What is currently the best AGP 8X card availible for ATI and Nvidia

[steppinthrax]

Just curious.

I thought at one point that it was the 1950xt. But I'm not sure.

 

[Gusty987]

you got it, x1950xt is the top agp right now.

 

[steppinthrax]

Originally posted by: Gusty987
you got it, x1950xt is the top agp right now.

How far away is that from some of the best PCI-E video cards. Like I'm asumming bus bandwidth is the bottleneck between agp and PCI-e

 

[Captante]

Best Nvidia AGP card: XFX PVT71AYDF3 GeForce 7950GT 512MB

Best ATI & best overall: GECUBE HX195XTGA3-D3 Radeon X1950XT 256MB

I would look for another version of the X1950XT AGP besides the GECUBE because the Peltier unit doesn't seen to work very well & adds to the price.

This card also deserves serious consideration: SAPPHIRE 100171L Radeon X1950PRO 512MB


Performance between an AGP 8X & PCIe version of the otherwise identical card should be very close with maybe a slight edge to PCIe, however the fastest PCIe cards (8800's & the X2900) arn't currently available in AGP.

 

[Stumps]

hmmm depends how you look at it...the Gecube X1950XT-T is the fastest...but the extra 5-7% over a X1950Pro doesn't justify it's considerably higher price...not to mention that the peltier is more trouble than it's worth.

I would say on Price vs Performance, the X1950Pro would be the best AGP card, I reccomend the Sapphire X1950Pro 512Mb AGP, I've had mine since the start of january and it hasn't given me a single problem and it's performance has been outstanding for an AGP card.

Nvidia wise that would be the XFX Geforce 7950GT 512mb, I can't really comment on that card at the moment because I haven't got my hands on one yet to play, how ever going off the performance of the Gainward Bliss 7800GS+ series which featured 7800GT, 7900GS and 7900GT GPU's instead of the regular 7800GS, it should have pretty decent performance and could be a good buy if it's price isn't much higher than the X1950Pro.

Unfortunately for the Gainward Bliss 7800GS+ series, I can't reccomend any of them becuase of their stupidly high price's (AU$550+) and rarity, only 1500 of each model was ever produced, and they weren't sold in the US.