Now in the graphics sector we are going to looks and surely enough the mid-range from Both ATI and NVIDIA show that performance can be sometimes bought, with the asking price of about 300 to 400 dollars, give or take. As much as we know gaming performance nowadays, we find that the two big brands ATI and NVIDIA are almost par to par in the offering in high performance GPU’s, but there is still some hits and misses, like NVIDIA’s problems on providing SLI configuration without sort of problem and also some hardware operation annoyances in ATI with so much power and generates a lot of heat as the example of the 4870X2.
But most guys are now toying with the 4870X2 now because of financial uncertainty in the world, people are looking for are affordable prices and still powerful enough to say, play Crysis in mid detail and resolutions. So in NVIDIA they have the refurbished GTX216/260 graphics with a smaller fabrication process and also the increase in clock frequencies in the memory and core, with some specs in individual manufacturers varied, but with the test in some games like Crysis and Supreme Commander, it manages to beat the GTX280 by a mixed high and low differences and in just the fraction of the cost that the GTX280 is asking. But for most of the games against the ATI 4870 it just comes close in stopping the reign in ATI for mid-ranged cards but the !GB version says that the bigger the memory the better you are to score higher frames in high-res. To put it basically, the resolutions sometimes need a lot of page memory to run such a high demand in colour reproduction so in order to let the core do its jobs in producing bright frames and the memory will handle the size of the files and the res that you acquire in your gaming settings.
So most of the time we would recommend you to have the ATI 4870 1GB version, but with some mixed results in gaming, most of the games show that neither GTX216/260 and the 4870 we good or worse than the other, as for the same as the NVIDIA 9 series and the ATI’s 3-series there is now real big difference between them, until you look even closer in the results then you can see a real winner in the battle, but for the most part it really depends on what games you play or if they are endorsed by ATI or NVIDIA for the mean time the GTX216 is a good favourite for the time with some games also bundled into it makes it more appealing to users.
