Which is better company that makes video cards ATI or Nvidia?

Is there any problems with ATI video cards if you have a ATI video card?I was thinking of getting Hightech ATI HD4870X2 PCI-E 2.0 2GB 512bit GDDR5 Video card.Just want to know if Nvidia or ATI is better video card and why?|||There's no correct answer to this, both are such major players pushing out quality chips and designs. You'll get some swings back and forth as different cards capture the moment. Nvidia seems to have done clever tie-ins with some game studios while ATI now has the backing of the mighty AMD. I've used ATI cards for years but also installed many Nvidia based products for other people. I'd be happy with either in most cases. The one thing I don't like is the Catalyst Control Center for ATI drivers which is quite an overhead/startup delayer in my experience. You can install the driver without this and use the excellent Ati Tray Tools by Ray Adams to control everything, but I suppose the Nvidia Forceware driver suite is more elegant at the moment (although when you do have it loaded, CCC is very swish!). I think you'd do just fine with the Hightech card, and the sort of system you'll be running that with won't take 2 mins to load CCC the way mine does!! I believe an 'equivalent' Nvidia card would be the Geforce 9800GX2 which probably tends to cost more.|||It depends on your preference. I personally feel ATi make better cards. I have used them quite a lot and have been impressed by the value for money. NVidia used to rule the roost but not any more. ATi also developed a graphics card for the XBox 360, while NVidia developed the PS3's.



In the new range of graphics cards being released, NVidia's benchmark clearly better but cost a substantial amount more then there ATi counterparts.|||nVidia has had a longer run of reputation, but sorry to all you nVidia fanboys out there, ATi is king of the hill, currently in lead with the worlds strongest video card, the ATi Radeon 4870HD, will out-perform 2xNvidia GeForce 280 GTX's in SLi.



So yes, ATi is alot stronger, and not to mention cheaper.|||nvidia is currently leading the market with all the most powerful cards right now. they have the GTX 280, 9800 GX2, 9800 GTX (tri SLI=amazin) only card nvidia has up there is the 4870. when it comes to performance nvidia is the best.

oh, and that thing about 4870 outperforming GTX 280 in SLI is bs|||For me i have to say the ATI,i have ATI Radeon HD 2900 Pro and have had no problems with it at all they just tend to be a little louder but alot cooler :)|||It depends on what applications your going to run and the specs on your computer. Nvidia and ATI are top dogs in video graphics and both are rocking graphics cards. |||nVidia is better, but that might just be because I have used nVidia for a loooong time and the only ATi card I bought didn't work properly.|||nvidia of course.