and live with all the problems coming from the ati driver ?
I've had more ATI cards over the years and I have had no major problems at all.
I bought a 480gtx SOC, only really for two reasons; one I wanted to try nVidia which I haven't for quite a while, the other because I believe that nVidia offer better performance generally, but especially when AA is applied.
Yes, my last card was a dual gpu so I haven't had the chance to try a recent AMD offering, but I just don't see how those that have gone from AMD to nVidia, and exclaimed how pleased they were, can ALL be wrong. I would still happily buy an AMD gpu, I just think it comes down to one thing, funding. I have just completed an AMD biased game, Stalker COP (complete mod) - it was nice to see at the end that AMD had more to do with the development than nVidia did, hence it's hardly surprising that benchmarks show it to run well on AMD hardware, though it ran very well on the 480, probably fractionally not as well as a 6970 would. I simply feel that AMD need to keep that up because I am sure the hardware is just as capable.
My experience generally speaking : ATI/AMD pros = power consumption, value, robust hardware, image quality.
NVIDA pros = performance re minimum and average frames per second / AA application.
So, AMD need to keep funding or matching nVidia's game development funding otherwise the trend will continue, as it does cycle after cycle...been here the best part of three years and it's still more of less the same pattern.
