Which is better, a Radeon X1900XT video card or a Geforce 7900GT?

Question

I want to know which PCIe GPU is better before I buy one of the two. Please help!

Answer 1

The Radeon x1900XT is better than the 7900GT i got a x1950 pro and mine is better than the 7900GT. And the x1900XT is better than mine, get what im saying?

Here are specs for x1900XT

The Radeon X1900GT, simply an X1900XT that has been clocked lower and 4 pixel processors disabled, supports Crossfire without a master card. It was created to compete with the 7900GT, though it trailed in performance, it was also generally cheaper. A shortage of R580 cores that can clock to 575MHz resulted in the creation of a Revision 2 X1900GT running at 512MHz, however with a higher memory clock (1320MHz). They are most easily recognizable by the new reference heatsink, the same used on the X1950Pro.

And now the 7900 series:

GeForce 7900 Series
NVIDIA officially announced availability of the GeForce 7900 series on March 9, 2006. See here.

NVIDIA's 7900 series is a product refresh and not a new generation of NVIDIA's GPU, running at 650 MHz.


GeForce 7900 GS
NVIDIA has recently released the 7900 GS, which is designed to fill the gap between the GeForce 7600 GT and the GeForce 7900 GT.

The GeForce 7900 GS has 20 pixel processors, 7 vertex processors, 256-bit memory bus, and comes clocked at approximately 450 MHz/1320 MHz for core/memory, which should provide slightly sub-par performance to the 7900 GT. The GeForce 7900 GS is powered by the latest graphics chip code-named G71, thus, comes with dual-link DVI outputs and other advantages the G71 has over predecessors, particularly, very low power consumption.[3]

NVIDIA announced that they will be selling the 7900 GS to the retail market in August 2006 at a price range of about $179-$199 [4]. The product was unofficially launched August 23 by woot! as a white box OEM. Although, the product's company, MSI, made claims that these cards were stolen from MSI during transportation and sold to woot!.[5] The referenced MSI customer notice has been changed to remove explicit references to woot!.


GeForce 7900 GT
This video card was released on 9 March 2006. Like the 7900 GTX, it is a revised version of the G70 GPU(G71) that is produced at 90 nm. It too offers all the features of the 7800 series as well as an attractive performance-to-price ratio.

Featuring 24 pixel pipelines, it is actually faster than the 256 MB version of the GeForce 7800 GTX, yet has an MSRP of $299 USD (for the base clockrate). The overclocked versions are priced up to $349 USD

Answer 2

The Radeon X1900XT is a faster card than the Geforce 7900GT.

But the Radeon cost from $50.00 to $75.00 more.

But over all, unless your willing to go to the $350.00 to $400.00 range, the Radeon X1900XT is the way to go.

Answer 3

Are you sure that you want compare these two?
it's like I compare a Chiken with a Cow!

Anyway I prefer the Radeon one!

Answer 4

Radeon Best you can update it anytime 5there is a update for that from the Radeon website