What happend to ATI

rodders · 12 May 2007 at 20:40

Not been looking at computer components for years, but ATI and Nvidia were battling so much back then.

Now it looks like theres no good ATI g/cards. Is this correct?

elfy · 12 May 2007 at 20:41

monday dude, the new ati comes out to try and kick some mid-range ass

jamie2497 · 12 May 2007 at 20:42

Well AMD bought ATI and monday will see the release of their newest product called the HD X2900XT which will directly compete with the 8800GTS

rodders · 12 May 2007 at 20:48

Doh, is it advisable to wait and see what it can do, or just get a 8800GTS?

jaykay · 12 May 2007 at 20:49

Its only 2 days so i would and see on monday.

Tombo · 12 May 2007 at 20:54

So according to you all of the ATi card currently out are bad?

mysticsniper · 12 May 2007 at 20:57

Tombo said:
So according to you all of the ATi card currently out are bad?

No, but the drivers are all rubbish

Duff-Man · 12 May 2007 at 21:01

Tombo said:
So according to you all of the ATi card currently out are bad?

They're a generation behind nvidia currently, so they aren't competing in the high end market. That's not to say that they're neccesarily bad cards for the money though.

Timdog · 12 May 2007 at 21:06

mysticsniper said:
No, but the drivers are all rubbish

lies

DidStock · 12 May 2007 at 21:27

Why does everybody think that ATI's drivers will improve so much? (general question not a dig)

The card should have been out ages ago so they have had similar time to work on it as Nvidia's.

:confused:

Tom|Nbk · 12 May 2007 at 21:51

DidStock said:
Why does everybody think that ATI's drivers will improve so much? (general question not a dig)

Because of there great track record with them :confused:

FreeStream · 12 May 2007 at 22:37

New Card = Poorly or not as good as the previous generation coded = not as good performance.

Same with X1900s.

Over 5 drivers revisions with my X1900XT went from 10.5k to a shade over 11.5k at the same clocks @ XTX speeds.

I wouldn't be suprised if another 5-10% comes out of the performance tbh.

snowdog · 12 May 2007 at 23:30

5-10% isn't near enough though to compete with (the aging) 8800GTX though is it?

Final8y · 12 May 2007 at 23:39

snowdog said:
5-10% isn't near enough though to compete with (the aging) 8800GTX though is it?

I didn't see any mention of GTX but i did see GTS.
And its been siad many times now that the ATI card that is out on the 14th is a GTS competitor so stop moaning.

snowdog · 12 May 2007 at 23:46

I didnt see a mention of any cards, I responded to the original question, ati won't compete with nvidia still, as they don't have any card now, or in 2 days that will be faster as the top nvidia card.

I know r600 is to compete with 8800gts, but ati still wont have anything to compete with GTX, as they havn't had for the last 6 months, and they wont with a few driver updates on the r600...

Darkwave · 12 May 2007 at 23:55

Final8y said:
And its been siad many times now that the ATI card that is out on the 14th is a GTS competitor so stop moaning.

It should have been out months and months ago, there's plenty of reason to "moan."

Hxc · 12 May 2007 at 23:57

mysticsniper said:
No, but the drivers are all rubbish

You been living in a cave for the past year and a bit? ATi drivers have come on leaps and bounds and are now far better and far more frequent then their nV counterparts.

Darkwave · 12 May 2007 at 23:58

Hxc said:
You been living in a cave for the past year and a bit? ATi drivers have come on leaps and bounds and are now far better and far more frequent then their nV counterparts.

Agreed. Nvidia drivers are turd now, to put it nicely.

Final8y · 12 May 2007 at 23:58

Ulfhedjinn said:
It should have been out months and months ago, there's plenty of reason to "moan."

My post was about moaning about its performance.
& so was the post i was replying to.

Darkwave · 13 May 2007 at 00:02

Final8y said:
My post was about moaning about its performance.
& so was the post i was replying to.

I took snowdog's post to mean "too little, too late."

From there your post looked as if it was saying "it's out soon so stop moaning."

If I misunderstood then I apologise, but my point still stands.