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Title: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: Gabbe on 28 May 2010, 16:38:08
title explain it all, this section will be fanboy complete XD

I got a ATI betetr perfomance than any nVidia card will ever be at that price 4 GB 5870 ftw! crossfire!
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: Omega on 28 May 2010, 16:57:08
I have a HD ATI Card, and I'm in loooove.
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: Gabbe on 28 May 2010, 17:49:37
 :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

ATI for the WIN! noobVidia for the LOOSE!

BTW: It`s sad that your only in love with your card, but one day it may be a relationship! :O
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: @kukac@ on 28 May 2010, 17:50:51
The hungarian card is the best, we always play awesome games in the pub :thumbup:
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: Gabbe on 28 May 2010, 17:54:13
wtf is the hungarian card?
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: @kukac@ on 28 May 2010, 17:55:53
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Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: Gabbe on 28 May 2010, 18:01:39
hehe :P must process heavy demanding graphics games with eaase...
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: -Archmage- on 28 May 2010, 19:11:01
My Mom's desktop computer has a NVIDIA card, my laptop has an ATI card, my laptop's graphics performance is signifigantly better than my Mom's Desktop performance.

ATI has much better Linux support as well. We've now replaced the crappy NVIDIA junk that we had, with a shiny new ATI HD Radeon 4670 card, it gives great graphics performance!!! :D

ATI/AMD ftw!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: Gabbe on 28 May 2010, 19:15:20
The future is fusion!
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: Coldfusionstorm on 10 June 2010, 01:12:35
Im about to kick as and chew bubble gum....
and i just happend to have a "the way it's meant to played" logo right here! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNqMlWS9i7I
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: ChupaReaper on 16 June 2010, 09:12:14
My old laptop had an nVidia card and it always ran problem free, my new one has an ATI, though the card itself is much newer and faster it is the drivers that I hate, I've done everything I can but the damn ATI Catalyst Centre wont open at all now and the mouse cursor keeps going stupidly big even with all these fixes installed. Both my laptops run Windows 7 64bit my new one came with it all setup my old one came with Vista 32bit and so far that one has had no problems at all.
I can't compare performance as my old laptops graphics card, though quite good, it isn't as good as my new one. If ATI sorted the stupid giant cursor and got the catalyst centre fixed then I wouldn't have a word against them as when it comes to gaming performance it hasn't let me down yet.
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: Gabbe on 16 June 2010, 10:06:55
5970 outperforms the new GTX480, at a huge rate, when it comes to gaming, but the 480 is good at tesselation, though, it costs more than the 5970, performs less in non-tess games. ATI!!! BIG WIN!

nVidia!!!! BIGer LOOSE!!

kk im gonna be honest, i love physX and 3D with nVidia, too bad they don`t have eyefinity or dragon technology!

[Why kukac? is it indeed necessary to be a controlfreak and edit every single post were i have big letters?]
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: -Archmage- on 16 June 2010, 15:03:10
Chupareaper: I'm running a Windows 7 64-bit laptop, on an ATI RADEON HD 3200, it's working great! Whatever problem you have is with your computer not with ATI.
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: Coldfusionstorm on 16 June 2010, 18:36:37
The future is fushion!

really?, i thought it was fusion?

 ;)
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: Gabbe on 16 June 2010, 18:38:49
I`ve never wrote such thing :| :| :| :| ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) :cheesy: :cheesy: :dead: :look:
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: Coldfusionstorm on 16 June 2010, 18:42:41
I`ve never wrote such thing :| :| :| :| ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) :cheesy: :cheesy: :dead: :look:

i never mentioned it was you......

busted!
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: -Archmage- on 16 June 2010, 22:22:53
Notice that you're getting off topic(talking about quotes instead of ATI vs nVIDIA)?

Double busted!



ATI all the way! That sounds cool. 8)

NVIDIA all the way! That sounds.........strange........... :look:
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: Gabbe on 16 June 2010, 22:24:25
NoobVidia is strange! this is getting fanboy LOL
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: John.d.h on 16 June 2010, 22:38:06
Just to toss my hat into the ring (or however the expression goes), this new netbook of mine has a VIA, and it's got no 3D acceleration on Linux, so it's pretty much worthless for gaming.  This machine's plenty fast when it doesn't have to render anything, but even Wesnoth runs pretty slowly, and Glest gives me a whopping one frame per second. :thumbdown:
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: -Archmage- on 16 June 2010, 22:51:16
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but even Wesnoth runs pretty slowly, and Glest gives me a whopping one frame per second.

Ouch. :-X
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: Gabbe on 16 June 2010, 22:52:37
time for an upgrade with dragon technology and eyefinity!
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: ultifd on 16 June 2010, 22:54:46
Just to toss my hat into the ring (or however the expression goes), this new netbook of mine has a VIA, and it's got no 3D acceleration on Linux, so it's pretty much worthless for gaming.  This machine's plenty fast when it doesn't have to render anything, but even Wesnoth runs pretty slowly, and Glest gives me a whopping one frame per second. :thumbdown:
VIA huh? hmm...I remember them...
One frame?
Ouch. :-X
But, better than 0.  :|
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: Gabbe on 16 June 2010, 22:55:59
my moms (NoobVidia) card got around 0.25 in BF2 just OK if you like slideshows...
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: -Archmage- on 16 June 2010, 23:03:38
Forgive me if I die laughing at your Moms "graphics card". :O
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: Gabbe on 16 June 2010, 23:04:57
Its not even a dedicated card, it is a integrated and i don`t know how much memory but probably just about 12MB or something..
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: Coldfusionstorm on 18 June 2010, 13:26:39
lol, i know someone with a ATI card in a a laptop...

and it sucks horrendeous.

(okay, i dont know, but sersly, dont take taptops into this we all know laptop GFX sucks anway no need to get low).
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: Gabbe on 18 June 2010, 14:36:32
lol, i know someone with a ATI card in a a laptop...

and it sucks horrendeous.

(okay, i dont know, but sersly, dont take taptops into this we all know laptop GFX sucks anway no need to get low).

still, i argue, ati = cheaper ati = better performance ati = less powersuck
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: -Archmage- on 18 June 2010, 19:30:01
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lol, i know someone with a ATI card in a a laptop...

