Radeon 9700 Benchmarks

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  there's a 'lan party field report' in the firingsquad article : Sander Pilon
  • Thank-ya very much once again! : nudel
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  Yeah with catalyst 2.2 no NWN, Avp look slike ass, the 2d driver has a tendency to crash systems [though ... : UTSD3DSUCKS
  • can't speak for the rest but to fix those flickering textures in AvP2, get rage3d or similar tweaker and ... : fragasm
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  If it costs anything over £306 then we're being ripped off and I'm pretty sure they'll be chargin... : koder
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    but then u will have to pay import tariffs (10% I think) + VAT + probably expensive shipping rather order... : B00ne
    • I ordered a Geforce2 a few years ago from the US. I don't recall having to pay an import tariff(I could b... : koder

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  $400 now, $200 in March! : the archvile
  • Not quite. I'm thinking Nvidia is not going to compete well with ATI come spring so we'll see it around : indeego
• 1024x768 with 4xAA is a beautiful thing (i have a 15.1" LCD so i'm locked at that res) : batkiwi
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  Shit, I wonder what gaming is like in 1600x1200 Can't read text and the radar is too damn small. : MarksmanX
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    looks ok on my 22" monitor : Turd Ferguson
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      I got a viewable 20 inch monitor. Play Renegade at that resolution and you can't read any text! : MarksmanX
      • good point, I think team play is going to be HUGE for BF1942. Hence, I will need to read and understand ... : Downforce
      • renegade has tiny text though. : Turd Ferguson

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  I'd say a 70% lead in higher resolutions is pretty significant, even for a card that's 6 months later. T... : Vantage
  • Actually, in some tests, the GF4 was about that much faster than a standard GF3 . All I see here is a n... : crazywigga
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  Dude, take a look at the UT2003 Benches: UT2003 DM Antalus 1280 x 1024: Radeon:107,9 FPS 4600er:65,... : perforierer
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    Umm, "dude". Just quoting one benchmark and saying the card is the gratest evar is defeating the whole po... : crazywigga
    • You talk like you're not even excited. This card is freakin fast as hell. You won't see me complaining! : boughton supreme
    • If you cant get excited by the 9700, a card that is generally 50% faster than anything else out there and... : johnny rotten
    • 33 % in a game that uses the latest top notch tech is a huge lead! A Lot of Games will use this engine ... : perforierer
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  I smell fanyboyism....... Ive never seen a card have this much of a gain over the competition, and we all... : Rageaholic
  • the last time I saw this was the Voodoo1 -> Voodoo2 days. : timmie
  • I'd be flabergasted if the nv30 isnt on shelves for xmas. It'll be there. : johnny rotten
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  It is a much better card than the GF4. From a tech perspective it has far greater capabilities, and is m... : Andy Hanson
  • The full DX-9 thing is going over most people's heads. It is probably due to the lack of DX-9 and the ens... : Alf Alpha
• AA and aniso at near full speed is revolutionary. This card is the real thing kids, because with this cl... : tigeN

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• glad i didn't buy a gf2, gf3, radeon 8500, parheliaeaihnakldhah,voodoo 5500, sad i bought a gf1ddr : sulsahbangoo

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• If you want the answer to that, I'd suggest you go to Beyond3D.com I seriously doubt you'll find peopl... : Natoma

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• /. gets a zillion hits a day. they have a huge readerbase. when something gets linked on the front p... : Polish Sausage
• The sheer volume of users going to a site linked in an article at Slashdot overloads the capacity of the ... : ViperRT

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• I dunno, maybe two games :-). With Grand Prix 4 I have to turn off two of the options (video screens and ... : nudel
• No offense, but offering antialiasing and anistropic filtering that you can actually use without killing ... : Sludgehead

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  NV30 will be faster. Ofcourse it will be. But the R400 will be faster again. And the NV40 will kick it... : Sander Pilon
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    one question: P3-700 and a Radeon 9700 should make sense, doesn't it ? As far as I know Doom 3 uses very... : blackguy
    • But it has per-poly collision detection I believe. That would eat up some CPU time. Especially if there... : spl
    • That's incorrect :) You need a fast processor and a fast video card to handle Doom III. In other words, ... : MarksmanX
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  Which cases were they? (I can't get to the article.) : nudel
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    they are in the anand article too. Some games at a mere 1024 had the Ti4600 winning by a narrow (a few %)... : Sander Pilon
    • Ah, well, I can live with that! :-) I'd bet it's a CPU or engine limitation kicking in and the small diff... : nudel
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  Those were some CPU bottlenecked lower-res benchmarks where it the difference was essentially irrelevant.... : valiance
  • Plus the ti4600 drivers are completely matured I wouldn't say that at all. When I updated to 30.82, I... : MarksmanX

