what about radeon (9500 or 9700 ) compare with wildcats 3d labs

[babiterbang]

this is still confusing me as newbie
why anybody doesn't compare with 3dlabs wildcat or oxygen with radeon 9700 or 9500 ?

this different system or any else !
why in the forum always talking about ti4600 or radeon not this wildcats ?

i know this (3dlabs) for workstation, or something i miss !
please anybody tell me ?

 

[BenSkywalker]

The Wildcats are dedicated workstation cards and suck at gaming. The Quadro/Fire boards are ATi's/nV's workstation line and they don't suck at gaming, although that tends not to be a factor for the people who buy them.

Likely a GeForce1 would whip the latest Wildcat in most games, they spend no time optimizing drivers for them when it comes to gaming and it shows

 

[ProviaFan]

As Ben has said, the 3DLabs Wildcat and Oxygen cards are primarily for workstation use. The Wildcat VPs do have some game optimization, but they still suck at gaming when compared to ATI's and Nvidia's consumer-oriented offerings. ATI's FireGL and Nvidia's Quadro cards are more workstation oriented, but they are still based on similar GPUs (or is the term VPU these days?) as their consumer-oriented gaming-optimized counterparts (well, the older FireGL 2 and 4 cards were more dedicated to workstation use, but AFAIK the FGL X1 is similar to the Radeon 9700 Pro).

 

[babiterbang]

oh i see.

if i want to buy new vga card for workstation that capable for games ( i realy like games ) what kind of vga
that close enough to radeon 9500 or else ?

 

[BenSkywalker]

if i want to buy new vga card for workstation that capable for games ( i realy like games ) what kind of vga
that close enough to radeon 9500 or else ?

The QuadroFX line or the latest FireGL boards. The QFX tends to be faster in workstation applications, not sure about gaming though(it should be comparable to a GFFX). The price on these boards is in the $1K range, although you are likely aware of that($700-$800 for the FireGL1 board from ATi, QuadroFX run ~$900-$1300).