Originally posted by EternalOne:
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No they don't. ATI's real weekness is in the quality of thier drivers. The fastest card on paper doens't do you a damn bit of good if the drivers are not stable in games. Which is why I dumped the mid range ATI card I bought a month ago in favor of a GeForce 6800 GT. ATI can suck it.



I don't agree with this at all. (And I have a full 3D QA lab at my house, including every GF and ATI card made.) I am a certified developer for both ATI and Nvidia, and ATI's drivers blow Nvidia out of the water. GF's are known for everything from screen artifacts to loss of textures, simply from driver issues. Not to mention the shader support in the ATI cards actually follows the standards, instead of inventing their own (PS/VS3.0 on the GFFX line). Plus, side by side, the ATI's consistantly outperform the GF cards (fresh machines, loaded via my central Ghost server). I am not talking about "on paper" tests, I am talking full out 3D benchmarking my entire 3D engine against multiple cards, which pinpoint exact bottlenecks in the ASM calls, directly pointing me to hardware faults. I have reported no less than 5 serious bugs with NV drivers over the past 2 years, and I have yet to find a single flaw like this in any of the ATI drivers.

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For my money, I spend it on the company that supports Linux better. That is Nvidia. It so so seemless. I wish ATI would catch up in this, since I'd rather support a Canadian company. Benchmark-wise the best of both firms are alway trading 1st and 2nd in games'n'apps as time goes by.

You mention hardware faults on nvidia cards. I think nvida only makes the gpu (I don't think they make a full card for retail, just reference boards). Reference boards from Nvidia are a little nutty though. You're not actually getting them, are you? I thought only OEM board makers got them.

What kind of dev. do you do? I've been doing Opengl since for about 6 years now (kind of another reason why I've always liked Nvidia).

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