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GF FX 5900 Ultra vs. ATi Radeon 9800 Pro

Posted by michael on from the money-to-burn dept.

Mack writes "OCAddiction.com has their GF FX 5900 Ultra vs. ATi Radeon 9800 Pro article online detailing which card is more powerful. Running a plethora of benchmarks we were anxious to see which card outperformed the other. Quite simple really. We take nVidia's top offering and pair it up against the current top offering from ATi and let them duke it out till the bitter end. Who will come out on top? Let's take a look."

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  1. Who Won by bsharitt · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why didn't the poster tell who won? Now I have to actually read the article.

  2. Time to upgrade! by Xeth · · Score: 5, Funny

    I mean, damn! Four more FPS! For only $499 (plus tax ans S&H)! Where's my credit card...

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  3. Nvidia is dying... by illumin8 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Let's see here, they compare two cards that shouldn't compare in real life.

    The GeForce card has:

    * Twice as much memory (256 MB vs. 128MB)
    * More memory bandwidth (27 GB/s vs. 21 GB/s)
    * Faster memory (3 ns vs. 3.8 ns chips)

    And the GeForce still got it's ass handed to it by the ATI Radeon 9800 Pro, which, by the way, doesn't even need a leaf-blower attachment just to keep it from overheating!

    Is anyone still buying Nvidia cards any more these days (other than the blindly trusting fanboys, that is)?

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  4. Who would buy this anyway by puntloos · · Score: 5, Funny

    Let's see now.

    1/ Both cards can display current games at 2 quajillion fps, the winner beating the loser by 3fps
    2/ The economy of well, the world, is in the dumps
    3/ Quite a few cool and very demanding games (Doom3, Halflife) will come out Soon(tm) but Definately Not Yet(tm). (Personally I wouldnt be surprised if it would be @ christmas time
    4/ At X-mas time (or whenever these demanding games start to come out) newer, faster cards will be out, and/or these cards will be cheaper.
    5/ At X-mas time people will actually have some money set aside to buy rad new videocards for.. eh.. their girlfriends.

    So who would buy this?

    (No, I haven't actually -read- the article :)

  5. 3dmark scores, GF FX IS SOO MUCH BETTER! by Eric(b0mb)Dennis · · Score: 5, Funny

    3dmark2003

    GF FX: 999999
    Ati Raedon: 40394

    Weird outcome! It was strange though, because during the gf fx test, it just flashed and gave me my score! Awesome speed!

    Keep up the good work, NVIDIA!

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