which is better Nvidia TNT2 or Radeon 7000 Help!

DaveSimmons

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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.
 

Lord Evermore

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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

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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.
 

DaveSimmons

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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.