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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I dont care, fix your damn drivers, ATI. by LibertineR · 2006-01-31 10:15 · Score: 0, Troll

As the owner of twin overclocked 7800GTX's I dont care if ATI ever has the better video card, because I enjoy not having the stress in the middle of a game as to when my cards are going to blue-screen my gaming rig. I owned ATI for years, then went to Matrox before finally investing in my NVidia boards. I will never go back. ATI has lost innumerable customers because they would not go out and hire kids who could write decent graphics drivers. They should have poached programmers from Matrox or something, but it is too late now. NVidia just works.