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nVidia vs ATI

nVidia (single card)
23
53%
ATI (single card)
14
33%
nVidia (SLI/Multi-card)
1
2%
ATI (crossfire/Multi card)
1
2%
on-board graphics
3
7%
other
1
2%
 
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nVidia vs ATI (in general)

Postby Grosie » Sun Jul 11, 2010 2:03 pm UTC

I only think that this has been done for Linux before, so here is a general one.

Personally, I think nVidia, but I'm not sure why...
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Re: nVidia vs ATI (in general)

Postby Deviltry » Sun Jul 11, 2010 9:23 pm UTC

Today — ATi. No overheating, no "new" cards based on older chips, etc. There's only one sphere where nVidia > ATi, and that's Linux drivers. Frankly, no one cares about Linux. :-)
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Re: nVidia vs ATI (in general)

Postby Dason » Sun Jul 11, 2010 11:46 pm UTC

Deviltry wrote:Frankly, no one cares about Linux. :-)

LIES
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Re: nVidia vs ATI (in general)

Postby hotaru » Mon Jul 12, 2010 4:12 am UTC

Deviltry wrote:Today — ATi. No overheating, no "new" cards based on older chips, etc. There's only one sphere where nVidia > ATi, and that's Linux drivers. Frankly, no one cares about Linux. :-)

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Re: nVidia vs ATI (in general)

Postby frostwarrior » Mon Jul 12, 2010 10:28 am UTC

Until mesa does real work on gallium3d accel in r600, im with nvidia.

Yeah, gnu/linux.
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Re: nVidia vs ATI (in general)

Postby Kromix » Tue Jul 13, 2010 1:52 pm UTC

ATI, has never given me an issue i cannot resolve. Nvidia in the other hand... :roll: i still resolve the issues but takes a bit longer lol...


i vote ATI, have always used ATI in my personal computers, although i do have computers with Nvidia in my home. But i mainly follow a principle, ATI with AMD,and Intel with Nvidia.
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Postby SlyReaper » Tue Jul 13, 2010 2:01 pm UTC

ATI here, but that may be more down to my natural bias towards underdogs in general.
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Re: nVidia vs ATI (in general)

Postby flying sheep » Tue Jul 13, 2010 11:48 pm UTC

nvidia, because of the linux drivers.
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Re: nVidia vs ATI (in general)

Postby Amnesiasoft » Wed Jul 14, 2010 3:02 am UTC

nVidia because green is best.









But red ones go faster... hmm... quite the conundrum.
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Re: nVidia vs ATI (in general)

Postby SlyReaper » Wed Jul 14, 2010 11:04 am UTC

Yeah I know nVidia have better Linux drivers, but that's pretty much the ONLY thing they do better than ATI. Oh, that and slapping "nVidia The Way It's Meant To Be Played" on every game ever.
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Re: nVidia vs ATI (in general)

Postby Stay_Puft_marshmallows » Wed Jul 14, 2010 11:41 am UTC

Well now. The only nvidia card I ever bought is also the only one that's ever blown up on me.

Plus, seeing that infernal goddamn "the way it's meant to be played" badge in the intro of EVERY GAME EVER, SERIOUSLY ALL OF THEM when you're a young man who just proudly purchased a Radeon...

That shit leaves a mark, y'know?
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Re: nVidia vs ATI (in general)

Postby Kromix » Wed Jul 14, 2010 1:01 pm UTC

"the way it's meant to be played" - nvidia

"the only way this game will play properly" - ATI lols
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Re: nVidia vs ATI (in general)

Postby Game_boy » Mon Jul 26, 2010 7:04 am UTC

All the true ATI fans live on this site: http://www.semiaccurate.com/


http://www.semiaccurate.com/2009/07/29/ ... tapes-out/
http://www.semiaccurate.com/2009/10/01/ ... oards-gtc/
http://www.semiaccurate.com/2009/11/16/ ... k-targets/
http://www.semiaccurate.com/2009/12/21/ ... mi-448sps/
http://www.semiaccurate.com/2010/01/17/ ... acturable/
http://www.semiaccurate.com/2010/05/05/ ... sla-again/
http://www.semiaccurate.com/2010/07/11/ ... defective/

Same author:
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/new ... ep-trouble
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/new ... rts-update
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/new ... -taped-out
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/new ... chitecture
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/new ... -defective

and so on, and so on. All posted months before the products' release, but the leaked factual details (which are usually pretty close) are obscured by the hate.

