Weekend Open Forum: AMD or Nvidia?

-Matrox G400
-TNT
-TNT2 Ultra
-GeForce 2 MX
-GeForce 2 Ti
-GeForce 4 ti4600
-GeForce 6800
-GeForce 7900 GS
-GeForce 8800GTX
-AMD 4870 in Crossfire
-AMD 5850 in Crossfire
-AMD 6970 in Crossfire
-AMD R280x in Crossfire
 
Amd, because they support open standards and also because Nvidia has too much market share right now. Nvidia is also using its market power to do make anticompetitive things like gameworks and Gsync.

So as long as they're outselling AMD 2 to 1 and doing that stuff, I'll keep buying AMD to pressure Nvidia and keep them honest. Intel too on the processor side.
 
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No real preference for vendor, but I have gravitated more toward Nvidia in the last few years but that is financially based. As a serial upgrader, recouping funds via resale is a large consideration. Nvidia cards - at least the high end- tend not to depreciate as fast as AMD's offerings since Evergreen (which was when I ceased to run two systems - one Intel/Nvidia based, one AMD). Since warranty seems to hold a premium with people buying second-hand, I also tend to go with EVGA as an AIB because their warranty is based on the boards serial number, so can pass through many owners and still retain some degree of security (I suppose, although graphics cards mechanical failures are very few and far between- most failures tend to be AIB's pushing clocks too far or cheaping out on build quality).
 
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Whichever gives me better performance> features> efficiency. If they were neck to neck, maybe AMD to support the underdog.
 
I've had a couple amd and nvidia cards. in order I started with an nvidia 8800 gt I believe it was. pretty fine card for its day. my next two cards were amd, a 5770ghz edition and a 7770ghz edition. both of those did.....ok gaming wise but I was pairing them with an older amd tuban 6 core clocked at 2.6 ghz :(. for me amd does multimedia better than nvidia. the options in the ccc for online video etc are superb to nvidias. I currently have a gtx 980 and all of my flash/html5 videos I stream look like garbage compared to my amd cards lol. amd does multimedia perfectly while holding a strong 2nd when it comes to fps in games. nvidia has prettier options in certain games though. amd only has tessfx......hoo hoo :p. nvidia also runs cooler these days it seems which I like. my fans @ 100% on my 980 are also pretty quiet. seems too good to true
 
My current GPU is 660Ti OC from GiGaByte. I want to upgrade to enhance game experiment. When Win10 arrive, I will wait for DX12 benchmark and decide which is the new one. My game resolution is 1080p/1440p
 
I had a gtx 680 that was really fast but on skyrim I ran out of video memory with my textures and mods, so I trade it to a friend for his 7970's crossfire and that has been working very well until this day no issues.
My next graphic card probably is going to be the GTX 980ti because of the 6gb vram, I was hoping the fury X to come with 8gb of vram but it only has 4gb.
 
I wont play the stupid vs game for me now its amd with 7970 ge great card before it was nvidia when I upgrade I will know what next they both have pros and cons
 
Use to be a AMD man on my 2 previous PC's (5850 + 7870) built new rig before new AMD cards came out - now have a GTX980, honestly, the only thing I prefer between the two is the GeForce experience piece, just seems more polished than the catalyst centre.
 
AMD for now. I have an all AMD system, I wanna help them as much as I can. I was an NV hardcore fan but after my third Geforce GPU died I switched to AMD and is all good. I hope they'll recover...
 
My first card was a ATI Rage Pro :D with a Voodoo 2 shortly after when I discovered I couldn't play Quake with it!!!!, also had an X800 apart from that its been Nvidia all the way TNT2 Ultra through to my GTX970
 
ATI X600 Pro
Nvidia 9600 GT
Nvdia 560 Ti
AMD 280X (currently borrowed from a friend)

For my next GPU I was looking for something in the GCN1.2 range .. but guess I'll have to settle for the R9 390.
 
S3 Savage4
GeForce4 MX440
GeForce 8600 GT
GeForce 8800 GT
GeForce 450 GTS

I wanted to buy something like GTX 960 Ti, but it seems that I'll have to wait for Pascal/R9 4xx.
 
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S3 Savage4
GeForce4 MX440
GeForce 8600 GT
GeForce 8800 GT
GeForce 450 GTS

I wanted to buy something like GTX 960 Ti, but it seems that I'll have to wait for Pascal/R9 4xx.
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Why wait? There are much much more powerful GPUs that the 450 GTS available now from both parties.
 
They are both great at certain price points, I usually don't worry about manufacturer and brand since there is no point in being a fanboy and all are the same. I was never hardcore gamer or anything so I never needed a high end GPU.

ATi Radeon X300
Nvidia GeFroce 9500 GT
AMD Radeon HD 7470M
AMD Radeon R7 260x
 
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Same as most people here. I've flipped flopped between AMD and Nvidia almost every generation. Nvidia still has excellent performance but I don't like the way they do business anymore.
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I TOTALLY agree, nothing else to add. I had nVidia cards in the past, but now I will be buying only AMD hardware. I got 3 laptops in the house with AMD processors and graphics cards, my main rig is AMD A10 processor and Radeon HD 7970. I am quite happy with it and better performance is not going to shift me back to Nvidia.
 
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ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 -> very fast mobile card despite 64MB VRAM, poor win7 driver support.
Geforce 8800GT
Geforce 9500GT
Geforce 9600GT
Geforce 9600M GT -> lucky did not get the doomed 8600M GT or the slower DDR2 version
Geforce GTX560Ti
Geforce GTX960

has been on the green team for a while. I appreciate PhysX and the drivers support from nvidia.
 
I've pretty much always had a ATI/AMD video card with the could of times I had a Matrox one.

ATI Expert@Play
Matrox g400
Matrox g400max
ATI 9500 Pro
ATI 9800 Pro
ATI 3850
ATI 4850
AMD 7750
AMD 7870

I'm looking forward to the Fury Nano.
 
AMD has not been very competitive since the HD 7970 Ghz edition. After that AMD had nothing that changed the GPU world.
I'm hoping for a real new series for AMD. Something that has value. As it is right now nothing AMD has in stores is worth their price tag. Most a rebrand and you can get the original for less in the used market.
 
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