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The Steam Hardware Survey is probably the best and most detailed source for info about what gamers have. Accurate statistics for the general population will be harder to come by. Instead, you should look at this in terms of how recent you want the graphics hardware. For example, any ATI chip from the R300 series (Radeon 9550+) onward supports OpenGL 2.0. On the NVidia side, any GeForce 6000+ series chip will support OpenGL 2.0, and their predecessors, the FX series, almost supported OpenGL 2.0. The R300 series and the FX series were both introduced in 2002, so if you know what portion of your target market is using a PC from 2003 or later, you'll have a fairly good idea of how widespread OpenGL 2.0 support is among users with discrete graphics.
(2011) ATI Radeon 9550 series drivers Windows XP
Here's the real highlight of this test. Table fog renders perfectly on the ATi card using Catalyst 7.11 drivers under WinXP. A GeForce4 screenshot is included for comparison. Additionally, the last screenshot shows how table fog renders on that same ATi 9550 card under Win98 using Catalyst 6.2 drivers together with the registry tweak which enables table fog support. Not bad at all, though not quite perfect as with Catalyst 7.11.
The Rage 128 and the Radeon 7000 (radeon VE) prove useless in 3dmark 2001.The 7200 (radeon SDR) manages to outpace the geforce 256 sdr here. The radeon 9500 (re-flashed 9700) manages to beat both the 9600XT and the 9550XT, scoring somewhere in between the FX 5700 and the 5900XT, as we will see in the centralized charts later on.
As you can see the 8500LE has 4 more texture units and 1 more vertex unit, and it shows in the benchmarks. Frankly I don't know why ATi named the cards "radeon 9000", when it would have been more appropriate to name it "radeon 8000" to reflect it's performance. Alltough branded a 9xxx series card, it's direct X 8.1 compliant just like the 8500 and brings nothing new to the table. The radeon 9200 and 9250 are AGP 8X versions of the RV250 radeon 9000 - as such I did not include them in the test, as my 9200 sample is lower clocked (250/400) then my 9000 pro (270/500) and would have yielded even poorer performace. In theory a radeon 9200 or 9250 with the same 270 mhz core and 500MHz clocked memory should perform just like the 9000 pro in this review, maybe 1% better due to it being AGP 8x compliant - BUT as far as I know all 9200/9250 cards are clocked at 250/400, making the 9000 the better choice. Again ATi chose a higher number for a slower card, witch is confusing and in some cases down right annoying. 9200 cards often times also use a 64 bit memory bus, making them even slower, so if you do see such a card in the wild, make sure it's a 64 bit model.
The fastest card in Unreal Gold is the X800XT, followed closely by the 9700 and the 8500LE. While the X800XT performs as expected, I'm stumped by the 9700's performance, as the 9800 series should be faster since they run off a similar (if not identical) core, but are clocked higher. I'm chucking this one to drivers, as I believe the 9700 driver might be better optimized for older games - can't think of another explanation. The 8500LE is another huge suprise - as it manages to outpace the 9800 cards as well as the 6800 and the 5900XT. I know for a fact that the nvidia cards performed worse in this test due to a driver issue, as the geforce 3/4 Ti series get over 10% better results using Forceware 43.XX under win98, and I vaguely remember testing the 5900XT with forceware 56.XX and it scored much better - the problem is both those drivers bring a slew of compatibility issues. 43.xx has horrid performance in 3dmark2001 with newer cards and quake 3 crases at 1280x1024 with others. Dugeon Keeper II shows a black screen on anything newer then a GF3 Ti on my test system with that driver - witch is why it was chosen for the tests. Also please consider that testing all cards with the fastest driver for each game would be an enormous rectal pain, so that was out of the question. In general the 6800 does not do well in older games that requier DX 6 and in some cases early DX7 games, regardless of driver - and by that I mean there are some compatibility issues with some games - like a black screen in DKII (sound plays) when using some forceware 7x.xx drivers, as well as some texture problems in quake 3. In general I wouldn't recommend this card for older games as it will only run correctly (at least on my machines) with the forceware 66.31 or 66.93 drivers and those don't offer the best performance, unless you run DX9 stuff.
I tried later drivers - DK II won't run with 81.xx drivers, and neither will some of the older cards in the test. The FX series gets a slight improvement in opengl, but loses some DX8 perfomance with those drivers. After weeks of research, I came to belive 66.93 and it's win9x equivalent are the best forceware drivers for this spread of video cards.
I buy the chinese coolers locally (romanian ad site) - but I'm pretty sure you can find them on ebay. Like I said, they come in 2 (3 actually) sizes. One has smaller hole spacing for older graphics cards, the other has larger hole spacing, has a metal retention mecanism and is twice the size of the smaller one, and there's also a very large version made of copper instead of aluminum, witch also comes with VRM and ram sinks, and is designed for the geforce 8xxx / 9xxx and radeon 2xxx / 3xxx / 4xxx series.
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