ATI Wins Reader Poll *read for the shocker*

[Jonbo298]

WE'VE SEEN incredible things, er, "happen" in "Reader Polls" through the years.

However, we thought we’d give you a heads-up on one of the results in a Readers Poll set to appear on the streets of Deutschland.

Apparently, "in a survey of unprecedented size, 25,000 readers of Germany's leading IT title (PC Magazin) voted ATI as their number 1 choice for graphics".

We’d like to believe everything that one of ATi Technologies Regional PR Managers - Andrzej Bania – says, and this time we do.

But only because when we asked for proof, the excitable Andrzej kindly sent us an image which "proved it".

The results, we're told, are as follows:

ATI: 40.3%
Matrox: 9.2%
Nvidia: 8.9%

Andrzej says that "Given that the readership could vote for any company that had an involvement with graphics, ATI's share of the vote is truly awesome".

What is awesome is that, it seems, that Nvidia couldn't even oust Matrox (remember them?) who have all but given up in the noisy gaming market.

We don’t yet know who made up the other 58.4% of the vote but it will be scary if Intel's Extreme Graphics 2 gave Nvidia a whipping too.

That's pretty shocking. Matrox owned Nvidia in the poll (by .3% but nonetheless).