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ATi FireGL X1 Vs. NVIDIA Quadro FX 2000

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the pro-grade-card-shootout dept.

SpinnerBait writes "The professional graphics card arena has been heating up as of late, with new products from ATi and NVIDIA hitting the streets on the heels of SIGGRAPH unveilings. In a first of two article series, HotHardware has a showcase with benchmarks on the ATi FireGL X1 and NVIDIA Quadro FX 2000. It seems as though NVIDIA still has a stronghold in this market, as their card seems to dominate many of the benchmark runs shown here."

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  1. I ran benchmarks too by Dancin_Santa · · Score: 5, Funny

    Neither runs faster than the Orchid Farenheit 180.

    I used Lotus 123 and WordPerfect 5.1 as the test applications.

    1. Re:I ran benchmarks too by WIAKywbfatw · · Score: 4, Funny

      Neither runs faster than the Orchid Farenheit 180.

      I used Lotus 123 and WordPerfect 5.1 as the test applications.

      Aah, but do you have the ISA, EISA or MCA version of the card? That EISA version really kicks ass, especially on a system running MS-DOS 5.0 and tweaked with 386MAX.

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      "Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue." - David Brent, Wernham Hogg
  2. Just look at the names by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    FX 2000? What? Are they on crack? That says to people "This is the card from the year 2000! It's slow!!!" but X1? WOWOW!!! Holy jeez, that sounds fast!

  3. Um.... WTF? by Raxxon · · Score: 3, Funny

    I thought FireGL was from Diamond, not ATI. :p

    In fact, I'm holding a FireGL right now... I'll sell it for $200! Less than what ATI charges.

    god I wish peole would think before naming things sometimes.... USB2.0 vs USB2.0 "Hi-Speed"....

  4. Not enough competition by archen · · Score: 3, Funny

    Other benchmarks include a leaf blower and a flaming jar of gasoline. The leaf blower actually did quite well in the noise tests against the Nvidia card but lost out due to the fact that it consumes less power than the video card. Ati unfortunately did not fare as well, and lagged behind with the noise factor. An ATI spokesman recommended that the card be coupled with a "cheap ass Athlon CPU fan" which would develop a good rattle to help the card become more obnoxious.

    The jar of flaming gasoline also did pretty good in the heat department against both cards, but unfortunately had to be refilled which was considered a drawback. Aside from that the life like animation the fire produced only ran at one frame rate, but was always consistent. Unfortunately the jar of gas lost out big time in the cost arena, but it seems that can be compensated for by tossing $1 bills into the flames at various intervals to get the costs up higher.

    Some wondered why we didn't benchmark a toaster as well, or instead of a jar of gasoline - but as we pointed out before, a toaster is far to practical to compare in a contest of flushing money down the toilet.