DirectX 10 war... ATI Vs nVidia

[Finarfin]

Well... Post which one you preffer and why :lockd:

I'd like the HD series because is not as expensive as nvidia and they have a nice performance... But im not sure, because still aren't DirectX 10 games to test it fully...

 

[Archkronos]

I think the ATI range is better in terms of value, and everyday preformance. It really depends what you what to get out of it, and why.

I think the nVedia models are for people who are prepared to pay more, and get just a little more proformance.

 

[webflush]

Nvidia performance is currently better with those SLI tech and more.

it may be abit ex but the chipset are common and standard for most game.. i.e it's work perfectly well and smooth with most game engine.. so lesser lag and bug..

not tried most ATI yet but the previous one gave me quite some problem

 

[noerrorsfound]

Any choice between ATI and NVIDIA is easy for me, since I use Linux.

NVIDIA's drivers give you much better performance in Linux than ATI. If you want to play games on Linux, NVIDIA is your best option.

But since this is about DirectX 10, that doesn't matter since DX10 is only for Windows.

 

[halohalo]

Any choice between ATI and NVIDIA is easy for me, since I use Linux.

Sigh, that's one thing that I miss from my switchover to Linux... games... I still keep a simple windows box with minimal specs to play simple games. I've shied away from the games with higher-end specs because of this.

Incidentally I was lucky enough to attend the nVidia LAN Party and SLI release announcement party in San F rancisco a couple of years ago. All this talk about shaders and polygons and render-time effects made my head spin. Apparently this SLI stuff is really high-end stuff requiring major hardware upgrades (motherboard, power supply, cpu, etc.) to be compatible with their new video chip capabilities. Sounds a lot like Microsoft and the extensive hardware upgrades required every time they update their OS.

As for ATI, I haven't heard any major hardware updates required to work with even their highest-end chipsets. Is that correct?

 

[noerrorsfound]

Sigh, that's one thing that I miss from my switchover to Linux... games... I still keep a simple windows box with minimal specs to play simple games. I've shied away from the games with higher-end specs because of this.

Unreal Tournament 3 and Enemy Territory: Quake Wars are going to have Linux versions. :biggrin: Epic Games and id Software have always supported Linux so I guess this isn't very surprising, but it's good we're going to get some new commercial games.

 

[brianfast]

Well some games come over but those games are usually open GL games made by id or something. Granted they work well but only a few games use openGL. Anyway I use nvidia geforce 6600 right now, but I am thinking about building second machine with a HD2400 (for movies). It is certainly nice that for 50 bucks you can get HDCP playback.

 

[unpixelatedgamers]

As for ATI, I haven't heard any major hardware updates required to work with even their highest-end chipsets. Is that correct?

It depends on your current hardware set-up. It always does.

If, for example, you're wanting to upgrade to an SLI (multi-graphics card) set-up. you have a blazing processor (core 2 duo E6700), and a good power supply (700 watt), but only have one PCI express slot in your Mobo. You can get away with just upgrading your mobo quite easily. as well as buying the pair of graphics cards of course.

But if you're running older hardware - a pentium 4 2Ghz, 300watt power supply etc. You'll need to upgrade practically everything if you want to run a DX10 card. (except maybe your case)

As it stands, nVidia do have higher performing cards. But for more money. ATI offer better value I would say.

They're also more advanced I would say. ATi has been working on unified shaders for years longer than nVidia have. They did the Xenos in the Xbox 360 back in 2005.

Crossfire solutions are also more than a match for SLI based set-ups. Unfortunately, you need a different motherboard and chipset for each.

DX10 has only just started though. Besides, with all the consoles on Dx9.5 spec hardware or worse, we won't see widespread utilisation of it until around 2011.

 

[brianfast]

Crossfire cannot compete with SLI very well. They just revamped it so now 2 2900XTs are faster then a 8800 ultra xxx but then you also pay more for 2 2900XTs.

In addition the Video decoding on the HD series needs to be fixed with future drivers. And the 2900 HD is a total power hog. Other then that though, its a pretty nice card but it can't compete with the top 2 Nvidia cards.

 

[lukeusher123]

i wouldn't know which is the best card for direct x 10,. my comp aint up for games with high specs, however, from personal experience with many different computer configurations, i would say NVIDIA is the best, despited the higher price, as i have always had better perfomence
For example, an old 32MB Geforce 2 MX card, ran many games , and emulators at a faster framerate than a 64MB ATI READON 7000

 

[samurai1993]

Well, nVidia uses a powerful hardware for the processing of graphics in general... and has a slower power consumption than ATI... but ATI has a hardware focused in shaders, and obviously their cards works better in games with an abusive high use of shaders.
But for a personal preference, I choose nVidia

 

[nol888]

Although the NVIDA cards give better performance, I prefer the ATI cards, as they're a better value, and I'm not as hardcore a gamer as to need such extra performance.

 

[Prison Gate]

ATI is more user friendly with overclocking and easy settings and don't have the best gaming experience.

Nvidia is more of a gamers kind of card.They are great overclockers and it has SLi.SLi is the best thing ever.Imagine 2 XFX 8800 Ultra's SLi'ed together (Best card currently on the market) and trying to play crysis, If you can get all High settings on Crysis I'll give you a million bucks.

 

[nomore]

I used to have ATI READON 9250,
but i upgraded my computer, now i have
nVidia 8800 GT

nVidia ROX
even that i have AMD 6600, and ATI is not owned by AMD

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