Is GeForce 4 Ti worth it?
Well. I don't play games. But I do now work on "high ploygon" count 3D models
The ONLY reason why I am thinking of the GF Ti is because right now it's the only card with 128MB VRAM.
Funny thing is that I don't even know these 128MB RAM would benefit me or not <img src="graemlins/embarrassed.gif" border="0" alt="[Embarrassed]" />
Talked to many 3D people. Half said go for 128 while the other half said 64MB is just fine. Don't know who to listen to.
If that GeForce 4 Ti costs like $200 US I would buy it immediately....but $400US......I really have to take it seriously.
The ONLY reason why I am thinking of the GF Ti is because right now it's the only card with 128MB VRAM.
Funny thing is that I don't even know these 128MB RAM would benefit me or not <img src="graemlins/embarrassed.gif" border="0" alt="[Embarrassed]" />
Talked to many 3D people. Half said go for 128 while the other half said 64MB is just fine. Don't know who to listen to.
If that GeForce 4 Ti costs like $200 US I would buy it immediately....but $400US......I really have to take it seriously.
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<strong>Well. I don't play games. But I do now work on "high ploygon" count 3D models
The ONLY reason why I am thinking of the GF Ti is because right now it's the only card with 128MB VRAM.
Funny thing is that I don't even know these 128MB RAM would benefit me or not <img src="graemlins/embarrassed.gif" border="0" alt="[Embarrassed]" />
Talked to many 3D people. Half said go for 128 while the other half said 64MB is just fine. Don't know who to listen to.
If that GeForce 4 Ti costs like $200 US I would buy it immediately....but $400US......I really have to take it seriously.</strong><hr></blockquote>
I would say don't buy it -- get a 9000 or 8500 right now, and then a 9700 (or NV30) when they become available. The 9700 will kick the snot out of the 4Ti, and is far more flexible in its capabilities.
Plus no matter what anyone says. ATI makes better over-all cards. For what you want......get an ati card.
10.2 gave more increase for large tif files than the G4Ti did.
Maybe they will get some new drivers for 10.2.
i just wonder if either of these cards will work in a new powermac...(just need mac drivers rite?)
Nvidia's cards blow them away.
The numbers look impressive, but I've used both for doing 3D woek and the ATIs never work as good.
I'm talking about working in 3D, not playing games, so if that's not what you're referring to, I apologize.
The only cards from ATI that I would be interested in seeing for the Mac are the FireGL cards. Again, I'm talking about for 3D modeling and animating.
<strong>For 3D, i don't understand why everyone is so high on ATI cards.
Nvidia's cards blow them away.
The numbers look impressive, but I've used both for doing 3D woek and the ATIs never work as good.
I'm talking about working in 3D, not playing games, so if that's not what you're referring to, I apologize.
The only cards from ATI that I would be interested in seeing for the Mac are the FireGL cards. Again, I'm talking about for 3D modeling and animating.</strong><hr></blockquote>
maybe on the pc,,, not on the mac, nvidia drivers suck
However, if you don't need ADC, it seems that many an ATI PC card is easily flashable.
<strong>For 3D, i don't understand why everyone is so high on ATI cards.
Nvidia's cards blow them away.
The numbers look impressive, but I've used both for doing 3D woek and the ATIs never work as good.
I'm talking about working in 3D, not playing games, so if that's not what you're referring to, I apologize.
The only cards from ATI that I would be interested in seeing for the Mac are the FireGL cards. Again, I'm talking about for 3D modeling and animating.</strong><hr></blockquote>
While this may have been true in the past, the 9700 changes all that. It is substantially ahead of the 4Ti in all performance metrics, including 3D modeling & animation. The NV30 will surpass it again (slightly), but it isn't going to ship for another couple of months and even then is not clear when a Mac version will be available (and then probably only from Apple). The 9700 has surpassed the FireGL series as well.
<strong>I really wish ATI made the All-In-Wonder cards OS X-compatible, I'd pay top dollar for one in my G4. There aren't any descent tv/video capture for OS X ,let alone PCI cards.
There are a few FireWire based products, have you considered them? It makes less and less sense to waste valuable video card board & chip real estate on this kind of functionality these days.
<strong>I got one for my jan dual gig in Quake went from 1024X768 at 60 fps with G4MX to 100 fps.Scrolling is a little faster in large tif files, not really worth it.
10.2 gave more increase for large tif files than the G4Ti did.
Maybe they will get some new drivers for 10.2.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Uh... well, 10.2 has updated nVidia drivers...
That may have been partially responsible for the performance increases.
And Futuremac, video work does not constitute 3D work, so I would assume that ATI cards would be fine doing video.
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There are a few FireWire based products, have you considered them? It makes less and less sense to waste valuable video card board & chip real estate on this kind of functionality these days.</strong><hr></blockquote>
What are they? Who?