In the defense of ATI cards. I bought a new computer back in late November and recieved it late December. It came with a ATI Radeon 9700 Pro. Many on other tech forums and other "specialists" ecouraged me to wait two more months for the "great" Nvidia GeForce FX. Upon its release and intiail benchmarks, this noisy, power hungry, expensive card has only a FEW percentage points gain on a quieter, cheaper, and more power efficent ATI equivalent. Immediatly after release of the GFFX, ATI announced the production of the R350 (Radeon 9700 is R300). This card is to include more memory (off the already massive 19.8 gigs of bandwidth it has now) and user a .013 manufactering process. Cheaper and faster based on a sturdy design.
Driver support also used to be a big issue for ATI. Not so anymore. ATI has devised a new Catalyst[R] system for updating of drivers. Customer support is great too. I had a Audigy 2 soundvard which was being disrupted by the Radeon's mangetic field. A quick change in the slots and everything was fine.
I have a feeling ATi will end up beating Nvidia's 50-60% market share. After all they have 30% and climbing.
Watch out Nvidia.
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