Currently he's saying that AMD's next part will be ~50% faster for the same die size in October, and that Nvidia has no answer until the second half of 2011.
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Re: nVidia vs ATI (in general)

Postby hintss » Thu Jul 29, 2010 10:11 pm UTC

last i checked, ATI drivers were easier in linux that nvidia counterparts...

sow if thats true, im going with ATI...
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Re: nVidia vs ATI (in general)

Postby Praetor » Thu Jul 29, 2010 11:45 pm UTC

Nvidia, they've always worked well for me (I've had a Riva TNT2, Geforce 2, 7600GS and now a 9800GTX+), and Linux support has always been great (I've heard bad things about ATI + Linux...). Though my one ATI card (a Radeon 9600Pro) did perform just fine for the year or two I used it (never used Linux on that machine when it had that chip in it though).

Plus in my 3d graphics experiences ATI has always had some weird issues with OpenGL and shaders and such.

last i checked, ATI drivers were easier in linux that nvidia counterparts...


That's the exact opposite of everything I've ever heard on the subject.
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Re: nVidia vs ATI (in general)

Postby Union Of V » Fri Jul 30, 2010 3:53 pm UTC

ATI. More bang for the buck. Although for Linux I've always had a soft spot for Intel graphics :p Yes I'm lazy like that...
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Re: nVidia vs ATI (in general)

Postby hintss » Fri Jul 30, 2010 9:15 pm UTC

I thought ATI ones were in a package while NVidia ones needed compiling.

awww, screw dat (accronym and pronounced versuons). red is aweomer..
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Re: nVidia vs ATI (in general)

Postby cjmcjmcjmcjm » Sat Jul 31, 2010 3:43 am UTC

Apparently Apple is agnostic about graphics cards. They now use ATI for their desktops and nVidia for their notebooks.
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Postby J the Ninja » Sun Aug 01, 2010 5:11 pm UTC

cjmcjmcjmcjm wrote:Apparently Apple is agnostic about graphics cards. They now use ATI for their desktops and nVidia for their notebooks.


Shit yeah! When I order my Mac Pro, I will FINALLY have an ATI box. All this Nvidia garbage of bad packaging and pretending 2008 tech is 2010 tech. Little apprehensive about GPGPU performance though...

Also, ATI's Mac drivers are almost always better, since AMD does them themselves, instead of just dumping some specs on Apple the way Nvidia does. (3870 > 8800GT under OS X. Also, 4870 > GTX 285)
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Re: nVidia vs ATI (in general)

Postby cjmcjmcjmcjm » Mon Aug 02, 2010 1:36 am UTC

Do you know if ATI is more power efficient for use on laptops? I also wonder how good the 3rd party chipmakers are http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_p ... _companies
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Re: nVidia vs ATI (in general)

Postby Amnesiasoft » Mon Aug 02, 2010 8:00 am UTC

Based on the current state of the two companies cards... I'd think the opposite would make more sense. But whatever!
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Re: nVidia vs ATI (in general)

Postby hintss » Tue Aug 03, 2010 4:02 am UTC

J the Ninja wrote:
cjmcjmcjmcjm wrote:Apparently Apple is agnostic about graphics cards. They now use ATI for their desktops and nVidia for their notebooks.


Shit yeah! When I order my Mac Pro, I will FINALLY have an ATI box. All this Nvidia garbage of bad packaging and pretending 2008 tech is 2010 tech. Little apprehensive about GPGPU performance though...

Also, ATI's Mac drivers are almost always better, since AMD does them themselves, instead of just dumping some specs on Apple the way Nvidia does. (3870 > 8800GT under OS X. Also, 4870 > GTX 285)

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