alvino said:Yeah, well the 7600 GT hardly uses any power, which is why you see only a few capacitors on the PCB. The X1800 GTO on the other hand, uses a lot of power, so there's more capacitors which take up more space.
MikeReiner said:Yeah I know, it makes sense.. Isn't that x1800gto about as fast as the 7600GT? if so wouldn't that make it kinda.. ineffecient?
MooseMan said:if u ask me....yup!
i wouldn't be suprised if the 7600GT beat the X1800GTO quite purely and simply. although i don't kno, i'm just guessing
ArrizX said:The 7600GT uses less power, and still produces better results.
Same 'class' but the 7600GT beats it by a good margin in price and performance.
Lol im glad your not surprised. Haha good guess.
X-bit Labs said:The new Radeon X1800 GTO showed its real best in the same applications where Radeon X1800/X1900 based solution have always been strong, i.e. in games requiring fast pixel shader performance especially with enabled full-screen anti-aliasing. The latter effect is very demanding to the memory subsystem, and such feature as 256-bit memory bus width of the newcomer played a very important role here. GeForce 7600 GT with its 128bit memory bus simply couldn't compete with the Radeon X1800 GTO here. As usual, ATI solution yielded to its opponent in OpenGL games or those gaming applications that were optimized for GeForce 6/7 architecture.
X-bit Labs said:Highs:
* High performance in most applications;
* High performance with enabled FSAA and anisotropic filtering;
* Transparent textures anti-aliasing;
* Great overclocking potential;
* Allows simultaneous use of FSAA and HDR;
* VIVO support;
* H.264 hardware decoding and other HD formats;
* Low power consumption;
* Improved cooling system;
* Dual-link DVI support.
Lows:
* Low performance in OpenGL and a few other applications;
* Few accessories bundled with the card.
Source based games can run AA and HDR at the same time on my card.. though I think that makes source a minority in that regard.. so I hear anyway.alvino said:If you tend to play OpenGL games more, go with nVIDIA. If you're looking to play Direct3D games more, go with ATI. Keep in mind that the GTO can run FSAA and HDR simultaneously, which is a plus if you plan to do so.
Yeah, with that monitor it's the old widescreen res you can use I think.. but with a video card like that... not breakin' a sweat.alvino said:Yeah, the old-school way to reduce jaggies is to jack up the resolution. That's why at 1680x1050, I only need 2x FSAA maximum, because unless I stare at the screen I can hardly notice them there.