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I agree, the FX series was a disaster and it was Nvs fault for going with FP32. The great conspiracy of agreeing the DX9 standard and Nvidia deciding not to stick to it worked out great for them and the 9600pro and 9800pro were probably ATi's best cards ever.

I dumped my FX card and got a 6800 128mb and it was an amazing card in comparison. Allowed me to play Farcry properly and the HDR effects in that game were at the time ground breaking. The 6800 128mb was a decent price as well , in the past Nvidia actually offered good value and still manage to make a profit.
 
Haz123 said:
I agree, the FX series was a disaster and it was Nvs fault for going with FP32. The great conspiracy of agreeing the DX9 standard and Nvidia deciding not to stick to it worked out great for them and the 9600pro and 9800pro were probably ATi's best cards ever.

I dumped my FX card and got a 6800 128mb and it was an amazing card in comparison. Allowed me to play Farcry properly and the HDR effects in that game were at the time ground breaking. The 6800 128mb was a decent price as well , in the past Nvidia actually offered good value and still manage to make a profit.
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I had the 6800LE which fully unlocked to the full shader and pipeline configuration. Happy days!
 
I had a x800xt pe as it was the better card. Then ati dropped the x1800xt and x1900xtx both of which I owned. Both were all over the place performance and stability wise. Once I moved to the 8800gtx, never bought ati or amd again since they never led with performance or tech and still don’t.
 
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I had a x800xt pe as it was the better card. Then ati dropped the x1800xt and x1900xtx both of which I owned. Both were all over the place performance and stability wise. Once I moved to the 8800gtx, never bought ati or amd again since they never led with performance or tech and still don’t.
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The 6800 series had better shader support,and Nvidia soft disabled shaders. So the 6800LE could be unlocked,and mine did to the same configuration as a 6800GT but with slower VRAM.
I had the X1900GT and 7900GS,and the X1900GT was more forward looking as it prioritised shading performance. The HD4000 series had Nvidia rebrand the G92 as the entry level to the GTX200 series. The HD4830 and HD4850 were great mainstream cards and were ahead in feature set. The HD5000 series came out so ahead of the GTX400 series,that was laughable. The GTX480 was good but it was brute force in terms of power and heat.
 
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I loved my 5870, such a beast at the time, that was at the time it launched AMD's fastest GPU and what I paid for it can today only buy a 7600 or 6600xt
 
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I don't think it ever was especially I was on here when all this broke. People could mess around with tessellation manually in games like Crisis 2 and performance shot up quite a bit. People posted tons and tons of screenshots,showing there was no perceptable difference. I even tested it myself with actual hardware. People are just relying on the younger generations not being aware of this,especially as many older sites now have shut down.

An example is Reddit trying to now take advantage of many older reviews starting to go offline from a few decades ago WRT to the Nvidia FX. I had a 9500 PRO and mates with Nvidia FX hardware. Nvidia tried to be clever with using FP16/FP32 mixed precision shaders instead of the DX9 standard FP24. But the Radeon R300 was developed by another company(ArtX) which ATI bought up. It followed the DX9 specification to the letter.

HL2 was one of the first big DX9 titles. Valve actually tested both ATI and Nvidia hardware,and the Nvidia hardware didn't do so well. They explained it very well as ATI was the only company which could run DX9 properly. No different than Nvidia hardware being best for path tracing in games(we all know AMD is weaker when RT is pushed hard).

Valve also tried its damned best to improve performance on Nvidia hardware:
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A preview of Half-Life 2 performance?

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Half-Life 2 Performance Benchmark Preview

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Remember this:

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Nvidia accused of cheating in 3DMark 03

Futuremark, the maker of 3DMark 03, releases a patch for the graphics benchmark designed to correct the way Nvidia drivers manipulate results in the popular test.
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Haz123 said:
I agree, the FX series was a disaster and it was Nvs fault for going with FP32. The great conspiracy of agreeing the DX9 standard and Nvidia deciding not to stick to it worked out great for them and the 9600pro and 9800pro were probably ATi's best cards ever.

I dumped my FX card and got a 6800 128mb and it was an amazing card in comparison. Allowed me to play Farcry properly and the HDR effects in that game were at the time ground breaking. The 6800 128mb was a decent price as well , in the past Nvidia actually offered good value and still manage to make a profit.
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*tin foil hat* was revenge for the Radeon R100 and Pixel Shaders spec changing :P
 
Grim5 said:
I loved my 5870, such a beast at the time, that was at the time it launched AMD's fastest GPU and what I paid for it can today only buy a 7600 or 6600xt
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For me it was the 4870. Got to be in my top 3 favourite cards of all time. That and the 9700 which I got for £180 and physically modded to a 9700 Pro which were selling for £270.

Those two cards are probably in my top 3 favourite of all time. Both ATI cards. Loved ATI cards. Preferred it to Nvidia.
 
 
Apex said:
DF...the biggest shills in tech.

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Shills? They praised FSR3 from the presentation behind closed doors. Or you mean they shill for everyone?

Over half the people who own starfield early access downloaded dlss upscale mod and can see for themselves how much better it is than fsr. Out of these, some got the framegen mod as well (for the 4xxx series cards) and playing smoothly at 2x perf.

So if anything, they’re super late to the party.
 
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