GeForce Or Radeon

[Atrocities]

Which is the best video Card and why?

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Based on my totally subjective experience of good experiences with Nvidia, I voted Nvidia.

[HEMAN]

Hi Atrocities
With my finally new cpu in March i got ati x600pro, engine clock 400mhz, memory 256. My experience with store sells man & few web sites is?.(1) a tie but store man went for geforce .(2) How much you willing to pay for ?.As long you get a good model and very pricey at that.Say for nvidia, geforce go 6800 or 6800 ultra.Or ati radeon x300 to x850. NOTE:I do find geforce more expensive then ati cards when compareing.
NOTE:You wana look at example; (a) engine clock speed,(b)Memory clock speed,(c)Memory amount,(d)Pixel fillrate,(e)pipline. Rule of thumb; The higher the number the faster it is. Note: i didnt want to go for faster card because, some news report of faster mhz cards on both geforce/ati type cards being unstable at times, your computer will use cooling fan allot more, or graphic card fan will create a noise which can distract your game. Anyway was i helpful?.

[Atrocities]

I once spent $450.00 for a GeForce 3 and we all know now that that was a bad deal.

I don't want to get burned again, and I do like the Nvidia cards but I have also been hearing, and reading, some great things about the ATI Radeon cards.

I noticed that the ATI cards have 256 megs of memory while the Nvidia cards have only 128. Does this make a differance?

[Fyron]

Atrocities said:
I noticed that the ATI cards have 256 megs of memory while the Nvidia cards have only 128. Does this make a differance?

Nvidia has 256 MB cards as well. The extra ram definitely makes a big difference.

ATI cards are usually cheaper for the exact same overall performance. Check out some benchmarks on sites such as anandtech.com. You will see that there is practically no difference between the best ATI cards and best Nvidia cards.

[Atrocities]

$500.00 for the GeForce FX 6800 Ultra Video Card OMFG No way!

[Fyron]

Sales people are generally a very poor source of information. All that most of them know is market speak. Be very wary of relying on them.

[Atrocities]

Rule 87 - Never trust sales people. They seldom know what they are talking about, and all they care about is making the sale.

[Fyron]

There is no "best." The card that gets the highest results in bench marks fluctuates every month. Even concurrent bench marks performed by the same group (using different games/programs) show different products as being the "best." Either way you go, you will probably be fine.

As long as you don't plan on using Linux any time soon, that is. The current ATI drivers for Linux are quite terrible.

[Fyron]

I'd say ATI just to support the underdog, really... You will get the same performance either way (assuming comparable models).