ATI or Nvidia

[Sheekel]

I'm trying to decide between the Radeon 3850 512MB and the Geforce 8800GT 256mb, they are both around the same price of $200.

I'm leaning towards the Radeon because it is a bit cheaper and has the extra memory and the clock speeds are comparable to the 8800GT. But, having been a Nvidia owner my whole life I'm skeptical about buying an ATI. Anyone know how well spring performs with these cards? I've heard about people having problems with ATI and Spring.

[kiki]

i need to ask the same question

[bashar]

I have no problem with ATI on spring ; but if you run under linux the ati drivers are far away less performant than the nvidia's.

[kiki]

That decides it for me. Thanks

[Betalord]

I have an old ATI Radeon 9000 card and it doesn't go too well with Spring (fine with other games though). Will buy nvidia for sure as my next card (better driver support, they release development docs, they do sponsorships etc., I just like them more :)

[Comp1337]

Nvidia ftw

[Relative]

8800GT plain and simple.

[HeavyLancer]

If you can, try and save just a little bit more to get the 512 MB version of the 8800GT, otherwise it will definitely will not perform as well as it should, because the VRAM will hold it back.

[AF]

Nvidia hands down

[imbaczek]

Nvidia, because the drivers are better. Performance-wise, it seems that the difference between newest ATIs and NVs is getting smaller, but opengl (which is what spring uses) support on nvidia is much better.

[Caydr]

Refer to thiss'ere:

http://spring.clan-sy.com/phpbb/viewtop ... 5&start=20

I'd agree, ATI is behind on driver quality, but the price difference would allow me to overlook that. I has a 9800 pro for the longest time, no complaints and I don't remember having a lot of problems either.

I intend to build another computer sometime this year and I will most likely build it with a 3870 card or whatever is current by the time I have the cash. The price is just too good for such competitive performance.

I have no idea why anyone would want a Geforce 9 series card any time in the next 2 years. There's nothing that can even slow down a 8 series card right now, let alone the monster I've heard described in rumours. Frankly, the 8800 GT is as powerful or more powerful than anything in a console, and since games are most often developed mult-platform now, in most cases you won't get better graphics.

If you decide to go for the GT, more power to you, it's certainly an excellent card if you've got the cash. Just make sure you get the model with the larger fan. The old fan is an GFFX-esque vacuum cleaner thing and lets the card run hotter than the new one as well.

[REVENGE]

Well, you would be interested to know that 8800GT 256MB under performs severely compared to its 512MB brother. That said, it might be worth it to wait and see what the 8800GS that's coming out will deliver.

[lurker]

The 256 should be nearly the same unless you turn on very high graphics or run at 56x antialiasing on a high-resolution screen.

[aegis]

like those of us with 3 monitors

[REVENGE]

The 256 should be nearly the same unless you turn on very high graphics or run at 56x antialiasing on a high-resolution screen.

Not exactly accurate. This is Expreview's obsessively detailed examination at what amount of video memory gives you the most bang for your buck for the 8800 GT. They found that from 512MB-1024MB, the performance deficit is really insignificant, but from 256MB-512MB, the difference was justification for the extra cost.

This is of course, assuming that you're getting this excellent video card to play other "newer" video games, and not just Spring.

[erasmus]

http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.h ... VzaWFzdA==

big flop

[TradeMark]

8800GT plain and simple.

+ you can cook your food on it

[bashar]

Me I use ati 1950 pro and spring run perfectly on windows and not bad under linux.

[Neddie]

8800GT plain and simple.

+ you can cook your food on it

No, you can cook your food on a math co-processor from a Macintosh Plus.

[aegis]

o_O
i cook my food in/on various ------- appliances...
you're all weird people