[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: pci-e and linux ( and radeon -vs- nvidia ?

[Bryan J. Smith]

But versus the FX5200 or even the FX5500,
the GeForce4 Ti is just so much faster - by a wide margin.
I'd rather spend $50 now on a NV25/28, and then $50 later
on a faster NV3x,
than spend $75-150 for _slower_ performance.
Who cares if the FX5200/5500 supports those features if they get sub-10fps when they are enabled?

For price/performance, it's best to upgrade you GPU twice as often as CPU.
There's no sense to spulrge on a video card now - especilly not AGP,
if you are considering a mainboard/CPU upgrade in the near future
(especially those with 2+ year old AGP systems).

I had this same argument when the NV20 GeForce3 came out.
The NV25 GeForce4 Ti followed within a year.
It was best to hold off for lower NV20 prices,
or the NV25 GeForce4 Ti4200 than to rush out and buy a GeForce3 Ti500.


-- 
Bryan J. Smith (currently mobile)
b.j.smith at ieee.org

-----Original Message-----
From:  Steve Baker 
Date:  04-12-22 20:59
To:  NTLUG Discussion List 
Subj:  Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] Re: pci-e and linux ( and radeon -vs- nvidia )

The reason to consider the nVidia 5xxx and 6xxx series machines in
preference to their earlier GeForce 2's, 3's and 4's is because the
5xxx and later fully support shader technology.  For future 3D graphics,
this is unbelievably important.  There are effects and techniques that
you can do with these new machines that the older ones simply cannot do
AT ALL.

So over the coming year or two, it will become increasingly true that
GeForce 4's and earlier will be getting less and less able to run the
greatest stuff.  So even if they are fast enough - there are strong
reasons to prefer 5xxx even if they were a little slower than GF 4's.

Shader technologies are the biggest thing to happen to 3D graphics
since the early 1980's - there has been no similar leap in technology
for 3D since the very first multimillion dollar hardware accellerators.

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