nVidia vs. ATI

[Colin McGregor]

I would like to thank everyone for confirming what I
strongly suspected to be true, that AT THE MOMENT
nVidia cards are the way to go (just because the ATI
video driver software sucks (a much more diplomatic
version of this will be part of my aticle)).

Colin McGregor

--- Lennart Sorensen <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org>
wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 07:43:49PM -0400, Henry
> Spencer wrote:
> > The one place where Matrox historically has been
> hopeless is support for
> > high-speed dynamic 3D graphics.  That is, games. 
> It's never been a
> > priority of theirs and they're no longer
> competitive at all there.
> > 
> > But for clear, *sharp*, high-resolution text or
> not-too-dynamic graphics,
> > their cards blow the doors off everything else.  I
> can't say I'm up on
> > the latest hardware, but last time I looked,
> nVidia and ATI ran a very
> > poor second there.
> 
> I would think anything using DVI-D would have the
> same graphics on any
> video card given it is digital to the screen.  Any
> image quality
> problems would then be a result of the video card.
> 
> For the analog output, yes Matrox has a reputation
> for very good stable
> output.  Of course for me, that isn't enough to give
> up everything else
> I might want to use a video card for given I think
> the 2D output of the
> nvidia cards is perfectly fine even at
> 1940x1440 at 75Hz.  Never had a
> problem with the ATIs I have bought, although I have
> seen bad output on
> some lower end models years ago.  It's a shame about
> the software
> though... :)
> 
> Lennart Sorensen
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