Dragonstorm
03-27-2010, 07:03 PM
I was really looking forward to the release of the new 400 series Nvidia cards (You can preorder now, out in the next week or so), but after seeing the reviews and specs I'm pretty put off to be honest.
They're massively overpriced, too hot (90C rumoured idle!!), have massive power consumption and just don't offer that much of a performance boost, if any at all. Comparing the specs of the 470 (the card I was looking at) against the 5850 or 5870 is just embarrassing, especially when depending on the model you pick, there's almost a £100 price difference!
The 59xx series is intriguing and almost out too, and seems to best the 480 pretty easily from what I've read, (480 mostly beats but often only ties with the 5850 in benchmarks) and is only ~£50 more on average.
So from looking at the news I can find, it seems almost a no brainer to go with ATI for the first time in a long time, but does anyone else have a more informed opinion, am I overlooking anything massive here that justifies the Nvidia's hefty price tag?
As a side note, I do have an Nvidia 3d vision setup that I use now and then. Its only on my spare 22" 120hz monitor though, as I use a 26" normally, so I don't use it that often to be fair, but I would be dropping that switching over.
They're massively overpriced, too hot (90C rumoured idle!!), have massive power consumption and just don't offer that much of a performance boost, if any at all. Comparing the specs of the 470 (the card I was looking at) against the 5850 or 5870 is just embarrassing, especially when depending on the model you pick, there's almost a £100 price difference!
The 59xx series is intriguing and almost out too, and seems to best the 480 pretty easily from what I've read, (480 mostly beats but often only ties with the 5850 in benchmarks) and is only ~£50 more on average.
So from looking at the news I can find, it seems almost a no brainer to go with ATI for the first time in a long time, but does anyone else have a more informed opinion, am I overlooking anything massive here that justifies the Nvidia's hefty price tag?
As a side note, I do have an Nvidia 3d vision setup that I use now and then. Its only on my spare 22" 120hz monitor though, as I use a 26" normally, so I don't use it that often to be fair, but I would be dropping that switching over.