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7900 vs x1900 split screen review at gamespot
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dont know witch screenies your looking at but they look the same 2 meDuke said:
both look fantastic!!
and both cards perform about the same but sli is better than xfire witch is what that test was about [ we all new sli was better though]
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Does this mean nVidia takes a bigger performance hit to the extent that its not worth having both enabled? Or that the nVidia simply doesnt support it? If its the latter; would that be at driver level or hardware?
Yes but what an advantage!Dutch Guy said:I thought that ATI had the better IQ, at least that is what everyone is saying and is one of the resons to go ATI
If the IQ is the same that only leaves the price as a advantage of ATI
Esp. with OcUk's current prices for ATi cards; nVidia just isint competitive at all. Surely they must reduce their prices significantly?!
most peeps who went from the 6800/7800 cards was sayin that but not allDutch Guy said:I thought that ATI had the better IQ, at least that is what everyone is saying and is one of the resons to go ATI
If the IQ is the same that only leaves the price as a advantage of ATI
i own both xfx7800 gtx ee xxx 490/1300 and a saph x1900xt-x and game at 1600/1200 with aa and af
i would say the ati looks better in the iq stakes!!
but looking at that there is no difference between the 7900's and the x1900's
The 7900's have only been out a week, they'll come down in price, when they do they'll be the dual card solution to go for, Master Cards are still at a price premium over the standard cards (as well as running slower) so for two cards it's not that much cheaper once you factor in a mobo, SLI's a far more mature technology, no ridiculous dongles spewing out the back, no master cards, is quieter, less power draw and equal IQ...what's not to like? 
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I'm sure crossfire will catch up eventually, ATI make some great products and are going great guns with the technology, but as of now it's nowhere near as polished and I can't see any advantage going with it, just disadvantages, the only supposed advantage being IQ and I've seen nothing to back that up, the opposite in fact, (Hot Hardware's review, the Gamespot side by side).
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Dutch Guy said:I thought that ATI had the better IQ, at least that is what everyone is saying and is one of the resons to go ATI
If the IQ is the same that only leaves the price as a advantage of ATI
That's why you shouldn't listen to fanboys, as I've said I've owned both and there is really zero difference unless you do a 5hr pixel by pixel comparison of a still screenshot.
mmj_uk said:
Agreed everyone who loves ati always comes back to the IQ arguement.When clearly there isn't any.
Also what gets my goat is that people keep going on about ati currently being cheaper.
They are on offer and have been out longer than 7900.After all the nV cards have only been out a week.
Give it a month or so when stock is plentiful and ati will be laughing on the other side of their faces when NV drop the price.
Faster SLI and faster performance for less.
How long have the x1900's been out? months.
Its not fair to judge pricing with an established product and a new release in pc technology.
We all know in time prices drop.And when they do ATI will loose the dual GFX card battle.
I'm no fanboy - I own 7800 GTX's SLI'd, but I stand by my statement that when I carted my Dell 24" around to a friend's house to give his X1900XTX a test drive, the image simply looked "nicer".
Sorry, but that is how I feel.
Sorry, but that is how I feel.
some people notice a difference and some people don't.
I personally havn't noticed a image quality difference.
However one thing I have noticed (having owned twin 7800GTX's / single 7800GTX in the past) is that although the average frame rates are close in reviews the ATI card just seems to hold the frame rate better (doesn't dip and dive like the nvidia card did).
I mean thats my personal opinion.
I personally havn't noticed a image quality difference.
However one thing I have noticed (having owned twin 7800GTX's / single 7800GTX in the past) is that although the average frame rates are close in reviews the ATI card just seems to hold the frame rate better (doesn't dip and dive like the nvidia card did).
I mean thats my personal opinion.
I'm wondering if the IQ thing is more of a setup issue, perhaps, (and this is purely a thought), that the ATI cards look better "out of the box" than the Nvidia cards. The NV drivers default to Quality and not High Quality by default, can have shimmering if the LOD clamp isn't on etc etc, so could it be that the equivilent ATI stuff is on by default? Therefore seemingly giving better IQ?
easyrider said:
The X1900's were released about a month ago IIR unless someone wants to correct me.
But anyway you sound like you take this ati v's nv stuff too seriously for anyone to take you seriously. All you go on about is how ATI are going to loose or are so much slower or cant compete against SLI.
You forget that ATI have had longer to refine the x1900 process and can price match with Nvidia.
NV seem to not be able to supply enough cards at the moment (have you seen their stock the last few days?) which means prices will stay fairly high until they can start knocking out more units.
Newer crossfire boards are being released with nice performance improvements and to be honest xfire at the moment is not that bad anyway.
Anyway I'm getting sick of repeating myself. Bear in mind if the 7800 512mb was in stock in january I would have one of those now instead of this x1900, I just can't stand people talking complete crap on here like its gospel truth.