ATI vs. nVidia the official poll

ATI vs nVidia

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Kepler looks amazing. I'm still running off a 9800GT. I'll probably upgrade in a year or so to one of the new GTX ones. I used to be an AMD fanboy in the 90s, but since I've switched to Intel/nVidia combos and never looked back. Way better performance for the cost. Also, ATI doesn't really exist anymore. It's AMD.
 
7970 overclocked to GTX 680 out of the box specs, performs about the same. GPU Boost giving the 680 the advantage.

ATI is AMD now, haven't you heard. :p
 
Roman said:
I love PhysX.
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I love how they always said that you would need a separate PhysX card. Two months later they integrated it into their device drivers. I feel bad for anyone who purchased one of those separate cards since they're worthless now, but cost around $100 by themselves when they sold them.
 
Money wise - ATI, no doubts. Performance wise (cooling, quietness, drivers support) - NVidia, no doubts.
Has been NVidia guy for over 10 years. I had 3D Blaster Voodoo 2 when I decided to upgrade to Riva TNT2. Since then I've never used anything else but NVidia chipsets.
 
ATI makes better budget cards, nVidia has better high-range cards, but it comes with the pricetag.

so i'm currently going with ATI because i'm on a HD6950
 
pr1mus da scr1pt said:
ATI makes better budget cards, nVidia has better high-range cards, but it comes with the pricetag.

so i'm currently going with ATI because i'm on a HD6950
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AMD makes better budget CPUs. AMD CPUs always seem about a year behind Intel.

They're actually usually pricier than nVidia in the GPU market. I believe the AMD Radeon HD 6990 is the fastest card on the market now depending on the benchmark (multiple GPU though). If you want to spend $900 on the best graphics card, go with AMD right now. I think the new GTX ones with Kepler are damn good thoughit's only in the $600 range. I guess you would compare it to the 7970 from AMD.
 
You can make the same poll every 6 months and the result will be different... nVidia now, but for example not so long ago they couldn't run dx11, which was standard for a mid tier Ati card then.
 
Don't get a reference 6990 or 590 as they're noisy and hot as fuck.
If you due get one make sure it's custom cooled.

You might get micro-shuttering issues as well if your fps are below your display refresh rate (normally 120fps) due to it being dual-gpu cards (basically crossfire/SLI config)
 
takethepants said:
I love how they always said that you would need a separate PhysX card. Two months later they integrated it into their device drivers. I feel bad for anyone who purchased one of those separate cards since they're worthless now, but cost around $100 by themselves when they sold them.
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Still get better performance on a seperate card, that's how it's always been. Sure you can run it on the same card, but you don't get the 15 FPS boost of using a separate 480 for PhysX.
 
nVidia makes better cards in my opinion however they are more expensive overall. ATi mostly makes budget cards. A fun thing i discovered about nVidia and ATi is the fact that a motherboard with only CrossFire instead of only SLI would be up to 50% the price. So i guess it's a stereotype which makes anything Radeon-related cheaper because of lower demand, however in most cases that stereotype is true.
 
I run an NVIDIA GeForce GT 520, and I never looked back. Even though I do want to up my Processor from an Athlon to a Phenom or Bulldog, an i7-2600k paired with a GTX 680 just sound jizztastically amazing.
 
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