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03-05-2003, 01:03 AM
Hope its not a repost.
Radeon still on top unless a driver revision drastically changes things. Lots of pics and some talk of the better qualities the FX brings to the table.
http://www.3dvelocity.com/reviews/gffx5800u/gffx.htm
His conclusion:
"In the end I find it hard to get excited about the FX. While future games like DoomIII may exploit its potential power and colour fidelity that hardly makes for a compelling reason to buy it today. At the very best it can match the soon to be replaced Radeon 9700 Pro and if we pay attention to overall image quality and run both cards at similar settings then on balance I'd say the FX is slower. But a word of caution, don't treat this as a definitive conclusion. The complex nature and the supreme flexibility of the FX GPU makes it almost impossible to judge what it might be able to pull off with a little jiggery pokery and there's plenty more testing and driver revisions needed before anyone can write it off as a poor second to the 9700 Pro. Unfortunately at this stage I have to accept what I have in my hand as being the finished product and in that respect the FX is noisy, hot, bulky and not particularly fast at the moment. Sad but true!"
-jel:halo:
Radeon still on top unless a driver revision drastically changes things. Lots of pics and some talk of the better qualities the FX brings to the table.
http://www.3dvelocity.com/reviews/gffx5800u/gffx.htm
His conclusion:
"In the end I find it hard to get excited about the FX. While future games like DoomIII may exploit its potential power and colour fidelity that hardly makes for a compelling reason to buy it today. At the very best it can match the soon to be replaced Radeon 9700 Pro and if we pay attention to overall image quality and run both cards at similar settings then on balance I'd say the FX is slower. But a word of caution, don't treat this as a definitive conclusion. The complex nature and the supreme flexibility of the FX GPU makes it almost impossible to judge what it might be able to pull off with a little jiggery pokery and there's plenty more testing and driver revisions needed before anyone can write it off as a poor second to the 9700 Pro. Unfortunately at this stage I have to accept what I have in my hand as being the finished product and in that respect the FX is noisy, hot, bulky and not particularly fast at the moment. Sad but true!"
-jel:halo: