Sapphire 9600XT vs MSI FX5900

Mothman · 12-15-2003, 10:01 PM

It's time for a grafix-card upgrade but im stuck trying too choose which card to get

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Both the Sapphire 9600xt and MSI FX5900[Link] costs the same(well in sweden that is) but i just can't choose.The Radeon has great shader capabilities but The FX 5900 has better memoryspeed.

YouÂ´r just going to have to help me

Orion · 12-16-2003, 03:38 AM

Can you find a Radeon 9800 non Pro for around 200 U.S. Dollars in Sweden?

Mothman · 12-16-2003, 08:20 AM

Found that Gainward fx 5900 beats 9800pro in some benchmarks so... ill just go with that

White Dragon · 12-16-2003, 09:43 AM

5900 has better graphics, 9600xt is faster.
myself i got the 9600xt

Orion · 12-17-2003, 05:40 PM

Gainward's 5900 beat the 9800 Pro. Bullshit. Show me. First of all any article written during the spring or the summer are ineligible because NVIDIA cheated. Check out HardOCP or Tomshardware and you will find multiple articles describing what I am referring to. Second of all most tests run with quality set at medium or AA and AF turned off, the 5900 may/will pull away from the 9800 Pro but not by much. Now you run a benchmark with 4AA and 8AF and the 9800 Pro and the XT pull away from the 5900 Ultra. Nothing more to say so why don't you take a look at the following:

Anyways, I have alot of pictures and I don't have time to post them all. If you like the 5900 from Gainward, then that be alright. Gainward has always made excellent video cards. I hope you enjoy it and Merry Christmas.

dracula · 12-17-2003, 05:47 PM

i prefer the MSI graphicadapters because of their stability and their nice packing-designs

Imbroglio · 12-19-2003, 05:12 AM

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Originally posted by Mothman@Dec 16 2003, 08:20 AM
Found that Gainward fx 5900 beats 9800pro in some benchmarks

umm, in some but not even close in the important ones, like maybe the DX9 benchmarks, you know, the graphics engine where most video games are headed at the moment, don't believe me, go HERE, kinda ironic a company synonomous with directX can't handle the latest version of it, but thats all deals with the poor attitudes of nvidia

but look at it this way, before nvidia released the new detonator series drivers, you couldn't even play any dx9 games, so now that they have drivers that finally let video appear, you should be happy with your expensive video card right? regardless of if you only get 20fps, ahahaha