x1600pro marks/numbers (better than 970pro?) AGP

[Dinkster9]

Okay I owned a R9700pro (agp of course, did'nt have pci-e back in the ice-ages . I would get about 17,000 3dmark01 and 6000 3dmark03. Although I think this is high because throwing the same card into a different system only netted me about 14,000 scores on 3dmark01. I'm guessing the card just really agreed with my a7n8x dx2.0 mb and 2x1gig pc-4000 balistix ram.

Anyhow I gave the card away and i'm in the market for a new one. I don't have the cash to upgrade everything to pci-e yet or to pay 375 for a watered down agp version of a good pci-e card (7800gs).

I took a serious look at the x1600pro. About $160 for the ddr2 512 model. or the ddr3 256 model. I am a serious gamer but without the budged .

I guess my question is if the upgrade is worth it going from 9700pro to a x1600pro.? its about a 50$ upgrade, you get 4 more pixle pipelines, a bit faster memory speed, much newer technology; and as far as i can tell the gpu can save the cpu from encoding video tasts a little.

Anyone have any real numbers on the x1600pro's? 3dmarks etc.???

 

[Paratus]

Be careful. It will probably be a good bit faster than the 9700 PRO but. It only has 128bit memory so divide that 800mhz in half to compare to your 9700. It also only has 4 "pixel piplines" with 3 shader processors per pipeline but running at 500 mhz. So the 9700PRO has 8 pixel piplines but only 8 pixel processors versus the 12 the X1600 has.

BTW 512mb is totally useless for that card.

 

[robcy]

Originally posted by: Dinkster9
Okay I owned a R9700pro (agp of course, did'nt have pci-e back in the ice-ages . I would get about 17,000 3dmark01 and 6000 3dmark03. Although I think this is high because throwing the same card into a different system only netted me about 14,000 scores on 3dmark01. I'm guessing the card just really agreed with my a7n8x dx2.0 mb and 2x1gig pc-4000 balistix ram.

Anyhow I gave the card away and i'm in the market for a new one. I don't have the cash to upgrade everything to pci-e yet or to pay 375 for a watered down agp version of a good pci-e card (7800gs).

I took a serious look at the x1600pro. About $160 for the ddr2 512 model. or the ddr3 256 model. I am a serious gamer but without the budged .

I guess my question is if the upgrade is worth it going from 9700pro to a x1600pro.? its about a 50$ upgrade, you get 4 more pixle pipelines, a bit faster memory speed, much newer technology; and as far as i can tell the gpu can save the cpu from encoding video tasts a little.

Anyone have any real numbers on the x1600pro's? 3dmarks etc.???

I asked the same exact question. You can read the responses here[L=here]. I went for an x800xt AIW since I was able to get a used one for 200, which was a little above my budget, but I sold the 9700PRO for 50. I searched the benchmarks on different pages and found these averages = 3dmark05 (9700PRO 2284) (x1600xt 5148) (x800xt 5860) these are averages from the different pages, and that x1600 is an XT which is faster than the PRO. Id repeat what I was told "go with the x800xt or a 6800gs".

 

[L00PY]

Just for kicks, I downloaded and ran 2001SE. Whatever settings it defaults to. System's been up for a couple of days. Browser running in the background. Azureus crunching on 6 torrents. 16151 3D Marks.

Sub $120 X1600Pro, PCIe, 256MB DDR2, fanless (which was the key feature for me). If I remember, I'll grab the others later in the day and run them. I might even try it on a clean boot as the only program running.