I'll be the first to admit that I prefer Nvidia, but in my lifetime I have never played favorites, and have owned a wide variety of video cards (some of which you guys have never heard of), I simply buy the best card for the buck.
Diamond stealth II g460, which used an Intel I740 chip (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel740)
3dfx voodoo 2 card
Geforce 2
Geforce fx5200
ATI 9600xt
Geforce 6600gt
Geforce 7800gt
Geforce 9600gso
Geforce 9800GX2 <--- In my main computer
I also still have the GF2, a GF4TI, and a 7600gt (in my house server). They are all AGP cards, so kinda useless.
I also have owned a variety of processors.
Intel 486 25mhz <---- Gave away
Intel PI 233mhz <---- Gave away, unfortunately had a voodoo 2 in it
Intel PII 400mhz <--- My mom used it until about 6 months ago, I still have it
AMD K6-2 500mhz <--- laptop, power adapter broke, trashed
Intel P4 1.5ghz <--- gave to a friend, now unused
Intel P4 3.4ghz <---- sold to Splak:EvilPoptart
AMD Athlon 1.0 @ 1.2ghz <--- the old TS server, sitting unused now
AMD Athlon XP 2800 2.08 @ 2.28ghz <--- my media server
AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800 2.0 @ 2.4ghz <---- sold for use as a media server
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800 2.4 @ 2.75ghz <--- sold to Splak:Kaz, back at my house for upgrades
Intel Xeon 3350 (quad) 2.66 @ 3.4ghz <--- current pc
AMD Phenom II Quad 3.2ghz <---- Splak server (all but the pub)
@= Overclocked speed
All that being said, I will have to see how it performs, and if it matches/beats ATI, then I will get Nvidia because of the PhysX. But the data I have says Nvidia will win (
http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=88&pgno=7 ):
----------------------Pixel rate ---- Texture Rate ----- Memory Bandwith
Geforce GTX360 ---- 36,400 ----- 72,800 ------------ 224
Geforce GTX380 ---- 44,800 ----- 89,600 ------------ 281.6
ATI HD 5850 --------- 23,200 ---- 52,200 ------------ 128
ATI HD 5870 --------- 27,200 ---- 68,000 ------------ 153.6
Geforce 9800GX2 --- 19,200 ---- 76,800 ------------ 128 <---My card
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-- .:Splak|StackableNut --Cornholio wrote:
blah thats nothing, i built houses for pirates, then do pirating myself. Then I shoot my self and perform bullet removal surgery on myself. After that I go to boot camps to train kids to kill. Then i go and fight on the Iraq war for both sides. After all i go later and drink some 7up cause ill be thirsty as shit.