Video Cards- nvidia or ATI

[AP81]

I am yet to try an ATI video card on Linux, and am about to purchase a new video card. My question is:

Do ATI video cards perform anywhere near as good as nvidia cards on Linux?




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[stefanwagner]

The main-problem is to find an appropriate driver. Then I would look for performance.

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[bfks3230]

I think these are the two best cards out there. ATI support is good. I haven't had as much experience with Nvidia.

 

[wmg]

Personal experience:

My home PC - GEForce2 MX200. Redhat 9 + NVidia drivers work excellently.

A friends PC I built for him - ATI Radeon 9200SE. Redhat 9 + ATI drivers I couldn't get working easily. I installed Mandrake 10 for him and it automatically put the ATI drivers (including 3d acceleration) by itself.

Summary: Either should work fine on any modern distro.

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[zeland]

From most benchmarks that I've seen out there, NVIDIA scores better at openGL while ATI is better at DirectX. Most Linux apps/games use openGL.

I don't doubt that ATI will get their openGL support sorted out, but for the time being, go with NVIDIA.


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[SirNuke]

Without the expect card, it can be hard to tell. ATI is the only company that makes ATI video cards (there is some outselling, but the cards are almost idetical), so I would guess there is better driver support (I have not used a modern ATI card with Linux). nVidia outsells there chip alot, and many of these cards are not very simular. For example, my old Inno3d nVidia GeForce 2 MX 32 mb ran much better than my new Inno3d nVidia GeForce (5000 odd number) FX 128 mb. The trick is to check as much hard compadiapility as possible.

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[Jowers]

Drivers for NVIDA cards are easy to come by most are on their website