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AMD Radeon or nVidia GeForce?

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#61 ·
I think I will stick to my GTX580...
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Discussion starter · #62 ·
And so you should.
 
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#63 ·
SCHUMI_4EVER said:
Whilst it's stronger than a GTX580 I'm not sure I'd call it a sufficient jump for any GTX570 owners so I'd hold off on that if I were you, or get a GTX680.
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Under the games I play and the settings I use, I'd see about 30-40% increase in performance. That's like going from 42 fps to 60 fps. Also, I can sell my gtx570 for $200. ;)
 
Discussion starter · #64 ·
Ok yeah, that would be quite the nice jump then.
 
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#66 ·
ATI for me. I find the Radeon cards a LOT more stable than Nvidia's.

Also, ATI cards are more compatible with older games. ;)


EDIT: But the 3Dfx Voodoo cards still live in my heart. I still have a Voodoo 3 card on my Pentium 3 500 for my classic games needs! :p
 
Discussion starter · #67 ·
Wut? The opposite of those is true in my experience. I've come across quite a few games with help threads for ATi users, no such thing for nVidia.
And you mentioned old games, Wing Commander - Darkest Dawn fanmade game based on the Freespace 2 engine constantly has people with ATi cards experiencing issues.
 
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#71 ·
^Thats the card I originally ordered, It was only 115$. The super geniuses at fed ex told me they couldn't find my address even though I've had every other service deliver to my doorstep already. The genius seller asked for it to be returned like 10 minutes after they said they couldn't find the address--drama negotiations, seller fail etc. If they didn't throw in that extra 10$ refunding me I would of torn up their review page.
 
#72 ·
Strike105X said:
Personally now days i gotta say drivers wise there just about the same :p.

I'm liking ATi even more ever since i got the 6850 (thanks to Phil) XD.
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Heh they are about the same. But finding old drivers is a complete pain with ATI, while it's super easy with nVidia.
 
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#73 ·
I have my 7750 now, nvidia seems to have no viable alternative that met my desires.

The 7750 at load is 50 celcius (I have a non reference model), it draws less power than the 4670 and is factory overclocked from 800 to 880mhz. I can see me having this card until it breaks ...even when I upgrade I'd still keep it or throw it in a family members computer. Great card and the extra flexibility is worth the 10-20% slower speed than the 6850
 
#74 ·
Phil said:
Heh they are about the same. But finding old drivers is a complete pain with ATI, while it's super easy with nVidia.
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Why is it a pain ? You can download them without problem of their site, plus i don't know how its with NVIDIA but with ati you don't need old drivers, fixes carry over, at max you might want to role back to a previous version in case there's a certain bug with a certain game in a new release, but that's not hard either. The only time when ati needed older drivers was when there where opengl problems, but now that's history. Or do you by chance mean support for older models ? In that case it might prove a bit more difficult.

Kaizen said:
I have my 7750 now, nvidia seems to have no viable alternative that met my desires.

The 7750 at load is 50 celcius (I have a non reference model), it draws less power than the 4670 and is factory overclocked from 800 to 880mhz. I can see me having this card until it breaks ...even when I upgrade I'd still keep it or throw it in a family members computer. Great card and the extra flexibility is worth the 10-20% slower speed than the 6850
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Congrats XD.

Xblade said:
^Thats the card I originally ordered, It was only 115$. The super geniuses at fed ex told me they couldn't find my address even though I've had every other service deliver to my doorstep already. The genius seller asked for it to be returned like 10 minutes after they said they couldn't find the address--drama negotiations, seller fail etc. If they didn't throw in that extra 10$ refunding me I would of torn up their review page.
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Ouch...
 
#75 ·
He probably means for older models. AMD is dropping support for the Radeon HD 4000 series (mid 2008) soon, but nVidia still supports way back to the GeForce 6 series (early-mid 2004). Granted, the older cards probably aren't actually having anything done for them, but you can just download the latest and go unless you have more ancient stuff, and even then you still download and go as the selector will tell and take you to the latest one that works. My parent's have a Radeon X1550 I bought for their OEM a few years back (2008 or so?), and I wouldn't be able to with them now (though they probably just use the stock Windows 7 drivers and know nothing of such stuff). I haven't been on AMD's site for drivers but nVidia has an archive for all of their older ones.

Also, yes, fixes obviously carry over.
 
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#76 ·
Actually not quite, AMD dropped support for HD4000 only for Linux and they did not offer it for windows 8 (something to do with WDDM driver versions), otherwise for 7/vista/XP they still are in the making.
 
#77 ·
The pre Radeon HD cards got 3 quarterly driver updates after being going legacy so going by their track record support will be dropped in a year. Not releasing 12.5 which was last update until the next quarterly driver puts them off to a bad start.
 
#78 ·
Well i don't know what's going to happen but atm there's not completly cut of support, that's all i'm saying. Only for Linux and Windows 8, with that said, i can sort of understand HD2k, but for HD3k/HD4k it feels way to soon to drop support even on linux, never mind not supporting on windows 8...
 
#80 ·
Well Keplar cards are bandwidth starved versus AMD. A 6GB 7990 will be a better card than a Mars 3 and 690 (Both 4GB, 256bit) for an eyefinity setup running texture heavy games such as battlefield 3.
 
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