Geeks.com sent us over one of the best video cards on the market today: the GeForce 86000GTS with 256 MB VRAM and a crazy fast 675 MHz engine clock. The card is on the high side of the middle-end graphics cards compared to others available and it's currently selling below $200. In this article we will test the multimedia performance of the card as used in video playback and rendering support rather than its already well-benchmarked multiple times so far and well-known gaming abilities.
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Member since:2006-09-22
While I do not object to the points you raise (in poisition to demand, the rebrand and other all) I just wanted some clairification and tried to point that cards are just "uneven"...
Since the review is short, and the uneven comparison makes the review "smell" biased.
Yes, my language may sound a bit inflammatory (I'm not intended to do it) and I'm really sorry for that but unfortunately I'm not a gamer and I don't read "casual 3D gaming reviews" but slashdot, OSNews and such. I'm just a linux programmer who works with low-level stuff and love watching movies.
I just expected a clearer article, my bad.
Member since:2005-11-11
I'm just a linux programmer
I'm confused how you can be a linux programmer and such an apparent fan of ATI.
(I) want a comparison with X2400 or above card to play in even fields. [/quote]
That card has [i]no Linux drivers period. X1900 and friends have drivers, but not open source like your 9600xt.
nVidia's drivers are closed source as well, but at least their performance is almost on par with their Windows drivers (unlike ATI's) and at least they actually have drivers for their newest cards.
The Linux drivers don't do a lot of H.264 decoding, so it's all pretty irrelevant to this article. I just find it weird when people have loyalty to a hardware company, and especially so when it's a Linux guy with loyalty to ATI. And before anyone wonders, I don't have "loyalty" to nVidia. The moment ATI puts out a faster card with lower energy usage and good Linux drivers I'll be buying ATI.
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2005-06-28
I believe that the card is a rebranded version (possibly manufactured specifically for DELL, as that's the model name that my receipt says) of the ATi X300 with 128 MB RAM, PCI-e, one DVI and one VGA ports. Dell calls it X100, but feel free to call it X300. The PC was purchased in March 2005, if that helps you further to locate which card it is exactly.
> shows some bias traces
There is no bias. It is SIMPLY my EXPERIENCE from my old ATi card to this new GeForce card. I have used no other card in the last 2 years in that PC.
>and want a comparison with X2400
You are in no position to demand anything. This site is not Tom's Hardware where they have 10,000 graphics cards laying around them and they can pick and choose for their articles. These cards were tested in my personal machine and I simply wrote about my impressions after doing that upgrade last Saturday. I found the multimedia performance to be an important upgrading, so I wrote about it.
I am pretty sure that ATi has other recent technologies that do similar things, but I am in no position to test them. Feel free to send me one of these newer cards, and I will make sure that I will update my article accordingly! Until then, what I have in my lab will have to do.
So, take it easy when you have your expectancy of a graphics card review UP THERE. This is not your casual 3D gaming review, but from the point of view of someone who upgraded to a new card and saw a significant multimedia performance increase in the *2D and video space*. There is nothing more, and nothing less into it.
Edited 2007-07-19 08:22