Hi,
Nitin.Jain wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I need to test my application with a BEST graphics card for java3d. I looked
> into archives and found that GeForce and Nvidia are quite talked about but
> there stands a lot of ambiguity and I'm not able to make a decision for
You may be interested to know that 'Nvidia' is the brand or company name,
and 'GeForce' is the name of the video chip that Nvidia makes. So they
are (for your purposes) the same thing.
Nvidia sells the GeForce chips to other manufacturers who then build video
boards from them. There is *very* little difference in the stock performance
of these boards as they all follow the Nvidia design specs very closely.
The only difference usually between these boards (besides price) is the
other included features and software that come with the boards.
The current top of the line Nvidia chip is the GeForce4 TI 4600.
As others have mentioned the other contender in this market is the ATI Radeon
9700. ATI makes this board themsleves with thwir own chip. Though with the
9700 they have also (like Nvidia) started to sell the chips to other board makers.
So you may be able to find a Radeon 9700 board cheaper from another manufacturer.
Like everything in the computer world 'best' is a moving target.
The 9700 is the newest arrival on the scene, and first impressions are that
it may be faster at somethings than the GeForce4 (I don't have any experience
so I can't comment.) However Nvidia has other products being developed that
will probably raise the bar up higher again.
-Kyle
> buying one. Can somebody please suggest me the BEST available graphics card.
> My Application has lot of geometries in the scene and I'm using immediate
> mode rendering as well. The application doesn't need any texture mapping.
>
> I would really, really appreciate your inputs.
>
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