Nvidia or ATI

[Griffolion]

ATi = Best Bang for Bucks in Price to Performance Ratio in the Performance end of things
Nvidia = Physix and the top end one is better than ati's top IF your willing to pay through the nose for it

Me personally ATi, Done me great for years and my HD4870 still going strong!

Can't say i agree with that physx comment, its just a proprietary API that gives games better smoke, water and debris effects but it actually takes up more of the GPU's resources to utilise. So basically you generally get a game with physx off at 60 fps but physx on is maybe 50 fps for kind-of better graphics.

Its honestly nothing special, i'm not trolling or anything but i want everyone to realise that its not as big as what NV markets it as. With or without physx, NV's cards will put out kickass frames on your screen.

 

[Brandon237]

As long as it lets my games look nice. I don't care.

Agreed, and preferably without having to play a power-point style slide show too. I have a Nvidia and it works well, so yeah, go Nvidia? Although most people tell me that Ati is better, but I'm short of cash, so no new cards for me any time soon.

 

[SenseOfTumour]

I dont much care either way, I don't have brand loyalty here, I just wait til I see a good enough deal on a new card and go for it.

I'm running on a radeon 4830 that I bought about a year ago for £60 (B grade refurbished) and it's still letting me play all my games with everything on high at 1366x768 (TV resolution).

 

[Griffolion]

As long as it lets my games look nice. I don't care.

Agreed, and preferably without having to play a power-point style slide show too. I have a Nvidia and it works well, so yeah, go Nvidia? Although most people tell me that Ati is better, but I'm short of cash, so no new cards for me any time soon.

In the end its a personal preference thing. 3d mark and vantage will quantify the processing power of each card and thus give a clear winner, but in the end it comes down to what you want to pay.

 

[Wolvaroo]

I find that ATI are consistantly pushing newer shader technologies, whereas NVidia just hops on with thier next series.

Also I HATE that damn "Nvidia, The way it's ment to be played" intro on 80% of games.

Also ATI is Canadian and owned by AMD, which is also my perferred CPU brand. When added to my ASUS favorite boards this creates the "TRIFECTAH!" Now my computer is AAA and can shoot down enemy aircraft =D

 

[AndyMacK]

ATI because they're red. I don't like green.

 

[Hazzaslagga]

I use Nvidia but have not used a ATI card so i can't say which is best.

 

[garfoldsomeoneelse]

I'm impartial on this matter, since I see no point in brand loyalty when neither is necessarily better than the other. No preference, either, I'll use whatever makes my computer play pretty games.

 

[snakeakaossi]

I hope this won't start a flamewar, but this is something I really have to say on this subject

I like to tinker with my computer, but I don't always got the bucks to do that. I have used both ATI and NVidia. I had (emphasis on HAD) a computer with 2 VGA screens and one TV and an ATI card. I switched to NVidia, because it should have better performance and carefully chose a card with an Svideo outlet for the TV.

Install->driver Enable->TV. No TV. Seems they disabled it in the drivers. I've got the outlet, yet NVidia are being bullies.

But not all awesome was lost, it now had 3Dvision discover! Retro feel with blue-red glasses, yay!

Yesterday: driver update->3D vision discover gone. Download->3DVision drivers. Only compatible with extremely expensive screen and glasses.

It is safe to say I have a big personal grudge against NVidia by now. This card I own will be their last card I'll ever buy. ATI knows how to maintain their drivers better and crossfire is better than the NVidia equivalent, since you can combine any card with any card you want with ATI crossfire instead of having to use two identical cards for the NVidia equivalent.

My next card will defenitely be an ATI. Too bad my current NVidia won't be obsolete the coming few years, so I have a reason to spent a lot of bucks.

 

[EHKOS]

Well I like ATI because some of the older cards can hehe "run" newer games. I have a 3200 and I can run GTA 4. I also like ATI because there is a little reason to their card naming. I know that the 5000 series is the newest and most powerful. Now Nvidia, I don't doubt they have better more powerful cards, however I wouldn't know which one to get seeing as how they are named like Mercades. GTX1950 and stuff like that.

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

I got myself a 295, so I've always been an nvidia man.

 

[Lukeje]

Hmm... I've always favoured ATI (supporting the little guy and all that), but when it came time to order my computer for work (doing computational spin dynamics) I had to go for nVidia. Their parallel GPU support just blows anything ATI has out of the water at the moment.

 

[Crystal Cuckoo]

I use NVidia because they're all I know.

 

[bam13302]

Nvidia if your not going top of the line, otherwised the absolute best are ati (although they cost an arm and a leg, like in the $1000+ range).
I usually dont want to spend more on my video card then the rest of my comp, so i go with Nvidia, never gave me a bad experience
anyways, even a mid-high level nvidia will do great on all modern games
this should have been a poll

 

[jamesworkshop]

Ati has by far the better range of products in price/performance segments but in terms of raw power GTX480 Sli systems top the performance charts.

Really the problem with PC tech is that hardware requirments have been the same since 2007 and machines capable of running Crysis on Very High don't struggle with any other titles
The newer cards are mostly irrelevant when dealing with ports of UE3 games the power is too far ahead of software reducing the need for upgrading

 

[Bobzer77]

I normally prefer nvidia because they don't take ages to release good drivers [still getting artificing on the witcher with my current ati card >: ( ] and their website is built not to be completely unnavigable (<-- is that a word lol ?), however when I bought this Radeon HD 5700 it was cheaper than the comparable nvidia card and it has performed well so far.

 

[Kouen]

ATi = Best Bang for Bucks in Price to Performance Ratio in the Performance end of things
Nvidia = Physix and the top end one is better than ati's top IF your willing to pay through the nose for it

Me personally ATi, Done me great for years and my HD4870 still going strong!

Can't say i agree with that physx comment, its just a proprietary API that gives games better smoke, water and debris effects but it actually takes up more of the GPU's resources to utilise. So basically you generally get a game with physx off at 60 fps but physx on is maybe 50 fps for kind-of better graphics.

Its honestly nothing special, i'm not trolling or anything but i want everyone to realise that its not as big as what NV markets it as. With or without physx, NV's cards will put out kickass frames on your screen.

I Agree, Software Physx is more than enough imo, Im just mentioning it as for some its a big selling point especially with how nvidia love to shove there logo in your face xD

 

[Snotnarok]

NVidia all the way, because they at least fucking support their cards after they put them out.
For years both my laptops had one set of video drivers, because those bastards never updated them EVER. It was version 1.0 and that gave me a LOT of problems doing a lot of things.

I wound up with 3rd party drivers which worked pretty good but still wasn't ATI supporting their shit.

From 2 laptops experience I came to hate ATI, I dunno if they changed their ways but NVidia updates drivers all the time so I hardly have a reason to go back to ATI.

 

[Paddin]

Nvidia, because it looks better.

Not graphics-wise, I'm not sure looks better in that way, I mean logo-wise.

My computer uses a Nvida graphics card and its always worked fine for me.

Also all you people who predicted a flame war, surprisingly you are wrong. Its turned in to a friendly and respectful conversation about graphics cards. Is it opposite day or something?