Big Swing in Market Share From AMD to NVIDIA: JPR

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

This is because you are doing it properly. I think some people make gaming on a PC seem like such a hardship when tbh it's not particularly hard. To much tweaking tbh.

List of desktop GPU failures among about 20 people I know over the last decade:
1.)Gigabyte GTX470
2.)8800GTS 512MB
3.)HD6870 - got magnetic ball bearing stuck in PCB
4.)9600GSO - failed voltmodding

Even the mates I know who use Nvidia exclusively do it for their better Linux drivers(although I know a few who use AMD under Linux),not because of a quality reason.

If anything the last fews of GPUs have been awesome - my HD5850 lasted nearly two years,and my GTX660 will do the same.

I used to have to upgrade far quicker than that in the past.

Desktop GPUs tend to be quite reliable.

 

[Bonjour]

If people genuinely believe that Nvidia cards have always been significantly better quality than ATI/AMD, then the Nvidia marketing division have done their job extremely well.

 

[nightmare99]

I think AMD had a large jump in shipments when mining was popular, now that is pretty much over they have dropped back a bit.

 

[Gregster]

Are you lambchop's dad?

Literally every single post of yours in this GPU sub forum is always bashing AMD in one way or another. You seem to have a passion for it, either that or just A* trolling.

Oh and you might want to stop using the "AMD fanboys" comment as it is pretty obvious what you are.... so makes your fanboy comment look a bit stupid....

I don't care for fanboy comments personally but have you actually read your own comments? The one responding to me didn't suit what you wanted to hear, so you jumped on me.... Don't do as I do, do as I say mentality right there

PS.

No point saying "as much as I wanted to say AMD" as we all clearly know you don't mean that

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Literally every single post of yours in this GPU sub forum is always bashing AMD in one way or another. You seem to have a passion for it, either that or just A* trolling.

Oh and you might want to stop using the "AMD fanboys" comment as it is pretty obvious what you are.... so makes your fanboy comment look a bit stupid....

Nah your wrong he does it in every section - be it CPUs or GPUs. He is equal opportunity when it comes to that. I believe he said anyone who did not think the Pentium dual core had no flaws was an AMD fanboi or something...

Better to let him be.

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Anyway,personally I think there a few factors to consider:
1.)End of cryptocurrency craze and surplus of cheap AMD card sales especially in the US
2.)Nvidia launched the GTX750TI which probably found itself in many OEM builds
3.)First bit of the GTX970 and GTX980 launches

 

[Nexus18]

^^

Doesn't surprise me!

And yup, I always just ignore his posts but felt like responding to that one

I don't care for fanboy comments personally but have you actually read your own comments? The one responding to me didn't suit what you wanted to hear, so you jumped on me.... Don't do as I do, do as I say mentality right there

Emmm have you seen your posts on here and especially on MLG when it comes to GPU brands......

You always try to make it out like you aren't bias to nvidia etc. but it really is pretty obvious to anyone who isn't a "nvidia fanboy", even in your bf 4 video review when you brought mantle up, you can tell in your voice and the way you said it that you just simply aren't a fan of anything AMD related, "apparently mantle runs soooooooo much better than DX 11.........well yeah, I'll believe when I see it"

Only trying to fool yourself.

TBH, it says it all when you have a website dedicated to your titans......

 

[pgi947]

Watch out Greg you're being stalked

 

[Nexus18]

 

[Ian Evey]

^^

Doesn't surprise me!

And yup, I always just ignore his posts but felt like responding to that one



Emmm have you seen your posts on here and especially on MLG when it comes to GPU brands......

You always try to make it out like you aren't bias to nvidia etc. but it really is pretty obvious to anyone who isn't a "nvidia fanboy", even in your bf 4 video review when you brought mantle up, you can tell in your voice and the way you said it that you just simply aren't a fan of anything AMD related, "apparently mantle runs soooooooo much better than DX 11.........well yeah, I'll believe when I see it"

Only trying to fool yourself.

TBH, it says it all when you have a website dedicated to your titans......

On a single card there is no difference in bf4 on dx11 nvidia or mantle on amd, only an amd fan would think otherwise

 

[jh30uk]

If the peeps who Gregg spoke to are clueless and do not know how to set up a PC etc (comments above) why do they not have as the same as much issues with Nvidia then?


