>>11976849
>Nvidia (almost) always was the superior and more expensive option on the high end
Zoom zoom. In the 90s it was competitive on and off, but Voodoo cards were considered the gold standard and ATI was neck and neck with Nvidia. Then the Radeon 9700 Pro raped two entire generations of Nvidia cards in 2002, beating anything from the GeForce 4 and 5 series hands down. It wasn't until the GeForce 6 series in late 2004 that Nvidia actually began to dominate.
>it wasn't until about 2010 that there was half decent midrange cards
Another spectacularly retarded statement. There were fantastic mid-range cards even in the 90s. In fact, for years mid-range cards were mostly fully enabled GPUs, just downclocked. You could often overclock them with a simple software tweak and enjoy near-flagship performance for a large discount. Sometimes they were equipped with slower VRAM (the first Radeon and first GeForce had both SDR and DDR variants) or even a cucked memory bus, but you could close the gap again with overclocking and avoiding the gimped bus models.
