9100 or fx5200?

[Lazark]

wich is the best?...I can`t afford a g4ti4200, so don`t insist ....Is just want to play some new games like max payne 2, deus ex 2, c&c...then in May I will go to USA and buy a great card...

any suggestions?..thanks!

 

[TheAudit]

How much are the cards that you are looking at? I've seen 4200 TI's for $70.

Out of these two I would go with the 9100.
You can also get a 9600SE for under $100.

 

[Lazark]

not in my country

 

[TheAudit]

Doh, sorry about that.
If you are picking between the 5200 and the 9100, definitely go with the 9100, it's the better of the two.

 

[GtPrOjEcTX]

Originally posted by: TheAudit
Doh, sorry about that.
If you are picking between the 5200 and the 9100, definitely go with the 9100, it's the better of the two.

agreed

 

[Lazark]

and....if I had to choose betwen 9100, 9200SE or fx5200...wich is the best? (for C&C, Max payne 2, and if I can, deus ex 2)...

thanks!

 

[MDE]

9100 no contest

 

[modedepe]

A 9100 would be faster than a 9200se, 9600se, or an fx5200.

 

[FrustratedUser]

9100, but it doesn't have DX9 support does it?

 

[MDE]

Originally posted by: FrustratedUser
9100, but it doesn't have DX9 support does it?

No, but none of those cards would be able to do much with DX9 capabilites.

 

[Lazark]

really?...a 9100 is better than a 9600SE or geforcefx5200?....I didn`t know that. Well, its a sapphire card, it is still good?...

http://www.sapphiretech.com/vga/9100.asp (is the 128mb model)...

and finally....if the 9100 is the best from those card, it still win against a 9200 (non-SE)?



thanks a lot

 

[Mloot]

Yes, the 9200 aka 9000 is based on a stripped-down 8500 core. The 9100 and 8500LE (the same thing, really) are both just slightly lower-clocked 8500's (depending on the manufacturer), so they have almost all the power of a normal 8500. The 9200's stripped down core gives it most of the features of the 8500 (9100), but at the cost of some performance.

 

[Lazark]

so...the 9100 is the way to go?

 

[TheAudit]

If you can get the 9600 SE, I would take that over the 9100.

 

[CraigRT]

I'd get the 9100 over the FX5200, and the 9600SE for sure.

the 9100 is basically a Radeon 8500 (Great card)

 

[BFG10K]

The 9100 will beat the FX5200 to a bloody pulp.

 

[beserker16]

i upgraded an 8500 to a 5600 once...saw no improvements...actually maybe a decrease in performance, so returned it.

 

[ruther]

Hi,


Ok, the 9100 is faster, but what about 2d/3d image quality & features & OpenGL??! GeForce FX5200 supports OpenGL 1.4, while Radeon 9100 supports "only" OpenGL 1.3. What do you think?!

I am NOT a gamer, I bear in mind CAD-like/OpenGL applications. I just started programming OpenGL in Fortran(I´m not sure yet of the differences between 1.3 and 1.4 versions, so I don´t know if it´s worth buying a FX5200 because of that).

 

[MDE]

Originally posted by: ruther
Hi,


Ok, the 9100 is faster, but what about 2d/3d image quality & features & OpenGL??! GeForce FX5200 supports OpenGL 1.4, while Radeon 9100 supports "only" OpenGL 1.3. What do you think?!

I am NOT a gamer, I bear in mind CAD-like/OpenGL applications. I just started programming OpenGL in Fortran(I´m not sure yet of the differences between 1.3 and 1.4 versions, so I don´t know if it´s worth buying a FX5200 because of that).

If you're running OpenGL go for either a GeForce4 Ti4200 ($70-100) or an FX5700 Ultra or higher (5900 preferrably for around $200). Nvidia just about wipes the floor with ATI in OpenGL, DirectX is a different story though...

 

[BFG10K]

GeForce FX5200 supports OpenGL 1.4, while Radeon 9100 supports "only" OpenGL 1.3. What do you think?!

Catalyst 3.10 (ATi's newest drivers) are OpenGL 1.4 compliant.

 

[ruther]

Originally posted by: MonkeyDriveExpress
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If you're running OpenGL go for either a GeForce4 Ti4200 ($70-100) or an FX5700 Ultra or higher (5900 preferrably for around $200). Nvidia just about wipes the floor with ATI in OpenGL, DirectX is a different story though...

Thanks, it is interesting... but my ATI Radeon LE 32MB video card just overheated and died(curiously just after installing and running a Fortran OpenGL library), so it isn´t a planned upgrade and I want a low budget card to replace it.

My choices are among GeForce FX5200 and the Radeon cards(9000,9100,9200). I was even considering MX440...

[all 128 bits, of course]

 

[ruther]

Originally posted by: BFG10K

GeForce FX5200 supports OpenGL 1.4, while Radeon 9100 supports "only" OpenGL 1.3. What do you think?!

Catalyst 3.10 (ATi's newest drivers) are OpenGL 1.4 compliant.

I thought it was more of a hardware issue...

 

[ruther]

Bump!

 

[EXman]

The 5200 is complete and udder CRAP worst 2d EVAR...

 

[BFG10K]

I thought it was more of a hardware issue...

Any hardware that has DirectX 9.0 hardware support can almost certainly support any current version of OpenGL. OpenGL 1.5-2.0 is supposed to roughly match DirectX 9.