Quote Originally Posted by Carfax View Post
Not really. It may be slower, but inferior overall? I think not.

A few reasons why I, and many others have a strong preference for Nvidia are:

1) Driver support
When a new GPU from nvidia is on market, old GPU don't have any update in drivers. Yeah support is better on green way ...

Drivers need to be improved in nvidia, they need improve how it's designed, you can be lost in this pannel ...

2) Extra features ie PhysX, 3D vision, CUDA etc
Nice but What do you do with cuda ? Are you a programer on CUDA yourself ? Or you use the 2-3 programs that runs on it ( and ATIs too ) with some demos ? It's nice Stuff. PhysX is nothing really good for futur graphics. So i don't want it. 3D systems tryed to exist already 10-15 years ago, but was a fail. It's gonna fail again. A lot of people are already wearing glases. They can't wear two in same time. So it's gonna fail again.

3) Better filtering.
Saying something is not a proof. ATi's filtering is far better from old RV770, proof :

http://www.hardware.fr/articles/770-...5870-5850.html

And i've don't found the page on fermi, but i remember to have seen a beter quality from RV870

Number 3 in particular has always infuriated me concerning ATI. Since the 4800 series, GPUs have had so much raw power that there's no need to resort to filtering tricks anymore to increase performance.

Yet ATI still has their "brilinear" filtering optimizations to this day
I don't have any problem with filtering. I can even run HL2 EP2 in AA16x/AF16x, 24x is a bit slow but playable too.