Posted on Monday, February 27 2006 @ 01:46:23 CET by LSDsmurf
The one-upmanship practiced by both ATI and NVIDIA in their rivalry in the discrete graphics arena is best exemplified by the heated exchanges and sometimes downright dirty tricks used by the chipmakers to show that they have the best GPU. We have all heard of how the chipmakers 'optimize' their processors to perform better in certain benchmarks. Not to mention the bashing that goes on from both companies under the guise of presentations to the media. Blind fans of either side also worsen matters by engaging indiscriminately in flame wars on online hardware forums..
