This is so awesome, i was looking for a video like this because i was always impressed by the massive advancement in technology from 6th to 7th gen consoles, the 1800XT was 550U$D at launch and by the time the X360 launched, this was the most powerful amd gpu avialable, my fascination was to see how it fairs against an Xbox 360 but due to lack of DX10 support i guess that's not possible, shame really because i think it would've beaten the 360, Resident Evil 5 would've been a nice benchmark to include because it supports DX9 and it was a flagship 7th gen game that was 100% impossible on the PS2 or GameCube. Awesome video my friend.
What's that? Oh no big deal, just an in-depth video on literally my favorite era (DX9) of GPUs. Thanks for the shout out! I'm curious, do older drivers make any difference on those rendering issues with the GF7?
I tried 169.44. It made a difference, just not in a good way lol. F1 2011 crashes on launch, Skyrim has color banding and flickering shadows now, and GTA 4's vehicle shadows appear but much of the geometry became invisible. There may be a driver that runs everything properly, I just haven't found it yet
Also tried the Skyrim launch driver (285.79); that fixed F1 2011, but doesn't address the color banding in Skyrim and it still has the shadow issues shown in the video. GTA 4 got its geometry back but has color banding like Skyrim. I wonder if there's a pixel format not implemented by older drivers, I'm just not sure how to go about finding out.
Excellent video. It's crazy to see how much the 7000 series cards stumble in later games, a 256MB GTX wouldn't have stood a chance in this suite. I'm always surprised by how much the X1900 series manages to widen the gap, with it having the same well aging architecture as the X1800 XT and triple the pixel shaders it can do some amazing things in those later games, while the 7900 GTX's extreme clocks on what was pretty much the same GPU aren't enough to make up for its deficiencies.
I remember this card. I always used Nvidia, but because this card had better specs on paper, I bought the Radeon. What a mistake! It had great specs, but it was cursed with micro-stutters. I was so upset at the poor visual quality and game play that I never bought ATI/AMD again. Thank you for the video.
Fantastic video, I subscribed immediately:) Hope to see more of these videos, 8800GTS/GTX/GT was probably my favorite Nvidia generation. That & GTX 1000 series, 1080ti is a GOAT of a GPU.
I had X1800XTs crossfired. Crossfire was a different animal with these cards. It required a crossfire card and a regular card. They were connected by a dongle which in turn connected to your monitor cable. It wasn't a hassle as much as it was kind of confusing to look at. By the time I moved on crossfire had become like SLI, just used a bridge with the 3870s. When you got a set of X1800XTs hot and running hard it sounded like your PC was taxiing for takeoff. It was that loud.
@@hblankpc Yes. I paid a lot of money back then for them. Close to $1000 if I remember right. That's when I learned about buying highend stuff. I haven't been top of the heap since. I stay relevant, I am never top end. I have some great parts, but I've waited for the inevitable price drops.
I was trying to find a nice way to mention that 😂 Your presentation has improved over your last go-around. Imo you still sound a touch flat but that's a lot better than having too much inflection. Great videos, cool channel, and I hope you stick with this in the longterm and don't disappear on us. Again.
I'm not opposed to testing those in general, I just don't find them particularly interesting for these cards because they all predate late 2005, and everyone and their dad already tests the middle 3.
Damn. I was looking for this and now someone just made this video. Also this one is for Xbox 360 vs PS3 as well since GPU of these base on these 2 cards
An excellent informative comparison video. I still keep my X1900 XT with the stock GDDR pink thermal pads applid directly with the transparent protective film.😂
Be sure to check out the wonderful unstable world of Omega Drivers for ATI too. They don't add any more features, but do allow overclocking. Don't know if nVidia had something similar from back then. No clue if they are even still around.
I came in the pc scene around the radeon 3000 series where apparently all gpu manufacturers shifted to a unified architecture. I never knew that the differences in gpu design could effect render output other than framerate and frametimes.
This was the Era when Nvidia was called out for nerfing their drivers to eek out higher benchmarks without any real world results! Seem like this tells that tale!
I do think it's kind of sad you didn't test Terraria or Minecraft in this test suite since those games were both around the early 2010s and both would struggle on both cards and be a good test of their might. In case you're wondering, old versions of Minecraft do actually support OpenGL 2.1. It was pretty recent that they switched like 2020 to OpenGL 3.2
This is so awesome, i was looking for a video like this because i was always impressed by the massive advancement in technology from 6th to 7th gen consoles, the 1800XT was 550U$D at launch and by the time the X360 launched, this was the most powerful amd gpu avialable, my fascination was to see how it fairs against an Xbox 360 but due to lack of DX10 support i guess that's not possible, shame really because i think it would've beaten the 360, Resident Evil 5 would've been a nice benchmark to include because it supports DX9 and it was a flagship 7th gen game that was 100% impossible on the PS2 or GameCube.
Awesome video my friend.
Nice. I still have the Point Of View GeForce 7800 GTX 512MB lying around. Was a real beast, back in the days.
Holy crap he remembered his TH-cam password twice in a month
What's that? Oh no big deal, just an in-depth video on literally my favorite era (DX9) of GPUs.
Thanks for the shout out! I'm curious, do older drivers make any difference on those rendering issues with the GF7?
