I currently use an ATI Radeon 9700 Pro but I'm thinking about buying an Nvidia Geforce FX 5950 so which one? [list type=decimal] [*]ATI Radeon 9700 Pro [*]Nvidia Geforce FX 5950 [/list]
I say the ATI 9700 PRo is better than the Geforce FX 5950 because the FX 5950 is a old card GeForce FX 5950 Ultra: Graphics Core 256-bit Memory Interface* 128-bit Memory Bandwidth* 30.4GB/sec. Fill Rate 3.8 billion texels/sec. Vertices per Second 356 million Memory Data Rate 950 MHz Pixels per Clock (peak) 8 Textures per Pixel** 16* Dual RAMDACs 400 MHz *Maximum in a single rendering pass The ATI Specifications System Requirements * Radeon 9700 PRO requires connection to your PC's internal power supply for operation. Consult your system builder or OEM to ensure your system has an adequate power supply. Otherwise ATI recommends a 300 watt power supply or greater to ensure normal system operation where a number of other internal devices are installed. * Intel® Pentium® 4/III/II/Celeron™, AMD® K6/Duron™/Athlon®/Athlon XP® or compatible with AGP 2X (3.3v), 4X (1.5V), 8X (0.8v) or Universal AGP 3.0 bus configuration (2X/4X/8X). * 128MB of system memory * Installation software requires CD-ROM drive * DVD playback requires DVD drive Graphics Technology * Radeon™ 9700 PRO Visual Processing Unit (GPU) Memory Configuration * 128MB of double data rate SDRAM Operating Systems Support * Windows® XP * Windows® 2000 * Windows® Me Display Support * VGA connector for analog CRT * S-video or composite connector for TV / VCR * DVI-I connector for digital CRT or flat panel * Independent resolutions and refresh rates for any two connected displays Features * Eight parallel rendering pipelines * Four parallel geometry engines * 256-bit DDR memory interface * AGP 8X support * SmartShader™ 2.0 o Programmable pixel and vertex shaders o 16 textures per pass o Pixel shaders up to 160 instructions with 128-bit floating point precision o Vertex shaders up to 1024 instructions with flow control o Multiple render target support o Shadow volume rendering acceleration o High precision 10-bit per channel frame buffer support o Supports DirectX® 9.0 and the latest version of OpenGL® * SmoothVision™ 2.0 o 2x/4x/6x full scene anti-aliasing modes + Adaptive algorithm with programmable sample patterns o 2x/4x/8x/16x anisotropic filtering modes + Adaptive algorithm with bi-linear (performance) and tri-linear (quality) options * HYPER Z™ III o 3-level Hierarchical Z-Buffer with early Z test o Lossless Z-Buffer compression (up to 24:1) o Fast Z-Buffer Clear * TruForm™ 2.0 o 2nd generation N-Patch higher order surface support o Discrete and continuous tessellation levels per polygon o Displacement mapping * VideoShader™ o Seamless integration of pixel shaders with video o FullStream™ video de-blocking technology o Noise removal filtering for captured video * MPEG-2 decoding with motion compensation, iDCT and color space conversion * All-format DTV/HDTV decoding * YPrPb component output * Adaptive de-interlacing and frame rate conversion * Dual integrated display controllers * Dual integrated 10-bit per channel 400 MHz DACs * Integrated 165 MHz TMDS transmitter (DVI 1.0 compliant) * Integrated TV Output support up to 1024x768 resolution * Optimized for Pentium® 4 SSE2 and AMD Athlon™ 3Dnow! * PC 2002 compliant Warranty * 3-year limited warranty Both cards are old and I would buy none of these but I'll still go with the one I have: GPU Engine Specs: CUDA Cores 16 Graphics Clock (MHz) 550 MHz Processor Clock (MHz) 1400 MHz Texture Fill Rate (billion/sec) 4.4 Memory Specs: Memory Clock (MHz) 400 Standard Memory Config 512 MB Memory Interface Width 128-bit Memory Bandwidth (GB/sec) 12.8 Feature Support: NVIDIA PureVideo® Technology* HD NVIDIA CUDA™ Technology yes Microsoft DirectX 10 OpenGL 2.1 Bus Support PCI-E 2.0 Certified for Windows Vista yes Display Support: Maximum Digital Resolution 2560x1600 Maximum VGA Resolution 2048x1536 Standard Display Connectors Dual Link DVI Multi Monitor yes HDCP* yes HDMI* Via adapter Audio Input for HDMI SPDIF Standard Graphics Card Dimensions: Height 4.376 inches Length 6.6 inches Width Single-slot Thermal and Power Specs: Maximum GPU Temperature (in C) 105 C Maximum Graphics Card Power (W) 50 W Minimum System Power Requirement (W) 300 W
