ATI vs nVidia

[SAS]

If like me you are on the hunt for a new graphics card, but unlike me you have the money to burn then the latest graphics cards from ATI and nVidia would of caught your attention. The question is which one to go for...

This article on PC Magazine takes a look at the ATI Radeon X800 Pro / XT / and the 9800 XT and pits it against the nVidia GeForce 6800 Ultra and FX 5950 Ultra. The test results at the bottom of the article display a range of stats from the latest games


Source: Jaba

 

[Quige]

I guess they're all coming out of the woodwork now. I thought this was quite a good write up.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/05/04/ati_radeon_x800_review/

There are graphs and so on comparing with nVidia's 6800 from page 3 onwards. The nVidia seems to pip the benchmarks, but he makes the interesting point about the low power consumption, and thus heat, of the new ATI part, and how it's much more likely to be happy in a SFF pc.

 

[SheepCow]

That's a really odd review, in most of the ones I've seen (Tom's and GameSpy's) the ATI card just beats the nVidia one, must be the difference in processor (faster cpu in gamespy's/tom's)