radeon comparison

[chris]

does anyone know the differance between the ati radeon 9200se and the 9600se
in performance - the ati website is really helpfull in comparisons NOT

any advise is apreciated - i am mainly interested in 2d graphics performance

TIA

chris

 

[Ben Pope]

does anyone know the differance between the ati radeon 9200se and the
9600se in performance - the ati website is really helpfull in comparisons
NOT

any advise is apreciated - i am mainly interested in 2d graphics
performance

In terms of 2D, I doubt you'd notice the difference.

The difference is likely to be proportional to the GPU core speed.

Any new card will handle 2D satisfactorily, is there anything specific you
want it to be able to do?

Ben

 

[chris]

i use photoshop quite a bit and have a 9200 card and find sometimes it is a
bit slown when applying styles etc to large objects , by the way i use 2
monitors connected to the card and span my desktop.

 

[Kent_Diego]

http://www.tomshardware.com/graphic/20031229/index.html

 

[Thomas]

i use photoshop quite a bit and have a 9200 card and find sometimes
it is a bit slown when applying styles etc to large objects , by the
way i use 2 monitors connected to the card and span my desktop.

Erm, I think you're talking about CPU intensive operations, not GPU
intensive operations. 2D graphic performance has been adequate for any
purpose for the last.. 6 years? Applying a style, filter or whatever
requires CPU operation. So.. I'd look into that first. Could you specify
your system here?

Thomas

 

[Sham B]

i use photoshop quite a bit and have a 9200 card and find sometimes
it is a bit slown when applying styles etc to large objects , by the
way i use 2 monitors connected to the card and span my desktop.

Thats a function of your processor and memory, not the graphics card.

S

 

[chris]

system is

1.5gig ddr 400 ram
athlon 2600 cpu
gigabyte ga-7vaxp mainboard

2x 80gb hdd 7200 8 meg buffer
1x 20 GB hdd 7200

 

[Thomas]

system is
1.5gig ddr 400 ram
athlon 2600 cpu
gigabyte ga-7vaxp mainboard
2x 80gb hdd 7200 8 meg buffer
1x 20 GB hdd 7200

That should be enough then ;-)
Well, I think it just wont go faster, but hmm, I'm not quite the photoshop
expert here ;-) I think the vid card wont help a bit, as 2D speed is by and
large fast enough to put anything on the screen instantly.

Thomas

 

[Skid]

Go to www.xbitlabs.com for head-to-head comparisons between all Radeon
models.

 

[DaveW]

In the 9600SE the processor and the memory are clocked faster than on the
9200SE.

 

[Mike P]

2D both will be fine, gaming both will be bad.