Is the ATI a better card?

 

[tenoc]

The 7500 would be slightly faster, about the same as a GF2 Ultra.

Not much of an upgrade except for the DVI thing.

Of course, if you sold or traded both for, say, an 8500......

 

[Zedtom]

Well, my friend installed the card in a system that is a clone of mine... same motherboard, processor, memory, etc. The only difference is I run XP, and his OS is Win 2000 Pro.

We ran 3D Mark 2001 on both machines. I scored 6596 with my VisionTek card, and he got only 4216 with the ATI. Needless to say, but I won't be switching out my card.

 

[Killrose]

Obviously it's not a built by Ati card, but a much lower clocked powered by card. However, I still don't think it would best the score you got.