Your card of choice in 2008

What is your card of the year?

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Very happy with my 4870x2 but I think the overall winner this year is just ATI period. Such a great comeback with superb performance in every single price range (also in the workstation field). If last year's best card was the 8800GT then this year's is probably the HD4850; superb performance for an equally superb price.
 
Ati HD 3870, Its gotten the job done since last january and is continuing to do so, i see no reason to upgrade.
 
I voted 4870X2 since it's a shining example of what ATI has accomplished this year.
However after rethinking the question, I suppose the 4850 is the real winner.

It's silly though, everyone is voting for their own cards. Any Nvidia boys voting for the 4850, out of curiosity? "Card of the year" doesn't exactly mean you have to own it.
 
I don't know about other people, but I take "your card of the year" to mean the card you owned. Otherwise, it would say "the card of the year."
 
alg7_munif said:
Your card of the year means that the card of the year in your eyes.
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it's a question of punctuation:

Your card-of-the-year
Your-card of-the-year

i have no idea how to properly punctuate it to show the difference but this shows the linking hopefully.
 
UtopiA said:
However after rethinking the question, I suppose the 4850 is the real winner.

Any Nvidia boys voting for the 4850, out of curiosity? "Card of the year" doesn't exactly mean you have to own it.
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I bought a 260 because it suited my needs better, but I voted for the 4850. I thought it represented the best value for the greatest number of gamers, taking the title from the 8800GT and 9600GT.
 
You can vote for the high-end card all you want, but the truth is that the midrange gets the most sales. The HD 4850 put ATI back on the map.
 
Love my HD4870 Crossfire setup!

Seriously though this year you couldn't really go wrong with whatever card you chose. Whether it was RV770 based or GT200 based the consumer came out on top. :D
 
I really enjoy my 4870, but my card of the year would be the 4870X2 just because of the research and advancement ATI is doing with it. Overall, the 4000 series was great.
 
GTX 280...the fastest single GPU card.
No multi-GPU fuckups, no microstutter...no waiting for a profile...best performance for the lest hassle.
 
4850, The released price/performance, even with crossfire caused a serious collapse in card prices to our benefit.
 
HD 4850 is now leading lap 227 with GTX 280 in the second place, just 6 seconds behind the leader.

In third place, GTX 260 core 192 is taking a defensive line into the corner while the HD 4870 X2 is looking for an overtaking opportunity.

HD 4870 X2 is right in the gearbox of the Core 192 and losing precious time in the the dirty air. HD 4870 512MB closing in, the gap between him and the duo is now down to 4 seconds.

GTX 260 core 216 is now two seconds behind HD 4870 512MB after his scheduled pit stop. Can he keep up the pace with a heavier fuel load?
 
4870 1GB. Even though the Core 216 may be slightly faster overall, you can find one for $40-50 less still making it a really good value for your money.
 
the 4850 was the best performance for my $200 card budget cap, so I got the msi with the big heatsink.
 
Looks like my research paid off. I guess the 4850 is the best bang for the buck card. I'm surprised how it handles AA very well.
 
9800 GTX+ for me

Granted, it old tech, but the price puts it nicely into the mid range segment, and IMO, this is one of the best mid range card I've encounter, performance wise.

I pick this over the 4850 due to brand availability as well as driver stability, after reading many opinion online in several forums.

HD4870 was priced higher than the 9800GTX+, at where I live here, it is still somewhat above the mid range segment, price wise.

Of course this doesn't take into account the fact that XFX now release ATi cards as well, since the card isn't in the market yet. (I may have choose the 4850 had I seen an XFX one)
 
I picked the 4850 because I wanted HDMI with 7.1 sound pass through. 9800gtx was a close runner up
but I hear from many members on forums reporting better Image Quality on ATI cards, and that's very
important.
 
9600GSO for me. It was available for $34 AR and at that price there was nothing better.
 
4870 1GB because it is the first card in YEARS the game me ABSOLUTELY no problem working with my HDTV. (first ATI card in years, too...) AND it is performing wonderfully in games @ 1080P.
 
HD4850 is leading the ATI cards and GTX 280 is leading the nVidia cards, however if you add the GTX 260s together, it is the most popular card right now.
 
yeah having the 2 diff versions of 260 is dumb. they are basically the same card. all [H] reviews shows zero difference between the two cards.

260! but only when it dropped to sub 250$ :)
 
It seems like ATI's mainly mid-range strategy works better than nvidia's mainly high range strategy.

Is this poll indicative of market share?

If this poll is fairly indicative of market share, then ati would probably have about 51-59% of the video card market.

Also, wouldn't ATI be better off if they became independent again? if the new amd cpu's don't sell well next year, i would assume ati would be best off breaking away from amd, but I'm not really sure so that's why I'm asking=] Although that would probably be the end for AMD if they lost ATI.
 
Actually ATI, the company is already gone, everything now is under AMD. AMD is just selliing the products using the ATI branding. ATi can't break off from AMD, only AMD can get rid of their GPU division by selling it to another company.
 
Ati 4870 all the way, without that car and it's little brother, Nividia would be ass raping all of their fanboys
 
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