6600 gt or 9800 pro

[mr.monger]

wat better a 6600 gt or a HIS excalibur 9800pro?
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=14-161-109&depa=1
btw wich is teh best 6600gt (i mean wat brand)
i have agp btw

 

[ACES WILD]

um I have a 6600gt By MSI 8x agp ver. on my main comp, and i like that, but i've never had a 9800pro, so i couldnt tell you what I liked better, I just know that my 6600gt with the thermaltake Giant on it, preforms very well!
I would say either MSI or ASUS makes the best 6600gt...

 

[mr.monger]

well can someone tell me the in depth specs? like the pipes and vertex shaders and all that. i guess no one has probably had both...

 

[connchri]

Definatly the GF6600GT. About twice as fast. Infact, in current games, it's just about as fast as a GF6800 - unless you have insainly high resolutions though.

Also, has support for Shader Model 3, that is not in any ATI card yet (Full DirectX 9.c support)

 

[mr.monger]

alright cool the ill just get the 6600gt (i saw some things about the specs online and i dont think the 9800pro can be ocd as high or w/e)ill prob go w. the msi 6600gt cuz it was the best rated on newegg

 

[connchri]

May find this helpful-
http://graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/20040907/geforce_6600-03.html#3dmark_2003

Actually beats the flagship ATI X800XT at call of duty. Not bad for the price.

 

[ACES WILD]

specs for the nice person, heres my MSI card's specs.
GeForce 6600GT Chipset Features

• NVIDIA® CineFX™ 3.0 engine
• 64-bit texture filtering support delivers full-speed, high dynamic-range (HDR) lighting effects
• Unmatched image quality delivered through new 16x anisotropic filtering and rotated grid antialiasing
• 4x shadow processing power with NVIDIA® UltraShadow™ II for next generation games
• Infinite program length allows for a new class of special effects
• Hardware-accelerated MPEG and WMV9 decode delivers smooth, artifact-free video
• Dedicated video hardware reduces CPU utilization and improves overall system performance
• On-chip video encoder and motion estimation engine provides fast, high-quality encoding from TV tuner
• Programmable video engine ensures compatibility with future video codecs
• High-quality video scaling and filtering improves playback quality at any window size
• Integrated HDTV-output brings content from your desktop to your high-definition TV
• NVIDIA® ForceWare™ software delivers unmatched features and rock-solid stability
• High dynamic-range (HDR) rendering
• NVIDIA® UltraShadow™ technology
• NVIDIA® Intellisample™ high-resolution compression technology (HCT)
• NVIDIA® ForceWare™ Unified Driver Architecture(UDA)
• NVIDIA® nView™ multi-display technology
• NVIDIA® Digital Vibrance Control (DVC) 3.0
• On-chip video processor
• 64-bit floating point texture filtering and blending
• Microsoft® DirectX™ 9.0 Shader Model 3.0 support
• OpenGL® 1.5 support
• Superscalar GPU architecture
• 128-bit memory interface with advanced memory control
• Innovative 0.13 micron process technology
• Operating Systems Support Windows® XP / 2000
• Power supply of 350 (and up) watt is highly recommended for system stability
• Memory Interface: 128-bit
• Fill Rate (billion texels/sec.): 4.0
• Vertices/sec. (Million): 375
• Pixels per clock (peak): 8
• RAMDACs (MHz): 400

 

[mr.monger]

cool thx once i get some money or mebbe for me bday ill get it (the 6600gt) i read some stuff and it beats 9800pro and 5900xt.

 

[zoomtm]

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2277&p=3

 

[mini_2003]

for a good comparison of most recent vid cards

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/2004-27gpu2.html