I've been looking at recent VGA guides in Tom's Hardware and I've noticed something strange in UT2003 results for the ATI cards
What's strange is that while all the settings seem to be the same in the guide written in 20/12/2002 as in the one in 14/7/2003 ( and indeed all the other cards covered in both articles get similar results) both the 9500pro and the 9700pro cards seem to have decreased sensibly in performance (about 11 %)
You can see this here:
http://www.tomshardware.com/graphic/20030714/vga_card_guide-12.html
and here:
http://www.tomshardware.com/graphic/20021218/vgacharts-04.html
I was considering buying an Ati card, but this bothers me a bit. Shouldn't cards experience performance gains instead of drops whenever new drivers are released? Or is there any reason for this other than using a newer (and apparently worse) set of drivers ?
I would like to know what people think of this, I mean, is the 9500pro as good a choice as it used to be, or... ?
What's strange is that while all the settings seem to be the same in the guide written in 20/12/2002 as in the one in 14/7/2003 ( and indeed all the other cards covered in both articles get similar results) both the 9500pro and the 9700pro cards seem to have decreased sensibly in performance (about 11 %)
You can see this here:
http://www.tomshardware.com/graphic/20030714/vga_card_guide-12.html
and here:
http://www.tomshardware.com/graphic/20021218/vgacharts-04.html
I was considering buying an Ati card, but this bothers me a bit. Shouldn't cards experience performance gains instead of drops whenever new drivers are released? Or is there any reason for this other than using a newer (and apparently worse) set of drivers ?
I would like to know what people think of this, I mean, is the 9500pro as good a choice as it used to be, or... ?