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More Graphics Card Benchmarking

Posted by Zonk on from the fps-for-fun-and-profit dept.

OnlyNewZ writes "Testing using OpenGL Doom 3, we selected in total 32 different cards. 14 were NVIDIA cards and 18 were ATI cards, while 19 cards were AGP and 13 cards were PCI-Express."

21 comments

  1. Whatever by AliasTheRoot · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "Testing using OpenGL Doom 3, we selected in total 32 different cards. 14 were NVIDIA cards and 18 were ATI cards, while 19 cards were AGP and 13 cards were PCI-Express."

    But you didn't have enough understanding of what you were doing to be able to draw *any* conclusions, and instead figured 5 pages of really crappy graphs of a game noone plays would suffice.

    1. Re:Whatever by prezkennedy.org · · Score: 1

      Yep, no one plays it... and note, that announcement was made more than two months ago.

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    2. Re:Whatever by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Correction: those who do play it, play it only once ;P

  2. Welcome to slashdot.. by sinner0423 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You should probably add some commentary in to that article, otherwise it's just a bunch of graphs.

    I'm not amazed at the results - the 6800 ultra seems to spank everything else. Probably because it's $400, sucks 1.21 gigawatts of power, and is the size of a carton of cigarettes.

    Nice site, I'll bookmark it only if you promise to add some humanity to it.

    1. Re:Welcome to slashdot.. by cbrichar · · Score: 3, Funny
      ... Probably because it's $400, sucks 1.21 gigawatts of power, and is the size of a carton of cigarettes. Yes, but..
      these go to eleven.

    2. Re:Welcome to slashdot.. by snuf23 · · Score: 2, Informative

      Well. Try more like $500. The 6800GT is around $400.
      And you are right in Doom 3 this is no surprise as the Nvidia cards take the lead. Now on Half Life 2 ATI takes the lead.
      Seriously though, both of this rounds chips are excellent and much, much faster than the last set of cards. The high end ones do take a load of power and run very hot.

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    3. Re:Welcome to slashdot.. by zonker · · Score: 0

      the article's webserver sure doesn't...

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    4. Re:Welcome to slashdot.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0


      My sense of humor stops at ten.

  3. What is the point of this? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    There are a lot of crummy "articles" out there that are little more than charts and graphs - the bigger question is, why in the fuck did slashdot decide to feature this piece of crap?

  4. Wow by GweiLeong · · Score: 1

    2 comments in and the page is already loading slow ;) /.ed anyone? I'd been an nvidia fan for years but my last system came with an Ati so I tried it out and to be totally honest it's not bad if a mite underpowered for the latest games (Radeon 9600XT 128 MB). Anyone heard when the X850XT will be available in stores?

  5. Choosing a GFX Card by BrookHarty · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Really, anything less than a older ATI 9800 is going to hurt FPS with newer games. Turn on AA/AF, and the 9800 is "Acceptable" at best with 30FPS. 60FPS is the sweet spot, which the XL800 pushs with AA/AF Turned ON.

    Thats why I'm sad to see the new mini-mac's only use 9200's, and the G4's not get the new XL800's. But the price, I can see understand, the 9200 is the cheap chip, but its too slow IMHO. ATI 9600 GPU is the slowest chip they should of used.

    Doom3 1024x768 AA0/AF0
    ATI 9000 - 4.4
    ATI 9600 - 18.2
    ATI 9800XT - 60.9
    ATI XL800XT - 94.4

    Doom3 1024x768 AA4/AF8
    ATI 9000 - 0
    ATI 9600 - 9.5
    ATI 9800XT - 29.8
    ATI XL800XT - 65.5

    BTW, the site is offline now, or I would of posted some nvidia scores.... But I switched to ATI when the 9700 came out, still using the GFX card, waiting for the 800's to drop to upgrade. Since Late 2005/early 2006 the new GPU's come out.

    1. Re:Choosing a GFX Card by Deliveranc3 · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Um your scores are way off I have a 9000 pro and I get 25-33 fps at 1024x768 on a athlon 2600+

      People who spend a lot of money on their graphics card always want to imagine they got a great deal but you just got ripped off.

      The sweet spot in the current generation is the 6600GT which is an excellent card.

    2. Re:Choosing a GFX Card by BrookHarty · · Score: 2, Insightful

      No, the scores are not way off. (And its the articles scores not mine...)

      You can increase the FPS if you turn down options, that wasnt the point of the article, it was showing the same settings per GPU, not dumb downed settings for max FPS...

      I have an ATI 9000 and 9700, the 9000 is slower, much. But in WoW I'm getting 17fps average with everything turned down. The 9700 is pumping 55+ with everything maxed out on my AMD 2600.

      And the GFX lag in Origimmar is gone on the 9700, the 9000 actually pauses while gfx loads. 32megs for a gfx card doesnt cut it for that game..

      So, I tend to believe more in the article and my own experience. Thanks.

    3. Re:Choosing a GFX Card by rmoonsong · · Score: 1

      I Have an ATI 9000 pro 128MB AGP and I have no problem playing most newer games with settings to the max. Not sure what the exact framrates are but I never notice any slowdown when there are more charaters/action on the screen.
      P4 2.6
      512 DDR
      XP
      Not considered a powerhouse anymore by todays standards but seems to have more than enough for everything I throw at it.

    4. Re:Choosing a GFX Card by rmoonsong · · Score: 1

      I only paid about $50-60 for that card about 1 year ago.

    5. Re:Choosing a GFX Card by neumayr · · Score: 1

      I think people invest too much in graphic cards, neglecting the rest of the system, especially RAM bandwidth.

      For example I could play Doom3 reasonable well in medium quality on a 2500+ with fast dualchannel DDR RAM with a 9000Pro.
      After I got a new card I plugged the 9000Pro into a computer with SDRAM, but otherwisely comparative specs, on which Doom3 barely runs in low quality.

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    6. Re:Choosing a GFX Card by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
      ATI 9600 GPU is the slowest chip they should of used.

      Should have used. Not a spelling flame.

  6. They should have benchmarked their site by bluedream · · Score: 2, Funny
    .. because it's toast.

    Maybe they should have overclocked it.

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    1. Re:They should have benchmarked their site by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Speaking of toast, if their server's CPU is a Duron, you could probably make some when overclocked.

    2. Re:They should have benchmarked their site by cwford · · Score: 1

      Somebody forgot to push the "turbo" button on the front of the server case....

  7. I can only guess they're using Windows XP, by pecosdave · · Score: 1

    because if they were using Linux or BSD nVidia was have spanked ATI even harder.

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