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New NVidia Graphics Cards Reviewed

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the pretty-pictures dept.

UnixRevolution writes "Tom's Hardware has a review of Nvidia's new FX5950 and FX5700. According to Tom's Hardware, ATI's Radeon 9800XT is still at the top of the heap." They're still some pretty slick cards, if only for their heat sink designs.

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  1. Cooling by Tyler+Eaves · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You know what I find pretty damn interesting? That my Radeon 9600 operates with NO active cooling at all, only a simple heat conductor. Quite is good.

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  2. Scorecard: by Wolfier · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ATI nVidia
    speed 10 9
    price 5 5
    heat 9 1
    noise 9 2
    features 10 9

    TOTAL 43 26

    Choose ATI.

    1. Re:Scorecard: by RedWizzard · · Score: 3, Insightful
      "TOTAL (ATI) 43 (nVidia) 26"

      That's all very well if you consider those five factors to be equally important. I suspect very few people do though. Personally I don't care much about the heat or noise but value for money is key. Interesting too that you don't consider support (including driver updates) to be relevant.

  3. Re:Sorry, performance isn't everything. by Babbster · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Considering the number of times I've had to go back and forth on Nvidia driver versions over the past few years because of incompatibilities, I would conclude that NEITHER company has it all together in that area.

    PERIOD.

  4. Bozo reviewers by Animats · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Hundreds of people labor for months to design a graphics processor that can do real-time procedural shading of near-Renderman complexity, and the "reviewers" at Tom's Hardware focus on the heat sink.

    Then there's this endless fascination with how many FPS you can get on some antique game. That's not what it's about. The question is how detailed a scene you can render at full frame rate.