Prelim FX findings
Posted on January 27, 2003 @ 14:31 in Tech
I've been scouring the websites of Dutch hardware shops looking for good prices on the various components needed to put together a fairly high-end gaming PC for a while now. The current king of video cards of course is the Ati Radeon 9700 Pro, but Nvidia's next-gen part, the GeForce FX, is getting close to release. The new GeForce FX has been hyped quite a bit, but the first benchmarks (in German; some English remarks on that article) don't appear to give the FX a decisive lead over the Radeon 9700 Pro. Indeed, the Radeon is in the lead in some tests. Of course, these are some rather preliminary figures, as the card hasn't been released officially yet, but TecChannel has a pretty good reputation.
Apart from performance, price is another important factor. Rumors have it that the FX will initially cost around 600 USD (542 euro excluding local sales tax in this article), whereas the Radeon 9700 Pro can be had for around 400 euro. Quite a difference... plus, I've been thinking of putting the system into one of those very quiet Shuttle XPC mini cases and with the huge active cooling system of the new GeForce taking up the place of the PCI slot next to the AGP slot, it wouldn't even fit in that tiny case. Decisions, decisions... guess I'll just have wait a little longer for more details to arise.
[Update 15:14] Heh, guess the findings aren't all that preliminary. There are full-scale reviews of the GeForce FX up on AnandTech and TomsHardware and their servers are straining under the load. Results look sort of like a mixed bag, but Anand mentions that Nvidia says that the highest-end version of the FX should be available for 400 USD, depending somewhat on how the third-party manufacturers are going to equip their cards. Interesting...
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