![]() ![]() ![]() Part of that reason might be due to heat, but that still gives the advantage to NVIDIA for overclocking fanatics. Where things begin to change is with overclocking, because while NVIDIA’s GPUs are quite open-ended (thanks in part to RivaTuner), ATI’s Catalyst Control Center, for some reason, gives poor top limits on both the Core and Memory clocks. Closer LookĪs I mentioned above, the GTX 260/216 is quite comparable to ATI’s HD 4870 1GB. Prices are great, and performance greater. What am I getting at? It couldn’t be a better time to upgrade your machine with a new graphics card. But fast forward ten months later to today, and that card looks completely outdated when compared to the latest offerings. Just this past January, I recall talking to friends about how great the 8800 GTX still was, even a year after its release. Just take a look at what was available at this time last year, and the year before. Second, NVIDIA’s drivers are far more Linux-friendly, but that’s going to appeal to a much more specific crowd.īut I digress, and when all said and done, both companies offer superb GPUs for prices that are unbeatable. ![]() Something like that just shouldn’t happen. I’ve installed ATI drivers many times in the past that didn’t take effect until I installed them a second time. The first is the drivers, which I find to be much more reliable in terms of installation when compared to ATI’s bloated. Given the choice personally, I tend to be drawn more towards NVIDIA’s offerings, but it’s for a few different, but very specific reasons. ![]() But while the company is going through a rough patch, some of their best GPUs are getting overlooked, like the GTX 260/216, which competes very nicely with ATI’s 1GB HD 4870, for roughly the same price. Coupled with company layoffs, ongoing lawsuits and defective product, it couldn’t be much fun being an NVIDIA employee right now. There’s little question that over the course of the past few months, there has been a massive shift towards ATI, and NVIDIA is undoubtedly feeling the effects. When writing a graphics card review today, it’s very easy to start off with a line like, “ATI struck back, NVIDIA weeps”, but the truth is, although ATI did release some killer GPUs this past summer, as we’ve covered multiple times, saying NVIDIA is out of the game couldn’t be something further from the truth. ![]()
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