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101 3D Graphics Cards Tested

Posted by Zonk on from the comparison-shopping-for-the-anal-retentive dept.

Phantom69 writes "Ixbt Labs have spent a month testing 101 graphics cards in 14 different games. They used one reference system, and tested at two different resolutions (800x600 and 1024x768). The cards cover virtually all the major manufacturers ATi, nVidia, 3dfx, Matrox, PowerVR and S3 from 1999-2004."

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  1. Irony in action by WormholeFiend · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Geforce beats Radeon in every game except Unreal Tournament, a game that opens with an Nvidia splash screen that says "the way it's meant to be played".

    1. Re:Irony in action by gl4ss · · Score: 2, Insightful

      .. the splash screens are just marketing.

      tribes vengeance has ati's splash screen(tribes vengeance is based around the ut engine)..

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    2. Re:Irony in action by SkyWalk423 · · Score: 2, Insightful
      1. Geforce beats Radeon in every game...

      There are still people that dedicate fanboy time, thought, and effort to which company makes the faster 3D accelerators?? Didn't that die when 3DFX went under???

      They one-up each other every three months, people. The pattern is well documented now. Move on.

  2. Similar article at Tom's by vasqzr · · Score: 2, Informative


    Tom's VGA Charts are pretty similar.

  3. Seriously by fr0dicus · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'm all for freedom of choice but isn't the sheer number here overwhelming evidence of just how pointless the cycle method of graphics hardware has become? I'm continually amazed at just how much people are willing to blow time after time on a consumer component.

    1. Re:Seriously by FortKnox · · Score: 2, Informative

      The best review he did a year or two ago was which card gave you the best bang for your buck (it was something like fps/$). The answer was the Radeon 9600XT, which is the card I bought. Wasn't the best, wasn't the fanciest, but it was a lot cheaper than the other cards, and I don't notice the difference between 60fps and 75fps.

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  4. Art on the cooling plates by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's about time they started putting hot anime chicks on the video cards! It makes them go faster!

    http://www.ixbt.com/video2/images/over2k4/x800xt .j pg

  5. Highlight by Mike+Hawk · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The GeForce 3 Ti500 destroys all other cards at the Quake3 800x600 and RtCW 800x600. A difference between 1st and 2nd of >5fps. We need a whiskey tango foxtrot on that one.

  6. The clear winner seems to be... by Akki · · Score: 2, Informative

    the GeForce 6800 Ultra 256MB, with the best price/performance going to the 6800 128MB. The 128MB version is $150 less than the 256 Ultra and only did significantly worse in one category of one game - Farcry 1024x768 with 2.0 shaders.

  7. 3dmark 05 by bairy · · Score: 2

    They shoulda run 3dmark 05 on these cards you know. Woulda been funny to see them smoking.

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