Ati video cards are now all AMD? Seems kind of weird for an intel 5 sandybridge build?

building an intel based computer but didn't get a video card.



Looking at video cards now, i prefer ATI then Nvidia, usually based on a past bad experience.



Now..... it appears that ALL ATI are now AMD?



Is that a bit weird? an AMD video card in an INTEL i5 Sandybridge build??????



I cannot be the only person that finds that a tad bit odd?|||It's not weird at all. AMD bought ATI and now call their graphics cards AMD Radeon.



I have a Radeon card in an Intel based system. There's no reason why you can't. There's absolutely no advantage to pairing Intel with NVIDIA or AMD with AMD Radeon.|||AMD bought off ATI quite a few years ago so rebranding isn't unexpected. However AMD graphics cards work perfectly well with Intel builds. Unlike AMD chipsets which usually only support AMD technologies and some NVidia ones, Intel chipsets will support both AMD's and NVidia's technology, both with Multi GPU configs and the GPU's themselves. NVidia is also a very competent manufacturer, they've made many improvements over the past generation. The old overheating and way too much noise and power problem with the GTX 480 has been corrected with the GTX 580 as have most other problems. Many NVidia technologies are also more mature than their AMD counterpart, the big one being NVidia 3D Vision which just blows HD3D out of the water in terms of usability, manageability, support in more software, and many others. So also it's hard to return to a manufacturer after having previous problems with them, I would still consider NVidia a worthy brand to consider.



In the end, if you think that an AMD/Intel build would not suit you then I should think that NVidia would be the right way to go. Remember, NVidia only supplies the GPU part of the graphics card. If you have problems with a certain card it may not be the GPU, it could be shipping problems or the actual card, which is manufactured by a third part like Gigabyte, EVGA or ASUS not a problem with the GPU itself, so you should not rule out NVidia because of a prior experience.|||AMD bought ATI and changed the name. Your GPU and your CPU are two different thinks. You can use AMD GPU with a intel CPU that's no problem at al.



No it isn't odd it is just the world we live in. Do not fear the computer where i'm typing on has a CPU from intel and a GPU from AMD aka ATI.|||Intel can not design GPU's. Beyond the integrated motherboard GPU they never showed any interest in competing with ATI, nVidia, Matrox and many others.



In fact Sandy Bridge is a graphics TURKEY!



Prior to the on-die CPU/GPU the GPU was designed around a chip set. The 2 major chipset players were ATI and nVidia.



Well since AMD bought ATI for the Fusion development and Intel developed Sandy Bridge the chipset is now a thing of the past.



nVidia now is now in second place for the high end graphics chip design and yes it is AMD.



AMD also has announced that they are no longer competing with Intel; yeah right and they may be moving down a path very similar to nVidia. An APU design house. nVidia is trying to score heavily with TegraII an ARM chip with GPU on-die. But who knows.



Real performance comes with x86 and only AMD builds highend graphics on-die with pretty damm good x86.



So if you want the best graphics that money can buy then it's AMD.