Nvidia Geforce 9 9600GT is out

[carmicael]

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This is just my opinion. It may be NVidia is in the lead but somehow they lower the image quality setting.
No proofs just my experience in the past years. I had a chance using NVidia Cards before and most internet cafes use NVidia Cards. Somehow ATI has sharper image quality. I have Nvidia before and I have observed that the image quality is quite dull not sharp or has the clarity as ATI cards. Also this can be attributed that ATI cards has more Hi definition capability.

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/vid...out?page=0%2C0

Before I red this article study on the net I myself have observed the image quality of Both parties.

I'm not an ATI fanboy I would have purchased NVidia a long time ago but there are really differences in the quality of image but not that big though. In my case image quality is a big factor. But its really very small difference. Although some won't consider this as a factor because NVidia really coped up with image quality based on the performance and speed. ATI has more acurate colors and more natural while NVidia has more glare and intensity and high contrast on colors which is good for gaming.

It is really based on personal preference.

That gives AMD a slight edge at the $250 price point, but it leaves Nvidia unchallenged at every higher segment.

-maximumpc.com

THE BOTTOM LINE

The good news for anyone shopping for a new videocard is that you don’t need to sacrifice image quality for performance. Based on our blind tests, the GPUs from both AMD and Nvidia deliver similar visual quality with games, high-definition video, and digital photos.

That’s good news for AMD, too, because now the company need only worry about catching up on one performance metric: frame rate. Unfortunately, we don’t think CrossFireX is going to be a panacea in the interim. Running four moderately powerful videocards in one box will never be as cost effective as building a rig with one super-powerful GPU—especially if the CPU in that box is an Intel quad core. Sorry, Phenom.

That leaves Nvidia in the catbird seat—again. But it won’t have the perfect solution either until it replaces the 8800 GTX and 8800 Ultra with parts that support HDCP on both links of their dual-link connectors and that are capable offloading all HD video decoding from the host CPU.

- maximumpc.com

[weezur]

ahak.. mas better pa an 8800??.. laina

ang second digit sa model number usually determines how fast the gpu is...so x8xx GT > x6xx GT, but as the series goes higher dha na sguro...

[Fern]

wa pa ko ka try anang 8 series cards.... but i noticed that earlier ati cards had very crisp image quality. hehehehehee

9600 gt is good news for all people who wanted to play crysis and other dx10 games.... GRRRR bacin mag relaease napud u bago nga 9950 gt hehehehe

[fish]

NVIDIA's shady trick to boost the GeForce 9600GT

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/N...9600_GT/1.html

nvidia has another way of boosting this card... and it was kept secret...

[EarlZ]

NVIDIA's shady trick to boost the GeForce 9600GT

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/N...9600_GT/1.html

nvidia has another way of boosting this card... and it was kept secret...

For the clock crystal its been like that since 7800 series AFAIK, and at a certain range you need to double the increase for example from 702 if you add 27mhz more, you still get 702 but if you add another 27Mhz it automatically jumps to 756.

The link boost has been explained before to function like that BUT no automated videocard overclocking, the possible problem of increasing the PCIe freq beyond 110Mhz is dataloss and harddrive damage.

[emoners]

GeForce 9800 GX2, 9800 GTX & 3870 X2 Compared http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...94&postcount=1

VR-Zone has gotten some preliminary 3DMark06 scores on the upcoming GeForce 9800 GX2 and 9800 GTX cards. The setup : Core 2 Quad Q6700 2.66GHz processor on a P965 board with Forceware 173.67 drivers and Catalyst driver version 8.451. GeForce 9800 GX2 scored 14225, 9800 GTX scored 13167 while Radeon HD 3870 X2 scored 14301. Nvidia is still tuning up the drivers and the clock speeds aren't finalized yet so we should be seeing some improvements when launched. Currently, 9800 GX2 is slated for March 18th launch while 9800 GTX is slated for end March.

Keep in mind that they are using a beta cc driver, and the 9800GX2 hasn't got final clocks.if the gx2 beats the 70x2 this round ATI can increase the clocks for the next revision of the 70x2 to catchup or take back the crown.

[img width=500 height=267]http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=73152&stc=1&d=12043000 54[/img]

[fish]

there has been no significant gains in performance obtained from a beta driver to a stable driver... may it be nvidia, or ATI cards...

[emoners]

there has been no significant gains in performance obtained from a beta driver to a stable driver... may it be nvidia, or ATI cards...

true... but IMO GeForce 7-series to 8-series, substantial difference... 8-series to 9-series, not much

[EarlZ]

As expected since series 9 is just a refresh.. lets just wait for the G100 or what ever it will be called.

[carmicael]

As expected since series 9 is just a refresh.. lets just wait for the G100 or what ever it will be called.

uhuh...murag refresh ra jud... haha