I'm a person "with a ATI card in a a laptop".
My laptop is faster than my Mom's desktop computer by a huge amount!
Guess what her computer has an nVidia card and my laptop(as already stated) has an ATI card. :P
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: Coldfusionstorm on 18 June 2010, 22:15:38
im not going to comment on laptop comments. srsly.

Desktop is superior to laptop.
ATI-VS-Nvida is a tastechoice

sometimes Nvidia is in front other times it is ATI.

nuff said.
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: Gabbe on 18 June 2010, 22:20:46
no! when were NoobVidia leading? they are loosing terrain...heavilly...under assault by the mighty dragon technology!

watch this video, you think nVidia is cool? think again...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8USZ3oexrI
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: Omega on 18 June 2010, 22:54:33
im not going to comment on laptop comments. srsly.

Desktop is superior to laptop.
ATI-VS-Nvida is a tastechoice

sometimes Nvidia is in front other times it is ATI.

nuff said.

No way! My laptop has a HD ATI graphics card with 1GB graphics memory. I've tried every game I have on my computer at the highest settings. Not even the slightest choppy graphics, and always over 20fps even on supreme graphics! My laptops owns both of my dad's computers put together! Really, how can it not? It even has a higher resolution (at 1600x900, pretty much the biggest popular widescreen resolution. There's bigger, but not common). GAE normal to GAE DE? Not even the slightest graphical impairment!

What do you have so much against laptops? I'll never use a desktop again after my laptop!
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: ChupaReaper on 19 June 2010, 02:03:12
Chupareaper: I'm running a Windows 7 64-bit laptop, on an ATI RADEON HD 3200, it's working great! Whatever problem you have is with your computer not with ATI.

I've got a ATI RADEON HD 5400 and the giant mouse cursor thing is a known bug with the 5x series, mind it hasn't happened for ages now since my last driver update so hopefully it's gone or not occurring as much. Catalyst Centre still wont open though, I'll probably clean it out and install the latest version. Apart from that no problems at all. My laptop runs extremely fast with Intel i7 in it too, perfect for 1million units in Glest :P!
More on topic, I'd say I'm neutral between nVidia and ATI, it's the intel graphics I hate lmao.
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: Gabbe on 19 June 2010, 11:17:11
i hate intel, still, gotta love ATI, 3 display one card FTW! go eyefinity! soon with 3d too. imagine three monitors with 3d.

I hate intels overpiced processors! they have just as much power as the amd hexa cores, still they cost 5 times the price.

ATI AMD! FUTURE IS FUSION!
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: Omega on 21 June 2010, 16:34:09
i hate intel, still, gotta love ATI, 3 display one card FTW! go eyefinity! soon with 3d too. imagine three monitors with 3d.

I hate intels overpiced processors! they have just as much power as the amd hexa cores, still they cost 5 times the price.

ATI AMD! FUTURE IS FUSION!
AMD? You're kidding! Intel has the best processors ever!
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: -Archmage- on 21 June 2010, 17:31:43
Screw Intel, as far as I know it has really crappy Linux compatability.
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: ultifd on 21 June 2010, 17:36:44
I think Intel has most of the market. Besides Linux? Bad support?  :|
AMD is just always cheaper, maybe not quality, but at least in money...
I was kinda impressed with their Atom, not with i3, i5, or 17 though...
 
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: -Archmage- on 21 June 2010, 18:00:41
I'm sticking with ATI and AMD, their stuff works good, and isn't expensive. :)
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: ultifd on 21 June 2010, 18:40:56
True, and I usually do. But usually if you are looking for a "good deal" then usually I would look for intel, etc.
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: Gabbe on 22 June 2010, 16:00:56
BUT if your upgrading a Intel processor, you`ll probably need a new motherboard, new RAM, + the processor because of compatibility issues, for me, amd got backwards compatibility. and is 1/6 the price..
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: ultifd on 22 June 2010, 17:12:36
True, but if people got an Intel, they usually don't upgrade anyways... too expensive  :P
Unless they got a good deal, and they don't have any problems...
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: -Archmage- on 11 December 2010, 06:39:43
My Dad spent hours and hours making nVidia work, ATI came right up, and runs dual-booted Linux and Win7 FLAWLESSLY.
Chipsets always suck no matter what, I've learned my lesson from nVidia, shop ATI dedicated graphics or don't shop at all. :P
ATI is raw awesomeness. nVidia is big bulks of weak power that brags about PhysX. If only AMD hadn't bought ATI, but rather formed a "dual-company".............
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: Omega on 11 December 2010, 10:16:38
I've always seen better performance from ATI though, anyway. All my computers were ATI, all my dad's computers were Nvidia, and frankly, his all sucked...

Laptops don't have to have bad graphics cards, they are simply usually limited in modifying them, thus making it important to get a good laptop when you buy it. My laptop's graphics card can match any desktop, and exceed that of most desktops I've seen anyway. I know that windows experience index is a bad way to compare things, but having no other benchmark, my laptop hits 6.6 in both graphics (it's a scale from 1.0 - 7.9), and its the highest out of the categories.
u
Laptops suffer from too many stereotypes because of some bad laptops. If you keep away from cheap laptops, you'll find plenty of hidden gems... Oh, and don't buy unknown brands, no matter their "stats", because they tend to perform worse than better brands of the same "stats". HP is my official favorite now, after performing so good for me for so long...
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: Gabbe on 11 December 2010, 14:19:10
My Dad spent hours and hours making nVidia work, ATI came right up, and runs dual-booted Linux and Win7 FLAWLESSLY.
Chipsets always suck no matter what, I've learned my lesson from nVidia, shop ATI dedicated graphics or don't shop at all. :P
ATI is raw awesomeness. nVidia is big bulks of weak power that brags about PhysX. If only AMD hadn't bought ATI, but rather formed a "dual-company".............

AMD owned ATI always, they just changed the name.

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You can change on notebooks for a fair price, it is just harder and you get less performance.

Laptops don't have to have bad graphics cards, they are simply usually limited in modifying them, thus making it important to get a good laptop when you buy it. My laptop's graphics card can match any desktop, and exceed that of most desktops I've seen anyway. I know that windows experience index is a bad way to compare things, but having no other benchmark, my laptop hits 6.6 in both graphics (it's a scale from 1.0 - 7.9), and its the highest out of the categories.
u
Laptops suffer from too many stereotypes because of some bad laptops. If you keep away from cheap laptops, you'll find plenty of hidden gems... Oh, and don't buy unknown brands, no matter their "stats", because they tend to perform worse than better brands of the same "stats". HP is my official favorite now, after performing so good for me for so long...

