NVidia>Ati

XPCportables · Post by **XPCportables** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 6:22 pm

remember the thread a while back about the 7800GTX vs. X1800 and how someone posted about the Ati X1900 kicking the poo out of the 7800GTX... well NVidia strikes back with the 7900GTX talk about it
EDIT

7900gtx_______________________x1900
24 pixel pipe lines_______________16 ppl
650mhz core___________________625mhz core
1600mhz memory clock__________1450mhz mem clock
SLI ready______________________Yeah right... your stuck with crossfire
499$__________________________599$

sniper_spike · Post by **sniper_spike** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 6:28 pm

Well yah, of course Nvidia owns ATi, always will always have (well, except the Fx series, that sucked). It's kind of late though, with DX10 just around the corner, it would be a waste of money. :\
It is rather cheap though, considering the uberness of the card.

XPCportables · Post by **XPCportables** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 7:45 pm

yeah good point. well here is the Ati competition X1900 less power more $

daleighan · Post by **daleighan** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 9:08 pm

ATI isn't nearly as good

teraflop122 · Post by **teraflop122** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 12:25 am

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814102671

Hmm....maybe I forgot how to count.

Anyway, according to Adrian's Rojak Pot the 7800GTX started out more powerful than the X1900XTX (memory sizes aside), not to mention the 7900GTX.

I've always like ATI...kinda makes me sad to see them getting their butts whipped by Nvidia. It's the same feeling one would experience if, say, Intel was actually better than AMD.

sniper_spike · Post by **sniper_spike** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 6:29 am

Odd, in the review I read the 1900XTX was kicking (relatively) the 7800GTX' butt. Maybe it was just ATi biased, or maybe the review you read was Nvidia biased.

vb_master · Post by **vb_master** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 8:06 am

Since the Xbox 360 switched from NVidia to ATI, I don't know. That's a big risk since with the NVidia they wouldn't have such a hard time writing backwards compatibility software!

timmeh87 · Post by **timmeh87** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 9:41 am

these graphics card wars will never end. each company will enlessly come out with more "better" cards, and people from either side will always claim that one comapny or the other is "better".

and whats the difference between these cards anyways? 5fps in doom 3? who really cares that much? i say go buy something that came out 3 months ago, its almost just as good, and costs $200 less. i bet you wouldnt even be able to tell the difference without all these numbers clouding your minds.

and ps. comparing cards by clock speeds alone is rather simplistic. i think we all know that.

Krepticor · Post by **Krepticor** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 10:40 am

First lets say that I am an NVIDIA guy myself

But Competing with SLi is nearly impossible with a single Graphics card

Ati is slowly developing their dual card technology.And so far it still has a few notches behind NVIDIA

However, Back in the single card wars, Ati was running NVIDIA for their money.

But that was there this is now

sniper_spike · Post by **sniper_spike** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 10:54 am

As far as I remeber the only time ATi ever really owned Nvidia was back in the GF FX5x00\Radeon 9x00 days. The FX series really, really sucked.

XPCportables · Post by **XPCportables** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 1:43 pm

vb_master wrote:Since the Xbox 360 switched from NVidia to ATI, I don't know. That's a big risk since with the NVidia they wouldn't have such a hard time writing backwards compatibility software!

[sarcasm]um... well I was thinking that that was kinda the point.[/sarcasm] I mean if M$ switches to Ati that is all the more reason not to trust them. plus Sony is going Nvidia so that is even more proof of the power of Nvidia.

oh and by the way, the X1900XTX doesn't count because it doesn't support crossfire therefore the 2 cards are not in the same league because they dont both have dual card capabilities. the x1900XTX is still less powerful than the 7900GTX

Harshboy · Post by **Harshboy** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 2:18 pm

I feel so lonely with my Nvidia 6800

Is this a bad card? Back in February 05 it was the best card (Thats why i bought it

)

vb_master · Post by **vb_master** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 2:27 pm

I got Half-Life 2 running on a NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200 (64 MB) in a laptop. So I think that speaks for NVIDIA.

teraflop122 · Post by **teraflop122** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 2:57 pm

I got Half-Life 2 running on a NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200 (64 MB) in a laptop.

How did you manage that? GeForce FX5200's can barely run UT2004.

There are those out there who like to keep things neutral by saying that Nvidia excels at X and ATI excels at Y. Can't we be like those people and just...all get along?

XPCportables · Post by **XPCportables** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 2:59 pm