Jun 19, 2011, 02:30 PM
AMD's are actually underpowered for gaming. Their most powerful card is a six-core, which isn't applicable for gaming, and it is easily outperformed (even in applications where a six core would be ideal) by the low-end i5 2500K.
Not only this but Intel has better features like SSD caching, in which you can buy a cheap 40-80 gig SSD and use it as the cache for an HDD of any capacity, giving you a boost of HD speed of up to 80%.
Same deal with ATI's. Nvidia's architecture is superior so any ATi card is going to have to be pushed to its limit in order to compete.
ATi has a slight advantage in the 150-200$ range, but that's hardly gaming grade these days and if you're buying in that range then plan for your computer to enter obsolescence with the next batch of gaming consoles.
Not only this but Intel has better features like SSD caching, in which you can buy a cheap 40-80 gig SSD and use it as the cache for an HDD of any capacity, giving you a boost of HD speed of up to 80%.
Same deal with ATI's. Nvidia's architecture is superior so any ATi card is going to have to be pushed to its limit in order to compete.
ATi has a slight advantage in the 150-200$ range, but that's hardly gaming grade these days and if you're buying in that range then plan for your computer to enter obsolescence with the next batch of gaming consoles.
/sarcasm