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cubanlord
Joined: 08 Jul 2005
Location: In Japan!
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 Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 7:36 pm Post subject: Nvidia (Geforce) or ATI |
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cubanlord
Joined: 08 Jul 2005
Location: In Japan!
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 7:42 pm Post subject: |
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| Depends totally on which one is the best value on the day I buy. I really don't care if it's Nvidia or ATI. |
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spliff
Joined: 19 Jan 2004
Location: Khon Kaen, Thailand
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| Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 7:47 pm Post subject: |
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| ATI is currently a better value. You can go 387o dual cards for under 400,000. |
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kprrok
Joined: 06 Apr 2004
Location: KC
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| Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 7:59 pm Post subject: |
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For me, it depends on price, value, performance, and what motherboard I'm using. If I buy an Intel chipset board, I'll go ATI so I can Crossfire if I fancy it. If I get an nVidia chipset, I'll go nVidia. Basically, this means I'll probably stick with ATI since the nVidia MBs are really expensive and the P35s are cheap. Also, I just really like the ATI bang-for-buck.
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Temporary
Joined: 13 Jan 2008
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ATI. Why ? Cause their drivers don't suck donkey balls.
Did you see the MS hardware survey where it showed Nvidia responsible for 30% of vista crashes where ATI was down to arou 10% mark.. Nvidia drivers blow serious dick, whether its graphics or platform.. Plus their chipsets are little nuclear reactors.
The amount of times my Nvidia shit blew up in my face compared to ati is staggering.. Plus ATI is better value at the moment. |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 10:09 pm Post subject: |
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ATI. Why ? Cause their drivers don't suck donkey balls.
Did you see the MS hardware survey where it showed Nvidia responsible for 30% of vista crashes where ATI was down to arou 10% mark.. Nvidia drivers blow serious dick, whether its graphics or platform.. Plus their chipsets are little nuclear reactors.
The amount of times my Nvidia shit blew up in my face compared to ati is staggering.. Plus ATI is better value at the moment. |
Right.
Nvidia pushed their chips too far in their effort to kill-off ATI. My 7900GT crashed countless times with Vista. With XP too. The infamous "Nvlddmkm - Display Driver Stopped Working and Has Recovered" has been torturing thousands of nvidia users for about 18 months now.
ATI seems to have unfairly suffered in the last two years for not stretching their tech too far and developing at a sustainable rate. |
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Voyeur
Joined: 19 Jun 2003
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I switched rom ATI to Nvidia because in terms of performance Nvidia has been blowing the doors off of ATI since DX10 came out. Maybe ATI will stage a comeback with the 4800, but I'd bet Nvidia will answer that fairly shortly. Never know of course.
2 3870s for under $400? I'd rather have SLI 8800GTS G92 512. OFC then you have to have an SLI Mobo... |
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eamo
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| Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 7:33 pm Post subject: |
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I switched rom ATI to Nvidia because in terms of performance Nvidia has been blowing the doors off of ATI since DX10 came out. Maybe ATI will stage a comeback with the 4800, but I'd bet Nvidia will answer that fairly shortly. Never know of course.
2 3870s for under $400? I'd rather have SLI 8800GTS G92 512. OFC then you have to have an SLI Mobo... |
I get a feeling ATI will gain a lot of ground this summer....
Since its GeForce 6 graphics card series in 2004, Nvidia has managed to execute almost flawlessly against the competition. However, The Inquirer says the company may have a rougher time with its next-generation GT200-based cards.
According to The Inq's report, the GT200 graphics processor will have a 576mm� die size, or almost 1.8 times bigger than the G92 in Nvidia's current speediest single-GPU products. Unsurprisingly, such a massively increased die area will lead to considerable thermal envelopes: 236W for the top-of-the-line GeForce GTX 280 and 182W for the cut-down GeForce GTX 260.
The report adds that Nvidia will price the GTX 280 at $649 and the GTX 260 at $449. If there's any truth to rumors we've heard about next-gen AMD cards, Radeon HD 4000 offerings with single GPUs should all be priced under $350, and they should be competitive with current Nvidia offerings. That means Nvidia may have to rely on aggressive G92 pricing rather than its next architecture to compete.
To curb the damage, the report says, Nvidia has already taped out a die-shrunk GT200 based on a 55nm process, which should materialize into slightly cheaper GeForce GTX cards in the late summer or early fall. The graphics company might not have substantially cheaper derivatives out until much later, though.
http://techreport.com/discussions.x/14822
Speculation is that the new ATI cards will be around $200 cheaper than the new nVidia cards, yet have similar performance...and run cooler. If that is even nearly true then nVidia could be in trouble.
It looks like nVidia are seeing high-end cards as being worth $500+, whereas ATI see their high-end cards being worth 300-400 USD. |
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