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Hothardware ATi vs. nVidia CS Source benchmarks

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druski

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I wonder if the performance shown by the x800 is going to hold true against the 6800 once HL2 ships and both companies tweak their drivers for the final. If so I think that in the end I will end up going with ATi, as a) am a HL2 man not a D3 man, and b) expect more games to be based off the HL2 engine than the d3 engine.

I guess in the end they are both good cards, but I find it strange that the disparity between their performance on the two engines is so great. I know that ATi's openGL drivers blow, but why is the 6800 biting it so hard on the CS Source benchmark? Its funny how the camps have polarised, with the two most powerful fps game developers sitting firmly in the camp of one of the two most powerful gaming video card makers.

I hope this doesn't foreshadow a future of rigidly defined gaming camps where your vid cards are always weak on the competitors pet developers games.

What are the thoughts of you folk who switched cards after seeing the D3 reviews? Do you not care? Do you feel gipped by the two companies? Or do you think that nVidia will close the gap sufficiently on the HL2 engine to make it not matter?
 
i can promise you that more games will be based off the doom3 engine, even hl1 was based off the quake 2 engine...
 
I hafta agree, especially over the next 2 years there will be far more games (retail standalone anyhow) based off of Doom3 than HL2, not to mention games that will be superior to either, like Quake4 will be on Doom3.

Plus all the video encoding/decoding thats in nVidia hardware, plus Dual DVI cards at all pricepoints in the nVidia camps, leaves me with nVidia at the moment, and I've loved the past four generations of Radeons to death.
 
you do realize that a synthetic benchmark in an engine will NOT tell you how the GAME will actually perform correct?

i say wait for the game to be released and evaluated to find out how it performs on each card
 
More games will be based off of the Doom 3 engine because of John Carmack's involvement. Simple as that.
 
Brent any chance of a guide for HL2 coming prior to HL2 ship date? I really enjoyed your complete and unbiased look at mainstream cards.

and to the haters I have a 9700pro and run D3 well and CSS very well; however I am only playing CSS atm...
 
Yep. thats the one thing that I never have understood about people who are choosing sides right now, even if there is a big difference in most cases both cards are still putting out very playable framerates. The only big worry right now is AA on the very high end. for most people its a non event. get whatever you think is better or can afford.
 
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