General Discussion

can 8800gt look better than x1950xtx

i know that ati is better image-quality compare to nvidia. but can 8800gt/9600gt beat x1950xtx in image-quality alone?

just image-quality nothing else. can 8800gt/9600gt beat x1950xtx?

Depends on your system.

Originally posted by Precusor

Depends on your system.

i dont believe.

Radeon HD x1950xtx 3q06, 384M gates, 90nm, dx9c, shader3, 8 vertex/16 rop/48 pixel shaders, 256bit memory bus, 10 GT/s fillrate, gddr3, 64 GB/s memory bandwidth. Not easy to find this still being sold. This is three generations old. The x1950pro is us$160.

GeForce 8800gt Oct 2007, 754M, 65nm, dx10, shader4, 112 vertex/16 rop/112 pixel shaders, 256bit, 33.6 GT/s, gddr3, 57.6GB/s. us$180.
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One may find the GF 8800gts 512MB (Dec 2007, 754M, 65nm, dx10, shader4, 128/16/128, 256bit, 41.6GT/s, gddr3, 62.2GB/s,) for about us$230; for low 200s that is hard to beat.

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ps might want to ask hardware questions in the Hardware forum...

and it does depend on your system... if one has to use an AGP type gpu (video card) because the mobo (motherboard) only has the AGP slot insert, or if one only has a 17" CRT display and you still use W98.2, 130W power supply and PC100 sdram; that is quite a different system than dx10 vista with pci-e slot displaying to a 32" or 42" LCD; these systems would need entirely different gpu.

Originally posted by billie

Radeon HD x1950xtx 3q06, 384M gates, 90nm, dx9c, shader3, 8 vertex/16 rop/48 pixel shaders, 256bit memory bus, 10 GT/s fillrate, gddr3, 64 GB/s memory bandwidth. Not easy to find this still being sold. This is three generations old. The x1950pro is us$160.

GeForce 8800gt Oct 2007, 754M, 65nm, dx10, shader4, 112 vertex/16 rop/112 pixel shaders, 256bit, 33.6 GT/s, gddr3, 57.6GB/s. us$180.
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One may find the GF 8800gts 512MB (Dec 2007, 754M, 65nm, dx10, shader4, 128/16/128, 256bit, 41.6GT/s, gddr3, 62.2GB/s,) for about us$230; for low 200s that is hard to beat.

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ps might want to ask hardware questions in the Hardware forum...

and it does depend on your system... if one has to use an AGP type gpu (video card) because the mobo (motherboard) only has the AGP slot insert, or if one only has a 17" CRT display and you still use W98.2, 130W power supply and PC100 sdram; that is quite a different system than dx10 vista with pci-e slot displaying to a 32" or 42" LCD; these systems would need entirely different gpu.

alright alright say it is 17inch lcd, pci express, ddr2 5300 3gig ram

The actual image quality is subject to interpretation.  From a technical aspect the 8800 GT will have better quality.  The thing to remember is that image quality comes from both the monitor and the video card.  Like the typical LCD 17" LCD will have a native resolution of 1024x768, so the actual detail is limited to that.  However, with a 24" you are looking at a 1600x1200 native resolution.  The higher the resolution the better the video card has to be in order to render.

Also most of the smaller aspects in the video card don't matter individually, but how they play with each other.  Like an ATI HD3870 has much higher specs then an 8800GT across the board except for Texture Units.  However, it performs worse in games because of the smaller Texture Units, but performs 3 times faster displaying CAD programs.

yesterday i ordered an 8800 GT OC2 512MB. fairly inexpensive and a good jump up from my 8600 GTS 256MB. im hoping to up the graphics in age of conan.