which video card for mac G5?

[Minotaur]

Fine! But we talked about differences in 2D performance, not image

Sorry, I forgot image quality has nothing to do with 2D performance.
Not that they are directly related to eachother!

quality. And image quality has nothing to do if there's an ATI or Nvidia
GPU on the chip, it depends on how much the gfx board manufacturer
invests in the output filters. So in Your case it's not "ATI has better
image quality than Nvidia", it's simply "the ATI board from Powercolor
has a better image quality than the Geforce from XFX". I also had a
Powercolor gfx card that had a great analog signal quality, but it had
an Geforce4 Ti4200 on it. Looks like Powercolor cares more than XFX for
the filter quality...

There are enough cards out there that have piss-poor image quality with
ATI GPU, and there also are Nvidia cards which provide very good images.
The manufacturer of the GPU has nothing to do with that...

They sure do, with there drivers.

Benjamin

BTW, tried an ASUS 6800U aswell, 2D was crap with it aswell...

 

[Benjamin Gawert]

Sorry, I forgot image quality has nothing to do with 2D performance.
Not that they are directly related to eachother!
Exactly!


They sure do, with there drivers.

Definitely no. The drivers have nothing to do with the analog signal
quality, thats BS.

BTW, tried an ASUS 6800U aswell, 2D was crap with it aswell...

Can't speak of Asus since I avoid them for several reasons.

Why didn't You try some Powercolor card with Nvidida chipset? Or the
PointOfView GF6800GT for example which also has a very good image quality...

Benjamin