which is better a Radeon 9600 or a nVidia GeForce FX 5700?

[TacoNapsack]

which is better a Radeon 9600 or a nVidia GeForce FX? In overall value. This will be used for unreal tourney 2004

 

[nick1985]

is the 9600 a Pro/SE/XT/LE/ or a vanilla?

is the 5700 an LE/XT/SE/ultra/ or vanilla?

 

[TacoNapsack]

both vanilla

 

[fishmonger12]

for ut, it seems a 5700 ultra comes slightly ahead. after that, there's the 9600xt then the 9600 pro. meht why am i even typing this here's the link:

http://graphics.tomshardware.com/graphi...-charts-03.html#unreal_tournament_2003
edit: case you didn't know ut2k3 and ut2k4 are both the same engine so the performance of ut2k3-2k4 should be comparable.

 

[TacoNapsack]

XFX GeForce FX 5200 128MB would that b good 4 unreal 2k4

 

[fishmonger12]

look at my link.

 

[TacoNapsack]

what is a decents fps?

 

[Spike]

Decent FPS is relative, to most decent FPS is when you average around 40-60 so that you never have dips below 30 (30 is considered the lowest "playable" framrate).

With my old 9600pro and a AXP 3200+ 512mb PC3200 I ran UT2004 at 1024x768, all settings med or high (note that is 'high' not 'higher' or 'highest') and usually never dropped below 30. Always turn the physics detail down as that is a big killer and remember to use hardware acceleration for your sound. On several machines the game was skipping around randomly during play until we figured out about the sound setting. No problems since then...

-spike

 

[Spike]

Originally posted by: TacoNapsack
XFX GeForce FX 5200 128MB would that b good 4 unreal 2k4

the 5200 would perform much lower than both the 9600 and 5700. that card is pretty much worthless for games

-spike

 

[Blastman]

I don?t know how much you want to spend, but it sounds like ~ $100 if you are considering a 9600.

You can get a Sapphire 9600pro 128MB Advantage card for $100 -- only a few more dollars than a 9600. One of these ?(take your pick) ?

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=14-102-426&depa=0
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=14-102-409&depa=0
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=14-102-408&depa=0

It?s clocked 400/223 DDR, that?s much better than a standard 9600 128MB - 325/200 DDR (but less than a the standard 9600pro 128MB - 400/300 DDR). Considering it?s only a few $ more than 9600, it?s still good value. It should be as fast as a 5700 in old games and a lot better in the newer games with lots of shaders.

The Advantage 9600pro has a heatsink-fan setup where the 9600 only comes with heatsink (no fan). So the GPU overclocks well past 400Mhz (and better than the 9600) because it has better cooling than 9600. A guy on the forums at Sapphiretech said his overclocked to 480/255 - YMMV. That?s pretty typical for the GPU but the 4ns memory is usually hard pressed to get much over 240 DDR

 

[Quixfire]

What he said ^

 

[dguy6789]

Get a 9600, it has competitive performance with the 5700s in dx8 and opengl, and it dominates it in dx9, and I believe it is cheaper as well.

 

[TacoNapsack]

Check this out wolud it be good?
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=14-129-015&depa=0

 

[MDE]

Originally posted by: TacoNapsack
Check this out wolud it be good?
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=14-129-015&depa=0

No, stay away from the SE, EZ, or any cards with suffixes other than Pro or XT for ATI.

 

[TacoNapsack]

XFX GeForce FX 5500 / 256MB DDR / AGP 8X / VGA / DVI / TV Out / Video Card

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: TacoNapsack
XFX GeForce FX 5500 / 256MB DDR / AGP 8X / VGA / DVI / TV Out / Video Card

You're not listening. Read Blastman's post and buy either that 9600Pro new, or fish one out of FS/T used.

- M4H