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| Thread ID: 42832 | 2004-02-24 03:16:00 | 9600XT vs 9800 Pro | infinix (5274) | Press F1 |
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| 217751 | 2004-02-24 07:21:00 | Heres the standings so far: Benchmarks (www6.tomshardware.com) | PoWa (203) | ||
| 217752 | 2004-02-24 07:26:00 | But then that's not accurate ..as Nvidia uses "product specific optimization" drivers AKA cheat drivers. For those of you who dont know ... it means that Nvidia deliberately make their driver faster for those games or benchmark which are commonly used to compete with ATI. That's ok ..but the problem is that ..most of the time ..the increase in performance comes at the cost of reduced image quality! |
Kenshin (2501) | ||
| 217753 | 2004-02-24 07:30:00 | I wouldn't look to toms results for real info,They have in the past used nvidia drivers that had specic cheats built into them that gave better benchmarks,Drivers that were labelled as non-compliant by madonion.They have also used an unpatched version of 3dmark which gives an unfair advantage to nvidia(one again due to nvidia drivers being dodgy).Not to mention running different spec machines against each other and calling it a fair test. All this and much much more has been catolouged by the folks at Madonion.com. |
metla (154) | ||
| 217754 | 2004-02-24 07:44:00 | Well even if they favoured Nvidia in the past, those tests favour the ATI cards. | PoWa (203) | ||
| 217755 | 2004-02-24 08:13:00 | Well, i guess to sum it up then: If You're prepared to pay $550 odd for a video card - go with the 9800, but if you're not that keen to spend that much get a 9600XT - it seems both will do the job you're after. |
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