Weekend Open Forum: AMD or Nvidia?

[Guest]

From the days of ATI 9800 SE which I've flashed/upgraded to 9800 Pro, it was mainly ATI/AMD for me.
Except for AMD 3000 series, I owned all the generations of ATI/AMD. x800 Pro flashed to x800 XT, x1800 XT, x1950 XT, 2900 Pro, 4850 crossfire, 4870 crossfire, 5850 crossfire, 5870, 6970, 7950 crossfire, 280x crossfire, and now 290. I've owned Nvidia 7800 GT and 770 GTX in between above Radeon cards.
My next target is Fury or Fury X.
It takes more than just couple of frames to convince me to change to green camp.

For me ATI was always better with videos, desktop, TV out etc.
For example Nvidia have just learned how to detect HDMI Monitor correctly, you had to hack the drivers to change to 0-255 range.
And I hate how Nvidia tries to compete only with propriety technology. Influencing game developers to code games based on their technology.
Physx is useless, Gsync expensive only and no advantage over free Free-sync.

As for the drivers, never had an issue with them. Yes, crossfire support for some games were missing sometimes but that would no classify as driver problem for me.
Regarding new game support as The Witcher 3, Project Cars and Batman, I don't bother buying games that are made only for one set of gaming cards.
Nvidia also has problems running their sponsored games at acceptable levels, and even though they tried to make AMD look bad as for example in the new Batman game, their cards are no better than the same price point AMD cards.

 

[oranuro]

I know it isn't the case anymore but I used nothing but ATI/AMD because image quality was better in most of the games I played in the early/mid 2000's. Right now I own 2x680Ti,6970,2x7870 and the old 7000 LE.Another reason I buy AMD mostly is because of value.Historically you have been able to "unlock" performance through softmods("Omega Drivers'" namesake is based on the modding community driver),pipeline mods and even bios changes.

Now that 4k gaming is playable with this generation I will upgrade maybe this fall(huge investment qq) and I might go with Fury X.

 

[TorturedChaos]

Had a Radeon R9 290 and it was great while I was running Windows 7. But when I switched over to running Ubuntu it was not nearly as friendly. Driver didn't want to install and I just couldn't get the performance out of the games I could play on Linux. Then I tired to get Steam to run, and wow that was a nightmare. Steam and the drivers for the R9 290 would not get along. Error after error, and months old trying to fix it I finally just bought a nVidia card (GeForce GTX 970), with logic that I could through my Radeon card into my graphic design computer and take advantage of Illustrator and Photoshop's graphic card acceleration.
Well my gaming PC ran like a beast now with the nVidia card, and Steam runs great on Ubuntu 14.04 ( with a surprising number of games coming out that support Linux).
But after installing my R9 290 in my graphic design computer I found out only part of the acceleration options are have support for a Radeon card in Photoshop and no support in Illustrator! So if I want to use those feature I need a nVidia card for my work computer.....

Long story short, in my experience nVidia has more support for a wider range of applications then Radeon.

 

[Panda218]

I will always buy Nvidia. I had too many annoying cases working as a home PC repair tech trying to help get AMD cards to work correctly with peoples systems.

My Card progression is as follows

8800 GT
9800 GT
GTX 260
GTX 470
GTX 580
GTX 680
GTX 980

I buy all my gear from Microcenter and they have one of the best GPU warranties money can buy. I have not had to pay full retail for a card since my 470 and if something breaks its a 5 minute drive to pickup a replacement

 

[JetFixxxer]

I had an ATI 9800 Pro as well.. I forgot that one.

 

[Guest]

All Nvidia : 7300GT -> 8800GT -> 2 x 260GTX -> 560GTX Ti -> 970GTX

 

[mosu]

I will never buy Nvidia, only AMD. Also never buy Apple products.

 

[distantreality]

Nvidia! Not sayin I would never buy from AMD but have never owned a vid card made by them! ATI pre AMD I learned to stay away from due to several crap cards..never owned 1 that worked but that was mid to late 90's

 

[veLa]

Cards we've used over the passed decade:

MSI Radeon 9250
ASUS Radeon 9600 Pro
Sapphire Radeon 9800 Pro
PNY GeForce FX 5200
EVGA GeForce 6200
EVGA GeForce 7900GS KO
EVGA GeForce 8600GTS
EVGA GeForce GTX 260
EVGA GeForce GTX 670 FTW
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 770 WindForce

Mostly an NVIDIA guy here, although I would have liked to use more Radeon cards.

 

[gigantor21]

I'll be going AMD this summer.

I would've been all over the 970 if not for the memory nonsense and NVIDIA's offerings in the $200-350 range are much slimmer. I'm at 1080p, so spending any more than that seems pointless.

