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ATI Radeon 9800 Pro vs. NVidia GeForce 5900

Posted by timothy on from the if-you've-got-the-money dept.

HardcoreGamer writes "Today ATI shipped its Radeon 9800 Pro 256 MB DDR-2 card in time for E3 and nVidia announced the NV35-based GeForce 5900 which will be available in June. Early tests seem to say that while nVidia edges ahead of ATI in specific areas, overall ATI still has the better card. The caveat is that the next generation of DirectX 9-based games (like Doom 3 and Half-Life 2, demonstrated with ATI at E3) will truly determine which is the better card. Lots of coverage at PC Magazine, PC World, The Register (ATI) (nVidia), ExtremeTech, InternetNews, and Forbes/Reuters. Either way, at $450-$500, serious gamers are about to get another serious dent in their wallets."

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  1. drivers by jchristopher · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    ATI's terrible driver support is reason enough to choose NVIDIA instead. Their "support", or lack thereof, especially for laptops that use their integrated chipsets made me swear never to buy another one of their products years ago.

  2. You know it's time for a Slashdot story.. by Angry+Black+Man · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    whenever a hardware site makes a new comparison of two video cars that has already been written several times by other hardware sites.

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    the byproduct of years of oppression by the white man
  3. Re:I really don't have a big choice between the tw by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    WTF!?! NVIDIA LINux drivers great?!? HAHAHAHHAHAHHAHHAHA BWAHHH HAHHAHAHHAHA!!!

    picture this:

    KT400, 8x AGP Ti4200, latest nvidia drivers, xfree 4.3, apple 23" cinema display, 2.4.20 kernel

    works great? FUCK NO! NVIDIA closed source shit! I was so pissed off that I went back to windows!!

    I managed to ink out 1920x1200 resolution, but using gnome, everytime I selected an icon on my desktop, the cpu utilization would go up to 100% for 2 hard seconds! That drove me freaking nuts! I tried going back to an older nvidia driver but same results. Oddly, kde and windowmaker worked like champions, without the hang, but I think kde looks like my asshole after 5 days of eating fast food and not taking a shower.

    I hear 2.5 has the fix for via kt400 agp 3.0, but I'm not even about to begin testing that for anyone, I have to get work done without having to figure out what the fucking deal is with my kernel.