Wow, I was not expecting the ATI cards to perform that much better than nVidia's with everything else equal. Pisses me off that the green team get's exclusive eye candy though! They need to quit that shit, and soon!
But I am sure NVIDIA owners are happy that they get exclusive features. Hell, they paid for it when they bought their GPUs.
At least NVIDIA puts $ in product where their marketing is.
As an owner of nVIDIA I am happy that there are products that leverage my gpu besides gaming, and also features in games that I can leverage. Mind you there are things missing in NVIDIA gpus.
As an AMD owner, I am happy that there is reasonable performce and power consumption. Mind you there are things missing from AMD gpus.
As a consumer, I am happy that I have choice.
Linux might be great and open, but the games on them are where? Should NVIDIA spend money to leverage Linux? Sorry I "choose" a closed OS (Windows 7) because there are many good games on it,