It isn`t a stereotype, on laptops you have limited power, limited airspace and so on, that makes it so that you must have a downclocked card or a fan worse than your local airport when ten jets lift off at the same time crashing into eachother. Your laptops card cannot match my desktop in any possible way, and a long shot from exceed it. You should also give all the infromation the indez gives you (RAM, AERO performance, data transfer numbers processing power and so on) then you can get a good comparable result. Dell delivers power and Asus delivers power for a fair price, I don`t know much about new HPs, but the older ones is just tragic dump :P Laptops just aren`t made for gaming and thats something someone has to get over.
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: John.d.h on 11 December 2010, 16:27:53
It isn`t a stereotype, on laptops you have limited power, limited airspace and so on
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Laptops just aren`t made for gaming and thats something someone has to get over.
I can't really argue with that.  Desktops aren't nearly so limited by space and compactness of design, so you can have more processing cores, bigger cooling vents, etc., that you just can't fit into a laptop.  Laptops tend to be noisy and hot, and have you ever tried to use Blender or the GIMP on one of these?

(http://www.notebookreview.com/assets/8673.jpg) (http://forum.notebookreview.com/notebook-news-reviews/36041-fujitsu-p7120-p7120d-review-pics-specs.html)

I simply use laptops because wifi, mobility, and space are big priorities for me.  I don't have room for a tower, monitor, keyboard, mouse, and all the associated cords and cables...
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: Omega on 11 December 2010, 19:28:16
I use my laptop for school projects. I take it traveling. I go lots of places with it. See why laptops win?
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: Gabbe on 11 December 2010, 19:35:10
I use my laptop for school projects. I take it traveling. I go lots of places with it. See why laptops win?

No, for you they do, and don`t think i haven`t got a powerful laptop too ;) for travelling purposes and, for other reasons. For school projects i get a free macbook anyways.
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: -Archmage- on 12 December 2010, 05:58:36
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Quote from: -Archmage- on December 11, 2010, 01:39:43
My Dad spent hours and hours making nVidia work, ATI came right up, and runs dual-booted Linux and Win7 FLAWLESSLY.
Chipsets always suck no matter what, I've learned my lesson from nVidia, shop ATI dedicated graphics or don't shop at all. Tongue
ATI is raw awesomeness. nVidia is big bulks of weak power that brags about PhysX. If only AMD hadn't bought ATI, but rather formed a "dual-company".............

AMD owned ATI always, they just changed the name.
Oh.......... What do I know?  :P Thanks. :)


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You can change on notebooks for a fair price, it is just harder and you get less performance.

Laptops don't have to have bad graphics cards, they are simply usually limited in modifying them, thus making it important to get a good laptop when you buy it. My laptop's graphics card can match any desktop, and exceed that of most desktops I've seen anyway. I know that windows experience index is a bad way to compare things, but having no other benchmark, my laptop hits 6.6 in both graphics (it's a scale from 1.0 - 7.9), and its the highest out of the categories.
u
Laptops suffer from too many stereotypes because of some bad laptops. If you keep away from cheap laptops, you'll find plenty of hidden gems... Oh, and don't buy unknown brands, no matter their "stats", because they tend to perform worse than better brands of the same "stats". HP is my official favorite now, after performing so good for me for so long...

It isn`t a stereotype, on laptops you have limited power, limited airspace and so on, that makes it so that you must have a downclocked card or a fan worse than your local airport when ten jets lift off at the same time crashing into eachother. Your laptops card cannot match my desktop in any possible way, and a long shot from exceed it. You should also give all the infromation the indez gives you (RAM, AERO performance, data transfer numbers processing power and so on) then you can get a good comparable result. Dell delivers power and Asus delivers power for a fair price, I don`t know much about new HPs, but the older ones is just tragic dump Tongue Laptops just aren`t made for gaming and thats something someone has to get over.
You can't fairly compare you're computer with anyone's, you're is like a $5000 computer, with 4 graphics cards and a 6 core processor, all overclocked heavily. :P
Alienware laptops are probably(might be some other random kind of laptop) the only laptops that can compare with properly rigged desktops. The Alienware laptops beat my rig, I can't max out Crysis, they can. But that will all change for me on Christmas..... 8) Quad-core(or six), and Radeon HD 5870(or 5970 or 6870), here I come!!!! :cheesy:


It isn`t a stereotype, on laptops you have limited power, limited airspace and so on
<snip/>
Laptops just aren`t made for gaming and thats something someone has to get over.
I can't really argue with that.  Desktops aren't nearly so limited by space and compactness of design, so you can have more processing cores, bigger cooling vents, etc., that you just can't fit into a laptop.  Laptops tend to be noisy and hot, and have you ever tried to use Blender or the GIMP on one of these?

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I simply use laptops because wifi, mobility, and space are big priorities for me.  I don't have room for a tower, monitor, keyboard, mouse, and all the associated cords and cables...
I use a plug in USB mouse with my laptop, helps me game when I'm at my Mom's.


I use my laptop for school projects. I take it traveling. I go lots of places with it. See why laptops win?
Laptops are nice for mobile stuff(not allowed to take my laptop to LV :-[), but for power and stable network connections(taken care of in my case with cable from HUB), desktops are MUCH better.


I use my laptop for school projects. I take it traveling. I go lots of places with it. See why laptops win?

No, for you they do, and don`t think i haven`t got a powerful laptop too ;) for travelling purposes and, for other reasons. For school projects i get a free macbook anyways.
Yuck, Mac...... Most horrid OS ever written! You've got a powerful version of everything dude. :cheesy:
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: Omega on 12 December 2010, 06:52:21
I never use the laptop's touch pad as a mouse... I have a USB mouse that works just as well as any desktops. The pad is just an extra, so if I want to quickly run downstairs to show someone something, I just have to take the laptop, no cords dangling around.

My graphics card is a ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4650. Never had any problems, can play games well without lag on the highest settings (abet, I admit I don't have any truly stressing games. Best I tried was a over-maxed Oblivion... Did you know the INI values can exceed the ingame settings?).
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: Gabbe on 12 December 2010, 21:24:51
Best I tried was a over-maxed Oblivion... Did you know the INI values can exceed the ingame settings?.

