IS ATI OR NVIDIA BETTER?

ATI and Nvidia are the leaders of the GPU market. When you upgrade your graphics card you usually have to choose between similarly priced and positioned products from these two companies. But how do you know if ATI or Nvidia is better?

You will find more information about both GPU manufacturers as well as ATI and Nvidia benchmarks and performance comparisons on the page below. Don't forget to check out our ATI vs Nvidia discussion and cast your vote as well!

ABOUT NVIDIA 

Nvidia is a GPU (graphics processing unit) and motherboard chipset manufacturer based in Santa Clara, California (US). It was founded in 1993 and since then became one of the leaders in gaming and professional graphics. Nvidia was the first to introduce a graphics card with on-board transform and lighting (T&L) - the Geforce 256 - in 1999. The GeForce brand became highly popular and with the exception of FX series these cards have always been some of the best on the home graphics market. The popular console Playstation 3 also uses Nvidia graphics.

In February 2008 Nvidia acquired Ageia Technologies and started integrating their physics engine, the PhysX into Geforce cards. All Geforce 8 cards and above now support PhysX hardware acceleration for PhysX-enabled games.

ABOUT ATI 

ATI was a major designer and manufacturer of GPUs and motherboard chipsets until 2006 when it was acquired by AMD. Even though ATI no longer exists as a company, the popular brand is still being used forgraphics cards.

ATI was founded in 1985, producing graphics cards for PC makers like IBM. They launched a highly popular Radeon GPU line in year 2000. After ATI's acquisition by AMD in 2006 the newly renamed AMD Graphics Product Group continued making high-end graphics cards for gaming and professional work. The popular console Xbox 360 also uses a graphics chip from ATI.