which is better Nvidia TNT2 or Radeon 7000 Help!

[HamidFULL]

which is better Nvidia TNT2 or Radeon 7000 Help!

 

[DaveSimmons]

Radeon 7000. It was popular for HTPCs for its better video quality, and this had better be for 2D use

The Radeon will also get at least 1 more FPS (for a total of 2) in Half-Life 2 at 640x480.

 

[HamidFULL]

tanx man I want use radeon 7000 in Ultra Low-res gaming! like HL2

 

[Lord Evermore]

Hell was there even such a thing as a pixel pipeline in the TNT2 days?



Oddly enough, the Radeon 7000 didn't do THAT terribly in Quake 3 Arena, at 1024x768

Naturally of course HL2 will be horrendous, but if it's only pushing the same resolution and the same feature set at it, it should be a bit more than 2fps. (That review is on a Mac.) Nobody seems to have bothered actually reviewing it in a PC. The Radeon also supports a higher DirectX version of course, so it'll LOOK a lot better.

Woohoo! Nvidia's .25 micron process has resulted in a wide range of yields for TNT2 chips, which run from 125MHz all the way up to 175 or 183MHz and beyond.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Can't you pick up something from FS/FT like a geforce 4200ti or radeon 9600? Geeks.com was selling the ti's for $30 recently.

That Radeon is going to struggle with anything more recent than Quake 3 even at 640x480.

 

[0roo0roo]

from what i remember a 7000 is basically a renamed radeon 1? about equiv to a geforce 1 which is faster than a tnt2
tnt was primitive stuff, it was before we got full blown gpus with transform and lighting. i think some newer games won't even play on a tnt2, just not supported.

http://www.tomshardware.com/1999/10/11/full_review_nvidia/index.html

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

Go with a Voodoo 2 or 3

 

[dexvx]

Radeon 7000 = Radeon VE TNT's cannot outpacee them.

http://www.tomshardware.com/2002/04/18/vga_charts_i/page4.html

 

[DaveSimmons]

41 FPS in quake 3 isn't bad. Of course a geforce4 ti 4200 costs $30 now and is almost 5 times as fast in that benchmark.