Poll: Graphical Debate!
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For the most of their history, Nvidia has made more powerful cards and supported them better by offering more incentives to game developers. However ATi had massive graphical advantages around 2004 and are picking up steam once again.
For the cards that I've had the Nvidia cards tend to have less driver issues. But I do have issues with some of their business practices, that just seem to be an unfair advantage and give incentives for game developers to punish consumers for having an ATi card. Such things as the PhysX card, not giving anti-aliasing options when an Nvidia card is not detected and so forth turn me off.
When I buy something I look at the product and less so the name. However if I had to choose a company, in the end I would side with ATi on a moral standpoint. It's still a close call though, and their competition makes games better.
For the cards that I've had the Nvidia cards tend to have less driver issues. But I do have issues with some of their business practices, that just seem to be an unfair advantage and give incentives for game developers to punish consumers for having an ATi card. Such things as the PhysX card, not giving anti-aliasing options when an Nvidia card is not detected and so forth turn me off.
When I buy something I look at the product and less so the name. However if I had to choose a company, in the end I would side with ATi on a moral standpoint. It's still a close call though, and their competition makes games better.
Great post, although I think "picking up steam" is a little bit of an understatement, and don't mean that subjectively. ATI have been ahead in the price/performance war for a long time, and now they're winning the straight performance race as well. ATI's second most powerful card has a single GPU that beats two of nVidia's best GPUs in SLI mode! That's not picking up steam, it's steamrolling your opposition into the ground. I'm sure nVidia will get their act together eventually, but not any time soon by all accounts.The Youth Counselor said:
I always used nVidia cards, first a gforce4, then a 5700, a 6600, an 8600 and now I moved on to an ATI Radeon HD4870. It works perfectly, I've never had any driver issues and it is way cheaper than an nVidia card of equal power. I think I'll keep buying ATI video cards unless that changes.
And PhysX sucks ass.
And PhysX sucks ass.