- Oct 9, 1999
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I have been trying to decide between these two variants of cards for my next system, and I was thinking the GeForce performance was a good deal higher. But then I read John Carmack's comments about the Radeon in regards to Doom 3, and began to wonder. So I pawed through some of Anand's reviews and grabbed the following numbers.
One caveat - the 128MB Radeon numbers are from the Radeon All-In-Wonder; I'm not sure if the clock speeds are the same on the two variants.
Since I can't do any fancy graphs, I'm ordering them from highest score to lowest, winner in bold.
Quake III Arena - demo four 1024x768x32
Ti4600 - 218.4
Ti4400 - 216.0
Radeon 128MB - 213.5
The Ti4600 wins here, but not by much . . . considering price and image quality, I gotta go with the ATI.
Comanche 4 - 1024x768x32
Ti4600 - 41.6
Ti4400 - 40.8
Radeon 128MB - 32.6
Not so good here . . . I haven't played Comanche 4, is it a good indicator of what games coming down the pike will be like?
I'm curious about something. In this review, the Radeon 8500 - presumably 64MB - scores 58.7 on the 1024 Unreal Performance Test 2002. In this review, the 128MB AIW version nets only 35.4. Is the clock speed different on the two? EDIT - According to the review, the Radeon AIW 128MB is clocked at 275/275, just like the standard retail Radeon. So where does the discrepancy come in?
I'm still undecided. Keeping in the budget I've set myself, if I get the Radeon 128MB, I can have an additional 512MB of RAM, whereas with the GeForce, I'd have to cut the memory or get a slower CPU.
One caveat - the 128MB Radeon numbers are from the Radeon All-In-Wonder; I'm not sure if the clock speeds are the same on the two variants.
Since I can't do any fancy graphs, I'm ordering them from highest score to lowest, winner in bold.
Quake III Arena - demo four 1024x768x32
Ti4600 - 218.4
Ti4400 - 216.0
Radeon 128MB - 213.5
The Ti4600 wins here, but not by much . . . considering price and image quality, I gotta go with the ATI.
Comanche 4 - 1024x768x32
Ti4600 - 41.6
Ti4400 - 40.8
Radeon 128MB - 32.6
Not so good here . . . I haven't played Comanche 4, is it a good indicator of what games coming down the pike will be like?
I'm curious about something. In this review, the Radeon 8500 - presumably 64MB - scores 58.7 on the 1024 Unreal Performance Test 2002. In this review, the 128MB AIW version nets only 35.4. Is the clock speed different on the two? EDIT - According to the review, the Radeon AIW 128MB is clocked at 275/275, just like the standard retail Radeon. So where does the discrepancy come in?
I'm still undecided. Keeping in the budget I've set myself, if I get the Radeon 128MB, I can have an additional 512MB of RAM, whereas with the GeForce, I'd have to cut the memory or get a slower CPU.