Anyone uses geforce 8800gt or radeon hd4850?

[copain]

im planning to buy a new graphic card, between these two cards..
but i heard the 8800gt had problems with skethcup (openGL compability)..
anyone uses 8800gt/hd4850 for SU modelling here?

any help would be appreciated..

[basic.woodworks]

The following is part of a quote to another post answered by solo, Global Moderator

<<SU works better with a good GPU, and nvidia 8000 series is proving a great match, ....>>

I hope this helps you.

BW

[cheffey]

I've got an 8800 with 512mb onboard and it works very well.

[juju]

I don't know about the nVidia 8800 GT, but I had a nVidia 8800 GTX 768 MB and it worked wonderfully with SketchUp. The 8800 GT should be fine.

I'm not so sure about the ATi card, a lot of people seem to have trouble with the ATi cards, however people I have spoken to personally (that use ATi cards) have not had any troubles, I used an ATi 9800 Pro 128MB in my old machine with SU6 and it worked quite well. I also had a HD2600 Pro 512 MB a while back and it was really slow with SU, but it worked.

[copain]

thx for all the replies so far..

well, my radeon mobility x2300 cant work with hardware acceleration on, so basically im turning off my graphic card to make SU run a little bit faster. (its slower with graphic card working)

8800gt sounds great, but hd4850 does does better benchmarks on cheaper price..
so im still open to other opinions, but if i dont hear anything about hd4850, i won't take any chances, reminding what happened with SU on my rad x2300

[brodie]

I'm using the 8800 GT and it's working just fine for me. I got it after having huge issues with my ATI card (I would try and select a face and it would select a face several layers behind). The nVidia also has some many more adjustments I can make via nTune.

-Brodie

[Chris Fullmer]

I am using the 8600 and its great. I have had real problems with ati in the past with sketchup and other 3d programs. I refuse to go back to ATI.

Chris

[ihsan_abdrahim]

i've just bought a radeon HD 4850 and while i can say my gaming experience had never been better, THE 4850 SUCKS WITH SKETCHUP 6.. i've to go back to my old 8600 gt and now lookin forward to refund my card and get an XFX 9600gt 512 mb..

anybody can suggest whether the 9600 gt 512mb is a good buy????

p/s.. i've regret buying "THE ATI SAPPHIRE RADEON HD4850 ".. it crashes and problems with sketchup.. (no hardware acceleration, cannot select faces, takes a few second to orbit, --- even for a 13mb file!!!!)

[Baker518]

I've had some flickering issues with my 8800gt in SU6. I have tried a couple of different drivers since I got it. Its not something I cant live with, but I would like the flickering to go away. I hope someone has an answer.

[Stu]

I have a new machine with a 8800GT card.
I found that it was just about impossible to use SketchUp with it [yes, much teeth gnashing]
I recently found this thread from one of the Google guys
http://groups.google.com/group/sketchupissues/browse_thread/thread/f31cf944e71ebcc2/8c2d1cad3e5d81ee?lnk=gst&q=8800gt#8c2d1cad3e5d81ee
Ive back-graded the display driver and SU seems OK.....but I havent really pushed it yet.

ED. Nup, gave it a good try.....makes no damn difference!!!

Generally though the 8800GT is getting VERY mixed reviews....I would tend to stay away from it when buying a new computer if your planning to use SU on it.

Stu

[diegogue]

DO NOT buy the 9600 GT Nvidia, this card have a compatibility problem with sketchup

[solo]

diegogue , Get the new drivers from the Nvidea site, they were released last week and they fix the openGL issue with SU.

[Gaieus]

The 8800 series used to be the worst famed nVidia series and they seem to have gotten fixed. The same seems to be the case with this 9600 series then...

[Aidus]

I'm using 8800 GT with latest drivers and it works fine to me. Actually never had problems with su just with games.

[marne]

What a suitable question to my latest experiences. And COMPARISON!

I recently bought a new computer and decided to take a HD4850 512MB GDDR4 from Powercolor. And I'm more than satisfied with the performance. The most important thing about is that the card is really silent, nearly not noticeable (I spent few Euros to keep the whole machine silent). If you need a silent one with fantastic performance, go for the powercolor. You can flash the card's bios to make it even more silent. If you like to, I send my modified 4850 bios to you, copain.

All I can say is that the powercolor runs pretty fine with Sketchup, which I'm using a lot due to my teaching position.
A friend of mine has the 8800GT in his machine (what a fortuity) and he took his computer for comparisons to me. One thing I must commit, is that the CPUs are different: Mine is an Intel Q6600@ 3.0GHz and his was an Intel dual core something @3.4GHz, so all in one his machine should be faster for SU usage...

So we started with a clean and fresh installation of SU7 and did different everyday stuff. We opened up some small and large models, tried to do this simultaneously, we did selections, orbiting, Animation and jpeg export (what of course not depends on the GPU power) and even did the both available SU-benchmark tests here in the Forum and the result was regarding the different GPUs and CPUs very surprising.

There was none!

The only difference was in the Benchmark tests with a difference of a half frame/s but irregular, sometimes the 4850 was faster 0.5fps, sometimes the 8800GT was. So after everything we tried OUR conclusion was that only the price and the noise makes the difference, which makes the HD4850 512MB GDDR4 from Powercolor to be the first choice.

Even if we tried some games there was, reflecting the benchmark lists on the Internet, no noticeable difference in things of daily usage. Maybe you can measure different values with expensive equipment but for the user himself, every noticed difference must be some kind of voodoo .

-just my 2 cents