[Wine] NVIDIA OR ATI
tparker
tparker at etherstorm.net
Mon Oct 20 17:50:14 CDT 2008
mrxgerman wrote:
> It's better to have an nvidia or an ati graphiccark.
We have always used Nvidia but are not planning to continue for our next
round of card upgrades. Assuming good progress on Linux drivers we will
be switching to ATI, partly because we have always had fantastic luck
with AMD products and it seems they are making the ATI name meet their
standards.. Nvidia is having chipset problems and too much of what I
have read comes across as them knowing about the problems but selling
the products anyway. That is not the type of business practice I wish to
encourage with my money. ATI's new cards are looking very good and from
what I can tell there should be stable Linux drivers available by the
time I upgrade, so unless that changes I will go ATI.
If you need a new card for use in Linux right now you might want to
research the bug reports for the cards and pick what is in your price
range that looks good, chances are high it will be Nvidia. If you are
holding off on the purchase for a while the Nvidia/ATI driver gap may
have closed enough for you to choose based on which card best meets your
needs overall.
To be fair the Nvidia cards we have currently in use are from the 7000
series and all work fine, no Linux glitches, no driver hassles, no bad
chips. We tried one from the 8000 series and it was garbage (an old 6000
series gave better graphics and frame rates), but that may have just
been that model combined with our hardware.
Tricia
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