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AMD Challenges NVIDIA To Graphics Throw-Down

Posted by Soulskill on from the fight-to-the-death dept.

MojoKid writes "Over the last couple of weeks, the two most powerful graphics cards released for the PC to date made their respective debuts, the dual-Cayman GPU powered AMD Radeon HD 6990 and the dual-GF110 GPU powered NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590. With such powerful products in their line-ups, both AMD and NVIDIA have claimed they offer 'the world's fastest graphics card.' AMD says it's theirs. Dave Erskine, the Senior Public Relations Manager for Graphics Desktop at AMD, challenged NVIDIA directly. 'So now I issue a challenge to our competitor: prove it, don't just say it. Show us the substantiation.'"

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  1. Hope their drivers have improved by Bigbutt · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yea, I'm still getting blue screens on my AMDs. Yea, I'll get modded down by the AMD fanbois. Such is life.

    [John]

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    1. Re:Hope their drivers have improved by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

      The bulk of Vista and 7 graphics driver code is implemented as user-mode driver DLLs. No BSODs normally, just an app crash or driver restart.

  2. Re:Drivers by houstonbofh · · Score: 4, Informative

    I haven't had a video driver issue with any video card from either NVIDIA or ATI/AMD for at least a few generations.. What systems and hardware are all these people with driver problems running?

    MSI motherboards? :)

  3. Yeah but, ATI still unstable... by rsilvergun · · Score: 3, Informative

    OK, to be fair it's been over a year since I ran ATI hardware (a 4650), but I replaced it with nvidia hardware because I couldn't get the darn thing to stop crashing. I miss my ATI hardware. It has nicer image quality and better tv out/in support for my old TV card and games. I ran a 1650 for years, but than again that was just an overclocked 9800, and every bug under the sun was worked out 10 times over on that. Maybe it's my fault for running less popular games, but come 'on. Psychonauts should not crash like clockwork just because the floaty neon things are on screen...

    I guess what I'm saying it, AMD, call me when you're drivers can run something other than this years Call of Duty game & WoW

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  4. Re:Big words... by makomk · · Score: 1, Informative

    Even with benchmarks geared to favour the NVidia card, it still loses - and that's assuming it doesn't blow up first as well...

  5. Re:Anysufficiently advanced technology by hairyfeet · · Score: 2, Informative

    On Linux? Yes, although they have given out the full specs so it should be better soon. On Windows? you couldn't be more wrong as both the new IGPs and discrete have been kicking serious ass AND have been both stable and cheap!

    After the Nvidia Bumpgate and Intel bribing OEMs and rigging compilers came out I've been selling AMD/ATI exclusively in my shop and the customers couldn't be happy. The triple and quad core CPUs are cheap and plentiful and take everything they throw at them and come back for more, and the IGPs and discrete chips seriously crank out the pretty while giving a hell of a bang for the buck.

    The new hotness at the shop has been the dirt cheap HD48xx series which has gotten so low anybody that wants HD gaming or large screens can just have me drop one in for a little of nothing ($60 for the 4830 and $80 for the 4850) and the drivers are solid as a rock on both XP and 7 and the framerates are just nuts. I personally love my HD4850 and haven't had so much as a single driver error, but then again since AMD bought them out I haven't had a single problem with a single build.

    So personally I'm all for AMD and I hope they keep it up. Their new business plan of making mainstream GPUs and then simply adding a second with HT connect when they need to ramp up is the smart way to do it, as they don't have to waste time finding ways to cripple cards for the midrange market, and the cards just keep getting faster and cheaper. Now thanks to AMD buying ATI anybody can enjoy games and hardware acceleration even on the low end IGPs, hell I was playing Bioshock I and II and L4D on my onboard while I waited for my card to arrive and they played fine.

    So if any AMD employees are reading this, thanks. Your bang for the buck mantra has made it so even my low end customers can afford triples and quads, and made it easier than ever for everyone to have decent framerates without breaking their wallets. In these tough times that really helps out the working folks out here in middle America, so thanks, we appreciate it. And this is one builder that will shop with you first and foremost, your quality and low prices have earned my business. Thanks again.

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