What Is Realy The Best Graphics Card Out There?

[ampshock]

I have heard lots about graphics cards and diffrent opions about them.

But I just want one answer What realy is the best card?

I have a PCI Express 16x slot. I want to have around 256mb on it, with DVI, VGA and S-video out. I do Multimeda and gaming (example Battle Feild 2)

Edited September 15, 2005 by ampshock

[Bubba Bob]

TOms Hardware: PCI-E charts.

Scroll to the bottom where it says "benchmarks".

[IEatHardDrives]

Well the best is the Geforce 7800GTX or the ATI Radeon X850XT PE if you have $500 sitting around.

[Mx²]

TOms Hardware: PCI-E charts.

Scroll to the bottom where it says "benchmarks".

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

That doesn't include the 7800GTX though.

[Bubba Bob]

TOms Hardware: PCI-E charts.

Scroll to the bottom where it says "benchmarks".

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

That doesn't include the 7800GTX though.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

No, but it's a good list of affordable, yet high end cards.

[Honda_Boy]

Currently the most powerful card on the market is eVGA's e-GeForce 7800GTX KO Edition. It's like 600 Bucks though.

[Lynch]

i dunno but this little card packs alot of power i say its better than the 7800gtx and itll cost you alot more than a 7800gtx

WildCat Realizm 800

Full programmability.

Dual VPUs plus one VSU (provides advanced geometry processing, VPU management and a PCI Express interface) for performance doubling

Full programmability and floating-point capabilities through entire graphics processing pipeline

Seamless 32- to 16-bit and 16- to 32-bit conversion with zero overhead

16x PCI Express for faster data transfer through the system bus

Dual-display,dual-link DVI to double the digital display bandwidth (for true 3840 x 2400 resolution capabilities)

512-bit GDDR3 memory interface for higher memory performance.

Hardware accelerated pixel readback up to 4 GB/sec.

SuperSceneâ„¢ multisampling full-scene antialiasing support

Support for DirectBurstâ„¢ and unified memory for professional resource allocation and utlization

Texture sizes up to 4K x 4K

Dedicated isochronous channel

Orthogonal, compiler friendly SIMD array throughout pipeline allowing compilers to deliver optimal performance

Independent dual 400 MHz 10-bit DACs

Supported APIs:

OpenGL ® 2.0 (Full support when ratified)

OpenGL 1.5 with OpenGL Shading Language

Microsoft DirectX ® 9.0 with High Level Shader Language (HLSL, VS 2.0, PS 3.0)

Supports optional Wildcat Realizm Multiview card for framelock/genlock capabilities

Programmability Features

Leading support for OpenGL Shading Language and DIrectX 9 HLSL

Full floating-point programmability

Optimized floating-point precision at each pipeline stage (36-bit vertices, 32-bit pixels, 16-bit back-end pixel processing) for the highest precision rendering accuracyand fidelity

32 programmable 36-bit floating-point vertex shaders supporting:

Up to 1 K instructions

Up to 32 light sources

Subroutines, loops, and conditionals

96 programmable 32-bit floating-point fragment shaders supporting:

Up to 256 K instructions

Subroutines, loops, and conditionals

Unique programmable pixel shader with 32 programmable 32-bit shaders

Board Physical

16-lane PCI Express, single-slot, full-length and full-height card. Occupies two slots for the cooling solution

Compliant to the PCI Express high-end graphics electromechanical and power specification

Memory

640MB GDDR3 total memory.

512MB GDDR3 unified memory with 512-bit-wide interface bus

128 MB GDDR3 DirectBurst memory with 128-bit-wide interface bus

64 KB of flashable EEPROM memory for VGA bios and product configuration storage.

Virtual memory support allowing:

Onboard memory to be used as an effcient L2 cache

Seamless handling of huge datasets

Automatic paging out of unused buffers

Very large individual texture sizes (for example, 4K x 4K)

Drivers

Microsoft Windows 2000 and Microsoft Windows XP (32-and 64-bit). Windows drivers include 3Dlabs Acuity Windows Manager.

Red Hat Linux Enterprise Edition (32-and 64-bit ver 3.0 or later)

Connectors

Two DVI-I Analog/Digital Video Output Ports - dual-link DVI capable of supporting the following configurations:

One or two analog display devices

One or two single-link digital display devices

One or two dual-link digital display devices

One single-link or dual-link digital display devices and one analog display device

Stereo Sync Support

VESA-standard frame sequential stereo

3-pin,mini-DIN connector provides connection to LCD shutter glasses or other stereo shutter devices.

[Freidog]

i dunno but this little card packs alot of power i say its better than the 7800gtx and itll cost you alot more than a 7800gtx

WildCat Realizm 800

Full programmability.

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<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I take it, you've never actually used a 3D Labs card.

Those are 'professional' 3D cards meant for 3D animation / modeling or CAD type work.

It's probably fairly comperable to the 7800 GT, at least in OpenGL. Direct X support has never been great for these types of cards (becuase a lot of the time they're running on something other than windows).

But for any gaming, the 7800GTX is the faster card. At one third the cost.