Radeon 7000 or Geforce 2MX

I have a choice of grpahics cards for my workstation at work... as I can cream the gfx card from a pc I am working on and replace it with my current one without anyone being none the wiser.

My choice is either:

A Sapphire Radeon 7000 AGP with 64Mb DDR

or

Nvidia Geforce 2MX 32Mb RAM

Someone let me know which I should choose?

your jokeing right?

It is my work pc, which I use for database access and a bit of photoshop. I am in a lab where we get all the broken stuff and have to turn it into a working pc for ourselves.

Its currently specced @ P4 1.6GHz, 512Mb DDR333, 80GB P/ATA drive and a 52x CD-RW.... not bad conisdering it has all been in a skip at some point! B)

doesnt really matter if your just gona use it for work.if your mobo has an onboard video display just use that.

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 .

Thanks for the help ladies... its appeciated! :thumbup:

I'd go with the ATI as it has a better imagequality and if you're working on it long, your eyes would appreciate it.
I just replaced a GF2mx from my sisters puter with a radeon 9200 and even though she's a complete pc noob she saw the difference.
You really don't need any power but imagequality, yes, I'd think it's important.

Mx has a higher Core, 7000 has a higher mem... MX uses 128bit SD ram, 32 megs. 7000 uses 64bit DDR ram, 64 megs.
They usally perform the exact same..... yet.. if the image quality thing is true(which i cannot attest to, I don't know), and ATi does kepe their drivers on higher specs on default .. so im still

Actually 1 thing I can attest to is ATi providing better DVI image quality(again not positive on these chips, but it seems pretty consistant)

pick the radeon 7000......it kills the GF2 mx...i used to have a 7000, one of my first ok video cards at the time..... :thumbup:

For once, i agree with BIOS