ATI Radeon or Gforce 4 ?

[Aerond]

What´d u choose and why?

[guypro]

ATI...colour true and classic...hihii

[bnjiman80]

Yup, the old

9700
9500PRO

will do you nicely if you can get hold of either on the cheap.

If memory serves, they both have a good clock speed, but the 9700 has twice as many pixel pipelines, so it pushes about 10 gb per sec peak bandwith as opposed to 7ish on the 9500pro.

Generally the memory bandwith is the thing that limits graphics cards. Although next gen games require fat amounts of RAM to load the flashy textures up. You might want to check if you can be arsed! There are round-up comparisons at tomshardware.com

But I think either of these perform better than a T14200, at least in your current classics like UT2002.

I used to know all the differences between them, not any more! I am too busy playing music! :)

Cheers, Ben

[hui4o]

ATI IS BETTER

[chops999]

deffo ATI much better peformance at high res with AA & also in the case of 9700pro etc.. its direct x9 whereas the geforce 4 is not

[perryqhill]

ATI for sure.

[NeGe0]

Well it depends on what card your gonna get. ATI didn't take the performance lead over the geforce 4 until the R300 chip. So unless your going to get a 9500 or higher then I would go with the geforce 4. If your going to get a 9600 xt or 9600 pro then I would suggest maybe getting a 5700 ultra. That board flat out beats the 9600 series. It might only be hurt if you were to compair then in dx 9 with a PS 2.0. Just about no games right now use the full potential of PS 2.0 so it wouldn't really matter.

[GoldenBear]

ATI didn't take the performance lead over the geforce 4 until the R300 chip. So unless your going to get a 9500 or higher then I would go with the geforce 4.

I disagree. While the early drivers for the 8500 series (Has a new name now) gave the edge to nVidia's superior driver prowess, later driver closed the gap between the two and in some cases had the 8500 beating the GeForce 4 but usually not by a noticable amount.

So to answer the original post, if you are going with the modern cards the choice is ATI all the way. If you are going with last gen cards it's a toss up. If your looking for a card on the cheap, Radeon 9500/9600's (Pro or Non) are good cards that are relativly cheap.

-GB

[jasyn]

i'm a nvidia ... everyone has their opinions. if your trying to decide for yourself .. YOU should decide what you want. each have their up's and down's. see what you plan to run on ur computer and decide through that :)

[johnrowley]

Geforce 4 Creative version of Nvidia, rocks the joint in Warcraft 3!

[joshthejoker]

i have a gf4 ti4200 and i love it! it plays all the games i like perfectly! i have halo and ut2003 on the best settings they have and i dont notice ne kind of problems with either games, and bf1942 is real smooth too! *except for my lag on my dialup*

[btair]

ATI !!!

[nectuss]

ATI!!!!!!

[jsaad1986]

ATI is a better graphics card.... try the 9800 series...really good

[kurtaks]

yeap no doubt about it , ATI produce the best graphics card.

ATI Radeon 9800XT rocks!!

[DoGGkilLAx]

ATI!!!!!! i've a radeon 9600proEZ 2nice

[sabb0ur]

I have an ATI 7200..It works very fine with most of tha games

[Davis4ever3]

ATI is King!

ATI has slowly been taking over the market in the last 18 months. Ever since the launch of the 9700, Nvidia has been playing catchup. With the announcement from Microsoft that the next Xbox console would be using ATI graphics instead, I knew that Nvidia was slipping. This is not only because of better drivers, but definitely from having better picture quality.

:rolleyes:

HEy, i can't help but to luv em.... they're canadian!!!

[neptune7552]

radeon

[neotan]

i have a radeon 9600xt 128 mb 500/680.. works fine!
had a geforce 3 ti200 before.. i like both, ati & nvidea

[E_Motion]

Right now, i'd go with the Radeon. But 1.5 years ago i would say nVidia.

[gambit3rd]

Ati, because i got a 9100 and a 9800PRO and they work both great!

[boredome1a]

ATI baby! its one decision you wont regret! I like the Radeon 9800 All in Wonder.
Depends on your pocketbook, if its all about your budget, i have a G Force FX5200 128 mb DDR....hehe, good enough to play my counterstrike and im gonna give it a try at Halo