NVidia Fight Back Against ATI At Editor's Day

Thanks to FiringSquad for their feature covering NVidia's recent editor's day, discussed in context of the graphics card company's continuing rivalry with ATI. The writer suggests: "It's become rather trendy to bash NVIDIA lately. People like winners and people love underdogs. ATI is both right now - they've climbed their way out of the abyss and even disregarding the NV30 production delays, their timetable was catching up to NVIDIA's." But, after an interview with Tim Little at Ion Storm Austin and technical questions answered by Tim Sweeney of Epic, the writer concludes: "What the benchmarks have proven is that NVIDIA's hardware is as fast as ATI's, depending on the game. Yes, it does take more work - NVIDIA admitted as much. The NV3X platform isn't as easy to program fast as R300 and R350 are."

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Re:I'll bite...

[Sevn]

And I suppose Epic's Mark Rein and Randy Pitchford of Halo development are unreliable also. But please, definitely listen to ATI's story about why they are cheating and accept it as gospel. It doesn't make you look like a fanboy at all. As for screenshots, Tom has a TON of them on the link I posted that put your point to shame. If you had even bothered following the link instead of shooting from the hip like a fanboy, you'd know that. As for drastically decreasing pixel shader 2 performance, there was a 50 percent increase in speed with INCREASED image quality. Once again, this is in the same review. That and I've never heard ANYBODY refure to Tom's Hardware as the "weekly world news" of the computer world. You completly made that up and you know it. I challenge you to find ONE reference by someone that knows what they are talking about that has said that about THG. Just please try to cope with the fact that your favorite graphics card maker that made the card that you undoubtedly forked out a fortune to buy, and therefore feel you need to defend with outright lies and attempts to discredit do the exact same fraudelent things that every other graphics card maker does. That's the only point I was trying to make. It's not like they havne't been busted doing this stuff before.

Nice try though.