Wow, guys, i didn't expect so many comments in a single night.
They were pretty good in the 9700/9800 up to X1800 era, and recently in the HD 4000 and HD 5000 family (and 6000 is coming with some wild performance, rumor says).
I wasn't too fond of ATI until the 8500/9700 era (got myself a humble 8500LE and then i caved in away from the 3D world for some years). My current card is an "N" GTX 470 though (just sold one, aiming for 2GB 460's), only because i need the CUDA. And likely i'm going to need a lot of "N" cards during the next year -- at least until OpenCL support for my app is matured. They really need to kick themselves hard in this area..
Anonymous Coward wrote:As a Canadian I can't tell you how offended I am that ATi (based right here in my backyard), was sold off to the fucking texans (AMD). Texas is like the anti-Canada. Dropping the name is just reopening the wound. I was also a fan of 3dfx, and I never thought I'd live to see the day where I went out and bought an "nshittia" based card.
Well, i'm not Canadian nor Texan but my favourite color is RED, so maybe i feel a bit offended too that a RED is eaten alive by something green 😁. They seem to be smart enough to keep it RED, though.
Btw, are there still a lot of boxed 9700 Pros left in Canada, AC? Or in your backyard maybe ... ? 😊