GeForce4 Ti 4200 vs. Ati 9550 - which is better?

[paulee]

I saw an ad this weekend for an ATI 9550 (Dominator) for 49.99.

I have an old G3 Ti200 that has served me well. You guys think it's worth the $50 for an upgrade? The highest res game I play is usually WC3.

 

[Dukemaster]

Don't forget that in the future you might not be able to play al games with a TI4200. For example you won't be able to play Battlefield 2 with a ti4200 bcause you need a DX9 card.

 

[nemesismk2]

Originally posted by: dfloyd
If the 9550 is like the 9500 pro or 9600 xt then it should stomp all over a ti4200 in most every game on the market.

I know my 9600 XT was easily two to three times faster in most modern games than my friends ti4400.

There is a big difference between a 9500 Pro/9600 xt than the slow 9550. Even if it's performance is close to the regular 9600 then it wouldn't even beat a Ti4200.

 

[akshayt]

9550 isn't the performance close to fx 5200 or might ultra

in that case geforce 4 ti shd beat its ass

and says who that battlefield 2 doesn't run on dx 8.1

 

[Munky]

Someone posted in another thread that you need a PS 1.4 card as a minimum to run BF2, and the gf4 cards are only PS 1.3. If this is true, then even a slower radeon 8500 will run the game (at low setting most likely), but the gf4 will not run it at all.

 

[MonkeyWrench4000]

The Ti4200 will definately not beat out a 9550. The 9550 can handle DX9 tasks in HL2 pretty well with a modern PC, and as far as ti4200 vs 9550 in DX8, the 9550 is quite a bit faster. I know this, I have both cards.

The 9550 is about 3x as fast as the 9200, just a tiny bit slower then the 9600PRO

 

[BenSkywalker]

The Ti4200 is about the same speed as a 9500Pro(not the castrated 9550). If you enable AF then the R9500Pro crushed it, although in IQ it was far behind. Ti4200 is certainly better overall then the R9550.

Edit- Forgot to mention, I owned both and ran them for quite a while. Ended up having to get rid of the R9500Pro as the drivers were rather unuseable at the time(currently running a R9800Pro).

 

[AnitaPeterson]

sigh... do you guys ever read the AT mainpage articles?

http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.aspx?i=2195&p=5

http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.aspx?i=2195&p=6

 

[nemesismk2]

Originally posted by: MonkeyWrench4000
The Ti4200 will definately not beat out a 9550. The 9550 can handle DX9 tasks in HL2 pretty well with a modern PC, and as far as ti4200 vs 9550 in DX8, the 9550 is quite a bit faster. I know this, I have both cards.

The 9550 is about 3x as fast as the 9200, just a tiny bit slower then the 9600PRO

Prove it because I owned a Sapphire R9600 which is faster than a R9550 and it was usually slower than my MSI GF4 Ti4200 8x with games!

 

[Munky]

You guys are giving the 4200 way too much credit here. Read this article and compare the 9600pro to a gf4200
http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=1904

The 9550 is like 60-70% as fast as a 9600pro, so it's probably a tie with the 4200, but the 9600pro beats the 4200 in most cases by a good amount, especially when you use any kind of AA/AF. And the 9500pro would absolutely kill a 4200, even beats a 9600pro, because it had 8 pipes, compared to 4 for the rest of these cards.

 

[carlosd]

Originally posted by: munky
You guys are giving the 4200 way too much credit here. Read this article and compare the 9600pro to a gf4200
http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=1904

The 9550 is like 60-70% as fast as a 9600pro, so it's probably a tie with the 4200, but the 9600pro beats the 4200 in most cases by a good amount, especially when you use any kind of AA/AF. And the 9500pro would absolutely kill a 4200, even beats a 9600pro, because it had 8 pipes, compared to 4 for the rest of these cards.

Anyway, no good gameplay with AA/AF activated on these cards, so those test are meaningless, since there are poor framerates with both cards (9600Pro and ti4200). Only consider no AA/AF benchmarks in which the TI is better overall than 9550. The 9500 Pro is not the same doesn't enter in this disscusion because it is is a 9700 derivative with 8 pipelines and is much more expensive than a Ti4200 or a 9550. The 9550 cannot beat 9600 non pro which is most cases slower than ti4200.