Heh. I agree. That's also why I like ATi, because it's now been a generation or more and their cards are still the best.

As far as the floating point precision, yes, nVidia would like to claim they use 32 bit, but the truth is they usually end up using 16 bit and converting it to enable them to keep up with ATi's Direct X 9 standard 24 bit performance. The real problem is that nVidia thought they would be clever and develop their own answer to Direct X and expected everyone to adapt. Unfortunately it didn't pan out the way they had planned and their Cine-FX or whatever they called it was pretty much a flop. I still don't see the "cinematic quality" real-time rendering they promised. In fact, ATi usually has better image quality for the time being.

It will be interesting to see what happens when (if?) they adapt their card to use a true 24 bit path, like they should have with the GeForce-FX 5800 Ultra. Then there may finally be some good competition going on again. I think if they take the time to rethink their architecture and shaders instead of trying to clock the hell out of the GPU and memory, and pumping up their marketing department, they might end up making a big comeback.

Don't get me wrong... both companies have awesome cards out right now, but I believe the ATi variations do better on almost any DX9 intensive game.

Oh and speaking of Dawn, the nVidia fairy demo... Did everyone know that you can run that demo on an ATi card with a few opengl files (and it performs better than the cards it was made for - much like UT2003 - "The way it's meant to be played" is definitely just a slogan, as it runs better on ATi) :thumbup:

Run Dawn demo on ATi cards