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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."

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  1. 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.