Why do people buy Nvidia cards?

welshdragon · 28 Feb 2012 at 08:56

NeptuneUK said:
I frequently alternate between AMD/ATI and Nvidia cards. I simply buy whichever card gives me the best performance in my price range. Last time round it was the GTX570.

Me too. Currently love my 570. Though all my previous cards were AMD. MY X1950 Pro is still around here somehwere fully working!

se_vietboi · 28 Feb 2012 at 10:21

560Ti was/is good bang for buck.

Blue160 · 28 Feb 2012 at 10:37

Epic troll thread. Well done OP

Pick an example which makes one Nvidia card look like bad value over one AMD card. Extrapolate that to include all graphics cards. Make the whole thing sound like a thinly veiled insult to the intelligence of anyone who has chosen Nvidia. Light fuse and retire to a safe distance

In common with most, I buy whichever card gives the best performance for my budget. I don't care in the slightest if that's red or green. Last time I bought, the GTX460 was streets ahead of anything else at the price. Next time I upgrade it might be an AMD card or cards which is best.

Marine-RX179 · 28 Feb 2012 at 10:48

Blue160 said:
Epic troll thread. Well done OP

Pick an example which makes one Nvidia card look like bad value over one AMD card. Extrapolate that to include all graphics cards. Make the whole thing sound like a thinly veiled insult to the intelligence of anyone who has chosen Nvidia. Light fuse and retire to a safe distance

You are right. He just drop the bomb and ran. Not a single post after his first post

TheRealDeal · 28 Feb 2012 at 11:02

Marine-RX179 said:
You are right. He just drop the bomb and ran. Not a single post after his first post

Yep thats why i stayed well out of this thread. I cant really think of a good reason to buy nvidia or a good reason not too. The same goes for amd. Its just what suits at the time really.

beejjacobs · 28 Feb 2012 at 14:43

Don't Nvidia tend to have a larger market share? So they must do something right.

I tend to buy Nvidia because my personal experience with them is positive, and what I've bought has been good value. Everyone has different experiences, budgets etc... so they buy different things.

As people have said, the GTX580 is not mainstream, let alone a 3GB one.

LeJosh · 28 Feb 2012 at 14:53

beejjacobs said:
Don't Nvidia tend to have a larger market share? So they must do something right.

I tend to buy Nvidia because my personal experience with them is positive, and what I've bought has been good value. Everyone has different experiences, budgets etc... so they buy different things.

As people have said, the GTX580 is not mainstream, let alone a 3GB one.

Actually AMD ended Q4 2011 with 24.8% market share whilst NV ended with 15.7%.

mmj_uk · 28 Feb 2012 at 15:02

Like anything else I've used both brands many times over the years and always had a better experience with NVidia, games generally work well out of the box no more waiting weeks for hotfixes or new official drivers to fix issues.

NVidia tend to work with developers proactively whereas ATi have nearly always waited until after a release to get to work and then they simply whinge and shift the blame on NVidia if something doesn't work right.

LeJosh · 28 Feb 2012 at 15:07

mmj_uk said:
Like anything else I've used both brands many times over the years and always had a better experience with NVidia, games generally work well out of the box no more waiting weeks for hotfixes or new official drivers to fix issues.

NVidia tend to work with developers proactively whereas ATi have nearly always waited until after a release to get to work and then they simply whinge and shift the blame on NVidia if something doesn't work right.

By gimping physx in batman AA and super tesselated areas in Crysis 2?

feck199 · 28 Feb 2012 at 15:19

fun read so far!

Yus yus nvidia have done very well for a long time, and normally their top end cards did do better than ati. The drivers thing is over rated. They both have their problems.

Its nice to see ati actually making nvida have to try and work for it again.

Shayper · 28 Feb 2012 at 15:26

I bought my 580 because it was the fastest thing available at the time, still canes everything, especially as it's watercooled

xsistor · 28 Feb 2012 at 16:01

LeJosh said:
Actually AMD ended Q4 2011 with 24.8% market share whilst NV ended with 15.7%.

No. That's all GPUs. A large portion of which are onboard GPUs on desktop boards or intel IGPs. An area that NVIDIA doesn't operate in any more. So a metric such as that is meaningless. It is like running up a statistic on total number of tablets, iphones and chairs sold and then ranking IKEA very highly alongside Apple, Samsung, etc. (I admit that is a reductio ad absurdum, but in this instance it is valid.)

In discrete GPU marketshare NVIDIA is at 60% with 40% for AMD and others.

