meaningless, theres no such thing as dx10 till vista comes out, also no such thing till vista dx10 games start comming out!!!!
honestly people buying 8800 ccards simply because they are dx10 makes me laugh, then i cry because i remmber my first "dx9" card....
i hear that, nvidia lost all respect from me when my 5800ultra was curbe stomped by a 9600 256mb(slow card) i mean honestly, a card 1/4 the price that was STOMPING the crap out of a card 4x its price!!!!, also the 9600 was SILENT(passive cooling) the 5800ultra was a first rev with the dustbuster cooler(sounded exectly like an 80's dustbuster)
then i tryed a 6800gt, i sold it and got a x800pro vivo(flashed to xt pe same day i got it) and never looked back, 6800gt had alot of driver flaws, and after 5 revisions of the driver i gave up!!!!!!
i agree if your an intel fanboi like i was when i payed way to fing much for a 5800ultra then found out it SUCKED ARSE for dx9 games, even early ones...
ati hasnt put out a card thats been drasticly worse for the price then nvidia since the rage128 cards under windows 2k(piss poor driver support that made me hate ati)
nvidia currently is on the loosing end in perf and fetures on all but the 8800 cards, and i dont count them really.
lets look back
9500/9700/9800-9600/9550 vs fx line, fx line looses every time.
x800 vs 6800, in perf 6800 looses, but it has SM3 support hence hdr, but if you use hdr games become slide shows, so thats pointless, ati wins again.
x300/x600/x700 cards are just pci-e versions of the 9550/9600/9800 cards really
then the 7 seirse vs x1k seirse, at the low end nvidia was beeting amd this time, the x1300 and x1600 where slower, but they could do somethings the 6 and 7 seirse cant, hdr+aa, avivo video playback acceleration by gpu(pure video dosnt work properly, gave up trying to get it to work a few weeks ago again)
so 7300 is faster then x1300 but isnt as good for video playback, and isnt THAT much faster then x1300 in games(not really the target of these level cards)
7600 is faster then 1600, by a good bit, but cant do hdr+aa
7800 gets slaped around by the x1800gto/xt equivlants
7900 gets slaped around by the x1900gt/xt
7950 gets slaped around by the x1950pro/xt
so its been a long time since nividia has had a drasticly better card, the gf4 line was better then the ati equivlant for driver support if not perf(close with newer drivers in my exp)
nvidia faultered with the fx line hard tho, fell on their face into a pile of broken glass and rusty scrapnal.
earlyer cards
riva128/tnt/gf1/gf2/gf3 where kinds of their day, nothing ati had was as good across all platforms.
the rage128 was better in windows 98(32bit didnt have neer the perf hit on g128 cores that it had on tnt cores), but ati drivers sucked.
first radeon was plauged by driver problems, same with the 7000 and such, the 8500 was when they finnly started to pull things togather but nvidia was still doing better with drivers!!!!
since then tho its been SAD, my old 8500LE(got it in a pc i payed 30bucks for at a gradge sale) litterly KILLED the 5800ultra i had in dx5/7/8 games, infact i kinda wish i hadnt sold it to a mac user( flashed it to mac version and got 275bucks for it!!!!)
im not a fanboi in this case, i just look at whats avalable for what price and what it can do and whats important to me.
i could have gotten a 7950gx2 if i had wanted, but driver support from nvidia for windows, well IMHO it sucks, has since the fx line when they started comprimising their driver quility to gain performance.
the x1900xtx(flashed my card) gives me better perf then my buddys 7950gx2 anyway and less driver buggs, not to mention, i can acctualy use my avivo, he cant get purevideo to work properly STILL.
oh and i can FOLD on my gpu, something nvidia users cant do
(only really important to me because it shows what the cards capable of and what software devs will beable to do with the cards in the future!!!)
as to 7600 vs x1300xt, i would take the 1300xt, better value/fetures imho, and no card in those gens is a true gamers card!!!!!
hell x800xt pe vs 7600gt or 7800gs=x800xt pe anyday, better value
(mines in my old box behind me
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