Quoted from above:

"Originally Posted by HardOCP
With the GeForce GTX 780 Ti we found the peak consistent clock speed on both GPUs went up to 1019MHz while gaming. This is higher than the boost clock on a GTX 780 Ti which is 928MHz. As we posted on the previous page, this seems slightly higher than we've tested in the past. Normally we've seen the GPU hit 1006MHz while gaming, but now it is at 1019MHz with this newest driver. We also noticed the temperature of the GPU was higher, at 87c, versus 84c on previous drivers."


^^ That must be a really bad sample if it only boosts clocks to 1019mhz on its own and temps of 84-87 is high.

Plenty of Ti's here doing 1200-1300mhz with lower temps and fans not full pelt.

 

[Nexus18]

Can't speak about nvidia and DX 11 but with my 290 on my rig, there is a MASSIVE difference between DX 11 and mantle:

max settings except no AA at 2560x1080 on my rig as specced in sig, single player:

Spoiler

DX

Mantle

In MP, I'm sure the results will be even worse for DX since it is more demanding on the CPU.

I run everything on low/off except mesh = ultra with a FPS cap set to 59 and vsync turned on in game. Game runs extremely smooth with no tearing using mantle, dx = not possible, it is completely unplayable even with no FPS cap/vsync

I am not sure why mantle shows much lower minimum FPS though as in game, I never see it dip below 59, not even on siege around C tower.

Same results with PVZ and hardline too.

Actually, I might do a "siege of shanghai run" later on like what greg and shankly have done

 

[jh30uk]

Another mantle thread?

I thought topic was market share.

 

[thefogo]

^^ That must be a really bad sample if it only boosts clocks to 1019mhz on its own and temps of 84-87 is high.

Plenty of Ti's here doing 1200-1300mhz with lower temps and fans not full pelt.

Reference 780 Tis all boost to ~1000Mhz at stock. And they will run at the set temperature target to keep noise as low as possible.

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Then how come I have been to LANs in the last few years,when some of them had more people with AMD cards,others with more Nvidia cards and others which are in-between??

 

[jh30uk]

Reference 780 Tis all boost to ~1000Mhz at stock. And they will run at the set temperature target to keep noise as low as possible.

I do have one (look at sig) though higher clocks as SC.

That is there base boost clock that should be min you see.

Still will boost to well above that if temps and power are within limits even before you adjust sliders to allow it to go even further.

Obv in a small/hot case it will not run as fast as in a roomy case with good airflow.

Set power to max and temp to 95C and it will go higher without voltage or clocks touched.

 

[Nexus18]

Another mantle thread?

I thought topic was market share.

Blame Ian Evey

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Quoted from above:

"Originally Posted by HardOCP
With the GeForce GTX 780 Ti we found the peak consistent clock speed on both GPUs went up to 1019MHz while gaming. This is higher than the boost clock on a GTX 780 Ti which is 928MHz. As we posted on the previous page, this seems slightly higher than we've tested in the past. Normally we've seen the GPU hit 1006MHz while gaming, but now it is at 1019MHz with this newest driver. We also noticed the temperature of the GPU was higher, at 87c, versus 84c on previous drivers."


^^ That must be a really bad sample if it only boosts clocks to 1019mhz on its own and temps of 84-87 is high.

Plenty of Ti's here doing 1200-1300mhz with lower temps and fans not full pelt.

All review sites pre-heat cards before benchmarking. A number of German and French websites found that benchmarking from cold with the newer AMD and Nvidia cards lead to higher benchmarks results than warmed benchmarks which are more representative of gaming after a longer period.

You need to remember most benchmark runs tend to be under a minute and not long test sequences too.

 

[thefogo]

I do have one (look at sig) though higher clocks as SC.

Still will boost to well above that if temps and power are within limits even before you adjust sliders to allow it to go even further.

Set power to max and temp to 95C and it will go higher without voltage or clocks touched.

That is there base boost clock that should be min you see.

I've had two stock reference cards and they both boosted to around 1020Mhz. Superclocked cards give a decent boost over stock.
I'm assuming they didn't mess with power and temp targets, they probably just put the card in and ran the benches.

 

[jh30uk]

All review sites pre-heat cards before benchmarking.

What exactly does that mean?