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| | (Post a comment) » Counter-Strike: Source Beta Performance: Part 2 Mainstream CardsWith the high-end cards covered, it's now time to look at how the mainstream cards perform with Counter-Strike: Source beta. In this article, Brandon rounds up the latest $200 offerings from ATI and NVIDIA. Cards benchmarked include the RADEON 9800 PRO, 9600/9600 PRO/XT, 9500/9500 PRO and RADEON 8500 128MB, while the NVIDIA cards represented include the GeForce FX 5600/5600 Ultra, 5700/5700 Ultra, GeForce FX 5900 XT, GeForce4 Ti 4200/Ti 4600 and even GeForce3 64MB! See how all 15 cards stack up against each other in our latest article! |  Previous news article | Back to main news | Next news article  |
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Anonymous at 05:56pm 12/20/2004
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pidori burshuyskie... ne mogli kirilicu ustanovit =)
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Anonymous at 05:55pm 12/20/2004
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Anonymous at 02:26am 10/26/2004
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bs review made by nub!!!!!!x800 xt pe owned all the fx
series!!!!!how much nvidia pay you for this poor review ??????
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Anonymous at 07:12am 09/7/2004
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Great Article!!! As much as we all like seeing those 'sexy' numbers
from the high-end hardware, it's great to see benchmarks with stuff
I actually own (or might actually have a chance of owning).
I'm DYING for a similar article on Mobo's / CPU's. Is the fastest XP
proc faster than the slowest 64 bit proc? I still can't wrap my
cro-magnen brain around the clock speeds being almost the
same...every fiber of my consumer being says "LOOK AT THE
MHZ!!!"
Keep up the good work,
--Jeff
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Anonymous at 02:54am 09/6/2004
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hi firingsquad and forum members it would be really nice to know if
the 9800 pro and 9600xt had 256 mb memory or 128
thanks
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Anonymous at 02:51am 09/6/2004
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Hi Firingsquad i would like to know if th 9800 pro was a 256 meg
version and 9600xt please that would be ince to know
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Trogdor at 02:17am 09/6/2004
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Cool preview, Brandon. Too bad the 5200, 5200 Ultra, and 5600
couldn't be included (so we could see the Ti4200 beat them - heheh).
Interesting to see the 8500 actually beat out the Ti4200 in non-AA
tests. It basically shows that CS:S is more interested in memory
bandwidth than raw GPU power. And for #4, I would have to say that
a P4 3 GHz was definitely limiting the frame rates, but over 70 FPS
is still fine, I think.
Last comment/question: since you say you didn't force and DX mode on
the cards, do the 9500/9600/9800 cards run DX8.1 or DX9? The 9800
Pro should at least be capable of DX9 given it's overall performance
lead.
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GX-Brandon at 01:04pm 09/2/2004
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Sorry, no clue where our Kyro II board is. Also, this is the last
article to use the FiringSquad custom demo. Our demo is incompatible
with the latest release of CS: Source beta.
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Deimos47 at 12:40pm 09/2/2004
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Because, unlike some of those fast-job cookie-cutter reviews, you
actually make sure to do a good job. Once again, a great review
guys. Thanks for the preview. Its very reassuring to know that
despite being celebratings its 1 year anniversary, my 9800pro still
holds up.
Any chance of throwing in a KyroII for a friend of mine? LOL.. he
soooo needs to upgrade. You know, you are in deep 6%W^#%$ when even
the Sims, or intro movies to games are already choppy.. nevermind
game itself which seldom supports < DX7... soo funny.
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Anonymous at 07:00am 09/2/2004
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With the 9800 pro, the system is CPU limited until 1600x1200 (no AA
or AF). I have a similar system (Atholon XP 3000+ instead) so I
guess I will be running at 1280x1024. Anyone know is the source
engine favors AMD or Intel? Hopefully my 3000+ barton won't fall
behind the 3Ghz P4 and A64 as much as it does in doom3! I haven't
see and CPU comparisons, just video card.
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