fasequeira Posted October 22, 2006 Share Posted October 22, 2006 I currently have a GeForce7300GT and I am thinking of changing over to an ATI X1600Pro to take advantage of full video capabilities. My question is, if the OpenGL, QE, and CI were all working in OSX86, which card would be better? Knowing that it could be a while before everything is working on the NVidia cards, it may be a moot point, but I thought I'd ask. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30903-ati-x1600pro-vs-geforce7300gt/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ted Cox Posted October 22, 2006 Share Posted October 22, 2006 At the risk of starting a flame war... While I have never owned an X1600Pro (although I have one coming in the mail for exactly the reasons you mention) everything I have read indicates that the 7300GT is a better card at least in so far as raw gaming performance is concerned. However, this is a topic on which many people have strong biases -- I mean opinions. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30903-ati-x1600pro-vs-geforce7300gt/#findComment-214349 Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe75 Posted October 22, 2006 Share Posted October 22, 2006 In a perfect OSX86 world the 1600Pro would still be better Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30903-ati-x1600pro-vs-geforce7300gt/#findComment-214355 Share on other sites More sharing options...
consolation Posted October 22, 2006 Share Posted October 22, 2006 At the risk of starting a flame war... While I have never owned an X1600Pro (although I have one coming in the mail for exactly the reasons you mention) everything I have read indicates that the 7300GT is a better card at least in so far as raw gaming performance is concerned. However, this is a topic on which many people have strong biases -- I mean opinions. The specs for all chipsets are here: http://users.erols.com/chare/video.htm As you can see the 7300 is slower, has fewer pixel shaders and fewer vertex shaders. I'd be surprised if it was faster then the X1600pro all other things being equal. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30903-ati-x1600pro-vs-geforce7300gt/#findComment-214599 Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe75 Posted October 23, 2006 Share Posted October 23, 2006 You would need to look to the 7600s or 7800s to beat the ATi 1600 series Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30903-ati-x1600pro-vs-geforce7300gt/#findComment-214677 Share on other sites More sharing options...
consolation Posted October 23, 2006 Share Posted October 23, 2006 You would need to look to the 7600s or 7800s to beat the ATi 1600 series http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/dis...es-gpus_23.html Even a lowly 7600GS totally kicks X1600s' (XT & PRO!) butts. The X1600 seems to fall somewhere between 7300 and 7600... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30903-ati-x1600pro-vs-geforce7300gt/#findComment-214741 Share on other sites More sharing options...
OmegaForte Posted October 25, 2006 Share Posted October 25, 2006 Actually, they'd need the 7800 to meet the X1600's Ring Bus Controller. Nvidia's new G80's prove a point that I made a long time ago. Nvidia thinks line Intel. Larger numbers, no real bus changes. ATI, now owned by AMD, has been thinking Bus-Bus-Bus-Numbers. I'll stay by ATI until I see an Nvidia card that outperforms OOTB to the ATI card that matches the specs. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30903-ati-x1600pro-vs-geforce7300gt/#findComment-216481 Share on other sites More sharing options...
consolation Posted October 26, 2006 Share Posted October 26, 2006 Actually, they'd need the 7800 to meet the X1600's Ring Bus Controller. Nvidia's new G80's prove a point that I made a long time ago. Nvidia thinks line Intel. Larger numbers, no real bus changes. ATI, now owned by AMD, has been thinking Bus-Bus-Bus-Numbers. I'll stay by ATI until I see an Nvidia card that outperforms OOTB to the ATI card that matches the specs. who cares about theoretical numbers... click on the link in my previous post, in the real world the 7600 completely out performs the 1600. And that's coming from a 1600 owner... Truth is however, it's case of which card sucks less as they are both kinda pathetic. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30903-ati-x1600pro-vs-geforce7300gt/#findComment-216825 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prasys Posted October 26, 2006 Share Posted October 26, 2006 For me , I am a budget user and I got myself the 7300GT. Its swinging high and low. I hate ATi because of their crappy OpenGL support [not to mention that X300 series was a miserable failure]. But again if you're going to use it for your hackintosh , go with X1600 , otherwise choose 7300GT GDDR3 . Thats why I swapped back my 7300GT with my X300SE , because of Core Image and Quartz Extreme. Once Macvidia drivers are mature enough , I will use back my 7300GT ! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30903-ati-x1600pro-vs-geforce7300gt/#findComment-216845 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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