03-16-2006, 10:17 AM
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is on the 3rd circle: Gluttony
Join Date: Aug 2004
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Originally posted by GM™@Mar 16 2006, 09:49 AM
Andr3w. Stop talking drivel.
ATI are one of the World's leading graphics card manufacturers. They offer graphics solutions for video editting and playback, games and workstation rendering. Sure in the past, before the Radeon architecture, their rage fury was appalling, but the only competing products back then where 3DFX Voodoos and Nvidia Riva 128s. Since the Radeon 9800, ATI have stepped up the mark on their reference drivers and have often beaten Nvidia on all out pixel pushing performance... and it is well excepted that ATI's 2D/3D image quality is far higher than nvidias.
Sure nvidia are great, if you go out and buy a 7800GTX EE like mine, but if you buy any enthusiast board from either company you will experience amazing Shader Model 3.0, hi-res gaming. My other PC has a ATI Radeon x800 and whilst it lacks SM3.0, as a direct comparison to the then competing GeforceFX 6800, it kicked its ass! Also, to compare the x850 XT PE to a 6800 Ultra at full precision PS2.0 rendering, I think you will find Nvidia walk away with their tail between their legs on the majority of occasions. The only time nvidia won on a benchmark back then is if they used half-precision pixel shaders and unlocked the level of detail clamp (LOD) within the game or benchmark.
So... If you are complaining about ATI you obviously haven't payed enough for a decent card or have it set up wrong, thats all. To say its only good for video editting, I assume you must have an ATI PCI Rage 128 or something! :P
Oh and before you shout out about 6 years in a computer shop, many of us staff here have been professionals in the industry far longer than that... and many of us remember when if your video chip outputted colour, you were assumed to be an IT demi-god! 
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Brilliantly stated :thumbup: |
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