I started with an expensive ATI, but after they didn't fulfil their promise to make OpenGL Win9x drivers for Rage II chips, I switched to NVidia, my first GPU, a GeForce MX. Later, I forgave ATI as its drivers and prices got better, I bought a cheap, honest and power-frugal Radeon 9250, since then I stayed with ATI, even more happily since the takeover by AMD. I got no problems with drivers, and I approve that AMD releases more infos than NVidia to open source drivers developers, maybe sometimes NVidia makes better proprietary drivers, but on Linux giving more info to open source devs betters the support of old HW on new distros.
Obviously all this wouldn't be enough by itself, but AMD always has what I need, cheap and power-frugal chips with decent performances and decent drivers.







