Posted on Thursday, October 28 2004 @ 00:12:02 CEST by LSDsmurf
When we intend to buy a new graphic card, the first thing is to chose the manufacturer of GPU ( VPU ). We have two options here : nVidia or ATI. We can of course find some other manufacturers’ cards some places, but these two rule on the market. Next, depending on the amount of money, we have to chose the GPU ( VPU ) model. Efficient and expensive or cheap and less efficient. After so much trouble, we pick the model and then comes another decision to make : which manufacturer should we chose. It is not as easy as it seems to be. The card can have the same technical parameters and therefore the same efficiency, but can be very different if it comes to the software provided, cables or any other additionals. In this review I will try to solve one of the problems mentioned above. We have two cards from VPU by ATI, to be more specific : Radeon 9800XT. Those cards are physically identical. The only thing that allows to distinguish them are the info stickers. PowerColor and GeCube are the distributors of those cards.
