When doing game art there's little to no gain. I'm using a Quadro FX 4800 at work and even though I'm working in architectural visulization where you get a shitload of polygons onscreen I only notice a larger performance boost above 5.000.000 tris. The real performance gain seems to come when you put your viewport down to…
nvidia =) the cheaper fermi cards are coming out soon and should give equal price/performance as the ati ones. for me the developer stuff that nvidia provides is also a major reason to go with them (cuda, optix...).
Dont know how you guys are getting driver issues...had ATI for the longest time and havent had a single problem. The only thing I was longing for was EVGA or XFX to come over to ATI and now that it has been or was done, Im glad. Now the critical decision of 68xx series cards or 58xx cards...mhhmmmm
Good news for nVidia buyers: Nvidia cuts Fermi prices once again Most notably the GTX470 has had it's price reduced by fair margin. Making it a direct competitor for HD5850, maybe even the preferred choice over HD5850(due CUDA, PhysX). GTX465 got a cut, but it's pretty useless since GTX460 is better in every way. Some…