Radeon 9700 vs nvidia 7900gs

Ok i looked over chazmans graphics card chart. But i would like a little more detailed information if possible if not Im sry for wasting everybodies time.

The question i have pertains to my Mobility Radeon 9700 and Nvidia go7900gs.

You see i currently have the 9700 on my laptop and i don't personally think that it can handle some of the newer games. How much of a performance increase would as see between the two. Does anyone know plz help

 

short answer, HUGE. it will outperform it by leaps and bounds

 

Ya, it would be like night and day

 

The 9700 is still a very capable card though, was great back in its day...

 

I think that this is truelly a very strange question. Only by mind you can realise that the 9700 is 2 generations old, and that the 7900GS is a cutting edge videocard. Then the answer is simple. The 7900GS is a thousand times faster.

Charlie

 

Thx the thing is I already have the 9700 and was thinking of getting a new laptop just wanted to know how worth it it is Thx

 

Man you won'y even beleive how much performance you will get with the 7900!

 

I would actually leave upgrading for awhile if I was you.

Unless you use your notebook for playing the latest games on high res (I usually use my desktop for those sort of games) I would hang in with the 9700 for a small while.....its still a decent card and it will run new games at low enough levels smoothly, and its great for newish and old games like Call of Duty 2, Battlefield 2, etc.

 

just think of it this way...the 7900 is the fastest ferrari..while the 9700 is the old Ford Model T cars (good in their days right )

 

You will notice a HUGE performance gain, thought not as much as I'll notice going from my Radeon 7500 to the Quadro 1500M that I'm getting. That's gonna be night and day.

I would only suggest waiting if you can wait for up to a year or more. That's when you'll start to see good DirectX10 cards. Otherwise, buy now and be happy for 1-2 years like me.

 

if high end gaming is top priority for you, I'd wait for memrom and a dx10 class card, your current setup can still hang, current high end systems wont have as much longevity due to dx10, as you can only run dx10 apps on dx10 hardware, it wont scale down like pervious versions, wich kinda sucks right now, but wiil be a very good thing in the end, the stricter dx10 compliance rules mean that all the fancey pants features ati and nvidia cards have will actually be used, as game devolpers wont have to resort to the lowest common denominator or write different code for different cards, I would wait, nvidia is on the trheshold of realeasing a desktop dx10 card, with ati to follow in a few months

 

DirectX10 card will not begin appearing until Vista, which will be January to February of next year, as DX10 requires Vista. Therefore, DX9 will still be around for a while.

The problem about the nVidia card that's coming out from what I've read is that while it supports DX10, it doesn't use the unified processing approach. It's still based on the current technology, just enhanced with SM4. I wouldn't be suprised if we didn't start seeing really high end DX10 cards for 4-6 months after Vista is released. But that's just my :2cents:

 

thats all speculation and rumor, to be a dx10 class card, it will have to sport unified shaders, and all current video chips are built off of prior generations, theres still a little bit of tnt in the 7950, and a bit of the 7000 in the 1900xtx, they dont reinvent the wheel for every new chip, nvidia will have a dx10 card shortly, and ati will have one around q4, both will have them out before vista

 

I was wondering so shoul i get the 7900gs and be happy at a minimum of 2 years or should I wait for the dx10 cards

 

if gaming is a top priority, I think you should wait, especially since you already have a capeable system, I know waiting is no fun, but if I were you, I would hold off for the newer tech, if you were building a desktop I'd say go for a 7900 now, but with a notebook, upgrading pretty much means the whole kit, so I'd hold off, unless you happen to have really deep pockets

 

'nother question do you think that e1705 owners will be able to upgrade to a dx10 card later on 'cause thats what i was thinking of getting. As i see that they can put the 7900gtx in with little modding or is this a definite no that im guessing is the right answer.