The Graphics Card Poll

Today, graphics cards are an important part to any computer. For gamers, choosing the right type of graphics card can make all the difference in benchmarking frames per second and graphics quality. Artists use high-end graphics to create amazing pieces of art and other uses include watching films.

Currently, the market has two main contenders, Nvidia and ATI (Array Technologies Incorporated), with Nvidia's GeForce range and ATI's Radeon range. There is currently alot of choice in the market since both companies are competing on 'Graphics Card King' and so, new models from both companies are released every few months.

In order for graphics cards to work correctly, graphics card drivers relating to the graphics cards maker must be installed. Nvidia's driver set is known as 'Forceware' and ATI's driver set is called 'Catalyst'. The buzz word at the moment for graphics cards is Nvidia's 'SLi' and ATI's 'Crossfire' modes, which roughly means connecting two identical graphics cards together to run as one.


While having tried both graphics cards vendors, I have found Nvidia's graphics cards and driver set to be the most stable.

Jam it back in, in the dark.