Recent content by anidex

Technically yes, practically no. Check out the scores people got on the "The GRAPHICS CARDS List" for a good example of how badly the GeForce FX cards perform when put under extreme floating point math stress.

Watch your tongue buddy. The high setting in Doom 3 only uses uncompressed color maps. It doesn't introduce any new shaders. Anyway, you should only run the high setting on top mainstream cards like the 9500 Pro /5600 Ultra and above cards. You'd be a fool to run the game at high settings on...

Please, Please and Please benchmark your 6800 with the app supplied in the "The GRAPHICS CARDS List" thread. Thanks.

You can play the game with all those cool effects at a lower resolution just as fast as the Ti. With the Ti, you can't even see those effects though you're playing at a higher resolution.

In case you forgot, the old Half-Life 2 benchmarks revealed that the GeForce FX 5900 Ultra barely caught up with the Radeon 9600 PRO even when using partial precision shaders and got completely owned at full precision. What's your point? *tech-report.com/etc/2003q3/hl2bench/index.x?pg=2

Ti4200 for 7500 bucks? You gotta be kidding me!

Firstly, there is no such thing as optimising for the Radeon cards because :- 1. I've used DirectX (unlike your stinky OpenGL, it's a standard spec) and all shaders are written for shader model 2.0 specs. 2. Radeon cards run all shaders at 24 bit fp precision, unlike the FX cards that slyly...

Thanks for your support Cru :).

The 5200 can run fragment shaders that the Ti can only dream of. All of the special effects like heat haze need a DX9 level card. So what if the FX 5200 can run the game decently only at 800x600? The Ti ain't gonna be able to come close to the FX 5200 visually anyway!

I suggest staying away from DX8.1 cards, be it the GeForce 4 Ti or the Radeon 9200. The GeForce FX 5200 is a good choice for someone with a low budget, but the X300 is even better.

Oh sure, would you kindly get to the thread "The GRAPHICS CARDS List" and see how every nVIDIA card is getting owned! I'm an ATI fan only because they're better. If nVIDIA truly gets ahead of them anytime in the future and stops cheating, I'd obviously support them. That's because I'm a...

FX 53? I thought you owned the FX 51!

Hmm... yeah sure... In case you didn't know, nVIDIA's "new" architecture has been inherited from the GeForce FX series. Plus, nVIDIA is governed by PR whereas ATI is guided by true willingness to improve. Result: nVIDIA = Intel. ATI = AMD.

That's dumb. That's like claiming that, if you have a Pentium 2, it's better than someone else's Athlon FX 53 :lol:!

Low-k memories and higher clock speed. But this is only valid at low resolutions. At high resolutions (> 1024x768), the 128-bit bus becomes a bandwidth bottleneck and the 9600 XT starts falling behind rapidly.