NVIDIA's GeForce GT 430: The Next HTPC King?
by Ryan Smith & Ganesh T S on October 11, 2010 9:00 AM ESTWolfenstein
Finally among our benchmark suite we have Wolfenstein, the most recent game to be released using the id Software Tech 4 engine. All things considered it’s not a very graphically intensive game, but at this point it’s the most recent OpenGL title available. It’s more than likely the entire OpenGL landscape will be thrown upside-down once id releases Rage next year.
Wolfenstein always seems to be a game that AMD cards do better at, and there are no exceptions here. It’s now the 5570 that enjoys the small lead, while the GT 240 has nearly 8fps on the GT 430. It’s the last in what has become several losses for the GT 430, as we had been expecting.
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cactusdog - Monday, October 11, 2010 - link
Thats weird, I've had heaps of ATI cards too and i've never had problems with any of them. How can you have problems with all of them, yet i dont have problems with any of them? weird.Belard - Monday, October 11, 2010 - link
I haven't had problems with my ATI cards...bupkus - Tuesday, October 12, 2010 - link
dittodnd728 - Tuesday, October 12, 2010 - link
Beats me.If it weren't for lucky people like you, I wouldn't have tried ATI yet again. I thought it was just a case of bad luck for me.
But now I'm seriously reluctant. They simply do not work for me.
If some ATI executive believes that it's unusual and wants to get to the bottom of it, then I'm here waiting.
gamara69 - Tuesday, October 12, 2010 - link
Work in IT and you will understand. Ever try to put a Radeon in the same system as a Fire GL? Can't, as they both use the same name for their .sys file and neither is compatable with both cards. BSOD on boot. Going back a bit, I had an environment with over 100 ATI Rage 128's. Because of slight differences in the models I required 18 different drivers. The wrong driver would cause BSOD's any time an app with a 3'D button opened. In my current environment we use no ATI video cards as we have driver issues in our multiple monitor setups. We have pulled all ATI cards and replaced them with Nvidia cards and our driver troubles have gone away.Not to say Nvidia is perfect, but at least I can get more than one of them to work regularly together.
AstroGuardian - Tuesday, October 12, 2010 - link
That's because you are new to computers. I have never had a single problem with both ATI and nVidia cards.RGN - Tuesday, October 12, 2010 - link
It wasn't that long ago that ATi drivers were renowned for being terrible and at the same time one of the many benefits of nVidia was the unified driver architecture. That being said, recently I've worked with the A MD/Ti Fire Pro series. Not for gaming, but hi end multi-display setups. The cards and drivers have been flawless - not at all what I expected. The Fire Pro's were selected because they were half height, passive cooling and quad display. There was not an equivalent nVidia card. Kudos to the AMD folk for winning this round!IceDread - Tuesday, October 12, 2010 - link
Weird.I've used Nvidia when I found them to have the better price / performance and AMD other times.
I've had more issues with Nvidia than with AMD (ATI).
I have seen a lot of people have issues with both companies cards.
I do however like that AMD releases drivers each month and makes an effort to improve. Nvidia seams to release drivers sporadically.
There is also one thing that annoys me very much with Nvidia. I can not purchase an nvidia graphic card to use for cuda and use a AMD graphic card as primary. Nvidia will then shut down this functionality. So in my view, nvidia is a bit more evil as a company.
dnd728 - Tuesday, October 12, 2010 - link
Ahh, good ol' days with ATI...Waiting every month for a driver update, uninstalling all drivers & software for my AIW one by one, reinstalling one by one, with reboots, checking out all new bugs, writing ATI's support, uninstalling, reinstalling, manually uninstalling everything, reinstalling, reinstalling all other PC drivers, uninstalling, reinstalling, trying suggested combinations of new and old drivers, uninstalling, reinstalling, and by the time they're out of suggestions - there's a new driver release!
I'm sooo over that.
But as stated YMMV.
IceDread - Tuesday, October 12, 2010 - link
Sometimes I wonder what people do with their computers to make them fail.Uninstall, rune drivesweeper, reboot, install, reboot. Same procedure for nvidia as ati...