Hi !
Does anyone have a website containing something like a comparison chart between ATI and NVidia cards?
What I need is a table, where I can see
ATI Radeon 9700 = Nvidia soandso card
ATI Radeon 9800 = Nvidia soandso card
…
Or maybe someone knows what can be compared to an ATI 9500 chip?
I know you can’t always compare them 1:1 - but this is my first NVidia card I have in my Mac so I have no experiences concerning their past models.
Thank you so much in advance,
Mike
I guess you could dig up some old benchmark articles from, I don’t know, beyond3d.com or tomshardware or xbitlabs… Or just compare them by 3DMarkWhatever counts. Of course on a Mac they might behave a bit differently (because there Apple is making big parts of the drivers).
Roughly speaking:
ATI XY00 → nVidia [X-4]Y00
So ATI 9500 → nVidia 5500
X600 → 6600
X1200 → 7200
In general, both ship embedded (000, 100, 150), low-end (200, 300), mid-range (500, 600), and high-end (700, 800, 900) cards, with each plateau being worth a generation…
So a 6600 ~ 5300, an ATI X1900 would be roughly equivalent to an nVidia 8600 (X-4 = 7, so increase generation, reduce plateau).
This is all rough as hell, but it seems to hold up fairly well.