Topic: Why is ATI so much better than Nvidia? (Read 5908 times)
So if I understand it right, ATI is better because they have quantity over quality and each core can do less but is enough for a part of a hashing operation?
I've mostly owned Nvidia cards but recently switch to AMD. I still believe that Nvidia cards are more polished and have better drivers and support but when it comes to cost/performance ratio, you can't go wrong with AMD.
I have been nVidia lover too all my life. Looks like it's pretty much useless, why not get gaming + mining performance from a card in the same price range aka ATI.
My next card gonna be an ATI
I was wondering why is ATI so much better than Nvidia? I mean whats so different? Anything in the architecture?
Hashing needs integer calculations aka ATI .
I've mostly owned Nvidia cards but recently switch to AMD. I still believe that Nvidia cards are more polished and have better drivers and support but when it comes to cost/performance ratio, you can't go wrong with AMD.
I think ATI is more power, but Nvidia is probably one of the best gaming GPUs, just for gaming.
I have a Nvidia GTX 770 gigabyte, $400, and it only get like 250 KH/s lol
I have a Nvidia GTX 770 gigabyte, $400, and it only get like 250 KH/s lol
I love ATI and have never owned a nvidia card in my life
That's why you love ATI.
It's like claiming you have the best wife in the world , since this is the only one you ever had.
I love ATI and have never owned a nvidia card in my life
and sooner or later this madness will stop, and many new used cards will fill the market for low prices
I like the sound of new used cards
.Check a few stores from which I've bought pc components in the past , no out of stocks signs yet:)
and sooner or later this madness will stop, and many new used cards will fill the market for low prices
I feel sorry for the gamers who can't find a card in stock or at a reasonable price because of all the AMD card hoarding as of recently.
They still have Nvidia cards available , and sooner or later this madness will stop.
I feel sorry for the gamers who can't find a card in stock or at a reasonable price because of all the AMD card hoarding as of recently.
I can't say for sure but I'd guess it has to do with different aspects of gaming. I've heard it put that Nvidia is not so great for mining and better for gaming. I think it was Nvidia now I forget.
Unfortunately there is the prejudice that floating-point calculations is what matters,
This "prejuidice" originates from that GPUs were originally build for rendering 3D graphics, which is mainly floating-point heavy.Some modern shader algorithms heavily use integer math as well, but the main meat of rendering is still fp.
anyone know when the 7000s series are coming out?
reference cards should be out Q1/Q2 2012
From the AMD Fusion Developers Summit speaking with Eric Demers (AMD's chief technology officer) about AMD's new GPU architecture.
http://forum.beyond3d.com/showpost.php?p=1561107&postcount=300
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We were told directly by Eric Demers that the first products using this technology will be released in Q4 of this year...
nVidia is focused more on floating point calculations and ATI is better for integer calculations.
Hashing requires lots of integer calculations.
Hashing requires lots of integer calculations.
This.
Unfortunately there is the prejudice that floating-point calculations is what matters, thus many compute clusters for scientific purposes went with Nvidia. Probably due to the physics people being the first to jump on the GPGPU bandwagon and AFAIK floating-ppint is what most of them want.
Philipp
Prices are better but ATI drivers suck!
I went 6770 in my Linux-box because of space limitation.
The difficulty increases is slowly killing me
Edit: Plus 5850 in main rig
The difficulty increases is slowly killing me
Edit: Plus 5850 in main rig
I have to get one of the 5000 series....
I got 5870 and 6970, Your better off going 6970 I think.
That's hilarious xD I'm very glad I stuck with my overclocked 5850 for this... Shame I'm only getting 2btc/week now though, stupid difficulty increases @.@
Nvidia makes good polished products.
ATI makes cards with raw performance.
Somehow ATI is winning here for doing less R&D.
LOL ATI makes cards with raw performance.
Somehow ATI is winning here for doing less R&D.
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