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Are Nvidia drivers really better than Amd's?

win8.1

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The last time I went to Nvidia was with the 670 and was expecting by the hype on the internet about their drivers that they were bug free but that turned out to be not true as there was glitching in Tomb Raider at the time which took them a while to fix.

What I also noticed immediately was the dullness of the color's and image was not as sharp even though certain people where saying Nvidia and Amd had the same image quality. Cranking up the digital vibrance helped but I have always seen Amd's image quality to be better.

I never really have had much problems with Amd drivers myself and I am sure both company's have bugs to fix from time to time. Obviously lately Amd have not kept their drivers updated as regularly as they have in the past and hopefully this will be a one off.

I would maybe like to give Nvidia a try again but their prices never seem to match Amd's performance and price each new generation of high end products and their cards are always cut back until the full fat versions come out.
 
I have both AMD and Nvidia cards.

You are right in terms of AMD's image quality being better (that's what I also see).

Depends if you have 1 or 2 cards. Usually Nvidia release optimised drivers for newer titles and multi-gpu support more frequently. (that's if you play games on day 1 or have crossfire).

To be honest I prefer Nvidia more as sometimes AMD drivers (mostly the 3rd party software Raptr POS) bugs quite often and I have occasional problems when running MSI AB or equivalents on some games.
 
Is this thread really about you wanting to try nvidia or just a way to have another quick bash at them.

Going off your previous posts there's not a chance in hell you would go green. The only nvidia upgrades for you at the moment as well go against your price/performance buying.
 
https://forums.geforce.com/default/...gathering-low-gpu-load-and-other-issues-/162/


There are no problems with Nvidia drivers, the 162 page(currently) thread on their forums about random low gpu usage causing stuttering and horrible frame rates almost exclusively on 970/980 cards is just a complete coincidence.

Nvidia users tend to restrict their problems to Nvidia forums and pretend they don't exist on all other forums. AMD users tend to seek help anywhere and every time someone has a problem the Nvidia guys jump all over it pretending Nvidia issues don't exist.

There have been consistent issues with Nvidia drivers in the past couple years, there was a timing out driver thing that persisted for over a year without a real fix with loads of threads and thousands of posts about it on the Nvidia forums.


Both companies have problems, many of them, drivers aren't easy, number of combinations aren't easy. But the public perception is very different largely because Nvidia people deny any issues while AMD users don't.
 
win8.1 said:
was expecting by the hype on the internet about their drivers that they were bug free but that turned out to be not true
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The whole "nvidia drivers are perfect" thing (1-2 nutters aside) is words put in nVidia supporter's mouths by AMD supporters on the defensive.

drunkenmaster said:
Both companies have problems, many of them, drivers aren't easy, number of combinations aren't easy. But the public perception is very different largely because Nvidia people deny any issues while AMD users don't.
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Both having issues doesn't logically mean that they are on par with each other.
 
Ayahuasca said:
Is this thread really about you wanting to try nvidia or just a way to have another quick bash at them.

Going off your previous posts there's not a chance in hell you would go green. The only nvidia upgrades for you at the moment as well go against your price/performance buying.
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No I am genuinely interested where Nvidia drivers are specifically better. I would buy Nvidia if they suddenly offered the same as Amd each new generation at a decent price per performance.
 
drunkenmaster said:
Yet I don't seem to have suggested they were logically on par with each other... so what exactly is your point there? There is realistically no way to compare them.
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I had the low GPU usage on the GTX970s and stutter problems at 4K hence my RMA.

I'm not saying Nvidia is the best or fail proof, but I think counting the negatives vs other things I personally was/am bothered with AMD, I would put Nvidia a tad bit higher in terms of usability.


win8.1 said:
No I am genuinely interested where Nvidia drivers are specifically better. I would buy Nvidia if they suddenly offered the same as Amd each new generation at a decent price per performance.
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Ease of mind and frequent updates that are less prone to fail or have major issues.

Price-Performance though AMD has quite a few powerhouse graphics cards for a lot less.

Still I prefer to pay more to have someone competent on the driver/software side.
 
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I await "I had problems with x drivers" in the past guy which makes the competition drivers automatically superior based on nothing but a bad personal experience.
 
Its like asking if labour are really better than the conservatives... People really do as strongly about it.
 
africanos23 said:
I have both AMD and Nvidia cards.

You are right in terms of AMD's image quality being better (that's what I also see).

Depends if you have 1 or 2 cards. Usually Nvidia release optimised drivers for newer titles and multi-gpu support more frequently. (that's if you play games on day 1 or have crossfire).

To be honest I prefer Nvidia more as sometimes AMD drivers (mostly the 3rd party software Raptr POS) bugs quite often and I have occasional problems when running MSI AB or equivalents on some games.
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Thanks for your constructive answer. What games specifically did you find ran better or where less buggy with Nvidia?
 
win8.1 said:
No I am genuinely interested where Nvidia drivers are specifically better. I would buy Nvidia if they suddenly offered the same as Amd each new generation at a decent price per performance.
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For single card there's not much between them, for multi GPU setups nVidia are on the ball and rarely make their SLI users wait longer for features or profiles.

I'd suggest making a thread when a nvidia card comes out that you think offers decent price/performance though.
 
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