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Massive Graphics Card Review

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the sifting-through-the-cruft dept.

Brian Tonka writes to tell us that rojakpot has posted a pretty comprehensive graphics card review including over 240 different desktop graphics cards. With each of the vendors given their own section and using 15 different points of comparison this should be quite a starting reference for the enthusiast and casual buyer alike.

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  1. This isn't a review by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's a fricking table of all the cards and their specifications. It doesn't review a single card at all.

    1. Re:This isn't a review by ergo98 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      It's a fricking table of all the cards and their specifications. It doesn't review a single card at all.

      Exactly. It's full of irrelevant specifications (including for some ancient, not-a-chance-in-hell cards) that no one can use to choose a card (and processor speed and hypothetical megatexel speeds are largely irrelevant in the real world. Micron manufacturing process...well that's just retarded). What a waste of a story spot.

    2. Re:This isn't a review by 80+85+83+83+89+33 · · Score: 5, Interesting

      there are so many people that only have PCI slots (no AGP nor pci-Express) who would give anything for a nice comprehensive comparo review of old-school pci graphics cards.

      there is so much debate as to what is the fastest PCI card for gaming; yet the hardware sites don't understand the pain and suffering out there... or do they? all that is available on ANY hardware site is pure conjecture and respewing of marketing hype.

      they will NOT do a PCI video card review.

      i think they are under pressure from marketing forces (read: ad dollars) to not reveal the actual performance of PCI. (yet the review sites HAVE stated that the move to pciExpress is purely marketing; that there is NO performance benifit from AGP to pci-Express.)

      there is even a pci version of nvidia's 6200, yet try and find a review of that! (http://www.3dfuzion.com/cards_6200_pci_128.asp) yet you can find hordes of reviews of the agp and pciExpress versions of it.

      well, many brand name systems have only PCI, and it is a shock to many poor souls when they realize it (not everyone is as thorough as the /. crowd when it comes to picking out computers. and people recieve them as gifts, etc.). and i bet not providing a viable upgrade option is also a marketing move to force people to buy whole new systems just so they can play games.

      of course, i'm posting this hours after the article was put up, so prolly no one will even read this.

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  2. Review? by compm375 · · Score: 5, Informative

    This might be helpful to some people, but it can hardly be called a review. It is just a list of specs. It doesn't even have benchmarks.

  3. simple: open source drivers? by Speare · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Simple question. What's the list of modern cards that can accelerate 3d without a binary vendor driver on Linux? Something you can load on a typical Ubuntu or Fedora without finding JoeNoName's-Bleeding-Repository?

    Follow-up: can Red Hat or Novell or somebody please offer a certification logo program for some of these cards? You know, a sticker that you can find on the boxes in CompUSA or something, which says that it's not going to be a stink to get running on Linux?

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  4. Oops by phorm · · Score: 3, Informative

    Replying to myself, I didn't notice the "NVidia" link hidden at the bottom (I looked, I swear!), which leads to XGI, etc.

  5. Re:Hmm. Radeon, radeon, ati, ati by JanusFury · · Score: 5, Informative

    There are other brands on the following pages of the article; it's just really hard to find the 'next page' link because the site's layout SUCKS.

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  6. MTexels/s by BrookHarty · · Score: 4, Informative

    I'm not sure if mega-texels shows true performance. I have a ATI 9700 Pro and Geforce 7800 GT, both can run games at high resolutions at the same speed, but the 7800 can run with AA/AF enabled without a performance hit.

    It is nice to see where GFX cards rate in games, and Toms hardware has the best link per game. Thats why I picked a GT over a GTX for 200 dollars less.

    http://www.tomshardware.com/2005/12/02/vga_charts_ viii/page18.html
    and
    http://www.tomshardware.com/2005/07/05/vga_charts_ vii/page4.html

  7. Stop the madne...er, linking by greg1104 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Can somone give the useless and ad-ridden articles at rojakpot their own section, so I can filter them all out automatically? If I wanted a graphics card review that actually gave useful information, I'd visit a site with real content in that area, like Tom's hardware.

  8. Massive cards, or Massive review? by permaculture · · Score: 4, Funny

    I was hoping to read up on some massive graphics cards, as I recently purchased a massive motherboard. Imagine my disappointment when I find this is merely a massive review of normal sized graphics cards.

    "Massive Graphics Card Review" doesn't mean the same thing as "Massive Review of Graphics Cards".

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  9. This is really cool by fraktus · · Score: 3, Informative

    Ok seems I am the only one to see this usefull.
    My application requiere shaders v2.0 and it's really boring to always type radeon radada in google to hunt for the specs to reply to questions from customers.
    Also even if it will not tell you for sure that your engine will run faster on this one or this one it will at least give you a hint.
    Having the OpenGL version supported from the driver would also have been nice.

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  10. Slogan by DietCoke · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "Where the best in technology gather."

    Let me finish that.

    "Where the best in technology gather, overload a server, then leave still wondering how the hell this constitutes a review."

    A bit wordy, but accurate.

  11. August wasn't *that* long ago... by twicesliced · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/08/ 20/1912221&tid=126&tid=137 Yeah, thought it looked familiar...