ATI Radeon X1900XTX 512Mb VS XFX 7900 GTX 512Mb

Harrison · Post by **Harrison** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 3:33 pm

Hello all,
I have £400 (GBP) to spend on a graphics card and found that I'm stuck between:

XFX GeForce 7900 GTX 512MB GDDR3 VIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express)

And

ATI Radeon X1900XTX 512Mb DVI + DVI + VIVO PCI-E

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I'm a gamer, so I want my graphics card to affect that. Looking at the reviews and tests, it seems specially built programs show the NVIDIA to be better, but FPS from games shows ATI can handle it as good, if not better, than the NVIDIA chip.

Does anyone have any thoughts or suggestions on which I should spend my £400 on?

Thanks guys!

Thor · Post by **Thor** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 6:35 pm

the 1900xtx runs much hotter and louder than the 7900gtx, if that matters to you.

Imakeholesinu · Post by **Imakeholesinu** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 9:20 pm

If it's any consolation I've been doing support over at EA's message boards and I've been running into a lot of people who have been having problems playing Battlefield 2 on ATI Cards.

From my personal stand-point I will never purchase an ATI card because of the lack-luster driver support they had in the early 90's and the beginning of 2000. While I applaud them for making strong efforts of becoming a contender while 3Dfx fell from the face of the videocard world, I still see ATI as a distant second to anything nVidia produces.

It's not always the hardware, it's the software that makes the hardware run to it's full potential. In my 6 years of troubleshooting games, I've almost never run into a person who has had a problem with a set of nVidia final release drivers.

infinitevalence · Post by **infinitevalence** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 12:37 am

humm... from what i can see the driver issues is a thing of the past and honestly i think ATI offers better IQ at faster FPS than nvidia. You turn everything off and nvidia will win every time, you turn everything on and ATI looks better and runs faster.

Dragon_Cooler · Post by **Dragon_Cooler** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 12:55 am

infinitevalence wrote:humm... from what i can see the driver issues is a thing of the past and honestly i think ATI offers better IQ at faster FPS than nvidia. You turn everything off and nvidia will win every time, you turn everything on and ATI looks better and runs faster.

i have a problem with that. In BF2 i turn AA/AF on in the ATI utility to 4x/8x on x1800xl and nothing happens. i still have jagged edges and unsmooth textures. I did the same thing on kristins machine in her 7800gt and looks nice!! ATI is letting me down!

Harrison · Post by **Harrison** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 2:21 am

Ekk.... I posted this in another forum and they say ATI!

I won't be overclocking as I'm too scared and never have

I currently have an ATI 9800 Pro.

infinitevalence · Post by **infinitevalence** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 8:10 am

Dragon_Cooler wrote:i have a problem with that. In BF2 i turn AA/AF on in the ATI utility to 4x/8x on x1800xl and nothing happens. i still have jagged edges and unsmooth textures. I did the same thing on kristins machine in her 7800gt and looks nice!! ATI is letting me down!

You sure thats ATI and not BF2 thats the issue

Post by **Apoptosis** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 8:38 am

Harrison,

Welcome to the forums!

Imakeholesinu · Post by **Imakeholesinu** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 12:02 pm

infinitevalence wrote:humm... from what i can see the driver issues is a thing of the past and honestly i think ATI offers better IQ at faster FPS than nvidia. You turn everything off and nvidia will win every time, you turn everything on and ATI looks better and runs faster.

What I'm saying is that their past record has ruined my relationship with them. Yeah they are doing better but unless they do something mind-bogglingly spectacular compared to the almost superb stability nVidia has shown me since my first videocard purchase (minus the 5xxx line) then I won't be purchasing or recommending an ATI card.