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Are Nvidia drivers really better than Amd's?

Rroff said:
Have to say I ran 470 SLI and another system with a single 470 and never had a single BSOD the whole time - only real issue I remember were the 320.18 drivers but fortunately I skipped those.
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Yeah, those drivers ruined many days for me.

The GTX 470 is still running though, it's a in a little mITX Solidworks machine now.
 
win8.1 said:
My eyes tell me different. Only have to swap a Nvidia card with a Amd card and immediately I see the difference. Others have noticed it as well but obviously not all people see it even though it's obvious. Amd is always more vibrant in colors and sharper out of the box.
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Rose tinted glasses will do that :cool:

I came from a Titan system to a 290X system and there is nothing different at all and I have very good eyesight.
 
I can also confirm that I have noticed no differences graphically between the two brands 970 SLI>>> 295X2. The only difference I have noticed in terms of vibrancy was between two monitors both with there own different settings.
 
Gregster said:
Rose tinted glasses will do that :cool:

I came from a Titan system to a 290X system and there is nothing different at all and I have very good eyesight.
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Try playing tf2 and say that, the game looks less vibrant on nvidia cards and its immediately noticeable.
 
Gerard said:
Try playing tf2 and say that, the game looks less vibrant on nvidia cards and its immediately noticeable.
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Well I have spent all of 2 days testing game after game after benchmark and there just isn't a difference in colours at all to me. Maybe the way the default AMD/nVidia colurs are set is the difference people are seeing?
 
I also found AMD to look and feel different in the two games I play the most (Quake 4 / Quake Live), by that I mean textures looking different as well as colours. I also noticed slight micro stutter with Quake 4. It's weird, but having played those games for over 10 years now, the smallest hardware change (especially the GPU in my case) can unearth the smallest of gremlins. I only upgraded for the first time last January from a 10 year old rig, was running a 3400+ 6800Ultra set up. Could it be driver related? Maybe.
 
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There are only 3 reasons why there might be a difference in images between Nvidia and AMD.

1. The colour space might have changed.
2. The install might have changed the range from Full to Limited.
3. The default values between AMD and Nvidia card might not match exactly.

There is no reason why the picture can't look the same on both AMD and Nvidia's cards connected to the same monitor. All this talk of one card looking sharper/better/more vibrant than the other is rubbish.
 
Gregster said:
It looks more vibrant on the 670 to me. Deeper colours, especially on the reds. Youtube doesn't help though in terms of quality.

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The difference you are seeing has less to do with image quality differences and more to do with the fact that stills are taken at the exact same location. So it's not a great image to use as a comparison.
 
There used to be a difference in image quality between card manufacturers, particularly in 2D where the card's RAMDAC would come into play. Not sure it's much of an issue now. Nvidia, in the early days of GeForce, did used to be rather washed out compared to competitors.

Best image quality I've had was probably with my G400 Max. Superb card that was. Shame Parhelia couldn't build on its success and gain Matrox a permanent seat at the gaming GPU table.
 
Bonjour said:
Best image quality I've had was probably with my G400 Max. Superb card that was. Shame Parhelia couldn't build on its success and gain Matrox a permanent seat at the gaming GPU table.
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If Matrox had focused a bit more on gaming instead of professional graphics we might still have a third player in the GPU market.
 
Gerard said:
Try playing tf2 and say that, the game looks less vibrant on nvidia cards and its immediately noticeable.
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does tf2 still ave the same problems css had where AMD thrives on DX9 and nvidia on DX 8


For nvidia you use DX 81 for AMD you use DX 95.

Change to DX 81 and it looks so much better on Nvidia :D

I mean really commenting on DX9 or below games on new hardware is not really a reasonable comparison anyway.
 
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