KFA2 GTX460 1GB vs. HD5830 1GB: The Showdown!

[Johnny87au]

Nice review mate, Should do it up against a 5850, even though im sure it will win!

[HelixPC]

The Bad:

- 2D Desktop quality isn't very nice

what do you mean by this?

[Ket]

The Bad:

- 2D Desktop quality isn't very nice

what do you mean by this?

Its as I described in the conclusion. When the driver had installed and I rebooted desktop image quality was noticably blurrier vs. the ATi card. It was so blurry I thought the monitor hadn't defaulted to its native resolution, but it had. I put my glasses on too to make sure it wasn't my eyes playing tricks on me, but no, it was deffinately blurrier. The connection being used was DVI. I don't know what nVidias deal is with continuing crap desktop quality, but since switching to modded Quadro drivers desktop quality is better, but still not ATi level.

[Blkout]

The Bad:

- 2D Desktop quality isn't very nice

what do you mean by this?

Its been known for years that ATI has better 2D image quality than Nvidia. I've swapped camps many times over the years because I'm not brand loyal, but its always immediately noticeable when switching from ATI to Nvidia at just how inferior Nvidia's 2D image quality really is. I really prefer ATI cards when their 3D performance isn't too far behind Nvidia just because I spend 75% of my time doing day to day tasks where the ATI cards are clearly superior in image quality.