I do, and i bet arch does too, crysis can have some huge graphic changes from using the INI or file, i dont remember what it is called, but you can change specularity, normal map density, strenght, water reflection quality, and so on.
Hunter mod is best, beautifull scenery and all.
My graphics card is a ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4650. Never had any problems, can play games well without lag on the highest settings (abet, I admit I don't have any truly stressing games.)

while your card has a chip clock of 575 mhz, compared to 600 mhz desktop counterpart it looses.
and your card has 800mhz memory clock compared to 1 ghz of desktop, it looses a lot of performance, and lets not forget that the desktop card can be overclocked heavilly with watercooling and more, compared to the laptop card.
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: John.d.h on 12 December 2010, 21:44:42
Just don't plan on gaming on one of these (http://www.sylvanianetbooks.com/).  I actually got to play around with one the other day, as my landlord just got one for a not-very-tech-savvy friend.

(http://digitalgadgets.com/images/product1.jpg)
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: -Archmage- on 12 December 2010, 21:48:34
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Quote from: Omega on Today at 01:52:21
Best I tried was a over-maxed Oblivion... Did you know the INI values can exceed the ingame settings?.

I do, and i bet arch does too, crysis can have some huge graphic changes from using the INI or file, i dont remember what it is called, but you can change specularity, normal map density, strenght, water reflection quality, and so on.
Hunter mod is best, beautifull scenery and all.
Yea, I've been modding up Crysis a ton, working on ragdoll properties now. :P I really don't get why Crysis was release with such overdone ragdoll physics, you shoot someone with the scar and they take flight!


Just don't plan on gaming on one of these (http://www.sylvanianetbooks.com/).  I actually got to play around with one the other day, as my landlord just got one for a not-very-tech-savvy friend.

(http://digitalgadgets.com/images/product1.jpg)

Ouch.....
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: Gabbe on 12 December 2010, 21:50:54
Just don't plan on gaming on one of these (http://www.sylvanianetbooks.com/).  I actually got to play around with one the other day, as my landlord just got one for a not-very-tech-savvy friend.

(http://digitalgadgets.com/images/product1.jpg)
Hey that looked awesome! is that the millenium version of W2k? oh man so nostalgic i want it!
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: John.d.h on 12 December 2010, 22:03:31
Hey that looked awesome! is that the millenium version of W2k? oh man so nostalgic i want it!
No, that Windows ME you're thinking of.  CE is like a mobile version of Windows 98.  It actually runs pretty fast, which should be obvious when you think about the fact that computers with 128MB of RAM were just as fast as the computers we have now, before operating systems got so bloated that you need a gig just to boot up. :|  For what most people use their computers for on a daily basis (email, facebook, news, kitty pictures), it does it fairly well.  Of course, it's not compatible with much modern software, and it's got like 2GB solid state drive, so you're basically stuck with what comes with it, including Internet Explorer, unless you find some bare-bones *nix that will run on it.
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: Gabbe on 12 December 2010, 23:22:43
I just need to find Mozaik and then im good to go huh? :O
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: -Archmage- on 18 December 2010, 09:48:39
We have a new 850W gaming power supply for my incoming 5870, so far things are grim............piece of ****......... May have to make use of that warranty.
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: Gabbe on 18 December 2010, 12:12:38
5870 doesn`t consume more than what a 550W can handle anyways :D
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: Gabbe on 20 December 2010, 07:12:58
DX10 games < DX11 games ;)
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: -Archmage- on 20 December 2010, 11:17:15
Someday Gabbe.......someday, I'm gonna catch up to you! :P

Let me guess you have 5870X2's in QUAD CrossfireX? A highly overclocked 6 core processor? That's the most powerful rig possible to my knowledge...
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: Gabbe on 20 December 2010, 14:13:53
actually you can have 6890s overclocked with watercooling on all, and you can have TWO 6 core processors on special made Motherboards ;) Meh you can try, but u won\t cuz me got best rig evah!!11>! :D
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: -Archmage- on 20 December 2010, 20:47:18
Dude, I regret to inform you that the 5870X2 is more powerful than the 6890, because it's two cards on top of each other. Most of the stats I find seem to be all over the place, but I've very sure that the 5870 is still ATI's singlecard beast. 8)
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: Gabbe on 21 December 2010, 10:42:10
sorry, typo, 6970 is best when overclocked. And yeah, it is out on some markets :angel: :angel: I haven`t compared nVidia 585/580s yet so unsure there.. AND im pretty sure that 5870X2 is just a overclocked 5970 since the 5970 IS two 5870s on top just donwclocked to match two 5850s.
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: -Archmage- on 21 December 2010, 11:03:25
5870X2: 2 separate cards on top of each other working as one.
5970:    1 card with two 5870 cores, underclocked.

Anyway, look at this: http://unlimiteddetailtechnology.com/home.html

It actually sounds workable and will(hopefully) be amazing. But it'll take all the fun out of computer hardware. :look: Which is why I actually don't want it to happen. All competition will be gone, it may look good but it will completely destroy the fun of having a good system.
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: Gabbe on 21 December 2010, 11:35:03
Ok.

Germany is getting a new supercomputer, with processingpower of 3PETAFLOPS, but soon in 2011 USA will be getting one that can process 20 PETAFLOPS. I want one PETAbyte of HDD!
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: -Archmage- on 21 December 2010, 12:20:27
Ok.

Germany is getting a new supercomputer, with processingpower of 3PETAFLOPS, but soon in 2011 USA will be getting one that can process 20 PETAFLOPS. I want one PETAbyte of HDD!

Awesome!
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: John.d.h on 21 December 2010, 13:07:23
It actually sounds workable and will(hopefully) be amazing. But it'll take all the fun out of computer hardware. :look: Which is why I actually don't want it to happen. All competition will be gone, it may look good but it will completely destroy the fun of having a good system.
Because you like having to pay thousands of dollars over time to upgrade your system over and over, so all your old parts end up in a landfill somewhere?  How is there anything at all to like about that?

