ET: Quake Wars - ATI Performance

[d2kx]

Am I the only one that sees the computer differences here? The ATI is a Dual quad core with 4 gig of ram and the nvidia is a dual core with 2 gig of ram.
How can this possibly determine ATI has better performance? Why not just swap the cards and use the same computer to get a legit test?

Read the first page of this thread. There will be a fair performance comparison article in the future, as Michael stated.

[Crane]

Am I the only one that sees the computer differences here? The ATI is a Dual quad core with 4 gig of ram and the nvidia is a dual core with 2 gig of ram.
How can this possibly determine ATI has better performance? Why not just swap the cards and use the same computer to get a legit test?

[jron]

It's all a matter of what cards we have access to.

Very understandable. =) I only asked because I am pricing a midrange ATI video card for a new Linux box and the 2600XT seems to be the best bang for the buck (assuming ATI keeps impressing with their new found Linux love).

Some good conclusions can be drawn from Tom's Hardware DX10 Shootout.

Thanks for the new details!

[Michael]

Why not test the 2600XT? The cost is approximately the same as the Pro model. I doubt anyone would buy the Pro over the XT.

It's all a matter of what cards we have access to.

[Michael]

We will be doing cross-vendor direct benchmarks shorty (including more cards).

[jron]

Why not test the 2600XT? The cost is approximately the same as the Pro model. I doubt anyone would buy the Pro over the XT.

[Kano]

It is not possible to compare ATI + NVIDIA results, the test systems are extremly different.

[gilboa]

P.S. Do you plan on adding faster cards to the mix? (E.g.8800GT?)

- Gilboa

[gilboa]

We'll be having more benchmarks with direct cross-vendor benchmarking shortly.

How about adding Windows XP to the mix? While I haven't tested it myself (I'm waiting for the 8800GT/RV670 to be release... my 6800GT will most likely won't cut it on a 24" display...) a friend of mine did a short benchmark on his 7600GT/Athlon64X2/19"/1280x1024 setup, and the Linux version was ~20% slower.

Can you confirm it?

- Gilboa

[ioannis]

We'll be having more benchmarks with direct cross-vendor benchmarking shortly.

oh! snap :-D