WILDCAT III 6100 vs RADEON 9700

[SirSpeedy113]

I was wondering something...

everybody says that the Radeon 9700 will rock... well how come something like the wildcat III 6100 can be as much as $2000??? is it that much better?

Wildcat III 6100

Dual-pipeline configuration (supports dual-head* digital and analog displays)
Dedicated 128 MB texture memory and 64 MB frame buffer (plus 16 MB
DirectBurst™ memory for 208 MB total memory)
Six T & L engines for performance and programmability
Stereo Sync
3D volumetric texture support
Exclusive SuperScene antialiasing
AGP Pro 50 - AGP Version 2.0

Radeon 9700

128MB DDR memory accelerates the latest 3D games
256-bit memory interface removes hardware performance bottleneck and provides end users with faster 3D graphics
Industry's first 8-pixel pipeline architecture, providing twice the rendering power of any currently competing product.
Supports the new AGP 8X standard, providing a high-speed link between the graphics board and the rest of the PC (2.0 GB/sec)

-Emo

[Gimlin]

My guess is that Wildcat III 6100 is made to render CG. Like Final Fantasy or shrek, and is not compatible with PCs, or any games.

[Cander]

Just as Gimlin said. The Wildcat is for 3d computer graphics rendering for rendering workstations such as SGI stations. It is PC compatible. While Radeon is for real time rendering for games.

[JoshT]

Right - it's the difference between professional level equipment and consumer level equipment.

[siyan]

wiat for ATI to release a Fire CGI workstation card based on R300, then you'll have a better comparison.

[Sastraxi]

Read one of the lines on the Wildcat...

Six T & L engines for performance and programmability

Consumer level graphics cards have 1!

[JungleMan]

Originally posted by siyan
wiat for ATI to release a Fire CGI workstation card based on R300, then you'll have a better comparison.

ATI's FireGL X1 is going to rock...

Yeah as they said the Wildcat isn't a bad card or anything just that it's primarily built for 3-D rendering and not for gaming.

[Cander]

I think the price is also based on howmuch of open GL the card supports. Like Gaming type home consumer cards only supports a subset of the specification that is used for the real-time redering, while those big time cards supports the full openGL spec. Boy, I sure would love to have one of those for working with 3d Studio..of course Id also like a LEGAL copy of 3d Studio..but hey!!