(I guess if hardware stops becoming obsolete as fast, manufacturers will just have to make it unreliable, so it breaks more often. ::))
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: -Archmage- on 21 December 2010, 13:32:27
It actually sounds workable and will(hopefully) be amazing. But it'll take all the fun out of computer hardware. :look: Which is why I actually don't want it to happen. All competition will be gone, it may look good but it will completely destroy the fun of having a good system.
Because you like having to pay thousands of dollars over time to upgrade your system over and over, so all your old parts end up in a landfill somewhere?  How is there anything at all to like about that?

(I guess if hardware stops becoming obsolete as fast, manufacturers will just have to make it unreliable, so it breaks more often. ::))

There is a certain joy in having a powerful computer, you have a bunch of weak laptops so you haven't really experienced it yet. But it's all the graphics competition and the fun of graphics. This new thing is going to piss away all that fun, there will be no more satisfaction in having a powerful computer. Because someone on their smartphone will be able to run a game like Crysis no problem. Crysis only has good graphics because it's just about the best there is, but if you made everygame with CryEngine2 just like Crysis, how awesome would Crysis graphics be? Not at all. In effect it takes down a major drive for game developers and signifigantly weakens the gaming industry. The whole point of games is FUN! Universally good graphics won't be fun, it'll be dull and un-innovative. It's anti-creative, no more need for innovative programming, no more need to design for performance, just blow it up with polygons, nobody cares.

Gabbe what's your take on this, you obviously know how fun it is to have a powerful computer?
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: Gabbe on 21 December 2010, 14:16:31
It actually sounds workable and will(hopefully) be amazing. But it'll take all the fun out of computer hardware. :look: Which is why I actually don't want it to happen. All competition will be gone, it may look good but it will completely destroy the fun of having a good system.
Because you like having to pay thousands of dollars over time to upgrade your system over and over, so all your old parts end up in a landfill somewhere?  How is there anything at all to like about that?

(I guess if hardware stops becoming obsolete as fast, manufacturers will just have to make it unreliable, so it breaks more often. ::))

What is the fun in your art? What si the fun in whatever hobby you have? What is the fun in good tasting food? What is the fun in wine? What is the fun?
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: Omega on 22 December 2010, 07:21:12
Actually, that unlimited detail sounds amazing arch! A way to "compress" the rendered graphics in real time to display graphics will poly counts which would be otherwise impossible? Then even the worst graphics cards could do decent on modern games! Of course, there's a lot of work to go, but that could very well be something of the future of gaming graphics.... If only I could render that sample screenshot realtime... :o
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: John.d.h on 22 December 2010, 09:05:25
There is a certain joy in having a powerful computer, you have a bunch of weak laptops so you haven't really experienced it yet. But it's all the graphics competition and the fun of graphics. This new thing is going to piss away all that fun, there will be no more satisfaction in having a powerful computer. Because someone on their smartphone will be able to run a game like Crysis no problem. Crysis only has good graphics because it's just about the best there is, but if you made everygame with CryEngine2 just like Crysis, how awesome would Crysis graphics be? Not at all. In effect it takes down a major drive for game developers and signifigantly weakens the gaming industry. The whole point of games is FUN! Universally good graphics won't be fun, it'll be dull and un-innovative. It's anti-creative, no more need for innovative programming, no more need to design for performance, just blow it up with polygons, nobody cares.
So what you're saying is that you want everyone's graphics to suck so that yours can suck slightly less so you can keep up your smug sense of technological superiority?  Also, that developers who make terrible games that merely look good will crash and burn because they have no idea how to make a game that's actually interesting on any dimension other than "Hey, this one looks pretty, so I guess I'll buy it", so developers who actually have good ideas about making interesting story lines, immersing the player in an interesting setting (which, need I remind you, is the entire point of video games) through their interactions with unique characters and plots, and inventing new gameplay mechanics we haven't experienced before (i.e. actually furthering the art form), will thrive and make lots of money?

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Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: Gabbe on 22 December 2010, 12:09:04
It would ruin the fun in having a gaming computer! :'( But it would still be awesome, but then any pice of sh*t card can run crysis 3, and multiplayer on some games would flood over with noobs 9 yr olds...*crying*

I think the graphics on the examples they have look 2d-ish though..

http://www.euclideon.com/press.html

It is our hope that in 12 – 16 months we will humbly submit our demos to the approval of our fans and customers.'


:OOOOOOOO!!! in 2012 then ;)
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: -Archmage- on 23 December 2010, 10:05:25
There is a certain joy in having a powerful computer, you have a bunch of weak laptops so you haven't really experienced it yet. But it's all the graphics competition and the fun of graphics. This new thing is going to piss away all that fun, there will be no more satisfaction in having a powerful computer. Because someone on their smartphone will be able to run a game like Crysis no problem. Crysis only has good graphics because it's just about the best there is, but if you made everygame with CryEngine2 just like Crysis, how awesome would Crysis graphics be? Not at all. In effect it takes down a major drive for game developers and signifigantly weakens the gaming industry. The whole point of games is FUN! Universally good graphics won't be fun, it'll be dull and un-innovative. It's anti-creative, no more need for innovative programming, no more need to design for performance, just blow it up with polygons, nobody cares.
So what you're saying is that you want everyone's graphics to suck so that yours can suck slightly less so you can keep up your smug sense of technological superiority?  Also, that developers who make terrible games that merely look good will crash and burn because they have no idea how to make a game that's actually interesting on any dimension other than "Hey, this one looks pretty, so I guess I'll buy it", so developers who actually have good ideas about making interesting story lines, immersing the player in an interesting setting (which, need I remind you, is the entire point of video games) through their interactions with unique characters and plots, and inventing new gameplay mechanics we haven't experienced before (i.e. actually furthering the art form), will thrive and make lots of money?

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I never said I want everyone else's graphics to suck, but I want them to earn it, not get it through some cheap new system. There's an immense amount of harmless fun through having a powerful gaming system. It also fuels the whole gaming industry. If all the graphics are the same, nobody is going to GIVE A SHIT after 6 months. Why? Because then you might as well read a book. And why pay $100 for the 500th game to use the same exact graphics, when you can get a book that has simply the story which will become the only innovative part, for about $10. I personally hope they price this new stuff real high so it doesn't completely shut down the gaming industry. This will be horrible for AMD and Nvidia.

