First Geforce GTX 480 Review

Benjamin Gawert wrote:
So just buy 3 and an ATI card. What's the problem ? If your decision is
for ATI, fine. I will go with nVidia for another reason: Because I made
negative expirience with so many Catalyst driver versions I can't count.

I have several PCs here, some with ATI cards and some with Nvidia cards,
and the Catalyst drivers are generally not more troublesome than their
Nvidia pedants. I don't know with what card and what drivers you had
problems with but it is very likely that the real problem was within
something else in your hard- or software. Yes, ATI had some really awful
drivers for their Rage series of cards, but that was over a decade ago.
The unified drivers for Radeons are really good, and if that wouldn't be
the case then for sure every review of ATI gfx cards would mention how
great this card is but unless the drivers get better the card is
useless. This isn't the case. Go figure.

"Hallo" Benjamin,

yes, I would agree with you that also some nVdidia driver versions
failed. But... my last expirience was related with an ATI 5770 and
really annoying incompatibilities with Star Wars Battlefront II (high
CPU load, but just with the ATI card), many crashs in games like WoW,
Aion and even in very old games like Age of Mythology. I was also very
disappointed about the (missing) speed of the card, compared to my old
9800GT AMP from Zotac (this 5770 Vapor-X was so expensive - more than
160 Euros - but wasn't more than 10-20% faster than my 9800GT in many
games (I do not use high resolution nor DX11, 1440x900 with two monitors
are my equipment and DX9 is my used graphics standard).
So in the past, I had no real complaints about nVidia.

High power consumption sucks, so nVdidia has to improve it. But if
tesselation is intensively used (read more about the DX11 benchmark
Unigine Heaven), GTX480 can be even faster than a 5970 ...

Regards
Peter