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ATI vs. NVIDIA: ATI Steals the Show

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the video-card-shootout dept.

(54)T-Dub writes "Apparently a group of MIT engineers made an OpenGL wrapper for the NVidia Demo of 'Dawn.' (a fairy with high sex appeal) Even though the wrapper adds more overhead the demo still runs faster on the 9800pro and creates higher quality images." Yet another reason it's good to have engineering students on your side.

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  1. Re:OUCH by mharris007 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That might be true, if they weren't venturing into any other computer market other than graphics. Considering they got one of the hottest chipsets (nForce 2) for AMD CPUs right now, I don't see them going completely downhill in all their computer markets.

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  2. idea by wiggys · · Score: 5, Insightful
    It's pretty silly paying through the nose for an expensive new graphics card when the only thing you can "play" are the tech demos.

    Sure, the card is faster so you can now play your existing games with anti-aliasing on all the time (well, mostof the time...) but unfortunately your games won't look any different.

    Remember the first time you installed your 3dfx card (inc pass-through cable) and played GLQuake? Amazing! High res smooth graphics on your P166, the envy of consoles everywhere. Then nVidia brough our their TNT cards which did 32-bit colour... nice. But since then, what's changed? Answer: not much. There are only a handful of games which use 50% of the features offered by a Geforce 3. I have a Ti4600 and a Ti200 and it's nigh on impossible to tell them apart.

    Why the Sam Hill should I buy ANOTHER new card when there's simply no compelling reason to upgrade?

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  3. Financials by gwappo · · Score: 5, Insightful
    nVidia, unlike 3DFX at the time, has a huge pile of cash sitting on their balance sheet.

    Although its engineers need to learn to ignore their marketing dept. the management of nVidia is pretty good

    expect them to regain the crown at the NV40 marker, ATI has indicated they'd be slowing their innovation cycles, whereas nVidia has made no such statement.

  4. Re:Slashdot Effect by tavis · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That's usually cause the banner ad is pulled from another website.

  5. "Lazy"? Not so sure about that. by gwappo · · Score: 5, Insightful
    nVidia did not get lazy, instead, they did the smart thing and diversified, which is why we now have nVidia in the chipset market.

    Good move at the time, and a good move now as it will allow them to bridge the poor comparative performance of their graphics unit vs. ATI.