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[WildMonkey]

This is a great article from Tom's Hardware.

http://www6.tomshardware.com/graphic/20031229/index.html


If you are on a budget I recomend the Ti 4200 or 4600.
If not, go for the 9800 Pro
And if you want just a tiny bit more power for a lot more cash then by all means go crazy with the 9800 XT.

[fibonaccov]

The 9700 pro (which supports directx9) is still a very good card and much cheaper (used) than 9800's and it does OC quite well also...

[PreservedSwine]

An FX5800U doing better than a FX5900U w/ FSAA and AF:D

I'd take these benches w/ a grain of salt:)

[Strida]

They seem fairly accurate to me.

[Damian]

Originally posted by PreservedSwine
An FX5800U doing better than a FX5900U w/ FSAA and AF:D

I'd take these benches w/ a grain of salt:)

The FX5800U's GPU is clocked higher than the FX5900U's GPU; the strength of the latter lies more in the memory architecture. FSAA and aniso are more GPU-intensive tasks and thus induce a bottleneck.

[tom10167]

It's nice to see the 9700 pro is one of the best bang/buck cards out when image quality is turned on.

[PreservedSwine]

Originally posted by Damian


The FX5800U's GPU is clocked higher than the FX5900U's GPU; the strength of the latter lies more in the memory architecture. FSAA and aniso are more GPU-intensive tasks and thus induce a bottleneck.

FSAA is a memory resource hog on the GPU, I don't see how the card w/ a memory bus TWICE the width of the other gets beat in FSAA benches.......a 50mhz core speed bump isn't going to mean a hill of beans difference when applying 4xFSAA. That chart has some wierdness in it to say the least. :)