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List:       xfree-xpert
Subject:    Re: [Xpert]TNT2M64 vs. Radeon VE RFC
From:       Mark Vojkovich <mvojkovich () nvidia ! com>
Date:       2002-03-31 18:17:10
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On 31 Mar 2002, Michel Dänzer wrote:

> On Son, 2002-03-31 at 11:33, Kristian Rink wrote:
> > 
> > ...first of all, being new to the list, just wanted to say Hello to anyone
> > out there - 
> > I'm Kristian. :)
> > 
> > Secondly, I am having one question by now: In my machine (PII-350, 192 meg 
> > RAM, Slackware Linux 8 w/ XFree86 4.2.0), by now there is an Elsa Erazor III
> > 
> > LT graphics board (with an NVidia TNT2 M64 chipset on it, 32 meg RAM), and, 
> > still packaged and waiting to be integrated into my machine, here is an ATI 
> > Radeon VE based graphics board (64 meg SDRAM, dual-head, tv-out). The 
> > system by now is pretty fast when it comes to OpenGL - and/or 3D-accelerated
> > 
> > graphics thanks to the nvidia.com - drivers, so I am thinking right now:
> > Would it 
> > make sense to replace the TNT2M64 with the Radeon VE, given that I don't 
> > need any of the sophisticated features of the Radeon board (tv-out is same
> > as 
> > uninteresting to me as dual-head CRT-out), but that I want to have a good 
> > performance mostly in 2D - graphics, but sometimes also in the field of
> > OpenGL 
> > and, quite often, while watching DVDs? 
> > 
> > Possibly this question might sound a little stupid, but I guess in the end
> > it comes 
> > down to "which board is better in the machine I am having - a TNT2M64 or the
> > 
> > Radeon VE"? Hope anyone can give me a hint on that, anyhow. :)
> 
> Only you can decide which one is better for you.
> 

   Seeing as how the Radeon is two generations newer than the TNT2,
ATI should be embarrased if it doesn't perform better.  I think you
should get a GeForce4 :)


				Mark.

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