Amd or nvidia for gaming ?

[Wilko_Dog]

I know this question has been asked many times before, but I've seen so many people switching from nvidia to amd recently with there newer cards being considerably cheaper and on par with or better performance wise, plus the addition of mantle aswell and this freesync down the line.. So is nvidia still the more popular choice for gamers or would you say it's pretty even? Or is amd the more popular now ?

I personally am an amd guy ...

 

[Wilko_Dog]

I'm not after a new card I was just wondering which you guys preferred really .. I've seen loads of people switching recently , probably only because of the price for performance like..

 

[Wilko_Dog]

How many times does a thread get made with this topic and do you not see it as an attempt to open a can of worms?

Haha I'm not attempting to open anything was just merely wondering what everyone's thoughts were like to read different peoples views and opinions

 

[Wilko_Dog]

I thought that when I read the title.



It only appeared to look that way because when the 290 and 290x was released that was the majority of the threads consisted of, discussion over the newly released cards.

Wilko_Dog you are better off checking and joining this thread.

What Graphics Card Do you Own?

AMD edge it but only just.

Whats interesting is 12% own both.

Ah that's what I was looking for I'll check that thread out cheers !

 

[Wilko_Dog]

I believe you, million wouldn't.

Search would show multiple thread with same topic.

Well I apologise to anyone who I've annoyed by starting this thread

 

[Wilko_Dog]

for me its just what gives the best performance for the money when i want a new card. i usually want the best but end up going for the 2nd best in each generation because the best is usually 100 pound more for like 5% gain. so when i wanted a new gfx card i was between the nvidia gtx 780 (rather than 780ti) or radeon r9 290 (rather than 290x) i ended up going for the 290 because it was similar price to the 780 but beat it in 90% of benchmarks. these days custom cooled 290s are cheaper than 780s by a fair bit so its even better value

How does your system perform in games ? Got a similar spec regarding mobo CPU and ram but my gpu isn't as good !

 

[Wilko_Dog]

who are these loads exactly? I see the odd thread but it's been balanced between swapping, not exactly a mass exodus.

In some cases you will have brand loyalty / past experience / whatever issues are known / price points...etc

Nearly all of it is personal perspective, used to go ati, back in the 9700 pro days and after some horrendous experience with crossfire and drivers I went nvidia - has it been trouble free? Not always, a few RMA's along the way but for me that is my preference.

Am I against ATI? Not at all, gone are they days of constant driver issues...etc.. but for me I've not had any recent problems from 460/460sli/580/680 and now a 780 so see no reason to swap.

Haha I never said it was a mass exodus I was just saying what I've seen mainly on forums when building new rigs up etc saying there going to switch from 780 to 290 due to price/performance, and a quite a few switching due to mantle support for bf4

 

[Wilko_Dog]

battlefield 4 all maxed out at 1920x1200 gets between 50 and 80 fps online multiplayer.
Heaven Benchmark gets 50 fps average all maxed at 1920x1200 inc extreme tesselation and 8xaa.
most recent games stay above 60 fps maxed out, a lot are way above!
This is a big improvement from my previous radeon 6950 that struggled to maintain 30 fps on bf4 with settings toned down a bit

I dont feel like i have a much of a cpu bottleneck at all and in games my ram usage is barely above 4gb so 6gb is fine for now also if running tripple channel.

Nice ! I have same CPU as you and the triple channel ram but my i7 oc is @ 4ghz .. But I have r9 270x so I get nearly all ultra settings on bf4 without msaa and it stays above 60 fps ..

Maybe should have saved a bit more and got the 290 but I couldn't wait haha plus I'll be upgrading my system in a couple of years anyway hoping to get a 4k set up