What is an equiv. nVidia card for the ATI 9000?
well, after seeing several posts to the effect that ATI doesn't have 64 bit drivers while nvidia does, it seems it is time to switch alliances ;) I currently have an ATI 9000 ["powered by" rather than "built by"], and I'm wondering what the closest rough equivalent is in the nvidia line -- an unusually helpful Fry's guy tells me it would be about the same as a 5500 series card [seems he plays games too... :) ] Depending on brand, the cost seems to range from $90 to $150. They had one [returned] 5700 "LE" board for about $10 more, and then everything jumps to the 6800 series at $300 or $400 [with the higher price going for twice the memory at 1ghz memory speed vs. 700mhz] Since I've just upgraded to a 64 bit system, I'm a little hesitant to dump another $400 into this [kind of makes the overall cost of my upgrade sound less fantastic, since this will push it into the $1600+ range] I'd really like to stick with ATI, but if the drivers aren't there, well, it gets to be time to move on... :(
On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 08:18:53AM -0700, Tom Emerson wrote:
well, after seeing several posts to the effect that ATI doesn't have 64 bit drivers while nvidia does, it seems it is time to switch alliances ;)
Have you checked out the latest version of the open source driver? According to: http://dri.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/ATI?action=highlight&value=CategoryHardwareVendor Radeons up to the 9200 are supported. Justin Thiessen --------------- jthiessen@penguincomputing.com
I currently have an ATI 9000 ["powered by" rather than "built by"], and I'm wondering what the closest rough equivalent is in the nvidia line -- an unusually helpful Fry's guy tells me it would be about the same as a 5500 series card [seems he plays games too... :) ] Depending on brand, the cost seems to range from $90 to $150. They had one [returned] 5700 "LE" board for about $10 more, and then everything jumps to the 6800 series at $300 or $400 [with the higher price going for twice the memory at 1ghz memory speed vs. 700mhz]
Since I've just upgraded to a 64 bit system, I'm a little hesitant to dump another $400 into this [kind of makes the overall cost of my upgrade sound less fantastic, since this will push it into the $1600+ range]
I'd really like to stick with ATI, but if the drivers aren't there, well, it gets to be time to move on... :(
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You won't regret changing alliances! B-) On Friday 29 October 2004 09:28 am, Justin Thiessen wrote:
On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 08:18:53AM -0700, Tom Emerson wrote:
well, after seeing several posts to the effect that ATI doesn't have 64 bit drivers while nvidia does, it seems it is time to switch alliances ;)
Have you checked out the latest version of the open source driver? According to:
http://dri.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/ATI?action=highlight&value=Cate goryHardwareVendor
Radeons up to the 9200 are supported.
Justin Thiessen --------------- jthiessen@penguincomputing.com
I currently have an ATI 9000 ["powered by" rather than "built by"], and I'm wondering what the closest rough equivalent is in the nvidia line -- an unusually helpful Fry's guy tells me it would be about the same as a 5500 series card [seems he plays games too... :) ] Depending on brand, the cost seems to range from $90 to $150. They had one [returned] 5700 "LE" board for about $10 more, and then everything jumps to the 6800 series at $300 or $400 [with the higher price going for twice the memory at 1ghz memory speed vs. 700mhz]
Since I've just upgraded to a 64 bit system, I'm a little hesitant to dump another $400 into this [kind of makes the overall cost of my upgrade sound less fantastic, since this will push it into the $1600+ range]
I'd really like to stick with ATI, but if the drivers aren't there, well, it gets to be time to move on... :(
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On Friday 29 October 2004 8:28 am, Justin Thiessen wrote:
On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 08:18:53AM -0700, Tom Emerson wrote:
well, after seeing several posts to the effect that ATI doesn't have 64 bit drivers while nvidia does, it seems it is time to switch alliances ;)
Have you checked out the latest version of the open source driver? Radeons up to the 9200 are supported.
I hadn't though of that, though I would have thought this would be the type of thing that SuSE would package with their distro -- after all, I supposedly /have/ 3D support out-of-the-box with SuSe 9.1, but I'm seeing evidence that this support is [perhaps] "a little lacking". [most notably: the frame rate in UT2k4's "tricky" map is hideous whenever the view includes flames!] But, back to the suggestion: after reading it a bit, however, I see that these use Xorg instead of XFree86 -- how "involved" is the changeover? [or does the new 9.2 release use Xorg, so perhaps going the "official" upgrade route would be easier?] Tom p.s. I did find some links from the DRI page that lead me to a comparison table, so at least I know the guy at Fry's wasn't that far off [seems the ATI 9000 falls between an nvidia 5200 and 5500, which is "good to know"]
Tom Emerson wrote:
well, after seeing several posts to the effect that ATI doesn't have 64 bit drivers while nvidia does, it seems it is time to switch alliances ;)
I currently have an ATI 9000
I have an ATI 9200 SE and it is working fine with 64 bit (though I don't play many games on it). IIRC, there are ATI 64 bit drivers up to 9200, so your 9000 should be supported already. -- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Registered Linux user 231871
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