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[Nikusakken]

As almost everyone knows, ATI/AMD and Nvidia are the two biggest companies in the video card are, so what your choise beetween them?

[bb_42001]

Nvidia all the way bro

[Nikusakken]

I like Nvidia either, but from some time ago, ATI has beeing beter than Nvidia. The Radeon HD4870 X2 is a good example.

[madness]

AMD doesn't make video cards. They make CPUs.

Between ATI and Nvidia, I prefer Nvidia because

-Stereoscopic/Anaglypic Graphics Mode
-New Hybird PowerSaving technology (with capable Nvidia motherboard)
-Better SLi technologies
-Easy to remember model numbers; 7600GT, 9600GTX, much easier than ATI's HD4280, X1650Pro (I guess there very similar, Nvidias just looks cleaner)

When it comes down to performance/price, there both pretty similar, Nvidia cards just come with a couple more features.

But overall Nvidia seems to be much more popular.
Some local stores here are refusing to sell ATI because they think there not very good.

[Nikusakken]

AMD doesn't make video cards. They make CPUs.

ATI was merged with AMD. In some sites and magazines, they call it AMD/ATI.

The new Radeon HD4870 X2 (review) has a better perfomance than the new GeForce GTX 200 series in some of the cases.

IMO, the SLi/CrossFireX thing is useless. Why pay more if you don't get even 50% more performance in most of the cases.

[cleone]

Nvidia

[Driver of DOOM]

ATI cause its half the price, oh, why am i the only one?

[Nikusakken]

Not anymore. ATI video cards are great (the 4**** series are way much better than anything else) And those new GeForce cards are way too overpriced. Oh, and the 4**** has support for DirectX 10.1 and Shader Model 4.1.

[Driver of DOOM]

why do they have such complicatd model numbers and features, i just tried to help a friend, and got bemused by the vast array or random numvers and stuff

[Nikusakken]

I think that it's depends of the person. I don't find it so complicated. But I dislike the new GeForce name. GTX isn't really that great of a name.

[bb_42001]

who really knows the reason behind there model names, it could be just someone liked the name or it could be something more