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I admire ATI far more as a company goes. ATI projects a much more outwardly professional attitude than Nvidia. I also find that ATI's attitude to their business sector is less of, \"WE CATER TO 1337 GAMERZ,\" and more of, \"The GPU is a tool to computing.\" They see their product as something more than something to give you better frame rates in games. ATI focuses on GPU-assisted media playback and image enhancement, where once again, Nvidia's eyes haven't moved from cranking up the frames per second. ATI also didn't ditch AGP with this current generation. The X1600 XT was to be AGP the whole time, and the X1800 XT is ALSO going to go AGP as of a recent announcment.
Nvidia doesn't capture that with me. With Nvidia, I see a company analgous to a jealous child who HAS to be in first. They were the ones who released SLI, which I feel to be a bane rather than a boon to the computing world. SLI has done nothing but allowed game developers to release games with less efficient graphics engines with all kinds of eye candy, and the only people who will get to enjoy that eye-candy are people with SLI. Nvidia has refused to allow ATI's CrossFire to work in Nvidia-chipset motherboards. I've also found that Nvidia gets its grimy little fingers in and around game developers to \"optimize\" that game for an Nvidia card as in Doom 3. In Doom 3's case, however, the game wasn't so much \"optmized for Nvidia\" so much as it was \"shot to heck for ATI.\"
I have also noted ATI cards tend to scale better as resolutions go higher and higher. Only in the X1k-series is that not property not apparent, but in the Xxxx-series cards, the \"equivalent\" ATI card wouldn't suffer the sharp dropoffs in performance at higher resolutions that Nvidia cards faced. They are also able to add more image enhancements (anti-aliasing, anisotropic filtering) without taking as serious performance hit as, once again, the \"equivalent\" Nvidia cards. And then, to top it all off, the \"equivalent\" Nvidia card is generally more expensive.
Yes, I've read that the day it was on there site. Now they say that 2 x X1800XT's in crossfire beat 2 x 7800GTX's in SLI by far. Now that is good news for people that want to go the Crossfire route.
And they are also talking about a new X1800 card possibly called the X1800XT PE or even the X1850XT. Who knows :) Never the less, ATI's cards are looking more promising & with Drivers to take full advantage, there is no telling when they will stop pounding FPS ;)
Yes, I've read that the day it was on there site. Now they say that 2 x X1800XT's in crossfire beat 2 x 7800GTX's in SLI by far. Now that is good news for people that want to go the Crossfire route.
And they are also talking about a new X1800 card possibly called the X1800XT PE or even the X1850XT. Who knows :) Never the less, ATI's cards are looking more promising & with Drivers to take full advantage, there is no telling when they will stop pounding FPS ;)
Stop pounding fps? They just started to catch up with the X1xxx series but then got beat down in the high end again by the 7800GTX 512.
nVidia still has a pretty firm hold on the market, ATI has a lot of work to do.
Stop pounding fps? They just started to catch up with the X1xxx series but then got beat down in the high end again by the 7800GTX 512
Hardly. ATI's first X-series cards (X700, X800, etc.) were all quite competitive to their nVidia challengers. The X800 XL was easily the better purchase over the 6800 GT, and the X800 GTO kicked the 6600 GT's butt. The X850 is just fecking fast, it's on par with or juuuust shy of the 7800 GT.
Nvidia, I supose. So far, their cards have always worked perfectly fine for me, and I find them smoother than ATI, though, I havn't tried out the latest ones, the highest one I've tried out is my current ATI Radeon 9700, that one owns the ones I've tried with Nvidia, but yeah, the majority rules.
It seems to me ATI is falling behind more and more. To me, the only plusses they have is they manage to get better clock speeds, smaller cards, less power, and crossfire is designed better for compatibility.
BUT, Nvidia is better due to smart pipelines which makes faster clock speeds pointless. PCIE-2 8800s are much smaller, so I'm assuming they generate less heat due to a lower wattage. I could be wrong about that though.
SLi is much more effective than crossfire and Nvidia was also the first to use DX10.
ATI had their glory with the 9800, Nvidia has theirs with the 8800 which has been out for about 2 years and has barely been upgraded. That says something.
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