Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Nvidia is going to lose this GPU war aren't they?
I as a professional have seen many different configurations with different model cards from nVidia, ATi/AMD, S3, and others. I even recommend different cards based on the age, performance, and usage of units. Overall each ATi/AMD card has trashed all the comparable cards. The GTX285 is getting mowed by the ATi Radeon 4890 cards. The ATi Radeon 5k cards are an experiment that ATi did that is paying off. In short nVidia is stuck to older cards while new stuff is taking longer to make since they need a full redesign. The only benefit that nVidia has is that nVidia and ATi hardware is pretty much hardware locked based on the northbridge. AMD northbridges should not have nVidia cards attached to their motherboards and nVidia northbridges should not have ATi cards attached to their motherboards. The only exception to this lock are Intel and some VIA northbridges which can have either. Some users have been able to get a mix to work but those are not recommended (I had one for many years).
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