I happen to have owned cards from both ATI and nVidia.
My current card is a 256MB Radeon 9800 Pro, my previous card was a 32MB Geforce 2 GTS. And a month or so ago I built a system with a 256MB 7800GT for a work colleague.
The basic lowdown is that hardware wise they're both on a very similar footing, however nVidia definitely holds the lead for drivers. My one big complaint with ATI is their atrociously bad opengl support. It's ok on the big opengl games like Doom 3, Quake 4 etc but on other opengl games there has been an almost constant stream of issues. (owners of Kotor 1 & 2 will know what i'm talking about)
Also, if you use Linux then the only way to go is nvidia who have incredibly good drivers. Whilst the ATI ones are pretty much non-existent.
When I buy my next system i'll be going for the XFX 512MB Geforce 7800GTX XXX Edition. Depending on how much I have left in the bank after I book my holiday to Australia.
My current card is a 256MB Radeon 9800 Pro, my previous card was a 32MB Geforce 2 GTS. And a month or so ago I built a system with a 256MB 7800GT for a work colleague.
The basic lowdown is that hardware wise they're both on a very similar footing, however nVidia definitely holds the lead for drivers. My one big complaint with ATI is their atrociously bad opengl support. It's ok on the big opengl games like Doom 3, Quake 4 etc but on other opengl games there has been an almost constant stream of issues. (owners of Kotor 1 & 2 will know what i'm talking about)
Also, if you use Linux then the only way to go is nvidia who have incredibly good drivers. Whilst the ATI ones are pretty much non-existent.
When I buy my next system i'll be going for the XFX 512MB Geforce 7800GTX XXX Edition. Depending on how much I have left in the bank after I book my holiday to Australia.