You clearly haven't played very many high-detail games. Crysis has a great story! Far better than most movies.
They talk about models, hmm.......... How about shaders, particles, lighting, textures and other little effects, there must be a cost for all that! Anyway, Zoythrus did say when he told me about it, that it takes a lot of RAM. GREAT! RAM is a bit more expensive that graphics cards and no, the prices will not continue to drop when this comes out.

No more innovation, just throw everything you've got at it. Too much of anything IS BAD. You can have to much sex, bad food, health food, exercise, couch-potato-ness, ANYTHING!

My final comment: Crysis is amazing why? Not because it has good graphics, but because it can do mass quality physics and amazing particles in real-time, efficiently. And at the same time, boast immense lighting/shading that doesn't bog you're computer much.
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: Gabbe on 23 December 2010, 10:25:46
RAM is probably the cheapest sh!t you`ll ever find :P I could find RAM chipsets clocked at 1600mhz without a huge latency and that was 4GB in one chip. It cost was 400NOK Wich i belive is about 50-80USD but im not sure. Nowadays most motherboards have atleast 4 slots were you can put RAM in them 4*4=16GB running at the current maxspeed of 1600mhz.

Arch, I dont think the games will have the same graphics, because when he was telling us (the maker) about it in the videos on the site you linked to, he said that the modeller could animate and/or model inside a 3d-modeling program and then export into point cloud data wich is his format. That would make every game different in graphic style. It would only make it so that if a modeller is really good with polygons and have the power to create massive high poly stuff then games would probably look real. WHat im also wondering about is shading, as in the video presented, they said they had a problem with their shaders so that flickering occur. Usually that only happen to bridged GPUs.
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: -Archmage- on 23 December 2010, 10:54:44
RAM is probably the cheapest sh!t you`ll ever find :P I could find RAM chipsets clocked at 1600mhz without a huge latency and that was 4GB in one chip. It cost was 400NOK Wich i belive is about 50-80USD but im not sure. Nowadays most motherboards have atleast 4 slots were you can put RAM in them 4*4=16GB running at the current maxspeed of 1600mhz.

Arch, I dont think the games will have the same graphics, because when he was telling us (the maker) about it in the videos on the site you linked to, he said that the modeller could animate and/or model inside a 3d-modeling program and then export into point cloud data wich is his format. That would make every game different in graphic style. It would only make it so that if a modeller is really good with polygons and have the power to create massive high poly stuff then games would probably look real. WHat im also wondering about is shading, as in the video presented, they said they had a problem with their shaders so that flickering occur. Usually that only happen to bridged GPUs.

Hmm...

About RAM: Of course I don't happen to know how much a lot is, but 12+GB of RAM gets pretty expensive.
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: Gabbe on 23 December 2010, 11:03:37
3*400NOK = 1200NOK ~ 600 USD
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: John.d.h on 23 December 2010, 11:08:52
I never said I want everyone else's graphics to suck, but I want them to earn it, not get it through some cheap new system.
So having your parents buy you a fancy computer with a nice graphics card entitles you to something? :|
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There's an immense amount of harmless fun through having a powerful gaming system. It also fuels the whole gaming industry. If all the graphics are the same, nobody is going to GIVE A SHIT after 6 months.
As opposed to how things are now, where they just move on to the next game six months later because the new one is prettier?
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Why? Because then you might as well read a book. And why pay $100 for the 500th game to use the same exact graphics, when you can get a book that has simply the story which will become the only innovative part, for about $10.
OH NO, PEOPLE MIGHT START READING AGAIN! :o :O Sorry, but that was hilarious. :)
Besides, games have so many more tools at their disposal for telling a story.  They can branch out and have many possibilities, things can turn out differently every time you play them, and you get to interact with the characters and environment in a way that you can't through a book.
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I personally hope they price this new stuff real high so it doesn't completely shut down the gaming industry. This will be horrible for AMD and Nvidia.
Because poor people don't deserve nice things, but spoiled kids do?
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You clearly haven't played very many high-detail games. Crysis has a great story! Far better than most movies.
And that has nothing to do with their graphics.  Look at Halo for example.  It's fun, but it's mindless fun.  The characters are completely forgettable, and the plot... wait, what plot?  If you want to play a game where you get to work out your aggression and look at pretty explosions, the Halo series is a good choice, but you're not going to get any intellectual stimulation from it.  I'll take a game with a decent story but outdated graphics over something that's pure graphics porn.
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No more innovation, just throw everything you've got at it.
Wait what?  No more innovation?  This is innovation, real innovation (i.e. coming up with something new that nobody's seen before), as opposed to a very slight tweak by adding more and more polygons every year because now the hardware can handle it.  And you see who's opposing this actual innovation?  Don't complain about a lack of innovation when you're the one opposing it.
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My final comment: Crysis is amazing why? Not because it has good graphics, but because it can do mass quality physics and amazing particles in real-time, efficiently. And at the same time, boast immense lighting/shading that doesn't bog you're computer much.
... and if developers don't have to worry so much about graphics, then they can freely focus on making things like that better, instead of releasing the same damn football game (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Madden_football) every year with a very slight graphics makeover.  They can explore new gameplay mechanics and ideas that haven't been done before.

I honestly don't see why you're opposing this, unless it's just because you won't get to brag and be smug about the gaming rig your parents bought you. :|
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: -Archmage- on 23 December 2010, 12:28:21
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I never said I want everyone else's graphics to suck, but I want them to earn it, not get it through some cheap new system.
So having your parents buy you a fancy computer with a nice graphics card entitles you to something? No Opinion
Nobody bought me a nice new computer. I got a Radeon HD 5870. It's not going to mean anything in a couple years, AMD and Nvidia will fall, no more awesome thriving graphics competition.


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There's an immense amount of harmless fun through having a powerful gaming system. It also fuels the whole gaming industry. If all the graphics are the same, nobody is going to GIVE A SHIT after 6 months.
As opposed to how things are now, where they just move on to the next game six months later because the new one is prettier?
You surely haven't played Crysis or Modern Warfare 2 which are both tremendous games. But true, a lot of games aren't really anything new these days.


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Why? Because then you might as well read a book. And why pay $100 for the 500th game to use the same exact graphics, when you can get a book that has simply the story which will become the only innovative part, for about $10.
OH NO, PEOPLE MIGHT START READING AGAIN! Shocked Laughing Sorry, but that was hilarious. Smile
Besides, games have so many more tools at their disposal for telling a story.  They can branch out and have many possibilities, things can turn out differently every time you play them, and you get to interact with the characters and environment in a way that you can't through a book.
You realize that people will still focus on graphics, and it will very likely be much the same as it is, aside from the graphics.


