ATI vs. Nvidia in a Video Shootout

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday January 31, 2006 @08:09AM from the blam-blam-i-hit-you-no-you-didn't dept.

ThinSkin writes "ATI and Nvidia are well known for hailing their products as leaders in 3D apps and games, but little is known that both companies are trying to stake their claim in the video market as well. ExtremeTech is featuring an article that tests cards from ATI and Nvidia to determine who takes the cake in video quality and performance. Using CPU utilization scores and visual quality comparisons during video and DVD clips, the author concludes that ATI's latest generation of GPUs have an edge over Nvidia, particularly in DVD playback and with video acceleration."

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Sing it with me... by Quixadhal · 2006-01-31 18:07 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Ne-ver buy A-T-I.

Sorry guys, your pathetic excuse for a driver has bitten me too often. When I had an old Geforce 3, I had zero problems getting good quality video in anything I tried to run. Getting a Radeon 9800... well... it does have nicer colour, when it works. But between texture flickering in one game, crashes to desktop in others, and driver versions that aren't backwards compatible with their own older drivers (by that, I mean if I upgrade to a new driver to support a new game, suddenly my older games get artifacts and texture problems that they didn't have with the older drivers)... no thanks.

Ne-ver buy A-T-I.