7600GT vs X1600XT

which card is better ? and which one will do a good job till next year ?

I agree with prozac26...7600GT

7600gt is quite alot better
the only other card around the same as the 7600gt is the x1800gto

Wrong.

The x1800GTO is a fantastic card in the midrange, when the pipleines have been unlocked and it has been overclocked it can reach similar speeds to taht of the x1800xt!!!

I am with the last guy. The X1800GTO may be the best bang-for-your-buck today.

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7600GT

Why get the X1800GTO when you can get an X1900GT for nearly the same price?

How the hell you figure?

You people seem to forget, its only very specific X1800GTO's (and quite uncommon I might add) that carry a special mofset sink that are able to unlock. I evaluate every card differently, however this isnt one I"m willing to bet $$ on the unlock. So if your able to get that X1900GT, then that should be your goal.

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Who says the X1900XTX is better then the 7900 GTX?
It's an opinion.

Well, for the most part, from what I've seen, X1900GT ~= X1800XT~= 7900GT. Maybe I'm way off, but I haven't seen any benches where the X1900GT outright beats both of those cards. It does, however, destroy any card in the $180 price range.

I got the impression that the X1900 GT was defnitely an underperformer compared to the X1800 XT and 7900 GT.

I wouldn't bother looking at benches for under 1280x1024 with AA, because all of those cards can handle it in almost every game out there, except maybe Oblivion.

The Firingsquad review doesn't even use AA much... and even then the X1900 GT is dead last in almost every bench at 1280x or higher, isn't it? And that's by

At decent resolutions, the X1900 GT's slow memory haunts it, and the 7900 GT / X1800 XT push ahead... from what I've seen anyway.

But yeah, if we're talking X1800 GTOs, the X1900 GT will beat it any day of the week.
Even if it's unlocked to 16 pipes, GTO memory is so slow they almost never overclock to XT speeds. I doubt an unlocked GTO is all that much better than an X1900 GT, if it is at all.

I didn't even think it was that much slower. I read some benches where in one or two games, it would beat a 7900GT. I'll have to look for those, but for some reason, I had the impression that it was relatively the same performance as an X1800XT or a 7900GT.

I don't know why I'm getting a different interpretation from you, but in all those reviews plus firingsquad's, I get the definite impression that the X1900 GT is a marked step down from the 7900 GT and especially the X1800 XT.

As the resolution gets higher, all three probably become CPU bottlenecked a bit in new titles, but there's still a definite 10fps advantage alot of the time over the X1900 GT.

The only review that is the exception to that rule seems to be driverheaven's, where the X1900 GT seems to beat the 7900 GT most of the time... and I'm more inclined to think their single review is flawed a bit rather than think everyone else's is.

I totally agree with you there, like I said, "if we're talking X1800 GTOs, the X1900 GT will beat it any day of the week."

I'd take an X1800 XT over either of them, anyway. But if you can wait for those rebates that take forever to get to you, the ~$180 X1900 GT is still an awesome deal.

Yeah I don't get what people are arguing about (other than price which is different from place to place), peerformance pretty much follows the revision.

While I know that 512MB =/= 256MB, the memory size isn't the limitation in most situations where the XT wins, AND no one picked a memory amount when I commented (which was strictly about performance), Xbit's results are pretty clear;

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/v [...] 900gt.html

As Paul showed, I thin it was him, in an article he linked to, the difference between the 256 and 512 is minimal and the performance gains vis-a-vis the GTs remain regardless of memory size.

I think we'd all agree with that statement, Gary. I don't think anyone here is saying there's a better deal at $180.

Now you're focusing on GT vs GT, I was strictly talking about XT vs X1900GT.

But the X1900GT is a nice card, but I'm only commenting on the previous ranking and still once again nothing to do with price since that's different from region to region (ie the GT isn't a $180 card where I live).