[Wine] Re: NVIDIA OR ATI
jeffz
wineforum-user at winehq.org
Mon Oct 20 18:40:41 CDT 2008
tparker wrote:
> mrxgerman wrote:
>
> > It's better to have an nvidia or an ati graphiccark.
> >
>
> 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
I've had a 8800 for the past 18 months and I've never had a problem with it over many driver revisions. It's definitely many times superior to the 6xxx series.
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