GeForce Or Radeon

[Spoo]

I like the ATI Radeon All-in-Wonder line of cards. That way I can use my computer as a TV, and still be able to handle any current game on medium to high settings.

Also, I never buy the top of the line graphics card, since the next step down is plenty powerful at half the price.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Newegg doesn't deliver to Canada. Anyone know of one that does?

[CovertJaguar]

I've never had a NVidia card, always gone ATI and never had any complaints.

[El_Phil]

I'd say that the drivers are more important than the actual card. Sometimes I cannot believe the difference they make, of course other times they make bugger all difference. But the point is still valid(ish)

To the question, NVidias always worked well for me and all else being equal I'd get them again. Even all else being slightly less than equal in fact.

[DarkHorse]

I voted for Nvidia, but only because they are a little quicker in updating their drivers than ATI, not because either piece of hardware is better than the other. And both cheat on the benchmarks, so that's a wash.

[Fyron]

I'd say ATI just to support the underdog, really... You will get the same performance either way (assuming comparable models).

[Baron Munchausen]

The ATI cards are good hardware-wise. And the multi-function models like the All-in-Wonder are quite cool. But everyone, and I mean everyone, that I have ever asked for advice on the ATI vs. nVidia question says that ATI drivers are legendary for suckiness. There are more problems in one iteration of ATI's drivers than the entire series of nVidia's 'detonator' drivers from the beginning. If you are a serious hardware geek willing to constantly putz with your system to get the thing to work properly, ATI might be a reasonable option. If you want it to 'just work' then nVidia is much better.

And btw, if you're not focused on 3D performance there are still some other players in the market. Matrox still makes very good video cards, including good 3D hardware acceleration. It's just not as fast as the ATI/nVidia chipsets. Who needs the very fastest 3D 'framerate'? People who play the most demanding FPS and RTS games. Everyone else will probably find it worthwhile to check out Matrox as well as ATI/nVidia.

[Fyron]

Atrocities is definitely focused on 3d performance.

[zircher]

What's your budget? For under $100 US, you can get a FX 5700 LE with 128 mb of memory. What's important to look at is also what version of DirectX and OpenGL are supported, which pixel and vertex shaders version arre supported, etc.
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[Ragnarok]

I hate ATI cards. They came stock in the computers we bought a couple years ago at work and none of our programs seemed to worked. We downloaded the latest drivers and everything. We bought nVidia cards and replaced them and haven't had any problems since then. nVidia in my opinion is the way to go.