I tried 169.44. It made a difference, just not in a good way lol. F1 2011 crashes on launch, Skyrim has color banding and flickering shadows now, and GTA 4's vehicle shadows appear but much of the geometry became invisible. There may be a driver that runs everything properly, I just haven't found it yet
Also tried the Skyrim launch driver (285.79); that fixed F1 2011, but doesn't address the color banding in Skyrim and it still has the shadow issues shown in the video. GTA 4 got its geometry back but has color banding like Skyrim. I wonder if there's a pixel format not implemented by older drivers, I'm just not sure how to go about finding out.
Excellent video. It's crazy to see how much the 7000 series cards stumble in later games, a 256MB GTX wouldn't have stood a chance in this suite. I'm always surprised by how much the X1900 series manages to widen the gap, with it having the same well aging architecture as the X1800 XT and triple the pixel shaders it can do some amazing things in those later games, while the 7900 GTX's extreme clocks on what was pretty much the same GPU aren't enough to make up for its deficiencies.
I remember this card. I always used Nvidia, but because this card had better specs on paper, I bought the Radeon. What a mistake! It had great specs, but it was cursed with micro-stutters. I was so upset at the poor visual quality and game play that I never bought ATI/AMD again. Thank you for the video.
Both cards are awesome! Awesome benchmark 👍
Fantastic video, I subscribed immediately:)
Hope to see more of these videos, 8800GTS/GTX/GT was probably my favorite Nvidia generation.
That & GTX 1000 series, 1080ti is a GOAT of a GPU.
dx9 era was pure magic
I had X1800XTs crossfired. Crossfire was a different animal with these cards. It required a crossfire card and a regular card. They were connected by a dongle which in turn connected to your monitor cable. It wasn't a hassle as much as it was kind of confusing to look at. By the time I moved on crossfire had become like SLI, just used a bridge with the 3870s.
When you got a set of X1800XTs hot and running hard it sounded like your PC was taxiing for takeoff. It was that loud.
Did you get them before or after the X1900 series released?
@@hblankpc Before.
ooooooof. Were you pissed?
@@hblankpc Yes. I paid a lot of money back then for them. Close to $1000 if I remember right. That's when I learned about buying highend stuff. I haven't been top of the heap since. I stay relevant, I am never top end.
I have some great parts, but I've waited for the inevitable price drops.
This is my last video to use this garbo USB mic 🙃
I was trying to find a nice way to mention that 😂
Your presentation has improved over your last go-around. Imo you still sound a touch flat but that's a lot better than having too much inflection.
Great videos, cool channel, and I hope you stick with this in the longterm and don't disappear on us. Again.
Nice video man... I was expecting some oldies, like kotor, far cry, hl2, doom3, republic commando... Cheers 🥂
I'm not opposed to testing those in general, I just don't find them particularly interesting for these cards because they all predate late 2005, and everyone and their dad already tests the middle 3.
You play oldies on oldie cards, not newer cards.
Damn. I was looking for this and now someone just made this video. Also this one is for Xbox 360 vs PS3 as well since GPU of these base on these 2 cards
An excellent informative comparison video. I still keep my X1900 XT with the stock GDDR pink thermal pads applid directly with the transparent protective film.😂
Great video, many thanks
Must admit the 7800 GTX did better than expected, but yeah it's such a cool generation, will you be able to do the 7900 GTX vs 1950 XTX?
I could, but I want to do a dedicated video on the X1900 XTX first
Be sure to check out the wonderful unstable world of Omega Drivers for ATI too. They don't add any more features, but do allow overclocking. Don't know if nVidia had something similar from back then. No clue if they are even still around.
I came in the pc scene around the radeon 3000 series where apparently all gpu manufacturers shifted to a unified architecture. I never knew that the differences in gpu design could effect render output other than framerate and frametimes.
Had a 7600GT for a lot longer than I should. Any 300 series driver destroys shadows, last good one was 285 iirc.
Another banger video from the fishmonger himself
This was the Era when Nvidia was called out for nerfing their drivers to eek out higher benchmarks without any real world results! Seem like this tells that tale!
I do think it's kind of sad you didn't test Terraria or Minecraft in this test suite since those games were both around the early 2010s and both would struggle on both cards and be a good test of their might. In case you're wondering, old versions of Minecraft do actually support OpenGL 2.1. It was pretty recent that they switched like 2020 to OpenGL 3.2
also with the x1800 in skyrim the frost and fog effects work
What resolution did you use for the 3dmark tests?
The defaults, so 1024x768 for 03 and 05 and 1280x1024 for 06
I also ran my SLI 7800GTX 512s in Vista. Because.
7800 ? zamn you are ahead we are barely getting to the 5000 series soon.
Need more rts bench marks.
clearly paid off by big ati thumbs down unsubscribed
99 likes, 666 views, 19h ago, this is cursed
aw hell nah!!!!!
WHAT
Because .
GOAT POSTED
I tried to get a 7800GTX 512 at the time. Only two batches where actually shipped. Got the 7900GTX a few months later.
No FEAR benchmarks? That was disappointing.
biased nvidia fan
bro saw the bait and didn't stick around for the switch
The 6800 ultra was more memorable
I guess? It helps that it was on the market way longer than either of these cards
BOOO nvidia lost
skill issue