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Will you buy AMD or Nvidia when next gen GPUs are available?

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If so, what are your reasons, e.g. don't mind paying more for a high end Nvidia GPU, more powerful raytracing hardware.

Personally, I'd just go with whatever is best value and is at least 100% faster in all areas of theoretical performance compared to my Radeon R9 390. I'd probably pay slightly more for an equivalent Nvidia card, assuming the drivers really are better just to avoid crashes.

My brother has a GTX 1080 and I noticed that the Nvidia control panel has a lot more options for DSR compared to AMD's VSR, I wonder if 8K is possible on most Nvidia cards yet?

Another thing in Nvidia's favour is TXAA, AMD doesn't really have their own equivalent temporal AA, which (unlike many), I think is a very good thing.

Not bothered about RT, to me this seems entirely optional and will improve over time anyway as the tech matures, or GPUs are fast enough to do RT without specialised RT hardware.

Ofc, AMDs cards are likely to be quite a bit cheaper, unless Nvidia is forced to reduce prices...

The other factor to take into account is console prices, I'd feel a bit silly if I brought a GPU that cost more than the gen consoles, with potentially worse performance.
 
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Whichever is better when they come out, unless there is a massive price/performance disparity. I currently have a 1080ti, before that was an amd, i flip flop due to having no stake in either company so I don't feel the need to stick to one over the other. I will say that in all my years gaming across many graphics cards....i have never had these driver issues that people claim plague the amd cards lol.
 
All comes down to price performance for me, however, owned AMD since 2011 and with prices the way they are, I'll probably 95% go AMD. They offer the best price performance ratio so, that for me at the moment is the one to go for! However if that changes, then I'll change, however can't see that happening!
 
Was going to pull the trigger on a 5700XT before I decided to hold onto my 970 untill new gpus now I'm thinking Nvidia, but I've seen a lot of people saying Nvidia are overpriced as a brand that has put emphasis on being 'premium' even though their cards on a level with a 5700xt are roughly the same performance for sometimes 3 figures more
 
I will wait for reviews then make an informed decision, got about £700 to spend and expect a sizeable bump over my 1070ti to part with my cash.

I think the amount of VRAM offered will be a factor too as I'm not keen on paying 700 quid for another 8gb card.
 
I will buy an AMD card because they work better for me for what I do. If I did more Cuda id use an NV card, Linux support/Virtualisation is better supported with the AMD drivers also so I imagine I will just stick with the AMD stack for now unless NV come out with something super compelling.
 
I have had plenty of both in the past, but most recently, only Nvidia have had the performance that I required for gaming at 4k, I had a 2080ti, sold recently to cash in early, before that I had a 1080ti, upon each cards release AMD had nothing worthy to compare against them.... But this time round AMD might be back in the mix.
 
As above I'm keen to see what AMD come up with this time. nVidia have the lead in RT so if the next gen or AMD 1st gen bring significant improvements I'm tempted. If not my 1080 Ti is more than sufficient for UW res gaming so I'll consider a move from the X99 platform instead this year.
 
marti996 said:
Was going to pull the trigger on a 5700XT before I decided to hold onto my 970 untill new gpus now I'm thinking Nvidia, but I've seen a lot of people saying Nvidia are overpriced as a brand that has put emphasis on being 'premium' even though their cards on a level with a 5700xt are roughly the same performance for sometimes 3 figures more
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Pretty much because for 2 years nVidia didn't have any competition from AMD which is always the most dangerous, they've been far away the fastest GPU's and they've literally sat there charging what they want for premium products... however that is about to change.
 
Sadly due to Gsync I am tied to Nvidia although if there is a big enough price/performance difference between AMD's new cards and Nvidia's I would be tempted to switch the monitor to a Freesync/Gsync one. All I know is that with the massive price increases every time I buy a new card my £400 max budget drops me down a tier. When the 700 series came out my £400 got me a EVGA GTX 780FTW which was one of the best 780's. Skipped the 900 series and when the 1000 series launched I got my current card the Inno3d GTX1070 iChill Air Boss X3 and even then only when it was on offer. The 1080 series were hopelessly out of reach. I reckon next time around I will have to drop down to a **60 card. Sad times.
 
I will only be upgrading the GPU in my HPTC in living room rather then main rig. Its hooked up to an OLED with HDMI 2.1 and fortunately does VRR which provided next gen GPU's support as part of the 2.1 spec, I will not be locked in either way. After that, it will come down to the most powerful GPU available for gaming (ignoring Titan line) to leverage being able to drive up to 120hz @ 4k (of course with expectation a number of games will still not hit this). Skipped this gen to save my pennies for that one with expectation it will be pricey :p

Gut feeling though, I still think Nvidia will hold the performance crown and there high end SKU will be quicker then anything on AMD's side for gaming, but we shall see.
 
montymint said:
The best bang for buck @ 3440x1440p will be getting my £££
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Yep, I reckon that's where 75% of users will be... they'll look through the stack for their money and go with whoever offers best VFM... with prices now over £1k for top of the range... a lot of people just will not pay that, even I'm starting to shy away form thigns like that as it's mental really... could build a nice PC for that lol Reckon top of the range nVidia will be £1299
 
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Yep, I reckon that's where 75% of users will be... they'll look through the stack for their money and go with whoever offers best VFM... with prices now over £1k for top of the range... a lot of people just will not pay that, even I'm starting to shy away form thigns like that as it's mental really... could build a nice PC for that lol Reckon top of the range nVidia will be £1299
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Yep I just need something that keeps everything @ 75 fps (which my vega 64 can't do on all games) which maxes my monitor out. No need to push past that for a top end card.
 
I'm definitely 100% getting a new cpu and gpu end of year. However at the minute it's amd due to cost per performance and now my system is an amd build, I'll go for the best of the best gpus but might wait for a decent worth it deal though, when it comes to cpu its a harder decision, I only do code Compiling, gaming more of and that's about it. Depending on the route after university I go down. Network security or game development etc I'm not sure how many cores I really need.

I'm excited for the new stuff. But I'm concerned on how far away after the AM5 and DDR5 are also. I'm unsure how much of an early adopter I'll be with the new sockets and ram modules, and if I am to get new when new be new, I'll end up wasting cash and its not about that lol.
 
I'm tied to Nvidia due to my Gsync panel.

However, with them likely to keep charging insane amounts of dosh for their tech, I may well skip the 3 series of cards, just as I've done with the 2 series.

Got loads of games that play well with my 1070, will more than keep me occupied until the 4 series.

More likely to buy s/h this time around.
 
As someone with no vendor bias, this is impossible to answer without making a whole bunch of unfounded assumptions.

Depending on price, I'll get whichever offers better value for money, or I'll get nothing. I'm not wed to PC gaming either.
 
As others have rightly said, it's down to price vs performance, whichever is the best bang for buck. I'd been Team Red for as long as I could remember before deciding to try a 1080 then a Ti version, I was blown away by the performance increase, what I don't like is the Windows 95-esque Nvidia control panel, they really need to look at making that better, AMD's control panel is much sleeker :)
 
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