On Saturday 14 May 2005 12:30, John Bailo wrote:
Sorry, but I went from a dog Radeon 9200 to a stellar GeForce FX5200.
Argh! nvidia might be a better option for Linux because of the drivers. But you're comparing card that don't have the same capabilities. 9200 has Pixel & Vertex shader 1.0 while FX5200 has 2.0. In Windows empirical terms this means DirectX8.1 vs 9.0. A fairer comparison would be ATI 9550 vs GeForce FX5200 or FX5500. Or ATI X300 vs GeForce 6200. Or ATI X600/700 vs GeForce 6600. So if you would have went from Radeon 9200 to Radeon 9550, the later might have been the "stellar" one. And BTW, I own nvidia FX5200 and probably my next card will be GeForce 6600. But I don't want to see ATI bashed for the wrong reasons. I don't know if their latest driver is ok, that is does it install easily, are there any problems? Because that was the major trouble with ATI: they were slow at releasing new drivers, and at keeping them in sync with latest developments in XFree86 of X.org respectively.