kichigai-jin wrote:Wheee_It's_Me!, I guess I was wondering how you felt about the Radion card. Have you had good luck with it, or have you had any trouble or bad proccessing time with it. I understand that it won't be an "on the fly" type card, but then again were not talking about a major investment like a Video Toaster machine or an Avid. What it comes down to is I need to make a decision between the two video input cards. Now the Radion is what, $300 or so? The Matrox X100 is $599 with the minimum package, and its $749 with a software bundle of an upgrade to Premiere Pro, and full versions of Adobe Encore DVD and Audition. I have Premiere 6 to upgrade from. Also my footage from prievious AMVs will be compatable. I guess I'm answering my own question, but does it justify the wait for the x100 if its better? Ofcourse this is all pending if Microsoft will get off its butt and release XP64. Thanks for your input --AMG
I haven't had any problems with it, keep in mind though that the graphics card doesn't ALWAYS have very much to do with, well anything really. Premiere won't run/encode any faster whether you've got Radeon 9000 or a Radeon 9800 for example. Most applications RARELY make good use out of your hardwares capability and a lot of software is designed to make better use of certain hardware and not others. This is why when they do benchmarking tests an Intel processor will beat the crap out of an AMD processor and vice versa, it's not that one chip is really "better" per se, it's just that the applications they used to benchmark were built to make better use out of one processor over the other.
I haven't done any extensive testing or experimentation, but I do know that as far as rendering is concerned using Maya, 3DS Max and Bryce 5 that there is NO speed increase between a Radeon 9000 and a Radeon9800. I believe the difference between the two cards would be better seen in gaming circumstances than rendering circumstances.
Again though, keep in mind I haven't done any definitive testing and I've only worked with Radeons.