Digital Trends

The testing consistently shows that the older and more familiar Ti chipset is still a viable candidate in the gaming world as far as Nvidia graphics cards. ATI may rule at the moment, but none of the scores here are by any means unusable or substandard in terms of gaming playability or compatibility. Each card has stood out in the area that it was designed for. Older benchmarks written for DX 8 clearly like the Ti-4600 better than the newer FX card and in spite of the power behind it, the Ti-4600 is simply not capable of surpassing the 5600 FX in the newer technology written into DX 9. The only exception to that is with the Splinter Cell test which was written with DX 8 and released with DX 9. The game engine benefits from the power increase but eye candy in game is not as nice as the 5600 produces. So our finally decision is that for those of you who are into the newest games it is definitely worth the upgrade for the graphics alone. If older games are more you style and Deus Ex is still on your current play list (and why wouldn't it be?) the upgrade is futile and in most cases a waste of financial resources. I think that the issue will be solved decisively with the release of the NV40 chipset. For the rest of you still whacking away in Quake 3 it makes little difference which way you go. I only hope that Team Arena is not on the menu.