Author Topic: What’s better: NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200 or ATI Radeon 9600 (each with 128 MB) (Read 273 times)

eskimo2 · « **on:** June 19, 2004, 12:57:32 PM »

My game machine has the GeForce4 Ti 4200 installed, it didn’t run AHII very well when things got busy.
I just bought at a garage sale an ATI Radeon 9600 for my old PII 350 email/surfing PC (it’s Video card died and I put in an old 16 MB card to get by). Both cards have 128 MB of memory.
I’m wondering if the ATI card would be better than my NVIDIA…

What do you think?

I’ve spent about 40 minutes searching for a comparison of the two, and then realized that many less biased experts are right here.

Thanks,

eskimo

Rasker · « **Reply #1 on:** June 19, 2004, 02:06:24 PM »

heres the December comparison article in Tomshardware for most of the high-middle vid cards: http://www.tomshardware.com/graphic/20031229/index.html

looks like all the detail that you could ask for.

I don't know which of these benchmarks most accurately mirrors the constraints that AH2 would impose on a system tho. Also the rest of your system, not the card, might be the bottleneck if the system cpu/ram is smaller/slower than most machines typically used with these types of vid cards.

eskimo2 · « **Reply #2 on:** June 19, 2004, 02:15:24 PM »

Thanks raskar,
Here's what I found:

GeForce4 Ti 4200 128 / Chip - NVIDIA NV25 / DX Generation - DX 8.1 / Chipclock – 250 / Buswidth - 128-bit / Pipes - 4x2

Radeon 9600 / Chip - ATI RV350 / DX Generation - DX 9 / Chipclock – 325 / Buswidth - 128-bit / Pipes - 4x1

I'm not sure what parts of this information indicate a significant difference.

Any opinions?

eskimo

Rasker · « **Reply #3 on:** June 19, 2004, 02:19:33 PM »

what model of 9600, se, pro, XT or regular?

you'll note the 9600se only has a 64bit wide pipe unlike all the other 9600's and 4200's

eskimo2 · « **Reply #4 on:** June 19, 2004, 02:25:24 PM »

The ATI has 128 MB DDR Ram. I think it's the 9600 regular, at least that's all that's on the box.
The NVIDIA also has 128 MB Ram.

eskimo

Rasker · « **Reply #5 on:** June 19, 2004, 02:37:06 PM »

Looking farther back in the tom's article where they graph each cards performance on each benchmark, your two cards run very similar on some marks, but the ti4200/128 kick's A on a few others. I'd guess the actual experience people have running AH2 on those cards, and, dont forget, on systems similar to yours, is the most accurate indication of how you will do. Post your system specs and see who can give you some data.