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ATI or nVidia?
2 years 8 months ago
With the Desktop/Laptop thread going on, I have thought I would open a computer related thread. I don't know if this has been done but here goes.
Which videocard company do you prefer? ATI or nVidia and why?
I prefer ATI only because I bought Radeon 9200 off a friend a while back and it works great for now. I have not yet used a nVidia but I am thinking they are ahead in the videocard game. I have recently read about the 512MB 2 GPU cards from nVidia that can be connected through their SLI technology. This means you get 4 GPU's in a system. With a good amount of RAM, DOOM 3 on Ultra setting is attainable. Actually you could play it on a even higher setting and still get good results (but there is not higher setting). SO I might just see what nVidia has to offer seeing as ATI is (I think) just coming out with their version on SLI called Xrossfire (please tell me if I am wrong here).
So your preference?
Which videocard company do you prefer? ATI or nVidia and why?
I prefer ATI only because I bought Radeon 9200 off a friend a while back and it works great for now. I have not yet used a nVidia but I am thinking they are ahead in the videocard game. I have recently read about the 512MB 2 GPU cards from nVidia that can be connected through their SLI technology. This means you get 4 GPU's in a system. With a good amount of RAM, DOOM 3 on Ultra setting is attainable. Actually you could play it on a even higher setting and still get good results (but there is not higher setting). SO I might just see what nVidia has to offer seeing as ATI is (I think) just coming out with their version on SLI called Xrossfire (please tell me if I am wrong here).
So your preference?
The battle between ATI and Nvidia goes back and forth as the years go by. ATI used to be the better of the two a while back, but now Nvidia produces the fastest cards for the time being. I think the ATI cards have a sharper and smoother picture quality. Nvidia cards are usually fast, but the graphics are often blockly or garbled. The answer to this question depends on who you ask and which way the wind is blowing. MaximumPC does a great job reviewing videocards and 95% of the time they are dead on. I recommend the BFG GeForce 7800GT OC if you have cash to burn. No matter where I've read reviewers on either on-line or in magazines, BFG always gets high praises for their cards so I don't think you'll regret buying one. Nvidia does an awesome job writing linux drivers for their cards while ATI used to pump out crappy RPMs that work for certain linux distrobutions, but that may have changed by now. If you only use winXP then don't that stop you from considering ATI.
Check out MaximumPC's "best of the best" section and click on the videocards portion to show the lastest and greatest. ATI came out with a solid card recently called the X1900 XTX.
Hope this helps :-)
Check out MaximumPC's "best of the best" section and click on the videocards portion to show the lastest and greatest. ATI came out with a solid card recently called the X1900 XTX.
Hope this helps :-)
I prefer the best videocard with the best price/prestations, basically the best for the budget. I had an ati 9700 pro that i have recently changed for a nvidia quadro fx 700 because it got burned (without reason) and because i needed a workstation card, a cheap one (i bought the quadro at ebay for 150 bucks :P)
I'm with nvidia. all the cards from ati i have had, have resulted bad and in the worse case they got burned like the radeon 9700 pro that costed me 520€ in its glory days.
Nvidia cards have better perfomance now, but if someone is planning to buy a new card, don't do that. Windows vista and dx10 cards will appear soon, furthermore, intel conroe based pcs will appear too at the end of summer. As i have heared they will be cheap and will give us high perfomance at low rates of mhz :P
I'm with nvidia. all the cards from ati i have had, have resulted bad and in the worse case they got burned like the radeon 9700 pro that costed me 520€ in its glory days.
Nvidia cards have better perfomance now, but if someone is planning to buy a new card, don't do that. Windows vista and dx10 cards will appear soon, furthermore, intel conroe based pcs will appear too at the end of summer. As i have heared they will be cheap and will give us high perfomance at low rates of mhz :P
NVidia Powaaaa
I bought a 6800 Gt last year and it's super!
nVidia or ATI, who win? 2x GeForce 7900GTX 512GDDR3 SLi -----> king of the world.
I bought a 6800 Gt last year and it's super!
nVidia or ATI, who win? 2x GeForce 7900GTX 512GDDR3 SLi -----> king of the world.
I use ATI! ATI provide a good picture and pixels much better than NVDIA.. Some of games now, mostly can be played by ATI.. Just try to Play Battlefield 2 with NVDIA.. You must be feel better play it with ATI! But specially for LucasArt games, you should use NVDIA to play! Just like Empires at War and Knight of The Old Republic! Better you play it with NVDIA than ATI!
†Forever Reach the Dream..†
I usually play battlefield 2 with my nVidia card, and it's very fluid.
Try to play battlefield 2 with 2x 7800GTX with 2Gb of ddr 4400, and look the picture and pixels.
Try to play battlefield 2 with 2x 7800GTX with 2Gb of ddr 4400, and look the picture and pixels.
The quality image offered with nvidia cards is superb, ati does not offer better quality.
Depends... In my opinion after years researching a lot of people ATI for it's power and stability... There's also some issue that nVidia are easily get mem-damage if your PC spec is not suitable for it-or heating. I don't really know about that issue but I prefer ATI because it's support a lot of program and for it's quality-and price. I think nVidia is meant for graphic designers (for it's dual tech and fast process nowdays)-if not, ~why don't just use the internal GP (Intel-Extreme Graphic of course!! *jus kiddin)... Anyway-it doesn't mean programs/game can run smoothly only with high RAM and high GP RAM... Don't forget processors... (I prefer AMD for it's stability and cheap price). (One of my PC also use ATI 9200 and uses P4 3.0 HT with 1 GB RAM... And I can play Elder Scrool 4 : Oblivion nicely in that PC):)
The people before me probably know more about which is better, but I use nVidia in my computer, and it works well for what I need. Games run smoothely, I can see graphics well, it was a good price xD That's all I need
Are you suggesting that coconuts migrate?
I think nvidia is better..
ATI is just..not so good anymore compare to last time
ATI is just..not so good anymore compare to last time
I dont know.....but i use ati 9200
and now need to upgrade it......cannot play doom 3
iskx3....so sad
and now need to upgrade it......cannot play doom 3
iskx3....so sad
I use ATI card from saphire series. Before it I used nVidia. And now I know that ATI is more stability in games.
I'm not a fan of either at the moment. While their GPUs are HDCP compliant, none of their boards are and HDCP will become important shortly for HD in Vista. Plus for Vista I'll want DX10 and neither are making that at the moment so my wanted upgrade is forced to wait. Aside from my annoyance at not upgrading for awhile, I would just say that power is cyclical. If you pick a generation of cards, one company will tend to have the lead at that time, but a year later it's anybody's game again. ATI used to have worse drivers, but they got better. Unfortunately, they are using that resource hog .NET for the catalyst now.
2 years 8 months ago
Right now for me anyways its nVidia all the way.