Geforce 3 ti500 or 8600 GTS?

Geforce 3 ti500. By a LONGSHOT. 8600 is a mid range card and isn't worth anything. The ti500 is a high and card (notice the ti).
 
8600 is like 5 generations higher than the ti500.
4800series, 5900series, 6800series, 7900series, 8800series
 
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The Geforce3 can only do DirectX 8.0 in hardware. You'd want a card that did DX9 in hardware at least for even a secondary gaming box. The first cards nvidia had that did DX9 in hardware was the FX5xxx series.
 
Hey, my ti200 is still chugging along. It doesn't get much 3D use anymore, but it still gets regular use as a 2D display card.

http://www.nvidia.com/page/geforce3.html

Graphics Core: 256-bit
Memory Interface: 128-bit DDR
Fill Rate: 2.8 Billion AA Samples/Sec.
Operations per Second: 700 Billion
Memory Bandwidth: 6.4GB/Sec.

Beat that!
 
The Geforce3 is a poly pushing beat. It'll crush any and all of its competition (including the Geforce 8600). Geforce 3 wins, not if, ands, or buts.
 
those cards are crap!! get a nVidia Riva 128 FTW!!!!
 
Wow, I still have a GeForce 3 TI 500 lying around here.. somewhere.

BTW, anyone who would ask such a question deserves to have their pc taken away and destroyed.
 
This seriously cannot be a REAL question.....

wow...and HE HAS a 8800 ultra?....do you even know what a ti500 is?...hahahahah

Shit i still have mine laying in some box somewhere from back in the day. But, man it did play bf1942 pretty damn good :)
 
lol all you guys are awesome. and yeah my next card is gonna be the Riva 128 for sure. its gonna own the GTX 280 for sure.
 
LawGiver said:
lol all you guys are awesome. and yeah my next card is gonna be the Riva 128 for sure. its gonna own the GTX 280 for sure.
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u have to get the Riva 128 ZX !!! with 8MB !!!! whoa!!!
 
I can send you my voodoo3 3000 or voodoo2 1000 if you want....It smokes the competition (in 1998)
 
Ti500 vs 8600GTS

Core Clock: 240 vs 675 MHz
Memory Clock: 250 vs 1000 MHz
Memory Bandwidth: 8 GB/sec vs 32 GB/sec
Pixel Fill Rate: 960 vs 5400 MPixels/sec
Texture Fill Rate: 1920 vs 10800 MTexels/sec

Just goes to show how numbers don't mean everything!!

Game benchmarks

Ti500 vs 8600GTS
Crysis 1680x1050 Very high 4xAA: 63fps vs 15fps
COD4 1680x1050 max: 193fps vs 48fps
Little Big adventure 2 640x480 High: 10,322fps vs 3fps (dx5 driver issue?)
 
rus7y said:
Ti500 vs 8600GTS

Core Clock: 240 vs 675 MHz
Memory Clock: 250 vs 1000 MHz
Memory Bandwidth: 8 GB/sec vs 32 GB/sec
Pixel Fill Rate: 960 vs 5400 MPixels/sec
Texture Fill Rate: 1920 vs 10800 MTexels/sec

Just goes to show how numbers don't mean everything!!

Game benchmarks

Ti500 vs 8600GTS
Crysis 1680x1050 Very high 4xAA: 63fps vs 1,5fps
COD4 1680x1050 max: 193fps vs 4,8fps
Little Big adventure 2 640x480 High: 10,322fps vs 0,3fps (dx5 driver issue?)
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fixed ;)
you forgot the decimal comma
 
You Nvidia fanboys, you can keep saying how your cards are so great but the truth is the ATi Rage II Fury is the best.
 
w1retap said:
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does anyone else wanna shed a tear for this picture? theres PC Power and cooling, building a unit thats meant for a full kilowatt of power, and its not even being pushed beyond 200. I mean I know thats the joke and everything, but its sad that it really is the truth in alot of examples, maybe not that bad, but people buy these $350 800W units to run them at 300W for all of their lives, maybe seing 500W once.

Spare-Flair said:
You Nvidia fanboys, you can keep saying how your cards are so great but the truth is the ATi Rage II Fury is the best.
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psht. My voodoo Banshee owns you all.
 
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