it's nto about beating the other company. it's about having both companies have products out which are neck and neck so that we the consumer benefit from the ensuing price wars... I could have a "piece-of-crap" brand card in my PC and I'd be happy just so long as it offered good performance for the price and was reliable.
agreed. though for some odd reason after R600 I'm seeing myself as more and more of a nVidia fan. might just be that my expectations were too high though. Was hoping for R600 to walk on water. Was hoping for a major price war and for 8800GTXes t be in the $300 range(I have a relatively weak PSU and I'm a fan of silence you do that math). AMD failed and I was forced into a GTS/
nVidia, more reliable cards plus they offer the SLI function so all those high end modders are happy ^^ Also nVidia have been part of alot of development with gaming software and graphics technologies this day and age ... being a gamer ... nVidia is the best ^^
ATI has crossfire =/ and NVIDIA is not more reliable I will say this though, NVIDIA seems to have the general public with them more then ATI ATI seems to be for the more knowledgeable users in the high end series of their cards. ( X19xx, HD2900 series) just a question for everyone here which card is better? NVIDIA GeForce 7900GTX or ATI Radeon X1900XTX
first of all multi-GPU arrays have been around since the 90s. Ever heard of 3dFX? They originated the first implementation of SLI. ATi has a mltiple GPU array configuration which seems to be scaling better than SLi and is a fair deal more flexible. then again I never bother with either since I could just buy a highend card that maxes out anything I throw at it, sell it a few months later and then buy a new card, have higher performance the entire time and end up having spent less money. ========= show me one study which finds nVidia card's to be more reliable. you realize that nVidia and ATi are both design companies and are both FABLESS. nVidia and ATi make NOTHING - NOTHING. Heck I believe they even use the same manufacturers a fair amount of the time. I know ATi is using TSMC and i believe nVidia's using them a fair deal as well, at the very least I've heard rumors of nVidia striking upa multibillion dollar deal for production on the 80nanometer half node... so on the chipset side well... and on the PCB side ATi has a 8layer PCB board vs. nvidia's 6layer PCB board... humm... conversely that means in the hands of an idiot it's easier to f' up but in terms of board stability AMD's reference design is a bit better in the current gen(says nothing of performance though) even the PCB design usually isn't that critical neither company makes their own vRAM. toss $10000 at some highend video cards(R600 and G80) and i'm willing to bet that you'll likely run into the exact same chips used on both companies products on occasion. the repeat the above but with lower end cards net result you just said that one company has more reliable products than the other. neither company actually makes products their manufacturers they contracted out for chipset design greatly overlap you claimed the one with the more advanced PCB design is less reliable... actual PCB is made elsewhere by another company actual assembly is done by another company. OK.. think that about does that. Neither company MAKES a product which is more or less reliable than the other. FYI I've never actually heard of a GPU dying on someone(aside from electrostaticdischarge but that's user neglect and I saw that happen in person my friend fried his 6600GT dumbass that he is). probably has a life expectancy in excess of any other IC in a system.