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I personally hope they price this new stuff real high so it doesn't completely shut down the gaming industry. This will be horrible for AMD and Nvidia.
Because poor people don't deserve nice things, but spoiled kids do?
I'm not spoiled at all, in fact my family is devorced and rather poor. We do one time things and do them right, that doesn't make us rich. It feels like socialism to me, everybodies gets stuff they didn't pay for, even though in this case it's due to technological advancement and of course they ARE getting what they paid for, it just doesn't feel right. I would support it I just think it's going to spoil graphics............even more.


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You clearly haven't played very many high-detail games. Crysis has a great story! Far better than most movies.
And that has nothing to do with their graphics.  Look at Halo for example.  It's fun, but it's mindless fun.  The characters are completely forgettable, and the plot... wait, what plot?  If you want to play a game where you get to work out your aggression and look at pretty explosions, the Halo series is a good choice, but you're not going to get any intellectual stimulation from it.  I'll take a game with a decent story but outdated graphics over something that's pure graphics porn.
Don't even try to compare Halo and MW2, MW2 has a tremendous storyline, and Crysis has unbelievable graphics and storyline.


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No more innovation, just throw everything you've got at it.
Wait what?  No more innovation?  This is innovation, real innovation (i.e. coming up with something new that nobody's seen before), as opposed to a very slight tweak by adding more and more polygons every year because now the hardware can handle it.  And you see who's opposing this actual innovation?  Don't complain about a lack of innovation when you're the one opposing it.
I guess I tend to ignore games like halo and stupid repetitive crap. Because all I play are heavy duty games that are immensely good. Crysis was and will forever be the greatest innovation of gaming. It used an incredibly bad polygon-based type of rendering and made it unbelievable. I agree this will be a pretty awesome innovation, but I still don't like an iphone being as powerful as my custom built computer, which no was not randomly bought, it has been custom built and upgraded carefully. I mean all that careful research and hardware, poof, I just want to strangle somebody.


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My final comment: Crysis is amazing why? Not because it has good graphics, but because it can do mass quality physics and amazing particles in real-time, efficiently. And at the same time, boast immense lighting/shading that doesn't bog you're computer much.
... and if developers don't have to worry so much about graphics, then they can freely focus on making things like that better, instead of releasing the same damn football game every year with a very slight graphics makeover.  They can explore new gameplay mechanics and ideas that haven't been done before.

I see your point, but you can't say that about Crysis. I never play football games. You wanna play football GO PLAY IT! Games are for shooting people without killing them so you can get the action without the death toll. Or playing god in an RTS game. :P


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I honestly don't see why you're opposing this, unless it's just because you won't get to brag and be smug about the gaming rig your parents bought you. No Opinion

Read above about the rig. I really like the system we have now, because I have a new graphics card and a lot of good games exist. Hopefully we'll be able to play all these games still with the new system since obviously it's going to happen. Is it hardware or software, cause if it's software I'm screwed. :'( (Not sure cause I've heard a lot about a card to support this, and software for multiple uses.
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: Gabbe on 23 December 2010, 16:21:49
AMD & nVidia will buy out this project and shut it down.
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: -Archmage- on 24 December 2010, 00:24:34
AMD & nVidia will buy out this project and shut it down.

We'll see. I just want gaming to be as fun as possible. :P
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: Gabbe on 27 December 2010, 18:20:20
ATI & nVidia wants $ more than fun when it comes to gaming :P
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: -Archmage- on 27 December 2010, 20:11:26
ATI & nVidia wants $ more than fun when it comes to gaming :P

Well if they want bucks they gonna have to give us gamers a gooooood time, otherwise :bomb:.
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: -Archmage- on 4 January 2011, 22:44:39
Aha, AMD is pulling ahead of Nvidia and Intel at the same time, check out the AMD Fusion APUs(Accelerated Processing Unit)!
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: Gabbe on 5 January 2011, 03:35:10
Yeah i have seen, but sadly this only applies for dual core CPUs and mostly laptops will benefit from this. And most laptops doesn`t have a DX11 card anyways.
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: -Archmage- on 5 January 2011, 07:58:07
Dude, I don't wanna insult your intelligence, but I think you're wrong. :look:
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: Gabbe on 5 January 2011, 14:15:56
You dont insult my intelligence, this is how to gain knowledge, please enlighten me if im mistaken.
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: -Archmage- on 5 January 2011, 22:40:05
I don't know yet... We'll see when it comes out! Though we could speculate and do research, but it's generally never very accurate.
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: Gabbe on 6 January 2011, 04:46:20
I`ve checked with my local techstore, and this is laptop only, maybe for poor performance desktops too, but this will never outman the real size GPU/CPU
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: -Archmage- on 6 January 2011, 05:52:37
I`ve checked with my local techstore, and this is laptop only, maybe for poor performance desktops too, but this will never outman the real size GPU/CPU

Well a local techstore isn't bound to know that much. The internet is by far the best source of information on things that aren't out yet.  My dad said the graphics part and computer part work together to get massive calculating performance or something like that. I'm not sure and I'm a bit too busy to look all this stuff up. :|
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: Gabbe on 6 January 2011, 05:59:30
Thats wrong, it is a chipset, very small, that combines the CPU & GPU + northbridge. My local Techstore oderes those small things :P
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: -Archmage- on 6 January 2011, 11:36:07
Thats wrong, it is a chipset, very small, that combines the CPU & GPU + northbridge. My local Techstore oderes those small things :P

Let's wait and see, they are anyway without a doubt, remarkably powerful for their size.
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: Gabbe on 6 January 2011, 14:06:05
You know how small a CPU is? it is about 2/3 of that.
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: titi on 7 January 2011, 16:59:11
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Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: Gabbe on 7 January 2011, 19:25:43
harr harr :O IS that true or did you just troll me?  :confused:
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: -Archmage- on 8 January 2011, 04:37:43
Titi, you have got me totally confused here, either you're bad at making jokes/sarcasm, or you've gone insane. So I'm going to respond rationally.

