GPU Question: Attn. -nVidia 570- & -ATi HD 6970- owners

[Arondight]

BTW ATI cards always seem to perfom better on games that are VERY graphic intensive. Almost every comparison shows it and hardly ever any Driver issues that use to cause problems for ATI cards.

Nope. Check Crysis 2 reviews for example. It's probably one of the most intensive game out there.
And no, it's not even the only game where nVidia performs better.

(I had a 6950, it died, I took a GTX 570, best decision of the year ^^)

Everything maxed with FSAAx16 EXCEPT ambient occlusion turned off, 50-60 FPS, falls down to 40-30 when loading characters when I tp to Ul'dah for example.

-Current GPU: GTX 570

-Anti Aliasing: FSAAx16

-Resolution: 1920x1080

-General Drawing Quality: 10

-Windowed or Fullscreen: fullscreen

-Average FPS: let's say 55

[Konachibi]

Everything maxed with FSAAx16 EXCEPT ambient occlusion turned off

To be fair ambient occlusion doesn't really do anything and is a total resource vampire. The only real reason for turning it on is to see what the game looks like when the frame-rate nosedives into the pits of hades

[SilvertearRen]

Nope. Check Crysis 2 reviews for example. It's probably one of the most intensive game out there.
And no, it's not even the only game where nVidia performs better.

(I had a 6950, it died, I took a GTX 570, best decision of the year ^^)

Everything maxed with FSAAx16 EXCEPT ambient occlusion turned off, 50-60 FPS, falls down to 40-30 when loading characters when I tp to Ul'dah for example.

-Current GPU: GTX 570

-Anti Aliasing: FSAAx16

-Resolution: 1920x1080

-General Drawing Quality: 10

-Windowed or Fullscreen: fullscreen

-Average FPS: let's say 55

I have just one thing to say about the video card/game benchmarking argument:

All games are not created equal. It is not a realistic benchmark to use. If you want something to really benchmark against, use FutureMark.

My personal opinion is strongly in favor of ATI, I am still using a 5870 and FFXIV sings nicely on it, although it is quite a power hog on my 750W Corsair.