5 Reasons Why the ATI 6 Series Should Be Your Next Purchase

A decade ago, Nvidia was at the top of food chain, offering graphics cards with great performance and a decent price point. There were users who did buy ATI cards, but constant driver issues and lack of proper marketing lead to ATI playing second fiddle to Nvidia

But somewhere down the line, the tides started turning and ATI started catching up. By the time the 4 series rolled around in late 2008, ATI won over a lot of users with the 4850 and 4870 and subsequently the 4890.

This trend continued with the 5 Series of GPUs as well. In April 2010, Nvidia launched the hotly anticipated “Fermi” line of GPUs. It raced to the top of the leaderboard with its scorching performance numbers by chewing through games and various applications without breaking a sweat.

But all this came at a price, The cards were very power hungry and ran hot. Some even joked that the reason it ran hot and required so much juice was because of the name “Fermi”. Nvidia had named the Architecture after Enrico Fermi, who was a key developer of the nuclear reactor.

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At this time ATI announced its next generation of cards codenamed “Northern Islands” in October 2010. The cards were a punch in the gut for Nvidia.ATI made several changes to their architecture. They also added in new features, which will be in a position to make ATI no.1 pretty soon.

So here are the Top 5 reasons why ATI’s current offering should be your next choice if you are in the market for a GPU.