Hands up who thinks ATI/AMD are better than nVidia right now?

Just that.

Who think's ATI/AMD cards are better value for money, bang for buck than nVidia right now?

Erm, only in the 'high-end', but by the same rule thats the only current gen product Nvidia have :(

dunno my gtx 480 in my new build was £450 which was £100 more than 1 5870. But I'm a gamer so it does more and runs faster without optimised drivers - is it worth an extra £100? Only time will tell.

but it is a xbox vs ps3 argument at the end of the day :-)

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Originally Posted by jjgreenwood

dunno my gtx 480 in my new build was £450 which was £100 more than 1 5870. But I'm a gamer so it does more and runs faster without optimised drivers - is it worth an extra £100? Only time will tell.

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Are you Rollo's second coming by any chance ?

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Originally Posted by Terbinator

Are you Rollo's second coming by any chance ?

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Hopefully not!! :p

what ever happened to rollo?? either way although im a nvidia user atm (gtx260 FTW :) ) im leaning towards ati....there in the lead by a long shot easy.

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Originally Posted by Terbinator

Are you Rollo's second coming by any chance ?

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lol who's rollo?

A nvidia focus group member :)
who got banned.

To be honest I'd rather Nvidia and AMD have more competition as most games are bottlenecked by graphics rather than RAM or CPU.. But at the end of the day something like a single 5870 provides 60fps on average for most games at 1980*1080 anyway but I'm not sure I'd want to spend £300+ when I could get a console.

Either way, right now it is hard to "vote" for Nvidia right now, especially after many many rebadges.

Is there a debate? I thought it was pretty clear Ati/AMD have the upper ground now - just like Nvidia the lead right the way until 4XXX series from AMD really, HD 2XXX and 3XXX were just uncompetitive compared to 8800 and derivatives, but now the tables have turned.

Just gone from 8800GT->5850, my 8800 was looking forward to a relaxing retirement where its most strenuous activity was some Aero effects, but it turned out its true calling was to do hardcore 24/7 GPU folding for Team HeXus in the secondary PC!!! Better than being a dedicated PhysX slave to its Ati nemesis I guess!

I have to admit I am an AMD fan in a way, even though I do run whats best value, ceteris parabus I'll take the AMD product. My first self-build was a Barton core 3000+ and a Radeon 9800XT, those were the days! TEAM RED!

ATI I would say, seems fairly clear from the Hexus reviews

keep those votes coming pls :)

For me, it's nvidia, as ATI don't have a passive low profile card then comes anywhere near the GT 240

http://forums.hexus.net/hexus-net/18...ml#post1892258

:)

The low profile GT240 made by Sparkle is the DDR3 version:

http://www.sparkle.com.tw/News/SPGT2...assive_en.html

CAT... are you still a dedicated ATI boih? ;)

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Originally Posted by Zak33

Just that.

Who think's ATI/AMD cards are better value for money, bang for buck than nVidia right now?

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In what market?

Tegra 2 is a 'whoop-ass' product, and nVidia do great things for workstations too. But for desktop, yes, AMD are better value for money.