 

[WangDangDoodle]

For me, it's a choice between G-sync and FreeSync. After reading up on both technologies, it's pretty clear that G-sync is the better option. FreeSync struggles with ghosting and is overall inferior to G-sync. This is why Nvidia is so adamant about sticking with their G-sync technology, despite the fact that it's more expensive. I have a GTX 980 in my main computer, and I can afford to buy a G-sync monitor, so it's a clear cut case for me.

I considered buying a Fury X for my triple monitor rig, but I changed my mind after reading up on FreeSync. The three monitors I currently have on that PC supports neither G-sync, nor FreeSync, but I'm looking to upgrade those as well... and I want G-sync for everything. I'm sticking with Nvidia.

 

[DDG4005]

Nvidia because they acquired 3dfx and I'd like to think that some of that Voodoo magic still lives on in the GeForce line.

 

[TomSEA]

AMD when I first started putting together gaming rigs. Nvidia for the last 15 years or so. The release of quality and timely drivers is a big difference maker.

 

[Squid Surprise]

Nvidia for "good" machines... AMD for machines meant for HTPC - ATI/AMD have always been better at connecting to my Pioneer receivers....

A bit sad that the FuryX wasn't as good as it was hyped to be - my new system will be triple TitanX - coming Monday

 

[Guest]

Intel, Nvidia, VIA, Soundblaster, Gigabyte on my blacklist, there is very heavy reasons why, never back to whitelist ever.
Im not any a rest of all fan, if disappointed go to BL any name too.

 

[gponline]

I'm not a gamer (I play some ocasionally), but I owned only AMD cards and consider them with better price/performance ratio than nVidia cards. I wanted to try some nVidia GPU, like gtx 960, but it's dissapointingly expensive for my budget, so I guess I'll go for the R7 370 or R7 370X.

last: GIGABYTE HD 6570 1 GB
current: MSI R7 260X OC 2 GB

 

[ET3D]

I've had more AMD cards than NVIDIA ones, but that's simply because I won more of them. Last AMD card I bought was a Radeon 5750, last NVIDIA was GeForce 750 Ti. (Bought over a year ago and haven't installed, because I haven't used the desktop PC since then.) On the laptop front, more NVIDIA (it's harder to find AMD laptops). Might get a Carrizo laptop if one of suitable spec and price appears and performance is decent.

 

[Bigwils1]

AMD for a budget, Nvidia for performance.

AMD for a budget, Nvidia for performance.

is this a joke amd for a budget hahaha were did you get that from I think you are getting mixed up with there cpu mate not gpu

 

[deemon]

Have had both NVIDIA and ATI cards. Both screwed me over several times with drivers and support and oh so many lies from both of them... I would take someone entirely new if there was any ... don't know now... maybe I settle with iGPU inside skylake for a while.

 

[cliffordcooley]

Have had both NVIDIA and ATI cards. Both screwed me over several times with drivers and support and oh so many lies from both of them...

I hope you are not blaming them for poor game development.

 

[AnonymousSurfer]

I've had both over the years, and NVIDIA has caused me less problems with easier support. So NVIDIA it is

 

[Route44]

Have used both and have received nothing but good results except for the Asus Ti card that failed literally 10 days before the end of warranty. Asus never responded. Anyway...

I have an ATI Radeon 9200 from years gone by that still works but no need for it. Same goes for my trusty connect3D X800 that works till this day. Most recent previous card was an Nvidia 9600 that was excellent and right now an AMD 6950 that does everything I need it to do.

For me anytime I need a new card the three factors that figure into the equation for purchase are: 1) need, 2) user reviews, and 3) cost.

 

[davislane1]

is this a joke amd for a budget hahaha were did you get that from I think you are getting mixed up with there cpu mate not gpu

15yrs of personal experience with both brands. Budget level AMD cards last longer; performance grade Nvidia cards perform better.

 

[deemon]

Have had both NVIDIA and ATI cards. Both screwed me over several times with drivers and support and oh so many lies from both of them...

I hope you are not blaming them for poor game development.

Can't blade poor game development for driver caused BSoDs. Can't blame poor game development for ****ed up OS support by NVIDIA (the moment Win7 came out, they basically stopped any support for Vista for example .... it's like telling your customers who do not want to jump to new OS instantly (why they even should?) big fat F*** Y**! ... I still to this day don't have shadowplay, DSR, nvidia surround and other newer features because nvidia decided to "move on"... although I have the hardware).

 

[Nitrotoxin]

I have had both over the years and I enjoy the performance I get from Nvidia, great cards.