Poll: hmmm...nvidia or ATI radeon...

[Mechsoap]

im thinking of buying a new computer, but i cant decide between nvidia or radeon, so please tell me your opinion on this

 

[Vault boy Eddie]

I had a PC with AMD and ATI and another with Intel and Nvidia. I personally preffer nvidia.

 

[Radeonx]

I prefer Nvidia.
[sub]Oh, the irony![/sub]

 

[Mechsoap]

so whats the difference really?

 

[crimson5pheonix]

Nvidia has the power, ATI has the better prices. It's your choice.

 

[VincentX3]

Nvidia all the way

 

[Johnnyallstar]

It depends. ATI tends to have the better individual cards for the price, but Nvidia is much easier to multi-GPU work. SLI works much easier than Crossfire, and you don't have to worry about triple checking to make sure they are the same card by the same producer. Nvidias work together much more friendly.

 

[Jamieson 90]

In my Experience Nvidia cards are better, it depends on what cards you are thinking of though.

 

[Infinatex]

In my opinion - ATI hands down. I currently have an ATI 5850 Black Edition and it's real good and not too expensive. Though I guess it's up to personal preference and how much coin you're willing to blow. They both have comparable products on the market so it's really like picking between Pepsi and Coke.

 

[Macgyvercas]

The Nvidia GeForce GTX 480 is the best on the market, my sources tell me. But it costs about 400 USD. ATI 5870 will more than suffice, and you'll save some money.

 

[Cody211282]

I use to have a PNY Nvidia GeForce 9500 GT, but jut got a new XFX Radeon HD 5570.

Honestly I just go with what I can afford, and since I just installed the new card like 5 min ago I will see what happens.

 

[jason27131]

ATI unless you're looking for a 200$ card, in which case i'd pick the gtx 460 over the HD 5830. Otherwise, 5850, 5870, 5970 are all better performance for the money.

 

[Mechsoap]

It depends. ATI tends to have the better individual cards for the price, but Nvidia is much easier to multi-GPU work. SLI works much easier than Crossfire, and you don't have to worry about triple checking to make sure they are the same card by the same producer. Nvidias work together much more friendly.

so that means i can mix different kind of cards like gtx 470 and gtx 460 maybe?

 

[Mechsoap]

The Nvidia GeForce GTX 480 is the best on the market, my sources tell me. But it costs about 400 USD. ATI 5870 will more than suffice, and you'll save some money.

gtx 480 is not the strongest on the market, actually the ati raedeon 5970 is the best with 484 more megabytes

 

[DefunctTheory]

For the BEST, absolute BEST, video card of any recent generation, NVidia wins hands down.

But if you are not going to get the orgasmic ultra $500+ cinematic sex fest version, than go ATI/AMD.

The Nvidia GeForce GTX 480 is the best on the market, my sources tell me. But it costs about 400 USD. ATI 5870 will more than suffice, and you'll save some money.

gtx 480 is not the strongest on the market, actueally the ati raedeon 5970 is the bet with 484 more megabytes

The defeat of Intel by AMDs half hertz processors a few years ago. Did you miss it? Raw specs are a poor way of rating video cards, or anything for that matter.

NOTE: Get a Tesla!

 

[SpAc3man]

The Nvidia GeForce GTX 480 is the best on the market, my sources tell me. But it costs about 400 USD. ATI 5870 will more than suffice, and you'll save some money.

ATI 5970 is the best if your willing to pay an arm and a leg. Pretty much dual 5870s in one card.

EDIT: aw ninja'd

 

[Mechsoap]

well that solved my proplem, i choosen gtx 470 wich seems pretty good and should come in some days, thanks for escaping me for great money proplems

 

[SpAc3man]

Performance guesstimate from what I've gathered by research:

5970 > GTX480 > 5870 > GTX470 = 5850 > 5830 > GTX465 > 5770

The GTX470 vs 5850 result depends on how you test them, Some games run better on one card. They are close enough to say theres no difference.

For people who aren't too sure on how to compare this to previous gen cards, the 5770 has the same performance as the 4870 which has the same performance as a GTX260 (EDIT: the older GTX260, not the 216 core revision)

 

[Canadamus Prime]

I've had fairly solid experiences with Nvidia, but it's really 6 of 1 half a dozen of another.

 

[SpAc3man]

the Nvidia 200 series and ATI 4000 series where pretty equal but the latest gen has seen ATI pull ahead. The performance differences are negligible but the ATI prices are a lot better not to mention the new Nvidia cards are extremely power hungry and have very very high temps compared to the ATI equivalent cards.