nVidia vs. ATI

NEENJA · Post by **NEENJA** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 5:51 pm

Which is better? ATI or nVidia? Is SLi or Crossfire better? You tell me.

Lady Nerevar · Post by **Lady Nerevar** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 6:00 pm

I have NO idea. I use Nvidia though.

Abramul · Post by **Abramul** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 6:08 pm

I have heard that MW was optimized for NVidia, and OB for ATI. No idea if it's accurate, though, especially given the statements of the recent unlimited view thing for MW.

lb003g0676 · Post by **lb003g0676** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 2:29 am

I <3 Nvidiorz

skittles · Post by **skittles** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 2:45 am

i like nvidia. i comes with cool things like game drive.
plus ATI is for CPUs that you would by from walmart. (the lower brand by my standards)

skittles · Post by **skittles** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 2:47 am

[quote="Abramul"]I have heard that MW was optimized for NVidia, and OB for ATI. No idea if it's accurate, though, especially given the statements of the recent unlimited view thing for MW.[/quote]

not true. it bethesda never said the recommended video card for mw. or at least i couldnt find it.

thats when i upgraded from ATI to NVIDIA.

pci express rules!!!

Rastus01 · Post by **Rastus01** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 6:46 am

Nvidia currently has the best game card out at the moment.

Barthelemy · Post by **Barthelemy** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 3:10 pm

I'm planning to buy R x1900GT 256M, so i vote for ATI, but i was also thinking on buying 7900GT. (seller told R is better and cheaper)

Eraser · Post by **Eraser** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 3:42 pm

ATI support is shit, simple as that. They had to scrap a render pass for performance(meanwhile nvidia gets better performance, without cutting render passes), which killed specular highlights in a number of games(particularly one of my favorites) and ignored my efforts to contact them about the problem.

Meanwhile Nvidia releases updates and fixes for drivers whenever there's a problem.( driver fixes for one of the HL2/Source engine games the day before it came out comes to mind)

The only problem I've had with Nvidia in the past 9 months is a shader problem in OB causing the screen to go black. A simple console command fixes it, and it's more bethesda's programming as other HDR enabled games don't have it.

As for which game was optimized for which brand? It's not stated anywhere but its pretty obvious. MW was optimized for Nvidia because the xbox used a halfassed geforce3. OB is optimized for ATI because the xbox386 uses a halfassed ATI card.

Gez · Post by **Gez** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 4:49 pm

nVidia drivers are crap. On a PC I've replaced an old nVidia card by a new ATI one, and there were still nVidia driver services hogging up CPU after the uninstall. Had to use antimalware methods to definitely get rid of them.

ATI drivers, on the other hand, are complete crap. Ugh.

So,nVidia comes out on top of the software issue.

As for hardware, it's less harder to say, and less interesting an issue anyway. They stay about equal, and they both churn out new cards at a sickening rates, obsolescing your computer faster than your finances can follow.

However, there's a third company that makes graphic chipsets out there, and these chipsets suck hairy donkey balls. I'm talking about Intel and their "eXtreme(ly lame) graphics". Those of you without laptops do not have to worry.

Edit: Yep, ATI seems a bit more cost-effective than nVidia on the "just-below-top-notch" market segment.

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 5:57 pm

Fact is unless you are trying to really sqeeze the last drops out of the bleeding edge, nVidia cards probably arent worth the extra money for their comparable products. You will get a better deal on ATI than nVidia.

Abramul · Post by **Abramul** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 6:09 pm

I currently have an ATI (Radeon X700) card, switched from NVidia (GeForce 3 Ti). The only problems I've had were NVidia+Morrowind, for some reason the pixel shaders cut out, haven't tried running it with PS enabled on the ATI. Also, ATI+HL2, it told me I needed to get the latest drivers. I did so, and now I have 3 copies of CLI.exe running, all under my username.

Tyrion · Post by **Tyrion** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 7:26 pm

I have an ATI x1600 512mb card, and with that much video memory it really doesnt matter. Both companies are pretty much the same thing in my mind. Really if it plays what I need it to play I like it.

skittles · Post by **skittles** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 2:23 pm

damn.

i would have to agree with tyrion.

but if you dont have the money to buy a video card like that than nvidia would be the way to go.

Massalinie · Post by **Massalinie** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 2:27 pm

I prefer ATI, the last time I had nVidia on my PC, it caused all sorts of really annoying problems and my Dad is finding this too on our TV computer. I don't know why, but for some reason nVidia just doesn't agree with my computers and ATI does.

Lud · Post by **Lud** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 3:21 pm

The computer I use has an integrated card........
Weep for me.

Macar · Post by **Macar** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 4:01 pm

Tyrion · Post by **Tyrion** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 10:39 pm

I used to have an ATI x200 when I bought my comp. Ah, the memories we had...

skittles · Post by **skittles** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 11:17 pm

i havent upgraded my video card for a while. though i need to i have no apparent reason right now

my video card and its *special* features:

gForce MX 4000

128 mb of video memory

horrible support

hours of browsing on the internet for the right answers to questions

the hours of tweaking to correct the display when my PC screws up

and a whole lot more bitchy problems that are a pain in the butt.

angelus6 · Post by **angelus6** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 10:16 pm

ah, Nvidia is fine for the average gamer but i've destroyed 2 Nvidia cards in 2 years. ATI seems to be more stable for overclocking. my 128 card runs oblivion at maximum settings when overclocked where'as my last Gforce 5 (256mb) couldn't even touch it.

Post by **ko2fan** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 8:46 am

I would say nVidia purely for their driver support (ATI's OpenGL driver really sucks, and they don't even support non-windows platforms), but with AMD buying ATI, it could all change, since AMD is big with linux, they may get ATI to get off its ass and support OpenGL better.

DirectX wise, both manufacturers have very good cards, the 7600GT is the best mainstream card, and the X1950XT is the best hardcore card, so they both win (although I bet nVidia sell more 7600GTs than ATI sell X1950XT's

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