Ram Ratios

[DWk]

Originally posted by 3rd gen noob@22 December 2003 - 20:53
the nvidia 5600 is supposed to be the direct competitor for the radeon 9600 series, but there's no competition there, really

not precisely..... price range is what dictates a direct competitor....and the price range we are talking (100-200), the 5900 IS a competitor....wether its a better card or not....

[3rd gen noob]

Originally posted by DWk@23 December 2003 - 02:55
not precisely..... price range is what dictates a direct competitor....and the price range we are talking (100-200), the 5900 IS a competitor....wether its a better card or not....

100-200 what?
remember there are many different nationalities on the board here

prices in one country might not square with those in other countries

plus 100 units could be a rather large gap (depending on the currency)

[adamp2p]

And let me say this as a disclaimer: I have no feelings against Nvidia.

As soon as they release a respectable product, I will respect it.

Since the DirectX9 environment has been introduced, ATI has been the king. Plain and simple. However, that was not the case with the DirectX8 environmenrt, where Nvidia was the clear winner.

So there still is a future for Nvidia: DX10 and PCI express too. It's not all over for them. But there will always be a certain percentage of losers around who don't read the results, they just like to start arguements for no reason. I choose to ignore such fools.

[DWk]

Originally posted by DWk@22 December 2003 - 20:49
edit: BY THE WAY...we are talking about cards in the 100-200 dollars range...

sry...as i said before....

[3rd gen noob]

Originally posted by DWk+23 December 2003 - 02:59--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (DWk @ 23 December 2003 - 02:59)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-DWk@22 December 2003 - 20:49
edit: BY THE WAY...we are talking about cards in the 100-200 dollars range...

sry...as i said before.... [/b][/quote]
i missed that edit. i apologise

however, a 100 dollar price range is rather large, perhaps the range should be reduced to 100-150 or 150-200?

[DWk]

Originally posted by adamp2p@22 December 2003 - 20:59
Since the DirectX9 environment has been introduced, ATI has been the king.&nbsp; Plain and simple.&nbsp; However, that was not the case with the DirectX8 environmenrt, where Nvidia was the clear winner.

So there still is a future for Nvidia: DX10 and PCI express too.&nbsp; It&#39;s not all over for them.&nbsp; But there will always be a certain percentage of losers around who don&#39;t read the results, they just like to start arguements for no reason.&nbsp; I choose to ignore such fools.&nbsp;

yea 2 bad directx, being a more "profitable" system, took over opengl

its cool....v0od0o is coming back to take opengl back to the top over this dx8 and dx9 cards...


EDIT: k 150-200

[bigdawgfoxx]

Yeah a 5900 isnt under &#036;200 USD....

@ adam...yes I know about the filtering and everything pretty well..does it just filter everything and make it look better?

And what are the two types? FSAA and antitroscopic...or something? whats the diff and whats there purpose

Thanks

[bigdawgfoxx]

***goes to get the credit card***

[DWk]

http://www.pricewatch.com/1/37/5587-1.htm

those are not even just regular 5900 but 5900SE (or as ppl call it, 5900xt)

FSAA: Full Screen Anti-Aliasing
FSAA usually involves drawing a magnified version of the entire screen in a separate framebuffer, performing AA on the entire image and rescaling it back to the normal resolution. As you can imagine, this is extremely CPU intensive. You will never see non hardware accelerated FSAA.

Anisotropic Texture Filtering
Anisotropic filtering is the best but most CPU intensive of the three common texture filtering methods. Trilinear filtering is capable of producing fine visuals, but it only samples from a square area which in some cases is not the ideal method. Anisotropic (meaning &#39;from any direction&#39 samples from more than 8 pixels. The number of sampled pixels and which sampled pixels it uses depends on the viewing angle of the surface relative to your screen. It shines when viewing alphanumeric characters at an angle.

EDIT: btw, the 5900 is bundled with Call of Duty

[adamp2p]

Originally posted by bigdawgfoxx@23 December 2003 - 05:16
Yeah a 5900 isnt under &#036;200 USD....

@ adam...yes I know about the filtering and everything pretty well..does it just filter everything and make it look better?

And what are the two types?&nbsp; FSAA and antitroscopic...or something? whats the diff and whats there purpose

Thanks

Well let me put it to you this way: with 4X AA and 8X AF NFSU looks so good that it is almost perfect visually. That is one of the reasons I have been continually recommending that you get NFSU and try it. It is a lot more fun than any other game I have played recently, and the image quality is so realistic as well as the keyboard reactivity.

What is spectacular about AA and AF is that you get higher texture quality overall.

If you turn it up too much then the performance of the card will turn into the likes of a slide show. Use what I listed above and you will be amazed. It is that simple.

Playing good computer games gets close to simulating reality enough so you forget where you are and get completely sucked into the game. I have been experiencing this a lot recently, and hope you do too.



Edit: All games you play that are written for the DirectX9 API will look better with AA and AF.