Phube Posted January 8, 2007 Posted January 8, 2007 In your opinion who makes the better Graphics card? nVidia or Radeon... I'm gonna get a new PC this year and I just dont know. (FYI I'm thinking of getting one around nVidia's 7900 series level...)
DCK Posted January 8, 2007 Posted January 8, 2007 Whatever you do, get a DirectX 10 level card, (GeForce 8 series or Radeon X2 series) because they are far more future proof. I can't say which is the better manufacturer though, depends on your price catagory. Also, it's ATI/AMD that's the manufacturer, the Radeon is just their PC graphics brand.
Caris Posted January 8, 2007 Posted January 8, 2007 think you mean Nvidia or ATI :P. If i was you i would do one of these. If you get a Intel cpu get a Nvidia GPU. If you get a AMD cpu get a ATI GPU. Intel+Nvidia are better though.
Bogbas Posted January 8, 2007 Posted January 8, 2007 I wouldn't recommend dx10 card yet, unless you have a near infinite budget for the pc. Currently the 8800GTX or GTS(can't be arsed to find out what's the difference) is the fastest, but they are the first dx10 cards. They require a lot of power as well. And you'd basically need a core 2 extreme processor to get the most out of the cards.
Phube Posted January 8, 2007 Author Posted January 8, 2007 I don't know enough to buid one so my price for the whole thing is £1000ish (with monitor). And I'm not really a PC gamer. But I will buy the latest GTA (as with the previous') as I'm obviously a Nintendo person I can't play them on my home console. I only have a Geforce 5300 at the mo' and even GTAIII doesn't run very well on it...
Shino Posted January 8, 2007 Posted January 8, 2007 I wouldn't recommend dx10 card yet, unless you have a near infinite budget for the pc. Currently the 8800GTX or GTS(can't be arsed to find out what's the difference) is the fastest, but they are the first dx10 cards. They require a lot of power as well. And you'd basically need a core 2 extreme processor to get the most out of the cards. This men speaks the truth, and for you're budget a 8800 would limit the rest of the computer. Maybe only by the end of the year will DX10 be standard.
Bogbas Posted January 8, 2007 Posted January 8, 2007 I think that the last of dx9 cards are getting reasonably priced nowadays. That means radeon x1900xt or GT(the earlier version), x1950 Pro Geforce 7900 GS or 7950 GT. For 10000£ you should be able to get a reasonably powerful machine.
Konfucius Posted January 8, 2007 Posted January 8, 2007 I think nvidia is better. At the moment their cards are more powerful and I have an ATI card in my laptop but a Nvidia in my PC and I actually find the Nvidia drivers a lot better with a simpler interface and more stability.
RoadKill Posted January 13, 2007 Posted January 13, 2007 It doesn't really matter unless you want to run linux or care about the top bleeding edge (currently only nVIDIA will serve your whims here with the 8800). X19xx or 79xx series cards will serve you well
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