Earlier today, nVidia and their collection of lean, mean, and green graphics cards got a driver update that will offer significant performance gains in Skyrim and Mass Effect 3, among others. nVidia is reporting that the new WHQL-certified driver in the R295 driver family will offer a 45% performance boost in Skyrim, up to double the performance in Mass Effect 3 for SLI configurations, SSAO (Screen Space Ambient Occlusion) support for Modern Warfare 3, Diablo III, and Skyrim, and a wealth of other improvements ranging from SLI optimizations to 3D vision support.
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I always stuck with NVIDIA for the past 6 years or so(7600gs,9600gt and gtx 260m) and everything worked great, last year I acquired an ATI 5850m and all hell broke loose.
ATI drivers are terrible and very sparse updates. Even the updates are very minor. Till today RAGE performs crap, same with Brink and many other games. There are many games just google ati performance problems and you'll see whats been happening.
This will be my first and last ATI card ever. I should have read the forums of many game sites complaining bout ATI cards before I switched sides. Later this year I'm going back home to Nvidia.
ATI hardware is pretty decent, runs on low power, quite cool cards but support is terrible.
Nvidia cards truly bring out the game in a game. Even with my first lowly 7600gs I played Crysis on medium settings at 1024x768 and it hit 30fps surprisingly, while at that time Ati users were facing a problem where they could see a line passing through in the middle of the game.
"ATI drivers are terrible and very sparse updates."
AMD release 1 official release a month along with numerous preview and beta as well, I'd hardly call that sparse.
"There are many games just google ati performance problems"
You can do the same thing and replace ATI with Nvidia and get the same number of results. If you think it's only AMD that have problems you're so wrong, remember those drivers Nvidia released a bit back that fried cards?
"Nvidia cards truly bring out the game in a game."
What a complete load of bollocks. I've owned numerous GPU's from both Nvidia and AMD over the years and the gaming experience has been the same with all of them, to say that Nvidia "bring out the game" is laughable, but your whole post is nothing but trolling so it's hardly surprising.
You've never seen Nvidia/AMD fanboys? Visit some tech sites and prepare to have your mind blown.
@pandehz
Stating your own personal experience and saying "ATI sucks" and their "drivers are terrible and very sparse" which is complete nonsense btw, are two very different things. You were trolling plain and simple, not to mention completely off-topic.
I've been using nVidia ever since I replaced my Voodoo card with a GeForce 256 back in the day.
I've come close to switching sides a couple of times, but it has always come down to ATI's abysmal driver support which has kept me from doing just that.
It's a shame because I do feel ATI delivers in terms of hardware, but all the horror stories I've read and keep reading about buggy drivers kills any desire for me to want to try out the competition.
nVidia is not perfect though... they've made a couple of pretty big stinkers with their drivers as well and as a result, I always wait at least a week or two before updating drivers and that's assuming the drivers actually improve something regarding the games I have installed at that time. If they don't, I just keep using my current drivers. You know... the old 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it' saying.
SSOA is awesome though.
As for graphics card, it depends on your budget. I would definitely wait until nVidia's keplar (600 series) cards release though. That way you should be able to get a 500 series card for less, or you can get a 600 series card and have cutting edge tech. It does depend on your budget though.