When in the heck did this happen?

[ctk1981]

Go to ati's website and they are picturing the new released Radeon 8500....with 128MB DDR. Was wondering when this happened? Anyone review this thing, would the ram difference really matter? Im kinda getting out of the computer loop and back into rebuilding my 72 pontiac. Turn my back for two weeks and look what they do. Hah, computer stuff is grand!


I did a quick look through the other posts, didnt see this mentioned...sorry if this is a double post.

 

[IGBT]

Don't know much about it but it's been on ubid for about a week at 399.00 opening bid with a bunch a people hitting on it. :Q

 

[AA0]

both nvidia and ati 128meg cards have 0 performance increase, its already been tested.

 

[imgod2u]

Where have they been tested? And secondly, as far as I know, the Geforce 4 Ti models are the only nVidia cards with 128MB of onboard memory and they offer a significant increase in performance (albeit due more to memory speed/core speed and features than the increase in memory size) over previous Geforce 2/3 with 64MB.

 

[EdipisReks]

tomshardware had a review of the 128 MB geforce3 ti-200, and it showed that the extra 64 MB of ram did very little for performance.

--jacob

 

[spanky]

<< Don't know much about it but it's been on ubid for about a week at 399.00 opening bid with a bunch a people hitting on it. :Q >>



i really hate ubid.

 

[jcmkk]

The 128MB Radeon 8500s are technically released, but you wont be seeing them for a couple weeks. I think hercules is planning on releasing a 128MB edition of the 8500. They are called 8500 Pros or something like that. Leadtek and Gainward have had 128MB GeForce 3 Ti 200s available for a couple weeks now. Like many others said before, there are no performance gains just bragging rights.

 

[FenrisUlf]

The only way you'll see increased performance with a 128MB video card vs. a 64 MB card is when you have huge amounts of textures. Even at an extreme 1600x1200 with 32 bit color the card only uses approx. 22MB of memory (double z-buffered). The rest is for textures and other video data. Unless you have a map with 42+ MB of textures, the 128MB card is pointless. A few benchmark demos use huge amounts of textures, but this is mainly to test the AGP bus and memory architecture of similar cards. No current game or projected game (for the usable lifespan of these cards) will use more than 64MB since game developers won't alienate those with 32 and 64 MB cards. After all, who would buy a new 128MB card just for one game? Look at Tom's review for more info. Maybe the generation of cards after the GF4 might use it, but I'm going to wait.

 

[ctk1981]

Cool...i was just like shocked that I seen it on their website. Anyone know if they plan on upping the core/mem speed while adding the extra 64MB? That would probably help, but I agree with the others...simply adding on the ram doesnt seem like it helps a significant amount.