AMD The Truth

Try telling that to "tunderman".

He may hit you with his battered cod once you have finished.

Why is that? We "all of us" are beating this dead horse so much that it looks like a pile of beans!

It doesnt affect my life that your intel is better than my amd. To others it really does.. We should be helping each other not bashing each other

ACTUALY: looking at via for the next cpu i buy.

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just kidding.(or am I?)

Personally I have no commitment to either. I will buy whatever is fastest. Who cares who makes it. I certainly don't wish AMD any bad will, just make a faster chip and you have my business....same with ATI. But I sure as hell won't pretend that AMD or ATI is faster than Intel and Nvidia at the moment. Fanboy of speed. Only

Now, you're showing yourself to be a fanboy and not a factboy. AMD is almost as bad as you say and Intel is the best CPU tech, but there's no way that anyone can say that ATI is not better than Nvidia. When more than just a few fps in Crysis are considered, ATI is better than Nvidia.

ATI has better image quality and has been consistent over the last few generations since the 8500. It has had really competitive cards since the 9800 Pro.

ATI has Avivo, which generally beats Pure Cinema. It comes with the cards and does not cost an extra fifty bucks or so. Nvidia is ripping people off charging for Pure Cinema.

ATI's drivers are genuinely good. They don't have access to the code that Nvidia pays for through it's "Nvidia, the way it's meant to be bribed" program (something similar was done by Intel with their OEM rebate deals keeping AMD down to a smaller market share). Yet, they catch up and perform just as well, or better, overall.

ATI and Nvidia leapfrog the top spot in each generation, but Nvidia shows that they only care about the enthusiast gamer, despite their willingness to put out a few low end cards for the clueless who hear that the $600 Nvidia card. is number one so the lower end cards must be better too.

As a graphics card, ATI is on top. As a gaming card, ATI is neck and neck. I'd say they are better than Nvidia and will only get better since the merger. Once AMD goes to 45nm Swift for notebooks and perhaps even triple hybrid Crossfire (ie CPU core + 780G + discrete low end graphics) for entry level and HTPC.

Maybe Nvidia will buy Via, but I doubt they'll get AMD. Their own partners don't want that, because they like the competition too. Nvidia won't have a CPU to compete against Intel and AMD in later generations unless they buy one or develop their own. Unless they only want to be a high end enthusiast company that only gives a few extra fps in a demanding FPS, they will lose much of the market share.

Though the 7600gs I have isn't that bad a card, the motherboard I bought with it turned out to be a lousy product and I'll never buy another Nvidia motherboard again. I'll stick with the AMD platform as an act of charity towards AMD CPU's but it won't be charity towards what are essentially ATI chipsets and graphics cards. Those are top notch.

I give Nvidia three stars for their enthusiast cards, but ATI four stars for overall performance in every sector where graphics matters: the first decent gaming and TV card (AIW Radeon 8500 128), the best graphics card of it's generation (9800XT and the AIW 9800 Pro), the improvement and victory of the X1950 Pro, the first decent IGP (690G) following a good effort (X200). Hybrid Crossfire and promises of Swift.

If you mention the 2900XT, then I'll mention the FX 5200. Which is worse? A mid range card that matches it's competitor (the 8800gts 320) or a card that every Nvidiot on a budget bought because it wasn't ATI? I had a friend stuck with one of those. Now his newest Dell has an 8600gt! Yay Nvidia at the low end!

The 2600 was never a gaming card it was an HD card. The 3850, 3870 and 3870x2 are gaming cards and HD cards. All that is missing for me is an All in Wonder version for our upcoming HTPC.

I finally got talked into going 3870x2. Can't wait to order it this Friday!

Link.

Yes ATI have woken up , but why does it take 2 of ATI GPU's to slighty beat 8800 Ultra eh!.. imangine when Nvidia start putting quad GPUs on a single card !!

Be that as it may, the fact is a nice 790FX mobo and an X2 6000+ or one of the BE's make for a solid performing machine.

Also, methinks you invest too much energy and emotion into which company has the "best" processor. Best for what? Best at running benchmarks? Best at websurfing? Best at forwarding those stupid-a$s email jokes.

Oh yeah, one last thing, as a self proclaimed AMD fanboy, if you ever buy an Intel platform, the Green Machine will send the Goon Squad to your house and take away your secret decoder ring!

come to think of it, who am i, and what have i done with my life? (filling in your sentence )

I just have to give it up for spuddyt.

The single greatest avatar icon of all time !

The princess's face is simply... priceless....

That's exactly what will happen. There are tons of rumors about the 9800 GX2 now. It's a dual G92 card.

personally, i think that the "nVidiot" was the best bit of this artical. quality

I understand the argument (although I think it is rediculous) of "OH MAN IT'S TWO GPUS."

They beat it, they beat it. Period. Does it matter that Intel's C2Q isn't Native Quad? You know where I am going with this argument, so we don't need to get into it.

The bottom line is it beats it, and it does it at a price point well below the MSRP of the Ultra. It's another option and it's good for competition. That being said in the GPU segment I'm waiting for G100 vs RV770. Modular GPUs sound awesome.

Screw the HD3870. My Radeon 9700Pro will PWN any card. I miss that card and back when ATI was its own little Canadian company that put NVidia in its place.

AMD, I don't bash. I just don't like it when they promise so much and you get so little in return. Kinda like how the GeForce 5 series promised so much and all you got was a blowdyer for your PC. Yea it helped pull out the hot air but whats the use when you go deaf?

AMD will be fine. AMD is just between a rock(Phenom 65nm) and a hard place(Intel Core2). It wont last forever just wont go away that soon. Maybe if AMD got their dual/tri cores out now instead of waiting.

Nvidia have had alot of time with no real competition, maybe we will start to see the technology they stock-piled over that period.

Close competition like this is BRILLIANT, it means we get cheaper hardware whoever we buy from.

I can't see what anyone would be complaining about, AMD finally has a competative high end and nvidia will drop its prices to compete.

TC after watching that video I weep for the world..............if that is supposed to be entertaining or cognitively stimulating I just don't know what to say. I get your point I just don't get that guy and his childish tantrums.

There goes the gene pool........

Wow. A dude huh? Well I am guessing hes a Emo? I mean I like some Emo music just none of the too sad crap.

FANBOI FANBOI FANBOI!

I'm not going down that road...

i thought this was a CPU thread. where'd all the horse refrences come from?

"big blue"
Agreed IBM is awesome!

I think the point he was trying to make is that the 8800 Ultra gives you 100 fps of garbage and the 3870 X2 gives you 90 fps of Divinci.

Well - I don't know about all that - but I do know that the ATI card works well in my XBox, supposedly much better than the PS3 as far as image reproduction is concerned.

Like spuddyt said ... bury it.

All your doing is baiting the dumb trolls who have nothing interesting to offer and who continue to drag everything offtopic.

This site is going down the gurgler.

Unfortunately in terms of pure CPU performance I think Intel has AMD beat for the foreseeable future. Comparing the roadmaps of the two, AMD is falling further and further behind, it is a good thing they are diverging into new projects like Swift and Fusion (as well as their GPU business) because I think the days of AMD challenging Intel for the CPU performance crown are over... unless Nehalem turns out to be a massive flop of course.