newbie question: Which Card is Better?

[Tung]

Don't know nothing about Graphic Cards, need help!!!

Which one is better?

BFG GeForce 7900 GS OC nVidia GeForce 7900GS Chipset (525MHz) 256MB GDDR3 (1320MHz) PCI-Express Graphics Card 20 Pixel Shader Processor SLI-Ready Windows Vista Ready ($209)
http://www.canadacomputers.com/index.php?do=ShowProduct&cmd=pd&pid=011236&cid=999.243.390

OR

Asus EAX1950PRO/HTDP/256M ATI Radeon X1950Pro Chipset (581MHz) 256MB GDDR3 (1.4GHz) PCI-Express Graphic Card HDCP Compliant Heatpipe Cooling Vista Ready ($199)
http://www.canadacomputers.com/index.php?do=ShowProduct&cmd=pd&pid=011671&cid=999.243

 

[sirheck]

i would go with the ati card.

 

[Tung]

Because it's faster or because your an ati fan? (not trying to be rude or anything, again I don't know crap about Graphic cards)

 

[jaguarskx]

The X1950Pro

Look that the benchmarks:

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/x1950pro-gf7900gs.html

There are few tests in which the Radeon X1950 Pro is slower than its main opponent GeForce 7900 GS. And the difference in speed is usually very small and often can be seen in certain resolutions only. These tests are Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter, Prey, Quake 4, Pacific Fighters and TES IV: Oblivion. These are mostly OpenGL games, some of them are also optimized for the specific features of the Nvidia GeForce 7 architecture.

If we were to compare the available $199 graphics cards in terms of performance, the new ATI Radeon X1950 Pro is not just better than the Nvidia GeForce 7900 GS but can successfully compete with the more expensive Nvidia GeForce 7900 GT that belongs to the $259 category. Also important is that the Radeon X1950 Pro offers you the option of enabling high-quality anisotropic filtering that surpasses everything Nvidia’s solutions can offer as of today. In other words, the ATI Radeon X1950 Pro is overall the best graphics card in the $199 price category. It is possible, however, that the price of products like GeForce 7900 GS, 7900 GT and 7950 GT will be going down at a fast rate and the Radeon X1950 Pro may find itself between a cheaper 7900 GS and a tremendous 7950 GT.

 

[sirheck]

Because it's faster or because your an ati fan? (not trying to be rude or anything, again I don't know crap about Graphic cards)

im not really either but i lean towards nvidia.

either card would work fine its up to you.

 

[Assman]

i second X1950Pro

p.s.: nice article jaguarskx

 

[everett]

Don't know nothing about Graphic Cards, need help!!!

Which one is better?

BFG GeForce 7900 GS OC nVidia GeForce 7900GS Chipset (525MHz) 256MB GDDR3 (1320MHz) PCI-Express Graphics Card 20 Pixel Shader Processor SLI-Ready Windows Vista Ready ($209)
http://www.canadacomputers.com/index.php?do=ShowProduct&cmd=pd&pid=011236&cid=999.243.390

OR

Asus EAX1950PRO/HTDP/256M ATI Radeon X1950Pro Chipset (581MHz) 256MB GDDR3 (1.4GHz) PCI-Express Graphic Card HDCP Compliant Heatpipe Cooling Vista Ready ($199)
http://www.canadacomputers.com/index.php?do=ShowProduct&cmd=pd&pid=011671&cid=999.243

Given your setup in your signature, Why would you ask this? :?

 

[Assman]

Future Video/3D Editing Computer

 

[Tung]

Thanks for the review article jaguarskx, really helped out. You rox!!!

 

[everett]

Sweet 06 score got any cool ingame screenshots?

 

[Assman]

thanx, compare that to 2056 i had with x1600pro...(same res 1280*1024)
no screenshots, yet, haven't had the time

 

[sirheck]

hey i had an encounter with tanks brother (i think)
he was a little more muscular around 75 pounds
and white. he came trotting at me from behind the dumpster at the store
by the house.

i always figured a human would come at me there.

 

[DT124]

I ran both in my system
3dmark 05 5556
3dmark 05 6010 6800 gs oc oc'd-pny (my old card for ref.)

3dmark 05 7233 X1950Pro-visiontek(w/the newest drivers)

3dmark 05 7926 7900 gs oc-bfg
3dmark 05 8454 7900 gs oc oc'd-bfg

Those where my scores, i felt like the ati was really low and for that matter the 7900 gs oc (w/ newst drivers) also seemed low. But that what they are, if anyone has any seggestions on how to improve my performance plz let me know.

AMD 3200+ 64 939s
Raptor 80gb
2 gig ram
GA-KAN-SLI
7900 gs oc
550 HE antec power supply