Looks Like ATI is still the Speed King

[[AK]Goob]

The new 9800Pros will hit the streets soon... By the end of March it looks like. It looks like it pretty much kills the GFX and is about 10-15% and in some cases 20% faster than the 9700Pro. HardOCP has a write up on it. If you get a chance check it out.

-Goob

[[AK]Sonic Boom]

Ack!

Gotta URL?

[[AK]Palooka]

I never thought I'd buy another ATI card, but I just may.

[[AK]StitchJones]

GodD@#*&% I guess I might have to look into leaving nVida in my wake.

Please post a url soon dude!

[[AK]Palooka]

http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=NDM5

[[AK]Hylander]

Don't give up on NVIDIA yet folks. Alot of people are crying about how NVIDIA is the next 3dfx, etc etc. BS

1) 3dfx couldn't dream to have the resources NVIDIA has
2) NVIDIA has other industry leading products like their chipsets (nforce2 rocks!) and they do VERY well in the high end OpenGL video market

This from Anandtech:

NVIDIA will not have a chance to respond to the Radeon 9800 Pro for another couple of months, with their NV35 part. NVIDIA has NV35 up and running and it is already significantly better than the lackluster NV30; although we're not sure if it will be able to outperform the Radeon 9800 Pro, at this point we can say that from what we've seen, NVIDIA has regained some of our confidence.

I suspect the post FX card from NVIDIA is going to kick @ss.


That being said, "IF" I were buying a card today, it would be the ATI. However, one thing to consider is that many of us who would buy an ATI 9700 Pro have no need to upgrade cards because the 9700 Pro is outpacing our CPUs. Most of us have systems whose bottleneck would now by the CPU, not the 9700 Pro. Even my system with an AMD XP2000+, 1 gig of PC2100 DDR, and an NVIDIA 4600 is CPU bottlenecked. Other than AA & filtering benefits (or DX9) of the ATI card, I wouldn't benefit that much from faster clocked video cards.

[[AK]StitchJones]

Another article on the ATI card. However nVidia does win where it counts.
http://www.tomshardware.com/graphic/20030306/index.html