No offense taken.

I too consider current ATI's hardware ahead of nVidia's. But what matters is the result of both the hardware and software. And considering the result, ATI is behind. My old GeForce 6600 GT was released 4 years earlier than my HD3650 and still performs better for OpenGL games. How can that be?

The game Serious Sam 2 is about 2.6 times faster on an ATI HD3650 than on a nVidia 6600 GT in DirectX mode. But in OpenGL mode the HD3650 doesn't even get 80 % of what a 6600 GT delivers. And it lags a lot. This is an example of what the hardware can do, but the software doesn't let!

So I still prefer nVidia. At least it works and isn't limited by incompetent software.

 

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Athlon XP 133*15\1.65V@200*11.5\1.85V

Abit AN7

Asus AH3650 SILENT 512 MB for DirectX / 0 MB for OpenGL

Corsair TWINX1024-3200XLPRO

Windows XP SP3

other than the high gpu temperatures, their hardware is good, they are just lacking in the software side

 

good hardware means very little if the drivers are holding the hardware back

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AMD opteron 170 @ 2.71 GHz

2GB ddr 400 overclocked

ATI radeon HD 3850 AGP 512MB direct3d memory, 0MB OpenGL memory

More info on the 0MB opengl problem here 

http://forums.amd.com/game/messageview.cfm?catid=279&threadid=108194&enterthread=y

ATI better fix their openGL , in both software and in hardware , because later openCL and openGL will work mostly as one , and comes dx11 .

sounds scary, by the time u wait for fixed drivers your video card is going to be acient history lol and 5 other models will come out in no time its like catch 22 if u think about it but when u spend hard earnd dollars and its not really performing it does frustrate you its like a drag car that doesnt run the numbers, ati has the power but cant fine tune

Hi.

Decided to update the system specs on my signature, to reflect the 0 MB OpenGL VRAM.

Regards.

 

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Athlon XP 133*15\1.65V@200*11.5\1.85V

Abit AN7

Asus AH3650 SILENT 512 MB for DirectX / 0 MB for OpenGL

Corsair TWINX1024-3200XLPRO

Windows XP SP3