Graphics Cards?

[SciManAl]

HAHAHHAHAHA suck it trebeck lol ATI is in the lead WooT!!!!





hehehehe i love ATI qaulity, speed, and not bad looking boxes mind you...

[bigdawgfoxx]

or cards

[Tormentor]

Nvidia is the best when you are looking for a good budget card(like me). But if have alot of money to blow Ati is the way to go.

[4th gen]

Originally posted by Tormentor@21 January 2004 - 05:35
Nvidia is the best when you are looking for a good budget card(like me). But if have alot of money to blow Ati is the way to go.

ati's "budget" range is just as good as nVidia's...

http://www6.tomshardware.com/graphic/20031...-charts-03.html

[toddiscool]

I have to vote ati, just because I know from what I hear, that the high end cards a very impressive.

However, I have had 2 ATi cards, my current being a 9200, and my G force MX 440 out performs it by leaps and bounds on a lot of games, except for those which ofcourse did not support the card. Just like to mention that card because for a budget card it was amazing.

[cpt_azad]

my 9600 works so freakin well (wonder what 9700 is capable of...). ATi Definately gets my vote.

i need something clarified though, i heard that ati is a canadian company, is this true? or do they just make the cards in canada (manufacture)?

[cpt_azad]

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[Evil Gemini]

I cant really decide on wich cards are better because i have only had an nvidia card only because i have read that the ati drivers are crap and can be a pain to get going.

I have seen a screenshot of need for speed underground running on each card and i have to say that the ati cards look slightly better in chrome effects but that was just one screenshot anyways.

Also, it depends on who actually puts these cards together. I have always stuck to leadtek nvidia cards.

Wouldnt it be cool if leadtek made ati cards ??

[adamp2p]

Originally posted by Evil Gemini@21 January 2004 - 00:35
I cant really decide on wich cards are better because i have only had an nvidia card only because i have read that the ati drivers are crap and can be a pain to get going.

I have seen a screenshot of need for speed underground running on each card and i have to say that the ati cards look slightly better in chrome effects but that was just one screenshot anyways.

Also, it depends on who actually puts these cards together. I have always stuck to leadtek nvidia cards.

Wouldnt it be cool if leadtek made ati cards ??

I don't know where you have been all year, man?

Anandtech:You’ve been living too perfect of a life if you’ve never used the phrase “it’s been a long day,” and for NVIDIA it has most definitely been a very long day. Just over two weeks ago the graphics industry was shook by some very hard hitting comments from Gabe Newell of Valve, primarily relating to the poor performance of NVIDIA cards under Half Life 2. All of the sudden ATI had finally done what they had worked feverishly for years to do, they were finally, seemingly overnight, crowned the king of graphics and more importantly – drivers. There were no comments on Half Life 2 day about ATI having poor drivers, compatibility problems or anything even remotely resembling discussions about ATI from the Radeon 8500 days.

Half Life 2 day was quickly followed up with all sorts of accusations against NVIDIA and their driver team; more and more articles were published with new discoveries, shedding light on other areas where ATI trounced NVIDIA. Everything seemed to all make sense now; even 3DMark was given the credibility of being the “I told you so” benchmark that predicted Half Life 2 performance several months in advance of September 12, 2003. At the end of the day and by the end of the week, NVIDIA had experienced the longest day they’ve had in recent history.

Some of the more powerful accusations went far beyond NVIDIA skimping on image quality to improve performance; these accusations included things like NVIDIA not really being capable of running DirectX 9 titles at their full potential, and one of the more interesting ones – that NVIDIA only optimizes for benchmarks that sites like AnandTech uses. Part of the explanation behind the Half Life 2 fiasco was that even if NVIDIA improves performance through later driver revisions, the performance improvements are only there because the game is used as a benchmark – and not as an attempt to improve the overall quality of their customers’ gaming experience. If that were true, then NVIDIA’s “the way it’s meant to be played” slogan would have to go under some serious rethinking; the way it’s meant to be benchmarked comes to mind.

Edit, I wanted to include the source, as he is probably the most respected hardware geek on the internet. Source: clicky

[DWk]

Originally posted by toddiscool@21 January 2004 - 00:14
I have to vote ati, just because I know from what I hear, that the high end cards a very impressive.

However, I have had 2 ATi cards, my current being a 9200, and my G force MX 440 out performs it by leaps and bounds on a lot of games, except for those which ofcourse did not support the card. Just like to mention that card because for a budget card it was amazing.

Isn't the 9200 the first of ATI'S DX9 cards?

By the way, yes they are from Canada