7900 gt or x1800 xtx

[cleeve]

Does that mean you're a noob?

 

[sojrner]

if I turn on everything, and run @ 1280x1024 my machince cuts through it, with no lag at all. The fact is though, that while it is smooth and looks good the fps are easily under 50. I have modded the game to allow even better textures at distance and increased shadow and object distance (tweakguides.com is great) just to push my card as hard as it can...

...and it does. Oblivion is demanding, and the 1900 is almost identical in architecture to the chip in the xbox360, which the game was designed for.

as good as it is though, faces and lip-synching is better on HL2 (no self-shadowing but better overall), and the fact that the game does not use anistropic filtering at all is just retarded. w/o the mods i have used the distance textures look just dumpy. But once you unlock the stuff "hidden" the game looks stinkin amazing and the trees, grass and shadowing is why it is so taxing.

if you play Oblivion... which I do not see on the OP, but the link someone gave had that... then ati is the way to go. Not only is performance better but you get HDR + AA (w/ a patch) that Nv just can't do.

 

[ak47is1337]

Does that mean you're a noob?

That's a return policy 😀

 

[ak47is1337]

http://anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2746&p=8
"Oblivion is quite possibly the first game we've ever benchmarked where having multiple GPUs is almost necessary to get good frame rates at relatively common resolutions with most of the impressive visual effects turned on. The performance offered by a pair of X1900 XTs simply can't be matched by any single card, but as good of a game as Oblivion is you'd have to have a pretty serious computer budget to accommodate the $1200 that a pair of X1900 CrossFire GPUs will set you back."

8O

 

[sojrner]

while I agree that duals would do better, mine does respectable w/ all turned on. So I would not say that it is required as such... still very sweet engine.

 

[p05esto]

You all are just silly to think the 1800XT could beat a 7900GT (other than maybe oblivion as you say).

http://gargouri2001.byethost24.com/articles.php?id=28&view=Evga_7900_gt_super_clock_review

I swear, TOMS is full of ATI and AMD fans only...

 

[sojrner]

wow, according to that article (bad grammar and all) the 7900 gt superclock is "probably the fastest single slot card available"...

...I simply did not know that, amazing!

having that sli'd 6800gs slide into the farcry testing only proves it!


/yawn