Which Video Card Is The Best

I currently Have the Geforce 6800 and I want to upgrade to a new video card I'm looking at these three

1. ATI 9800XT

2. RADEON 9600

3. GeFORCE 7800 GTX

If anyone have this video card can you please tell me how it is and what kind moniter do you have ,

does it have the resolution 1920x1200 and what kind of computer your running it on.

#299126

for me its geForce 7800 GTX.

i always love GeForce.

#299129

well.. considering from the list, the only real UPGRADE is the 7800 GTX. Heck, the 9600 seems to be a downgrade if you ask me (my friend has a 9600XT and my 6800 outperforms it). As far as resolution goes, my 6800 supports the 1920x1200, but I'm on an IBM P202 21" crt, so going with that resolution only gives me a letterbox effect. However, it still runs at that resolution none the less.

#299130

I think the onlyone better than yours is the 7800 GTX...

#299131

Get the 9800XT. I'm an ATI freak! Of course, what are you doing? Video, GFX, gaming, what??

#299133

nvidia's g4force 6800ultra is not a bad card. i would buy that. i like nvidia better because of ati's red/violent themes. (check out their converences.)

#299144

are you kidding me about your list? the 6800 kills the 9800xt or any 9x00 series card. the 7800 gtx is the best video card in the market right now, so that's the obvious answer.

#299145

ATI. No contest.

#299155

nVidia. for sure!

#299158

ATI. No contest.

Right, minus the fact the 6800GT has 16 pixel pipelines when the 9800 has 8.

#299177

You really gotta be kidding me.... even my 6600GT blows away 9800, and x800 stays behind 6800GT...

I've been ATi fan for long time.. but I'm bloody glad I went for 6600GT, and you wanna know which is better when you put GeForce 7800 in your list?.. after reading the damn specs on that thing, I would go blindfolded for it (I would still go if I get my hands on some solid cash.... now where I kept my gun?)

#299178

ati randeon 9600 pro or alien wonder for intel p4/centrino

gforce fx for AMD

#299184

No FX, fx is the worst series nvidia has, if you plan on playing games like half-life2(cs:s)then you dont want an FX, just stick with a 6800, or the 7800 if you can afford it.

#299187

oh no. a flame thread is coming up. check out these benchmarks to see yourself

http://graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/20050705/index.html

http://graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/2...800_gtx-02.html

http://graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/20050524/index.html

http://graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/20050302/index.html

http://graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/20050121/index.html

http://graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/20050111/index.html

http://graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/20041222/index.html

http://graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/20041215/index.html

http://graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/20041123/index.html

http://graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/20041119/index.html

http://graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/20041110/index.html

http://graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/20041004/index.html

http://graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/20040921/index.html

http://graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/20040907/index.html

http://graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/20040809/index.html

http://graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/20040625/index.html

aw man. i haven't even started on pcstats, and all those other benchmarking sites.

#299195

speaking from a week of frustration... nvidia fx5700 driver updates are absolutely horrible and dont work for *hit... just a real world note... other than that, the card runs fine, plays games well... however i have this recurring issue w/ video and hardware acceleration... playing videos successively causes problems... the video will start to lag horribly and requires that i decrease the hardware acceleration, hit apply, then up the acceleration... then it runs fine... its just extremely annoying...

im running the nvidia fx5700le on an asus k8v-x w/ a athlon64 3200+, 1Gb ram

#299200

Nvidia rox hardcore

#299229

This should be a very straightforward thread, as the cards the original poster listed are very far apart from each other in terms of performance. There is absolutely no point in even going into fanboy-ism, personal feelings for a piece of electronic equipment, or any such arguments.

Having said that, here's what SKYLINE R34 needs to know:

1) The 7800GTX is a 7th generation Nvidia card.

2) The 6800 is a 6th generation Nvidia card.

3) The X800,600,300 series ATI cards are equivalent to 6th generation Nvidia cards.

4) ATI currently does not have a 7th generation equivalent card on the market.

5) A given generation is significantly faster than a previous generation.

6) Hence, the 7800GTX is currently the fastest graphics card money can buy.

So to answer the original question, the best card would be the 7800GTX. It is nothing short of moot to compare the 7800GTX to ancient cards (judging from the industry's pace) such as 9800 and 9600.

All of the cards you listed support resolutions of up to 2048x1536. The fact that you are inquiring about maximum resolutions tells me that you probably don't know much about the function of a modern graphics accelerator. This also tells me that you probably don't care about the rendering performance of the card, which would be practically the only reason for you to want to upgrade your existing card, which in turn is relatively recent and capable. Sorry if this sounds condescending or arrogant, but by seeing how absolutely random the cards you listed are (performance wise in relation to each other) I daresay you really don't need to upgrade.

Again, you do have my apologies if you know what you're talking about, or somehow I'm missing the point or the relevance of your question. I'm just trying to help here, after all.

#299232

well, I forgot to mention that some games favor one graphics over another company's. like farcry performs better on ATI, while call of duty owns on nvidia cards. but it dosen't really make much of a difference. really. a decent card is the current mainstream card, like x700 pro, or older used-to-be-fasted graphics cards, like 9800xt, or 9800pro. check out their price-performance ratios, and make your decision.

the links i give are not biased, and they make conclusions based on performance. but, ultimatelly they only give you the results, you make the decision.

also, honestlly, i feel that nvidia has been making significant improvements. (other than their drivers ). like, they retained their clockspeed, sometimes even lower it, and acheived higher performances. ati, however, added a couple of pipelines here and there, mroe shaders, and usually higher clockspeeds. it used to be like this. (i really don't rememebr the numbers anymore. but it's close enough.)

325 ati radeon 9700

450 nvidia fx 5800

and 380 for 9800xt

425 nvidia 5900 ultra (slower clockspeed, but MUCH higher bandwidth)

and ati gets faster and faster, and nvidia was still areound the 400s mhz range i think. i really don't have time to gather accurate imformation. it's 4:00am now. yawn

#299252

The reason i'm asking which video card is the best because I just got the apple hd 23-inch moniter and when I hook it up to my mac it works find but I also have a pc but when i hook it up to my pc the picture doesn't come on it stays black. On the apple website it says that the 23-moniter can work on the pc and mac, and then I did some more research on cnet.com and a female user was using windows on the 23-inch and the video card she was using was ATI 9800xt. It seems like mostly everybody that post here says that the 7800gtx is the best but will it support my moniter to work with my pc and mac, i'm going have to buy two of them but before I buy the 7800 I need to know if it will work on the pc so I can use my moniter on both conputers. I guess I will visit the Geforce websit and read up on it . Thanks everyone that post here you've been a great help. :cool:

#299298

heck. even geforce4 mx series can support it. am i right?

#299343