9500Pro Or GF 4600Ti please help me

[vedme]

I have saved enough money and want to get a new card. I have a Dell 8250, 2.4ghz, 512 RDRAM.

I am not sure which is the better card. The Radeon 9500 Pro or the Geforce 4600 Ti. I have the cash and I am ready to get one. I play Splinter Cell, Tiger 2003, Madden 2003 and Battlefield primarily. I have always owned the GF cards but someone mentioned the 9500 pro to me so I thought I would ask. I really need some help. I know the 9700 cards are the kings but I cant afford it and I really am only looking for help between the two cards mentioned. Please give me your input.

Thanks

 

[dhlucke]

The 9500 Pro is a better card. Anandtech.com has a good review. Basically you can turn all the features on and it will beat the 4600 quite soundly.

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[vedme]

I dont use AA or anis becuase it makes my Tiger game fuzzy looking and actually ugly so if I dont use it the 9500 is still better?

Please keep the replies coming. Please

 

[vedme]

Bump Please!

 

[rain_king_uk]

I'd definitely get the 9500Pro, although I have seen regular 9700's for a similar price recently so might be worth looking into that.

 

[elzt]

9500Pro supports directX 9 while Ti4600 doesn't.

 

[Twitch]

I dont use AA or anis becuase it makes my Tiger game fuzzy looking and actually ugly so if I dont use it the 9500 is still better?

Have you ever tried it with an ATI card? The reason I ask is that I've heard and read numerous places that ATI's FSAA and Aniso implementation is just superior to Nvidia's and still looks sharp.



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<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by Twitch on 03/11/03 01:17 PM.</EM></FONT></P>

 

[vedme]

Yes I tried the FSAA and ansio. Looks good but I dont like it so fuzzy in my sports games. I appreciate the reply.

 

[Spitfire_x86]

My vote goes for R9500 Pro

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[speeduk]

Save a bit more and get a 9700pro, and be sure you not only beat the 4600, but the standard 5800 (geforce fx) too hehe...Prices are cheap now or wait a bit longer and get a good deal when the 9800 comes out knocking the 9700 price down.

 

[LtBlue14]

the 4600 peforms better without aniso or FSAA
and if you're only going to play directx 8 or less games with this card (meaning you won't be buying doom 3 or games made after it, in general) then you should go with the ti 4600
if, on the other hand, you want directx 9 compliance, or try FSAA and aniso and decide you like them on the radeon card (as someone said, ATi's AF and FSAA are, in general, better than nVidia's), you can use them without a huge performance hit
in the end i think the 9500pro is the smarter buy

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[vedme]

thank you all