I think that you have to understand that both ATI and NVIDIA have people sitting around just thinking up things about the competition. I would bet that both companies do it.
Any way that being said I am here for some Nvidia support… objectively
Go ahead and get a cup of coffee and something to eat this is long.
Slide 2 - Seems here that this could be the case however not knowing when the ATi cards will be released it is hard to judge. To the person that believes that they can buy a card that is crossfire capable… yes you can however you still need a master card. The ATI version will work with all previous x8XX cards just with a master card.
Slide 3 - This is a hard case to make for either company, True the 7800gxt in sli will undoubtedly beat the current generation of ATI cards in Crossfire ( based on current single card benchmarks where the 7800gtx beats all). However ati could have simple ment that if you own an ati card you will have the best performance with crossfire and an ATI chipset Mobo.
Slide 4 - On reason I know many people do not buy ATI cards is that they SUCK in OGL applications, this doesn’t mater much if you like windows however if you use Linux you don’t want to be using ATI. Technically 16x is better than 14x. It is also unclear weather or not ATI will have a competing solution to transparent AA
Slide 5 – HDR lighting does only work on Shader model 3 cards
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/winhec/partners/shadermodel30_NVIDIA.mspx
Slide 6 – Nvidia Has changed this recently with a driver update. I don’t know when that page was written on ATI’s site but it is still there. Im sure they wanted people to know that. What you don’t see is the rest of the bulleted points, • CrossFire is an open platform that supports multiple components and graphics cards that can be mixed and matched in a single system. Competitive multi-GPU solutions are constrained to supporting identical graphics cards.
This is true however if you have a better card it gets dumbed down to the lover version of card you have. Also you can mix and match brands of NVIDIA cards as long as they are the same card.
Slide 7 – ahh who cares, Nvidia is running out of things to argue about, its all done automatically I don’t see why anyone should care.
Slide 8 – seems to me Nvidia is just pointing out the obvious. One thing how ever is that Nvidia can do all 4 modes in OGL and on all cards that support SLI, Looks like ATI will not beat Nvidia at doom3 at least lol
Slide 9 – yeah the dongle is more flexible. This one is most definitely FUD by Nvidia, put out there to get people away from the fact that Nvidia can’t dumb down a card. (Well I know you can with certain programs but that’s not the point)
Slide 10 – Well I believe that this slide is spot on.
Slide 11 and 12 – I don’t know if this is confirmed or not, but if it is true that is a very very big limitation. People with large lcd’s and high end CRT’s should probably shy away from Crossfire if they like playing at 1600x1200 or higher.
Slide 13 and on – I don’t care practically much about a mobos features as long as it is stable, offers good performance in its class and can OC like no other. I am very sorry that there Gigabit nic only allows them to dl pr0n at the same speed as me because your not on a gigabit network and your cable modem only works at 5Mbits.
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