Diamond stealth any good

bmr50

I have friend who is going to trade me a video card for a old 40 gig drive, one is a Diamond Stealth Radeon 9600SE S100 128MB the other is a ATI Radeon 9200 128mb,I know the ATI should be ok,but I cant find much on the stealth,anyone know which is the better card?

Matth

A 9600SE is DirectX9 hardware, a 9200 is DirectX8
However, the 9600SE is a slugged version of a 9600, so lets wander through Tom's tests
http://www20.graphics.tomshardware.c...229/index.html

UT2003 - neither set the world alight, 9200 wins slightly, but the DX& hardware GF4 MX440 is also keeping up with this trailing pack.

BF1942 - a clear win for 9600SE, and on a level with a Geforce FX5200 - another entry level DX9 card

COD - clear win for 9200 - the 9600SE takes a dive - this test seems to value DX8 performance, and the 9200 has more of that than than the 9600SE

Q3TA - 9200 wins again

WC3 - another win for the 9200 (this is getting tedious!)

C&C Gen - a small win for the 9600SE

Halo - a whitewash to the 9600SE - it competes (low) in the DX9 event, while the 9200 has to settle for the runners up DX8 match

Nascar - 9200 wins

X2 - a small win to the 9600SE

Aquamark 3 - a win to the 9600SE


The 9600SE can do DX9 - Pixel shader 2.0 etc., but it's a slow card.
The 9200 (so long as there isn't an SE in that as well) is a faster card, but only has DX8 support - eg. Pixel shader 1.4

I guess you take your choice - the performance of the 9200 or the DX9 features (that MAY become more important) of the 9600SE - though anything that leans heavily on DX9 features, is going to be a strain

Falstaff

intersting captian...perfectly logical.
(good work spock)

bmr50

Thanks Matth,I think I will flip a coin,either way I get a card with highs and lows untill I can afford a good card, one of these will have to do.