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For the same price would you get:
-Albatron Ti4800SE (275MHz) w/ 3.3ns memory (@ 600MHz).
or
-Sapphire Radeon 9500pro DX9 (250MHz) w/ 3.6ns (@ 540MHz).
???
 

Willamette_sucks

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Well, the Ti4800 is gonna be a LITTLE faster in MOST (dont flame me people!) games, NOT including DX 9 and maybe advanced DX 8.1 titles.
I would say get the 9500 pro just so youre ready for the future (dx 9).
the 9500 is also faster when using aniso/AA.
but without aa/aniso the ti4800 is a little faster.
ok im like contradicting myself.
i guess im trying to defend my ti4400 that i currently have, but i should get my 9800 pro sometime next week so i shouldnt really care.
but the fact is the ti4400/4800 is a little faster in most things when not using aniso/aa, including ut2k3.
BUT the 9500 pro supports dx 9 and is faster when using aniso/AA, so
GET THE 9500 PRO DAMNIT, OK!!!

Long live ATI.
 

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Willamette is simply wrong. The R9500Pro is always as fast or faster than the Ti4800SE in 99% of games.

EDIT: Check <A HREF="http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.html?i=1756&p=4" target="_new">this link out</A>. The R9500Pro constantly outperforms the Ti4400 (a.k.a. Ti4800SE) with it's first shipping drivers. ATI has already improved performance slightly with the Catalyst 3.2 drivers and in a couple of weeks time, ATI has promised huge (and I mean HUGE, HUGE, HUGE!) performance improvements in all the R9xxx line. At this moment in time, there absolutely no reason to get a GeForce card.

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Yeah, Ti4800SE is just a Ti4400 with AGP 8X, but it still can't compete with 9500Pro in most of cases. So I recommend you get the Sapphire Radeon 9500pro.
 

Willamette_sucks

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k first of all he said the memory was running at 600, so its not just a ti4400 w/8x agp.
secondly, look at the benchmarks w/o aniso/aa for the ti4800, in most games its a little faster than the 9500 pro.

Long live ATI.
 

phial

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its the difference of 230FPS compared to 210fps, for example



when you get framrates like this, who ISNT going to use AA or Ansio? ffs.. get a 9500pro. its CHEAPER AND WAY FASTERRRR!!!!!! *screams* how come people dont realize this now. its a whole generation ahead of the GF4TI series~~~~