Poll: What graphics card company do you like more?

posted on March 8th, 2011, 11:16 pm

Hi all!
Nvidia for me

posted on March 9th, 2011, 12:40 am

nvidia gt240

posted on March 9th, 2011, 1:31 am

Because they are both shitty, yet dominate the market to the point I have never had any experience with their competition, I have no preference.

posted on March 9th, 2011, 2:47 am

Because they are both shitty, yet dominate the market to the point I have never had any experience with their competition, I have no preference.

For what reason do you say they are shitty? They dominate the market for a reason, they make the best chipsets. One thing to keep in mind if you have a bad experiance with a card, neither company actually MAKES the cards, they just make the chipsets, there are many graphics card manufacturers out there, and they are more responsible for quality of the product then ATI or Nvidia.

posted on March 9th, 2011, 5:08 am

Why? Well as far as ATI goes: ATI drivers for Linux kinda made me unable to get past the login screen on that linux installation. I have had Nvidia issues as well, but not sure whether that was due to the drivers or not.

Also, free market doesn't always work out so well, quality is only one of many ways to dominate a market, and once on top you don't need to keep quality up as long as your limited competition doesn't get ahead much.

posted on March 9th, 2011, 7:06 am

nvidia rocks. i got a gtx460 1gb. such a ace card. tho i must say my loyalty can switch at anytime depending which company (ati/nvidia) offers me the best bang for my buck

posted on March 9th, 2011, 11:56 am

Why? Well as far as ATI goes: ATI drivers for Linux kinda made me unable to get past the login screen on that linux installation. I have had Nvidia issues as well, but not sure whether that was due to the drivers or not.

Also, free market doesn't always work out so well, quality is only one of many ways to dominate a market, and once on top you don't need to keep quality up as long as your limited competition doesn't get ahead much.

Yeah kinda the issue with ATI/AMD + Linux, They make crappy drivers for Linux where as nVidia do really good drivers.

but both of those companies are scum, How many times do they put out refreshes based on the same chipset that does nothing for performance but costs 2x as much.

Also for all the nVidia lovers go Google the Geforce 5 FX series.

Neither of the companies are good, Your just forced to use one or the other because Intel Integrated Graphics aren't anywhere as good as Larabee claimed.

posted on March 9th, 2011, 1:40 pm

Why? Well as far as ATI goes: ATI drivers for Linux kinda made me unable to get past the login screen on that linux installation. I have had Nvidia issues as well, but not sure whether that was due to the drivers or not.

Also, free market doesn't always work out so well, quality is only one of many ways to dominate a market, and once on top you don't need to keep quality up as long as your limited competition doesn't get ahead much.

Thats because officially ati and nividia do not support linux, the drivers are made by 3rd partys just like the sound drivers.

posted on March 9th, 2011, 2:35 pm

Actually you will find you can get Official nvidia drivers from their site. Same goes for ATI.

[Brother Gabriel]

posted on March 9th, 2011, 4:09 pm

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i prefer nvidia because i got a shitload of trouble with the ATI drivers, since i use a ATI card.
They are quite unstable and support no 16-Bit Z-Buffer which makes it impossible to play some older games (Mechwarrior 3 as example). Had a Nvidia card before, no trouble at all there.
We know that both companies do shit, but the buffer problem from ATI exists since years now, and wont get ever fixed (wish i would have known that before buying the card)

posted on March 9th, 2011, 5:38 pm

Nvidia for me I agree WHOLEHEARTEDLY with what brother gabriel said in the previous post.

posted on March 9th, 2011, 11:20 pm

For someone who's not a computer guy and hates doing troubleshooting, I've found Nvidia to be far easier to use and much more reliable.  But then again I'm just happy that I know where the power button is.

posted on March 10th, 2011, 4:06 am

nVidia all day every day. More stable, more cooperative, and run slightly cooler in my opinon.

posted on March 10th, 2011, 3:25 pm

nVidia all day every day. More stable, more cooperative, and run slightly cooler in my opinon.

Erm the cooler part i think you got that the other way around.

posted on March 10th, 2011, 3:30 pm

Generally, but that more depends on what company made the card.

I go with nVidia.  I have had some real bad experiences in the past with ATI, and have been un-impressed with their gaming level cards as compared to nVidia..