ATI vs. nVidia

[DeumReaper]

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.

[Regen]

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..

[MaTT [TiK]]

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.

[Wobbo]

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

[SYS]

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.

[DeumReaper]

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.

[Csonicgo]

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.

[leileilol]

I bought a new $300+ geforce2 gts 64mb in 2000 for my k6-2 500 and I was sorely dissapointed

[Xanthier]

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

[ducon]

Currently nVidia because ATI and 3D are a pain in Linux.

[MaTT [TiK]]

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 :)

[SYS]

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.

[exp(x)]

http://news.com.com/2061-10791_3-6104655.html

[MaTT [TiK]]

POTGIESSER said:

Image of graphics card with contacts cut off.

ROFL, ROFL, ROFL, ROFL x 1000000

[DeumReaper]

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.

[Mindless Rambler]

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.

[spank]

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.

[Ayu]

They are both good, but I was always an ATI person.

[jallamann]

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.