2900PRO is officially a VERY good performance card

[mrfluffles]

hmm the pro overall beats the gTS except for "venturing into Open GL territory" then it loses by 10 fps, what's opengL?

It's an API like directx but different

 

[Invisible]

soo for playing games like crysis it would be good or bad?

 

[mrfluffles]

Well I don't really know how the directx and opengl thing works but I'm sure that you won't see that performance dip since Crysis uses DirectX

 

[Invisible]

don't all games use directX?

 

[NosBoost300]

don't all games use directX?

no. i just said doom 3 and quake 4 use open gl.. and always have

 

[UA_Iron]

CAD programs like Solidworks, CATIA, Pro/E, Inventor are OpenGL based. I think its due to the fact that they be compatible with different OS's.

Video cards like the Nvidia quaddro series are optimized for openGL, they're expensive too.

 

[NosBoost300]

CAD programs like Solidworks, CATIA, Pro/E, Inventor are OpenGL based. I think its due to the fact that they be compatible with different OS's.

Video cards like the Nvidia quaddro series are optimized for openGL, they're expensive too.

so would that mean they'd play doom 3 very awesomely.. hahaha

 

[Wildside]

so would that mean they'd play doom 3 very awesomely.. hahaha

well it's quadro n these cards r not optimized for gaming so i would do poorly playing doom 3, no it cannot play doom lol.

 

[NosBoost300]

well it's quadro n these cards r not optimized for gaming so i would do poorly playing doom 3, no it cannot play doom lol.

lol it was a joke... and hey, you live in riverside!! haha, thats only like a 45 min drive from me! lol

 

[UA_Iron]

well it's quadro n these cards r not optimized for gaming so i would do poorly playing doom 3, no it cannot play doom lol.

my work computer has a $1500 quadro in it and scores like a 7k on 3dmark06