Imitation or flattery? ATI's driver selector..

[SunnyD]

Seems rather NVIDIAN to me these days:

Link

*Public note: I harbor no ill-will or fanboi-ism toward either ATI or NVIDIA. I am happily equally biased - and yes, I own both manufacturers' products concurrently & currently. With that said, flame away.

 

[TheRyuu]

Why do they list all the GPU's once you hit the radeon button?

Don't they all use the same damn driver anyway?

And what did they use to be like?

 

[LittleNemoNES]

liek omg creative dos dis twoz! Hax!

 

[Lonyo]

Yeah, it's pretty much totally generic. Everyone does it.

 

[SunnyD]

Originally posted by: gersson
liek omg creative dos dis twoz! Hax!

Ahh, but gersson - NVIDIA and Creative have had relations in the past. ATI and NVIDIA however... ooooooh noooooo... fanbois MUST become aware of this!

 

[SolMiester]

Dont see anything different here, ATI have copied Nvidia before!.........

 

[Wreckage]

Originally posted by: SolMiester
Dont see anything different here, ATI have copied Nvidia before!.........

SLI, SM3, HDR, Unified driver, etc. Watch I bet ATI will put out a DirectX 10 card now that NVIDIA has one.

 

[SunnyD]

Originally posted by: Wreckage

Originally posted by: SolMiester
Dont see anything different here, ATI have copied Nvidia before!.........

SLI, SM3, HDR, Unified driver, etc. Watch I bet ATI will put out a DirectX 10 card now that NVIDIA has one.

Erm - I believe SM3 and HDR were ATI "innovations".

The funny thing - ATI has a DX10 driver but no hardware for Vista, but NVIDIA has DX10 hardware but no driver. Ironic eh?

 

[evolucion8]

Originally posted by: SunnyD

Originally posted by: Wreckage

Originally posted by: SolMiester
Dont see anything different here, ATI have copied Nvidia before!.........

SLI, SM3, HDR, Unified driver, etc. Watch I bet ATI will put out a DirectX 10 card now that NVIDIA has one.

Erm - I believe SM3 and HDR were ATI "innovations".

The funny thing - ATI has a DX10 driver but no hardware for Vista, but NVIDIA has DX10 hardware but no driver. Ironic eh?

Yeah, better stick with Intel Extreme Graphics and avoid all their ironies :laugh:

 

[videopho]

"Yeah, better stick with Intel Extreme Graphics and avoid all their ironies "

I'm afraid that's all we can afford in the near future the way the new g/c costs nowadays.

 

[Matthias99]

Originally posted by: SunnyD
Seems rather NVIDIAN to me these days:

Link

*Public note: I harbor no ill-will or fanboi-ism toward either ATI or NVIDIA. I am happily equally biased - and yes, I own both manufacturers' products concurrently & currently. With that said, flame away.

I'm not sure whether ATI or NVIDIA did it first on their website, but:

1) ATI has had a thing like that for a long time (at least 2 years) -- they just changed the layout a bit recently.

2) A lot of sites use very, very similar layouts for driver/program update downloads. I'm pretty sure that neither NVIDIA nor ATI invented that.

 

[jiffylube1024]

Wow it didn't click in for me but that's defintely a rip off of Nv's site. At the very least they used it for "inspiration" .

 

[Wreckage]

Originally posted by: SunnyD

Erm - I believe SM3 and HDR were ATI "innovations".

No, NVIDIA brought that out with the 6800 series along with purevideo. ATI followed up about 2 years later along with AVIVO.

 

[jazzboy]

Honestly does it really mattter? It's just a driver download page.

Some people really do have too much time on their hands, methinks.

 

[jiffylube1024]

Originally posted by: Wreckage

Originally posted by: SunnyD

Erm - I believe SM3 and HDR were ATI "innovations".

No, NVIDIA brought that out with the 6800 series along with purevideo. ATI followed up about 2 years later along with AVIVO.

Well DX10 at the very least is neither an Nvidia nor an ATI "innovation" - Microsoft laid down the specs; ATI and Nvidia are merely conforming to them with their next-gen hardware [NV: current gen].

 

[Xcobra]

well doesnt creative does the same thing also?
http://us.creative.com/support/downloads/

 

[BFG10K]

The bolded titles really stand out. And yes, Creative has been doing this for years.

 

[Lonyo]

HOW IS THIS STILL A THREAD? LET IT DIE ALREADY.

 

[imported_Truenofan]

Originally posted by: jazzboy
Honestly does it really mattter? It's just a driver download page.

Some people really do have too much time on their hands, methinks.

ditto.

 

[Vinnybcfc]

Originally posted by: jazzboy
Honestly does it really mattter? It's just a driver download page.

Some people really do have too much time on their hands, methinks.

Well said

 

[Wreckage]

Next ATI will switch to using the color green.

 

[Griswold]

Originally posted by: Wreckage
Next ATI will switch to using the color green.

Of course they will, being part of AMD. Too bad AMD has been around for much longer than Nvidia, right? :disgust:

What a pointless thread.

 

[Wreckage]

Originally posted by: Griswold

Originally posted by: Wreckage
Next ATI will switch to using the color green.

Of course they will, being part of AMD. Too bad AMD has been around for much longer than Nvidia, right? :disgust:

What a pointless thread.

My post, much like this thread was a joke. Sigh, some people just take this stuff waaaaaay too seriously.