The other two companies (MSI and Palit) manufacture both GeForce and RADEON families. However, the company is constantly working to retain this status. So it's Number One even for historical reasons. One of its best partners is HIS (I judge by products, of course, not by the company) and Sapphire. We've recently reviewed a bunch of new cards from NVIDIA. Nevertheless, marketing and dictated products do their job - even more interesting products are pushed out of the market by the new generation of graphics cards. Those cards that DO WORK there demonstrate 1-2 fps. As for now, GeForce 7900 and RADEON X1950 DO NOT WORK in WiC DX10. I cannot say when there appear games, which will reveal the advantage of GeForce 8600/RADEON 2600 over their predecessors with more pipelines at the same price. Nice letters and nothing to support them. In return, you will have DX10 and Vista, which takes up seven times as much space on your HDD.
And if we disable two thirds of effects in WiC to raise performance to acceptable 30 fps, what will the game look like? We have seen such graphics three year ago. You can also run demos in a slide-show mode. Did you sell your old graphics card and buy a new one for the sake of 5 fps? Have a look at the results demonstrated in a DX10 game - World In Conflict: even top accelerators are slow in minimal resolution. But the number of their units is cut down so much that powerful modern games with all effects enabled (it makes no sense to use DX10 without them, you can just play old games, or new ones in DX9 mode with more powerful cards at the same price) just crush all GeForce 8600 and RADEON 2600 cards. But one thing is clear: DX10 support in these cut-down cards is absolute profanation! Yep, these cards indeed support it. OK, I don't know how soon it will happen, and how fast the new cards will justify their expenses.
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I suspect that by the time a Mid-End DX10 card will become a necessity under the pressure of MS Windows Vista and DX10 games, there will appear much faster Mid-End cards for the same prices.
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The X1950 PRO is also much more expedient than the HD 2600. It has more texture units and ROPs than the new DX10 card. And this old card has a 256-bit bus and 20+7 pipelines. That's all! In other respects, the previous generations are NO WORSE! The GeForce 7900GS is already cheaper than the GeForce 8600GTS. In fact, the only reason to buy the new family of graphics cards from NVIDIA (except for Hi-End models, of course) and AMD is to be able to play DX10 games in future (if they do not support DX9) as well as to enjoy HDTV. It's much more expedient now to buy the GeForce 7900GS or the RADEON X1950 PRO than these new DX10 cards, which are very slow in modern games. So AMD entered the market with initially low prices to attract users to the new products.īut it should be added that the new cards both from NVIDIA and AMD are cut down so much that they are sometimes outperformed even by their DX9 predecessors.
Skimming the cream off the new sales (raising prices) was out of the question, because NVIDIA were selling their products like hot cakes. This approach surely couldn't win the market. Similar product from NVIDIA have been conquering stores since this spring, and their competing solutions appeared only two months ago. Experienced readers as well as those users who are interested in graphics cards (why else you read this article?) know well about the delayed launch of the new family of budget and Mid-End ATI RADEON graphics cards from AMD.
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