Radeon 9200 Pro or Geforce 4 Ti 4800


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I want to know(based on ur experience) which one of these gfx cards is better in

terms of performance and texture quality.

I am interested in buying one of these, if someone can help me decide.

Also are direct X 8.0-based cards able to run direct X 9.0-based games or not??

tx

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Get the ti 4800. It's quite a bit faster then the 9200 and neither are dx9 compliant so you won't be missing out either way there. In terms of image quality, ATI tends to be better but again, the 4800 performs exceptionally. You can run dx9 games on any card you just won't be able to see the pretty dx9 effects.

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As much as I love ATi cards, I'd go for the Ti4800, as it performs a lot better (as ANova mentioned). The only advantage with the 9200 is that is DX8.1 compliant, where as the Ti only supports DX8. This isn't a big issue, but you'll notice the difference in games such as Max Payne 2 or Halo.

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As much as I love ATi cards, I'd go for the Ti4800, as it performs a lot better (as ANova mentioned). The only advantage with the 9200 is that is DX8.1 compliant, where as the Ti only supports DX8. This isn't a big issue, but you'll notice the difference in games such as Max Payne 2 or Halo.

The Ti4800 all the way (especially the ASUS ones). I own one and I have never been happier with any other card than this one.

Also, I don't know what Banana is saying but I'm seeing pixel shaders in operation when playing Max Payne 2, and they're beautiful pixel shaders. I played the game through on my old GeForce 4 Mx440 and I couldn't bring myself to replay it for a 4th time to see the shaders for the full game.

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I want to know(based on ur experience) which one of these gfx cards is better in

terms of performance and texture quality.

I am interested in buying one of these, if someone can help me decide.

Also are direct X 8.0-based cards able to run direct X 9.0-based games or not??

tx

get 4800.

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IMO ATI cards didn't become truly better than Nvidia until the 95xx + series, everything below a 9500 is basically rebadged 8500's and other earlier cards.

At that time Nvidia was clearly all around superior in both hardware performance and driver reliability, although alot of people liked trueform which was only for radeon 8500's but trueform never caught on, and the radeon might have had better 2d quality(to be honest I could never tell the difference).

So I say Geforce4 as well, Of that DX8 generation Nvidia had things wrapped up rather nicely.

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Also, I don't know what Banana is saying but I'm seeing pixel shaders in operation when playing Max Payne 2, and they're beautiful pixel shaders.

Max Payne 2 supports PS1.1 and PS1.4 level shaders. (btw, PS1.1 = DX8, PS1.4 = DX8.1). I've played the game with a Ti4200 my current Radeon 9800 Pro and you can really notice the difference. Reflections are the big difference between the two.

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