Review: Seven Friends of a Gamer

[Cooper]

XbitLabs got us nice review of todays GPUs against todays games of different genres.
Videocards were divided into several cathegories so everybody might find the review usefull

Premium and High-End Class
ATI Radeon X1950 XTX
Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTX
Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB
Nvidia GeForce 7950 GX2

Performance-Mainstream Class
ATI Radeon X1900 XT
ATI Radeon X1950 Pro
Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB
Nvidia GeForce 7950 GT
Nvidia GeForce 7900 GS

Mainstream Class
AMD Radeon X1650 XT
Nvidia GeForce 7600 GT


Games
Battlefield 2142
Call of Juarez
Company of Heroes
Gothic 3
Neverwinter Nights 2
Splinter Cell: Double Agent
Supreme Commander


Source (http://xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/7games-spring2007.html)

Pleasent reading :)


No flaiming, offtopic or fanboyism allowed :fact:

[Fr3ak]

Interesting read. A lot of good info in that article.

Thanks for posting it here:)
Thumbs up :D

[xlink]

sounds about right..

x1650XT is the most underrated card I know because of the other damn x1600s being so :banana::banana::banana::banana:ty.

[Hicks]

Wow, it' amazing how mis-leading benchmrks can be. Take Supreme Commander. There is no way on gods green earth they get those framerates with a decent sized battle with that FX-60. I have the same CPU, and it crawls to less than 10fps at just 1280x1024, with loads of units on screen and 3 A.I.

[lowfat]

good review.

[[LCN]Knowledge]

Nice, my 7600GT is the worst card in that review. but i wont shell out 600$ for a 8800GTX, which is the only card that is above 30 FPS in all the games they benched :D.

[Frank M]

Knowledge;2101827']Nice, my 7600GT is the worst card in that review. but i wont shell out 600$ for a 8800GTX, which is the only card that is above 30 FPS in all the games they benched :D.

At max settings!

I'd like reviewers to also make comparisons with at reduced visuals, e.g. some
shadows off or reduced, detail level on normal instead of high, etc. It can make
a world of a difference.

Oh and it made me double-think what to buy next. With the 1950Pro @ around
$170 (incl 20% VAT), it might be a better choice than the 8600GT, which will
probably start at $200 around here. Crysis will run on dx9 hw, right?

[Martijn]

At max settings!

I'd like reviewers to also make comparisons with at reduced visuals, e.g. some
shadows off or reduced, detail level on normal instead of high, etc. It can make
a world of a difference.

Oh and it made me double-think what to buy next. With the 1950Pro @ around
$170 (incl 20% VAT), it might be a better choice than the 8600GT, which will
probably start at $200 around here. Crysis will run on dx9 hw, right?

Of course it will, with reduced visuals of course. I have an X1950pro here, which runs CoD2 1600x1200 max everything. All fine, ~40-50fps. They're good cards, but I'd suggest waiting for the 8600GT as they seem to be outperforming the 7900GTXs :)

[Kanten]

Anyone else wonder why they used a 939 chip for these tests instead of a C2D or AM2?

[kemo]

Anyone else wonder why they used a 939 chip for these tests instead of a C2D or AM2?
May be some of those benches are brought from old articles and they wanted more like apples to apples

[Frank M]

They're good cards, but I'd suggest waiting for the 8600GT as they seem to be outperforming the 7900GTXs :)

The guesstimates so far say 7900GS<8600GT<7900GT... I'll wait and see
anyway, as I'll also wait for the 6420s to appear and normalize in price, and
the K10 benches to appear. In other words, I'm broke :D

[perkam]

Graw is can be bought for as low as $15...and yet.

Perkam

[m0da]

kinda makes me glad i bought the 1900xt

[Lestat]

i am still on a single 7800 GTX and i can play all the games i want.

[STEvil]

x1650 is faster than x1800 mobile :(

[CedricFP]

I've always liked XBITLABS' reviews.

EDIT: Now THAT is interesting. Look at how the X1900XT pulls away from a card ahead of it by one generation!

http://xbitlabs.com/images/video/7games-spring2007/bf_perf_4x.gif

Hmm... now I'm starting to regret having sold my X19. Obviously a symptom of lower memory, but it doesn't happen like this on all games. I love multiple card reviews.

http://xbitlabs.com/images/video/7games-spring2007/image006.gif

The X19 cards were always so good with the Oblivion engine.

[oohms]

Yah im not going to upgrade for a while, after i saw this review...

[citat3962]

I sure do love my 1900xtx. Good to see my hesitation to pick up a G80 GTS was a good choice. looks like even if I DID get a 640mb it would probably only be equal to my 1900xtx at 1920 X 1200 res.

I'm still in a holding pattern for the card that really can do 1920X1200 45-60FPS in all available games with all settings and AA maxed.

Seems like with ATI you still get more high res performance for your $$

I wonder if R600 will show similar traits..