Quote Originally Posted by Jun aka Pekto View Post
True, they are. But for my two favorite flight sims (Flight Simulator X and X-Plane 9), nVidia cards have a big advantage. Take my X800XL, it's okay on the games of its time except for Flight Simulator X. It lags a bit on my preferred settings. I replaced it with an 8600GT given by a friend. I immediately noticed I can ramp up a lot more detail and still have higher frame rates than the X800XL. In most other games, they're about equal. But, nVidia has the edge in flight sims. Even X-Plane 9's manual recommends nVidia over ATI.

With newer cards, it's not really a concern for both games. But, if a new state of the art flight sim comes out, the process might start all over again with nVidia being the favored card.
True. You can't deny that some games have brand preferences. Kanya kanyang title yan for each card. It's good that you know exactly what games you'll be using the card for and that you know that it prefers nVidia.

Though of course if you find an ATI card that's much better than nVidia's offering at the same price point then it would still be better to go ATI. So kunwari may HD4850 na kapresyo ng 9800GT (haha malay mo) dun ka na sa 4850.