We know who
the daddy is when it comes to single-card graphics performance, and we've even witnessed NVIDIA and ATI
duking it out with multiple cards before, but this here roundup is what you might call
comprehensive. Comparing a mind-boggling 23 different configurations, the
Tech Report guys set out to determine the best bang for your DirectX 11 buck. Their conclusion won't shock those of you who've been following the recent love affair
between reviewers and NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 460: a pair of these eminently affordable cards regularly outpaced the best single-GPU solutions out there. Slightly more intriguing, however, was the discovery that its elder siblings, the
GTX 470 and 480, have improved in performance to the point of being markedly ahead of
ATI's Radeon HD 5870, with the blame for this shift being put squarely on the shoulders of NVIDIA's driver update team. Hurry up and give the source a read while it's still fresh, we can't imagine ATI letting this be the status quo for too much longer.
posted August 12th 2010 9:47AM
@ytilanigiroon Thank you. Hopefully your Redwings will be healthy this year. I would have much rather gone through you guys than the sweep we handed the Sharks. It's good to see we both have good teams again (although it has been us on the crappy side of things) to truly rekindle the rivalry we used to have. That can only be healthy for the NHL.
@walkingdogs GO KINGS!!
hehe, sorry, just wanted to inappropriately interject there. 8^)
@walkingdogs
Obviously it's different over here in Europe then. I have about 60 1920x1200 monitors and only a handful of 1920x1080 to pick from. Let's put personal preference aside, 1080 is crap for a computer monitor if it is not intended to be a TV stand-in.
That said, back to personal preference, I'm all for 4:3 monitors since I don't have to scroll to death to read any news articles and similar stuff and pivoting 16:9/10 monitors is like a nightmare if you happen to find one which can do it.
@MasterCKO Quite alright. Nice to have a little sports thrown in.
@walkingdogs
Have to agree with FMinus here. The reason that 16:9 monitor prevail in numbers is that the 16:9 panels are cheaper to produce and consumer are susceptible to "Full HD" marketing fad coming out of TV industry.
More pixels giving more display surface are avalways better for PC user than less, no matter how stupid the consumers are.
I've always chose NVidia graphics for one little difference called "digital vibrance". Some people say it makes the colors artificial, but I LOVE it.
@LightningStikes : Makes a $200 monitor look like a $500 one.
That, plus Nvidia usually has better Linux support than ATi and I like using my iron long after it's any good for gaming.
If not for those issues, I'd be completely agnostic about graphic cards.
ATi basically fucked up their last two driver revisions which pretty much mess up crossfire in many games (prime example being BC2). The 10.5 drivers almost double the performance of the 10.6 and 10.7(a) in crossfire. Just an FYI!
I love reading the comments here and realizing that at least half of the people commenting didn't even bother to read the source article. If you didn't read it, don't bother making some mis informed comment. It's just distracting from any actual discussion of the content of the article
I've always had a good experience with ATi card. They're also much cheaper in comparison to nVIDIA cards. The thing I hate though is that PhysX is exclusively an nVIDIA feature, so when games like Batman: Arkham Asylum or Mirror's Edge utilise the feature, ATi users are left behind.
I've owned ATI and NVIDIA cards throughout the past 12 years. I generally go for the best performance for the price, but lately I've been sticking with NVIDIA cards because of the better Linux support.
Where are the 5970 CrossFireX tests? Some of us must want to see the best performance you can possibly get on multi-cards solution.
I put a GeForce GTX 465 in my new i7 930 rig and it shrugs off hard work like it's not there. I'm not a power gamer and won't be until Diablo III comes out (MWWWWAAAAHAHAH!). I made sure I put the SLI hardware in a safe place.
I've put nVidia cards through a lot over the years and they've been fantastic. A friend of mine deals with AMD and ATI but she was impressed with the performance of my new desktop. nVidia all the way!
Rumor has it that the ATI 6-series is coming in November. Take that Nvidia!
i would take two gtx 460 from asus because i never had problems with asus.
my video card is asus with the motherboard.
Asus fanboy!!!
I switched from PC gaming to a PS3. couldn't be happier. no more config hassles. no more costly upgrades.
People still care about this crap?
My rig is running 3 OC'd GTX 480's in 3-way SLI. I went with the 480's for both the awesome scaling and the raw CUDA power. Combined with my OC'd ram, OC'd i7-980X (To 4.6ghz), and SSD drives... I never have any problems with lag in any application.
I'm do both heavy gaming and (mainly) a lot of 3D rendering/video editing/compositing.
I hate these kind of articles.
When it comes down to it, there are tons of factors that goes into what makes a video card tick. You have different architecture, and other things such as games being more optimized towards certain makers (Far Cry 2 comes to mind. That heavily favors nVidia technology, while other games favor ATi [I believe BC2 comes to mind]).
This is not a black and white issue. There's tons of gray in between.