Any of you who have been watching the updates on the graphics cards market will know that NVidia has won this round. Or have they?

It actually seems to be depending on how much money you’re willing to spend on a graphics card. On the mid-range of both companies (call me 8800 GTS if I’m green, 2900XT if I’m red), we saw AMD/ATI grab NVidia by the throat and swing them around like a… ehm… something that swings… around. Going higher, where names get really cool and extreme and stuff, ATI’s 2900XTX loses sorely against NVidia’s 8800 GTX. I don’t see any benchmarks comparing any of ATI’s cards against the 8800 Ultra, and they shouldn’t anyway. The owners of the latter gathered together wouldn’t even form a football team if they wanted.

So just as everyone thought the war would be over, ATI hit back in time, and for people like me that are looking to fork out between 200-300 euros, it seems like the right way to go.

But no conclusion can be made, as always. The graphics card market is fast as hell, and the two companies should be fighting each other for a long time to come.

I don’t care about the high range. People that fork out so much money on their PCs probably have enough time to spare to check benchmarks for themselves. But everyday gamers can only hope that NVidia will lower the prices on those GTS’s, and get us in line for an upgrade soon.

Related Links:

• ATI 2900 XTX Falls at the Hands of GeForce 8800 GTX
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