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Intel is far better than ATI and NVIDIA! They sell a lot more graphic chips than those two.
Intel is known for bad graphics. Both AMD and NVidia surpass it in the graphics department.
AMD also has more powerful AND better designed processors.

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10 billion flies can't be wrong, eat shit!
Double-u T Effffh Titi.

By the way Gabbe, my Dad says you're talking about the Bobcat series of Fusion chipsets, the Sledgehammer(I think, might be another name) series is for desktops. Also as far as I know the hardware info on these new chipsets isn't available yet, but some benchmarks might be. Until the actual stats come out, all we're doing is speculation based on info like approximate numbers of cores, and advertising about how it's going to be very powerful, which obviously isn't very much. :P
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: Coldfusionstorm on 8 January 2011, 20:14:30
Intel is far better than ATI and NVIDIA! They sell a lot more graphic chips than those two.









10 billion flies can't be wrong, eat shit!

i think titi is trolling, but in case he ISNT.

Wrong, Intel sells more gfx chips, because the are onbard, and even THEN, even tho AMD and Nvidia Sells less, they earn more on their GFX cards. (Amd and Nvidia does)
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: John.d.h on 8 January 2011, 20:19:24
(http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQIXaSMFacAE6d1ywME3EW415WyGQ3jvLNubobolygnKkRFgAJU8A)

Is this thing broken?
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: Gabbe on 8 January 2011, 20:23:17
Hard to determine what is trolling in titis post when he has fact but uses a language that i dont think he uses frequently.
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: Coldfusionstorm on 8 January 2011, 20:29:03
(http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQIXaSMFacAE6d1ywME3EW415WyGQ3jvLNubobolygnKkRFgAJU8A)

Is this thing broken?

ohhh, thats were i had it :D, i couldnt remeber where i had put it. (takes back the decetor).

ohhh......now i get it...
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: ultifd on 8 January 2011, 21:11:00
Hard to determine what is trolling in titis post when he has fact but uses a language that i dont think he uses frequently.
That's actually incorrect. Unless we're all speaking deutsch @the irc channels...  :D

I'm pretty sure he is just being sarcastic...
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: Gabbe on 15 January 2011, 23:21:23
Unlimited detail, using point cloud data = no AA at all. :thumbdown:
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: -Archmage- on 17 January 2011, 02:25:31
Unlimited detail, using point cloud data = no AA at all. :thumbdown:

Not so unlimited, and yea, what about loading all these models, what about textures? Bump maps? They can't just cheat out of all these issues............ Some heavy amount of processing has to be done by some piece of hardware no matter what...

MY computer is up to 8GB of RAM by the way, and we went from 800 to 1333MHz. :D

I think they're seriously underestimating all the stuff they've gotta cover.
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: Gabbe on 17 January 2011, 07:34:55
The vids look awesome running on a one core cpu, but i miss MSAA wich doesnt come with point cloud data :(
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: -Archmage- on 17 January 2011, 21:35:19
Vids?

I'd like to see high res texes and shading. :P
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: Gabbe on 18 January 2011, 14:03:30
VIDEOES

They have showoff videos at their website, saying that the program runs software on a 1 core CPU with frequenzy measured in some mhz.
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: hailstone on 30 January 2011, 07:21:49
Vids?

I'd like to see high res texes and shading. :P
http://www.atomontage.com/?id=dev_blog
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: Loronal on 30 March 2011, 00:58:09
Guys calm down, being an alienware owner here I'm a pacifist, If someone wants to start a alienware vs macbook flamewar Im all for it :) . Well My choice is a dedicated 1 gigabyte nvidia graphics card with 3d support in my 11inch laptop (mind you) ati doesn't have support for that type of thing. I like nvidia and ati. Why can't we join together and hate on integrated intel graphics. They can't even run uhm like solitair at a high fps.
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: -Archmage- on 30 March 2011, 13:05:40
Except ATI has the fastest graphics card in the world, NOT nVidia. :P
ATI Radeon HD 6990

3D? I have no clue how to even get 3D so I don't really care. :P (ME WANTS TO PLAY CRYSIS 2 IN FWEE-DEE!!!!)

But yeah, wait no Intel rocks they run minesweeper at a solid 25 fps, cept when the mines go boom it drops to 15 fps.............
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: Gabbe on 30 March 2011, 18:52:58
nVidia cards runs with PhysX, 3d-vision CUDA and more, what keeps them in shape in the market is all their technologies wich by the way are amazing, thou when ati incorporates their 3d support..
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: will on 31 March 2011, 05:30:33
When it comes to actual crunching, the ATI architecture runs rings around NVIDIA: http://golubev.com/files/igrargpu/rar3_speed.png (http://golubev.com/files/igrargpu/rar3_speed.png)

However, the CUDA tools are far better than the OpenCL used on the AMD cards, and the result is that usually programs run slower on ATI than NVIDIA, despite the natural advantages that ATI ought to have.

NVIDIA are after all chasing crunching with Tesla, whereas AMD are far more focused on pure-graphics.

Intel integrated cores range from poor to great.  There's nothing shoddy about the high-end Intel integrated graphics, its just not the premium part that a discrete graphics card is.  But that doesn't mean that bangs-for-bucks the Intel cards are rubbish.

The high-end cards are much more capable than the games.  If you are developing a game you can't really dictate that users must have only the highest-end cards.  So you limit your 'quality' slider to things that are generic and easily dynamic such as 'number of lights' and 'filter quality' and perhaps 'texture quality' but you can't raelly build your engine around some super-high-end thing like NV_vdpau_interop (to pick an extension at random) because you'd end up having to build basically two or more different rendering engines.

It takes a massive investment to make a good engine, and you see this starkest on consoles; the hardware doesn't change, but the graphics in games released gets progressively better as the engines better learn how to utilise the hardware.
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: Gabbe on 31 March 2011, 13:26:55
It`s limits on how much you can get out of 6-7 years old hardware as in the xbox360 and ps3. Its time for Ms and Sony to make a new generation of consoles, AND interpret support for PC-Xbox gamers to compete against eachother. Actually Microsoft is currently experimenting with WindowsGameLive or something to have Xbox PC crossovers. Thinking that maybe they actually going to work on that.
Title: Re: ATI vs nVidia
Post by: Gabbe on 26 May 2011, 05:51:11
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrOHxEkw36o

Most Powerfull GFX card hellayeah!