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Comparing gf3 and intel 900 GMA

6 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/comparing-gf3-and-intel-900-gma.17666/

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dragonball Original post #1
Oct 27, 2005 at 8:33 PM
supposing i got gf3 with 64MB mem, and GMA900 with 128 MB. SO which will give me better performance in high end graphics(domm3/hl2)?

thanks in advance.
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gxsaurav #2
Oct 27, 2005 at 9:24 PM
hmm, feature wise GMA 900 is better, as it supports DirectX 9b, while GeForce 3 supports DirectX 8, however GeForce 3 has hardware vertex shader & hardware T&L something which lacks in GMA 900

however if U R using a CPU like Pentium 4 3 GHz, then it will provide performance equavalent to Geforce 3 in all games in directx 9 mode
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spikygv #3
Oct 28, 2005 at 2:15 PM
Buddy , I'll put my money on GMA 900 . But as he said it lacks pixel shader 2 which is required in some games. But also GMA 900 is much newer and it supports dx9 . I think this choice requires us to know what the CPU RAM and mobo are ??
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Oct 31, 2005 at 2:27 PM
i am thinking of buying an intel 915. Should i go for 915 GL or G or GV???
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spikygv #5
Oct 31, 2005 at 6:46 PM
Definitely not GL ( doesnt have some features , my mobo 915GL doesnt have raid . i dunno whether it is company or chipset feature itself ).Check the intel site . Also decide ur mobo. I should see teh diff b/w G & GV.
If u find it post it.
thanks!!!!!!!!!

I think u better think of AMD and u may go for 945 as they have i gma950. which has pixel shader 2 and etc..
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spikygv #6
Nov 3, 2005 at 9:25 AM
Dude , for playing games , forget both gma900 and geforce 3 . Think about geforce 6600GT atleast .

For games , definitely AMD is better !!