ATI Rage Fury 16mb vs G200 16MB

[patwestlake]

Have the offer of both cards as a cheap upgrade from intel 3dxpress

Which one do I go for?

cheers, Pat

[morphious]

umm i'm not sure but i think the ati rage fury is better. if you can get it cheap look for the 32mb version

[BeOS User]

G200, higher quality image & stable drivers.

[Gigahert]

ATI's Rage Fury was actualy proven to be the better bargain with a superior image quality compared to most cards. I don't know where you got that the G200 offers a better image... I've seen both and the Rage looks a bit better (comparing colors and vibrancy...).
Preformance may be the differnce between them.

[Notorious AGD]

G200 Suck bigtime cause it uses a OpenGL Wraper no the real OGL ICD witch means slow OGL ans ATI faster and better OGL or D3D

[patwestlake]

Thanks everyone - I use mainly 2D, so the lack of native OGL operation isn't so much of a disadvantage. Guess I'll go for the G200 based on better 2D performance, and better overall driver support

Cheers, Pat

[Gigahert]

Oh,
About the bad driver support for the Rage, that's purely false. Infact, the driver support was so terrible at the begining that it sprung a huge available driver base from people who supported the card - from ATI itself to independent installments from Rage users.

Oh, and also about the stable drivers - my Rage locks up about 1.5% of the time... usualy due to overusage or human error; don't believe everything you hear

[This message has been edited by Gigahert (edited 06-23-2000).]

[CALV]

I have a rage fury 32meg, if I could go back in time i would have kept my 2 x 12 meg voodoo 2's nothing but trouble www.rageunderground.com
have a read, never again will i buy an ati product


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CALV

[drzaius]

i thought the ATI drivers got better since the arrival of the RAGE128pro and MAXX.


Notorious AGD: as a dedicated matrox fan i should ***** at you for saying that the opengl sucks. but since i'm in a good mood, i'll just tell you. Matrox made a full opengl ICD since the 5.23 drivers and then a turbogl driver with 5.50 driver, which pushed the G400 past TNT2 (@ same clock) in the opengl programs it supported.
the driver that were used in the first few benckmarks of the G400 were the old 4.xx which didn't reflect a good picture of the true performance of G400.


[This message has been edited by drzaius (edited 06-23-2000).]