Firing Squad Is NVidia Biased

[Caboose-1]

Go to Firing Squad and its obvious. I really like both manufacturers, but will never buy a nV card. Why? Because I have had excellent experience with ATi, and amafraid of change.

 

[Vokofpolisiekar]

Someone has to make Nvidia owners feel good.... :lol:

I can already feel the onslaught of hate posts coming on...

 

[Heyyou27]

I'm starting to have faith in Nvidia again. These new beta drivers increased my F.E.A.R. performance by 8FPS!

 

[leorick]

Go to Firing Squad and its obvious. I really like both manufacturers, but will never buy a nV card. Why? Because I have had excellent experience with ATi, and amafraid of change.

Well, i feel the same way. unfortunately, i'm on the NV side. I've had never a problem with nvidia. I did try ATI once, and my 1st experience with it wasnt so nice. I encountered an error just from installing the driver. 😀

Although my 2nd try was successful, it still doesn't feel ryt for me though. Anyway, i'm still having a hard time following the performance graph of ATI products. I mean, if it was nvidia, i know exactly how far of a performance gap an 6600 card compared to a 7800 card.

Question, is "powercolor" a good brand? this is the most commonly available here in Manila. And while im askin questions, can u guys give me a comparable ati counterpart to the NV parts i would list below. When i say comparable, i mean equal speed compared to that of an nvidia chip.

nv gf2 = ati ???
gf4 =
5200 =
5700 =
6600 =

I apologize for the noob question. 8) I just dont know much about ATI.

 

[TheGreatGrapeApe]

Go to Firing Squad and its obvious. I really like both manufacturers, but will never buy a nV card. Why? Because I have had excellent experience with ATi, and amafraid of change.

LOL!

OMFG, seriously, they're pretty balanced, and if anything were being accused of being pro-ATi in the past.

Reading their Dell 30" report I see balanced reporting IMO;
http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/2560_1600_gaming_preview/page7.asp

I like them, I find them to be one of the few sites that runs that many tests (and did a great job with their PureVideo/AVIVO comparos)

And that's a perfect example.

Take a look at this review (and notice the conlusion on page 8 mentions, potential improvement from ATi, but wait and see);

http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/ati_nvidia_xgi_mainstream_video_quality_comparison/default.asp

followed by this one;
http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/ati_catalyst_5.13_video_quality/

Probably the biggest about-turn (justified IMO) I've seen from a review site, and I've seen alot.

I've also seen enough to know that's there's some usual suspects when it comes to nV, and ATi, but Firingsquad tends to review down the middle, although their community tends to bleed green, I will say that.

 

[Heyyou27]

When I was there earlier today I was thinking the same thing; they are pretty balanced.

 

[TheGreatGrapeApe]

nv gf2 = ati ???
gf4 = plain R9500 (not RR9500Pro) maybe R9550/plain R9600
5200 = R9000/ R9100 / R9200 / R9250 Remember FX SUX!
5700 = R9600XT/R9500Pro Remember FX5700 is one of the better sucky FXs good redesign.
6600 = X700 / X1300Pro

IMO, X1300PRO < GF6600 < X1300XT=X700 < GF6600DDR2 < X1600 < X700PRO < GF6600GT < X800GT < GF6800 < X800 < X1600XT < X800GTO < GF6800GS=X800GTO16 < X800XL=GF6800GT then you get into the slightly bigger boys. Alot of this depends on the tests/games, etc.

This doesn't include the GF7600GT either, which looks really nice (probably above that scale from first blush), because I haven't thought enough about it's placement or read enough to justify yet.

I apologize for the noob question. 8) I just dont know much about ATI.

No worries, Basically of the ones you have listed there's some complex groups, but hey all have strange subcategories and familiesas I think I've shown.

Best thing to do is to ask before you buy.

 

[leorick]

hey thanks for the reply. i appreciate that. I'm aware of the sub categories, families and strange naming that both nvidia and ati use. it's just that, im more familiar with nvidia parts than that of ATI.

I just asked so i'll have a point of comparison between the two. Thanks a lot.

 

[MadCraiZ]

I've been an ATI fan for years. But I almost jumped over to nVidia because of 1) major lack of linux support (at the time there really wasn't any), and 2) Major instability issues with their AIW tv functioning all the way back to the AIW Rage 128.

It wasn't untill this last release of MMC and the that their AVIVO video converter ability to use the 1x00+ gpus for encoding that I'm starting to consider sticking with ATI in my next machine.

 

[pokemon]

I would have to agree. I've found firingsquad to be more pro-ATI than Nvidia, at least when looking at this round of GPUs, but maybe thats because ATI has the better cards.