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Old 12-01-2004, 07:56 PM   #5 (permalink)
Strawberry knight
 
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Easy choice, use the GF 2MX ;)

Apart from being 32 mb short from the radeon, it is a much better card in many other ways.
Such as TnL (transfer & lightening) and having a 128-bit memory bus wide... as for the work in the office, it would probably do quite good with the Photoshop, his fillrate and memory are better

One more thing, the radeon series 7000 cards (radeon VE/pci/agp) are using a improper method of texture handling which has been removed from all radeon cards after the last AIW 7500 was released (although it appeared again with two cards from the 9100 family). The improper method was, using 1 or 2 Pixels per 3 Texture Pipelines (the 7000 AGP uses a 1x3 method) however that method was not yet implanted into many games and software's which tolled the card how to use it's abilities regarding textures and rendering ...resulting in a "newer" than the original that was made technically for it's kind. Making the 3rd Texture Pipeline unusable and power consuming and none the less resulting in a performance decrease.

Now days, this technique is no longer in use because of its power/time and performance consumption. Today you may find cards such as the NVIDIA 6800 and the ATI x800 using a 16x1. (16 Pixels per 1 Texture Pipelines)

Sorry to be a bit off topic, i just had to explain why .
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