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• Since the ATI beats it in many cases 40% (let's say for UT2) then it's only a smallish premium for latest : indeego
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  That will, of course, be nvidias response. Its all they really CAN do until xmas. A Ti4600 for $249 wou... : johnny rotten
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    A Ti4600 for $249 would be something to consider. But then again, the 400 buck price tag is for the Ra... : spl
    • No idea. But if we use the 8500 as an example it'll probably only be about $50 cheaper. : johnny rotten

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  Don't get a 7500. The radeon sdr is a radeon 7200. Pretty much the same class as the 7500. You will hardl... : baron calamity
  • yes, buy the 8500 ATI : proclone1
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    Thanks, that's what I thought. I was looking at CPU scaling benchmarks that were driving the 7500 way hig... : Holesinswiss
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      Try and get a 128M card. It will be well worth it if you are intending on using the card for a year or m... : Andy Hanson
      • Yeah, this will not be a long term investment - just to tide me over until a major system overhaul come n... : Holesinswiss
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  Spend 400 bucks on a new processor, motherboard and ram. That's what I did and everything runs great now... : spl
  • Well he did say he wanted a stopgap for now to wait till his next overhaul. My gut feeling, any $400 upgr... : baron calamity
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  A 1ghz P3 is $100. A radeon 8500 is about $90. Is $190 too much to spend as a stopgap for the next 9 mo... : johnny rotten
  • But will a 1ghz p3 for with his motherboard? That is the question. I do agree though if he can get a 1ghz... : baron calamity
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    Actually, if I could bump my CPU and my video card for < $200 and have a system that will treat me decent... : Holesinswiss
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      whats your current motherboard? Do you have a 133mhz fsb (are yous using PC133 memory)? If so odds are ... : johnny rotten
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        The current motherboard is a Tabor III (100 MHz FSB). It's the original that came with the machine from G... : Holesinswiss
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          well, as I see it, you've probably already got PC100 memory. You upgrade to 133mhz FSB board and your go... : johnny rotten
          • I've started this "mini-upgrade project" a couple of times in the last 6 or so months and always end up r... : Holesinswiss
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  The 9700 will run DOOM III extremely well. : yakz
  • if 800x600 is extremely well to you. :) : johnny rotten

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• haha, no please don't do it. THe Geforce4 will be horribly limited by your Mobo/Ram. Update it for real o... : rookieone

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• WHAT?!?! : Grandmoff
• Then clearly "they know we will keep on buying new video cards every six months" statement is totally wro... : SERIOUSly the SAMe
• then the terrorists have already won. =( : fragasm

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  Villagers truly hope so! : Tissen
  • Yes, they are. ;) : thecollective
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  It is overclocked (15 x 165.) Assuming that it is all bus clocking, the product is a 2Ghz T-Bred (XP ... : Alf Alpha
  • But why calling it an "unannounced product" then? My guess is that AMD is going to release 166MHz FSB Ath... : Tissen

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• Excellent... : proclone1

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  Can't imagine the 9700 would improve photoshop performance any... : baron calamity
  • Hahaha! =))) : Grigory
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  =o why order a $300+ video card for a mac when developers port to consoles before they port to macs =o : esky
  • certainly not because Macs suck. bitches : proclone1

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  it can accept a floppy drive power connector; not mandatory IIRC. : the archvile
  • it's mandatory if you want full performance : Old_Fart

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  It does rock. Now we need the games to allow us to customize AA and aniso filtering (etc.) per game, inst... : nudel
  • the kyro II drivers were awesome for that, you could make profiles for each game executable and you could... : Turd Ferguson

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• The card is CPU limited (cool to see that again) So say you have a 1.4 TBird or so, then you should st... : rosewood

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• About time. Too bad it doesn't look like it's having any effect on prices for high-end hardware. Do we ne... : Holesinswiss

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• still loading : Turd Ferguson

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  I think its being hammered pretty hard : Blackdawgg
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    Ya its been linked from slashdot : firehawk
    • yeah i can eventually get it to load after waiting a few minutes though - great read - they even have a t... : neo69