Vir · 28 Feb 2012 at 16:11

You buy what you feel is best for your situation, that can be nvidia or that can be amd.
- Good deal (price / second hand)
- VRAM (maybe because of resolution)
- Anti aliasing
- Brand
- Support
- Features
- Performance
- (previous) Experience with AMD/NVIDIA
- etc
- etc

For example why I chose NVIDIA this time (i've had enough AMD cards).
- Good deal on OCUK
- Needed lot of horsepower
- HDMI output on my previous 5850 was constantly flickering with my TV setup (5xxx problem)
- My AMD 4870 dieing
- My girlfriend her AMD 4850 dieing

And I'm sure other people have their reasons. Saying you don't get why people buy NVIDIA is weird, there are enough reasons and it's not always that NVIDIA is a lot more expensive.

LeJosh · 28 Feb 2012 at 16:28

xsistor said:
No. That's all GPUs. A large portion of which are onboard GPUs on desktop boards or intel IGPs. An area that NVIDIA doesn't operate in any more. So a metric such as that is meaningless. It is like running up a statistic on total number of tablets, iphones and chairs sold and then ranking IKEA very highly alongside Apple, Samsung, etc. (I admit that is a reductio ad absurdum, but in this instance it is valid.)

In discrete GPU marketshare NVIDIA is at 60% with 40% for AMD and others.

Yes, but you can't just ignore other GPUs on the market because it doesn't fit into a certain agenda.

xsistor · 28 Feb 2012 at 16:51

LeJosh said:
Yes, but you can't just ignore other GPUs on the market because it doesn't fit into a certain agenda.

No it should be discounted if you're looking for any meaningful measure. A space a company doesn't operate in can't be used to calculate market share and then used meaningfully to gauge its performance. NVIDIA only makes discrete GPUs. It makes no sense to include CPUs or Soundcards in that, just as it makes no sense to compare it to onboard GPUs which they do not build.

Rroff · 28 Feb 2012 at 16:53

xsistor said:
No. That's all GPUs. A large portion of which are onboard GPUs on desktop boards or intel IGPs. An area that NVIDIA doesn't operate in any more. So a metric such as that is meaningless. It is like running up a statistic on total number of tablets, iphones and chairs sold and then ranking IKEA very highly alongside Apple, Samsung, etc. (I admit that is a reductio ad absurdum, but in this instance it is valid.)

In discrete GPU marketshare NVIDIA is at 60% with 40% for AMD and others.

Also IIRC those figures were actually market share of sales of all GPUs for that quarter not overall figures.

LeJosh · 28 Feb 2012 at 17:05

xsistor said:
No it should be discounted if you're looking for any meaningful measure. A space a company doesn't operate in can't be used to calculate market share and then used meaningfully to gauge its performance. NVIDIA only makes discrete GPUs. It makes no sense to include CPUs or Soundcards in that, just as it makes no sense to compare it to onboard GPUs which they do not build.

They do however make SoCs which would be taken into account, no?

xsistor · 28 Feb 2012 at 17:17

LeJosh said:
They do however make SoCs which would be taken into account, no?

SoCs are a different bag altogether so I'd discount them. They are just highly specialized Microcontrollers.

When the question is "Why do people buy Nvidia cards?" with a post like this:

beejjacobs said:
Don't Nvidia tend to have a larger market share? So they must do something right.

I tend to buy Nvidia because my personal experience with them is positive, and what I've bought has been good value. Everyone has different experiences, budgets etc... so they buy different things.

As people have said, the GTX580 is not mainstream, let alone a 3GB one.

It only makes sense to look at discrete GPU market share.

Mattuk69 · 28 Feb 2012 at 19:42

Marine-RX179 said:
You are right. He just drop the bomb and ran. Not a single post after his first post

If you say so :rolleyes:

I have been reading comments since i started the topic. I can't agree or disagree because ive not had a Nvidia card since a 7900GTX. Hence why i asked the question.... Im a consumer and need an upgrade for eyefinity. I look at Nvidia and AMD, now im a troll for asking why i should buy a 580GTX 3gb when something seems better for cheaper?

beejjacobs · 28 Feb 2012 at 19:50

Mattuk69 said:
If you say so I have been reading comments since i started the topic. I can't agree or disagree because ive not had a Nvidia card since a 7900GTX. Hence why i asked the question.... Im a consumer and need an upgrade for eyefinity. I look at Nvidia and AMD, now im a troll for asking why i should buy a 580GTX 3gb when something seems better for cheaper?

You shouldn't! People aren't buying 580s any more, for good reason. But people are still buying Nvidia