ATI Radeon vs Nvidia? Which Better?

Which is better 1gb ATI Radeon HD4850 vs 1.8GB NVIDIA Geforce GTX 260 on an HP Win 7 computer?

I don't play a lot of games, but I do play multimedia and do use computer graphics for visual effects reasons. Which is better card and why?

Currently I have this hp computer with the 1gb Ati Radeon 4850 installed and techs have been telling me that the reason I am unable to see a clear screen resolution and display the full 1920 X 1080 that my LCD screen is able to display is because of my graphics card. I have played around with the screen resolution and hertz, but not fix this issue. So if anyone can help understand this issue, I can fix it. Thanks

Another way to look at it, the 4850 is roughly 90-95% of the performance of the 260, but is close to 50% cheaper (and depending on sales and which models, more than 50% cheaper).

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Currently I have this hp computer with the 1gb Ati Radeon 4850 installed and techs have been telling me that the reason I am unable to see a clear screen resolution and display the full 1920 X 1080 that my LCD screen is able to display is because of my graphics card.

Sounds more like the "techs" don't have the first clue what they are taking about. Have you ever updated the drivers past whatever HP decided to include when they shipped the computer? If you haven't it would be a good idea too,

https://www.sevenforums.com/graphic-c...ndows-7-a.html

That card is more than capable of running any LCD at that resolution.

I have tried the downloads but do I need to do something? I guess I'll keep the cheaper? Bah, not sure what to do.

Here are my specs if that even helps at all.


HP Pavilion Elite e9280t PC
• Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
• Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-975 processor Extreme Edition [3.33GHz, 1MB L2 + 8MB shared L3 cache]
• 12GB DDR3-1066MHz SDRAM [6 DIMMs]
• 1TB RAID 0 (2 x 500GB SATA HDDs)- performance
• 1GB AHP Pavilion Elite e9280t PC
• Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
• Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-975processor Extreme Edition [3.33GHz, 1MB L2 + 8MB shared L3 cache]
• 12GB DDR3-1066MHz SDRAM [6
DIMMs]
• 1TB RAID 0 (2 x 500GB SATA HDDs) - performance
• 1GB ATI Radeon HD 4850 [2 DVI, HDMI and VGA adapters]
• LightScribe 16X max. DVD+/-R/RW SuperMulti drive
• Integrated 10/100/1000 (Gigabit) Ethernet, No wireless LAN
• 15-in-1 memory card reader, 1 USB, 1394, audio, video (for TV Tuner)
• TV tuner, dual format ATSC-NTSC with PVR, remote
• Integrated 7.1 channel sound with front audio ports

youseven said:

Which is better 1gb ATI Radeon HD4850 vs 1.8GB NVIDIA Geforce GTX 260 on an HP Win 7 computer?

I don't play a lot of games, but I do play multimedia and do use computer graphics for visual effects reasons. Which is better card and why?

Currently I have this hp computer with the 1gb Ati Radeon 4850 installed and techs have been telling me that the reason I am unable to see a clear screen resolution and display the full 1920 X 1080 that my LCD screen is able to display is because of my graphics card. I have played around with the screen resolution and hertz, but not fix this issue. So if anyone can help understand this issue, I can fix it. Thanks

I'm sorry but... I'm not following.

Unable to see clear screen resolution?

The HD 4850 should have no trouble running non-gaming related tasks at 1,920 x 1,080.

EDIT: To answer your question: GTX 260 > HD 4850.

By a significant margin.

Excellent. Thank you all. This thread has helped me really understand my computer better.