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[Scuba_steve]

SO my brother placed a bid on ebay with my paypal account for a 7900gt.

I currently have an ati x1300 600mhz/800mhz vs the 7900gt 600/1.3ghz

If I win this auction is it worth switching? Or should I just the 7900?

or keep the 7900 and sell the x1300?

Damnit!!!

Waste of freaking money.

[E42]

The 7900GT is a decent card. I think it's even a little better than X1800XL. Correct me if i'm wrong.. It's all in what you prefer. I like Nvidia cards. But thats just me.

[Scuba_steve]

I prefer nvidia too.

Fortunately I lost the auction.

It's not really a worthy upgrade as of now. My current card can serve it's purposes for the next 4-6 months until prices come down and I have more money.

[SoulWind]

err, you realize a 7900 gt is at MINIMUM 2-3x as fast as an x1300 right?

Edit: More like 4x +

Edited by SoulWind, 04 December 2007 - 05:35 PM.

[The Drizzle]

Mhz isnt everything, you have to look at alot of the other specs to see if its a better card. The 7900GT should blow a x1300 out of the water

[Scroll_Lock88]

Mhz isnt everything, you have to look at alot of the other specs to see if its a better card. The 7900GT should blow a x1300 out of the water

7900 GT will curbstomp, kick, maim, stab profusely, and finally defecate over the tattered remains of the x1300. Let's assume you are running the standard POS model. Here is the comparison of the 2 cards:

x1300
1,800 MTexels/s
8 GB/S Bandwith


7900GT
10,800 MTexels/s
42.20 GB/S Bandwith

8800GT
33,600 MTexels/s
57.60 GB/S Bandwith


For idiocy sake without this turning into a techno jargon thread. MTexels/s is basically how many colors/pixels/whatever it can draw on the screen in a second. For those of you that want to do math while looking at videocards here is the equation to find this number:

fill-rate = (cycles/s) * (number of pixel pipelines/cycles) * (1 pixel/pipeline) * (number of active texturing units/pixel) * (1 texture/texturing unit)

This gives you the theoretical speed of the card.


As you can see, the 7900 GT does almost 10X the amount of drawing on screen as the x1300. Not to mention it isnt bottlenecked by the x1300's poor memory interface. And if you add in the 8800 GT, it does almost 20X the amount of graphics horespower as the x1300.


Saying the 7900 GT is not a worthy upgrade is madness!



*****Disclaimer***** The specs I listed are rough estimates, not true graphics comparison. But it's damn near close!

[Novahawk]

Saying the 7900 GT is not a worthy upgrade is madness!

[DarkShadow]

I concur with the madness.

[E42]

Mad ownage Scroll

[Scuba_steve]

The only reason i said it wasnt worth it is because i already have a card that plays my current games at good settings. I'm just going to wait and get an 8800gt.

I never said it was similar in speed.