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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. Benchmarks... by mgcsinc · · Score: 4, Interesting

    With the benchmark-favoring drivers fiasco, just how much can we be expected to trust a review which relies so heavily on this testing method?

  2. From the article by gerf · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.

    But it looked pretty damn close in most of the benchmarks. Interesting that in 3DMARK, the FX 5900 ran away with it. Hmmmm.. Oh well, I doubt 5% of the people who post comments on this are going to buy one soon anyway. I know i'm not in the market.

  3. Re:Nvidia is dying... by the+gnat · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Is anyone still buying Nvidia cards any more these days

    Hi! Yes, we buy them at work all the time. We do a lot of 3D graphics work on Linux, and support for ATI cards under Linux was pretty pathetic until very recently. I'm told this has improved, but it's still not as easy as using the NVidia drivers, and we don't really trust ATI's software now. (Apparently the Radeon Mobility is not supported under Linux either - this has made my search for a new laptop very difficult.)

  4. Re:Am I the only one.... by atomicdragon · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It's not the most interesting thing to read for pleasure, but I find it useful since I am currently looking for a new video card. I would like to decide for myself which one is better. It's nice to see tests done on several games, so you know its not a single game that just happens to be optimized more for one card than the other. At least now they include things beyond frame rates, like image quality.

    At least I now know (actually I knew before since it is good to check several reviews) that I can get the ATI 9800 and know that the extra $100 for the 5900 would not have been worth it. I would still think this even if the 5900 was 1% faster on every test which would likely cause the conclusion to be that the 5900 was better.

    Besides, most reviews have a nice navigation thing at the bottom that lets you skip to the exact benchmark you want to see, or straight to the conclusion.

  5. I call shenanigans on OCAddiction.com by hackshack · · Score: 5, Interesting
    This is the second blatantly karma-whoring article I've seen this weekend. The article submitter, Mack, also wrote the damn article.

    I guess I wouldn't be as pissed if it was a genuinely interesting article, rather than a collection of specs and benchmarks.

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  6. More Benchmarks from both cards by WannaBeGeekGirl · · Score: 4, Interesting
    I like the reviews on Tom's Hardware Guide too. Theres a nice review of the GeForce FX 5900 that includes comparisons to both the Radeon 9800s. There's also a comparison between the Radeon 9800 256 vs the Radeon 9800 128 with some benchmarks and a little bit about previous comparisons to GeForce cards. Sounds like they favor the NVidia cards for now.

    WBGG

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