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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. Re:Who Won by KDan · · Score: 5, Informative

    Well the site is crawling by now, had several timeouts already, but managed to get to the conclusions (wasn't really worth the effort tbh):::

    Conclusion

    Let's break down performance of both cards and see which one comes out on top.

    UT2k3 - FX 5900 Ultra - While both cards perform well, the FX 5900 comes out on top

    AquaMark - R9800 Pro - The R9800 takes home the gold in this real-world benchmark

    Comanche 4 - R9800 Pro - The R9800 also wins out by an edge for this nearly obsolete benchmark

    Specviewperf 7.0 - R9800 Pro - This one is really close but the #'s lean to the R9800

    Code Creatures - FX 5900 Ultra - The 5900 beats up the R9800 pretty good in this intensive benchmark

    Splinter Cell - R9800 Pro - Hands down, the R9800 takes it in this awesome game from UBISoft

    ShaderMark - R9800 Pro - While the FX 5900 Ultra makes a good showing, the R9800 wins this one

    3DMark 01 SE Build 330 - R9800 Pro - The R9800 takes top honors with this tried and true synthetic benchmark

    3DMark 03 Build 320 - FX 5900 Ultra - Should we include this? Possibly not, however the FX 5900 wins with WHQL Det Drivers

    3D Visual Quality - R9800 Pro hands down

    And the winner is.........The FIC ATi Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB. We compared these cards in every category we could think of and in the end, we saw better performance overall from the ATI Radeon 9800 Pro. Did the FX 5900 fail to impress us? No, not at all. We believe both cards are worthy of any good system but we do have to tip our hats to the excellent performance that the Radeon 9800 Pro has showed us here today.

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    Daniel

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    Carpe Diem
  2. Article summary. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    9800 has a faster transform engine, is slightly ahead at lower resolutions.
    5900 has a higher fill rate, is slightly ahead at high resolutions.

    Otherwise there are no real differences between the benchmarks and it all comes down to differences any layperson could understand:

    The 5900 takes up 2 slots (WTF?) and the 9800 is $100 cheaper (although $399 for a graphics card is still nuts if you ask me).

    BTW, the ATI 9800 won the "shootout".

  3. Re:Nvidia is dying... by niko9 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Apparently the Radeon Mobility is not supported under Linux either - this has made my search for a new laptop very difficult.

    This statement is false. The Mobility Radeon has been supported since Xfree 4.2.

    I have been using this chipset with a IBM Thinkpad X22 for almost a year now, and that's with GNU/Debian Linux. ;) People using more cutting edge distro's have been using it longer.

    You wan't a great, cheap, superlight laptop with decent 3d support?

    Please visit the IBM eBay Store

    Laptops are brand new in the box, full warranty, are almost 50% retail, and you are buying directly from Big Blue.

    The catch? They're slightly behind the newest models, but hey, with linux support, that's the best way to buy hardware.