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ATI vs. nVidia

Which type of graphics card ownz?  

56 members have voted

  1. 1. Which type of graphics card ownz?

    • ATI Radeon
      14
    • nVidia GeForce
      34
    • Other - please don`t say other
      2
    • They`re both good enough
      6


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nvidia is usually better with OpenGl and Ati is usually better with Direct3D. Both are good with the other libraries.
I should note that these differences aren't really significant (read: less than 10% generally) unless you're comparing high end SLI vs. high end Radeons.

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From what i have noticed between the two is that nvidia is more balanced and compatable over a slightly wider range of applications/games whereas ati excells in subtle areas such as draw distances/texture mapping (over distances) and should be noted where these "subtle" differences lie are also where ati blows nvidia clearly out of the water, and this coming from a pretty reasonably satisfied nvidia card owner/customer. just my 2 cents..

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Oh well, I went with ATI in the end anyway. There was a 512 MB card for about the same as the best 256 MB GeForce card I could afford so I thought I'd give it a try.

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I bought an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro over 3 years ago and it runs literally every game I've ever bought up until today absolutley flawlessly. 3ghz and a gig of ram helps, but ATI has done right by me as far as im concerned

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3DFX FOR TEH WIN! No wait, that's my ye olde shitbox Pentium II. I got a 128mb BFG tech nVidia Geforce 6600GT. Works well, but I'd like to get a new one eventually.

I'm thinkin I'll buy another nVidia card, they seem to work well enough. ATI VS nVidia discussion is like Pepsi VS Coke for computer hardware nuts.

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Yeah can't just have a shit computer and put in a blazing fast video card and expect it to go fast. One time for experimentation I put in an X800 Pro (256MB) into a Gateway [1.5GHZ,256 RAM] expecting it to be like a jet engine on a wagon; but it didn't do a damn thing.

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DeumReaper said:

Yeah can't just have a shit computer and put in a blazing fast video card and expect it to go fast. One time for experimentation I put in an X800 Pro (256MB) into a Gateway [1.5GHZ,256 RAM] expecting it to be like a jet engine on a wagon; but it didn't do a damn thing.


I did that. Ran fine for me, though there were some visual artifacts.

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Xanthier said:

I'm about to get a computer with this
256MB NVIDIA(R) GeForce(R) Go 7600
is that any good?

Sounds like that should be a good card to me. But then again I started this thread because I know next to nothing about graphics cards :)

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DeumReaper said:

Yeah can't just have a shit computer and put in a blazing fast video card and expect it to go fast. One time for experimentation I put in an X800 Pro (256MB) into a Gateway [1.5GHZ,256 RAM] expecting it to be like a jet engine on a wagon; but it didn't do a damn thing.



Yeah I built me a 2.2GHZ AMD with a gig ram. Kinda wish I got better card now. But they've been dropping in price now at least.

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POTGIESSER said:

Image of graphics card with contacts cut off.

ROFL, ROFL, ROFL, ROFL x 1000000

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Xanthier said:
I'm about to get a computer with this
256MB NVIDIA(R) GeForce(R) Go 7600
is that any good?

Isn't the GeForce Go series laptop cards? Are you upgrading a laptop? I'm asking cause you have to make sure that the graphics module is nVidia's MXM (as opposed to ATI's AXIOM).
Edit: Oh I see, you're buying a new computer, not upgrading.

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My GeForce 6200 displays OpenGL great, although any games which use D3D as a renderer are either extremely buggy, or do not even play at all. Although, those games quickly become boring whereas the OpenGL games seem to entertain me longer, strange.

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POTGIESSER said:

ATI VS nVidia discussion is like Pepsi VS Coke for computer hardware nuts.

Yeah, one of them is clearly better, except no one can really decide which is that.

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I've never had problems with ATi, except for that time when the cooler on the card managed to chip off a microscopic fraction of the core all by itself >:(

I never had any problems with my Radeon 9600 in any non-Windows OS, but I don't see any reason why I should use Lunix.

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