AMD or NVIDIA

[CEUOTC]

What do you guys reckon is better ? , either the 7970 or TITAN???

Price wise the HD 7970 makes a lot of sense as you will also be getting 3gb of vRAM which "should" last a fair bit. l game on a 120Hz monitor with a single HD 7970 so it works fine for me.

As stated if money is no object then the GTX Titan looks a promising investment.

Mobile wise l feel Nvidia has the edge and will always run an Nvidia card in my ikkle kit.

 

[fishingcat]

What kind of question is this?

The Titan is better, but costs a huge amount more. Personally I'd get 2 HD 7970s.

 

[Kaapstad]

Could a Mod close this totally pointless thread or tack it onto one of the other threads of a similar nature.

 

[humbug]

Well they dont do monthly driver releases anymore.. Have not seen a new driver for about 5 months now!

They are OK but Nvidia is better I think. I have a 5870 at the moment. I am not a "fanboy" I have owned a few cards from both manufacturers and that is my experience. Will prob get another AMD card next but only because of price/performance... I would get nvidia if I had the money.

New drivers every couple of weeks....

And your 5780 in 2 generations out of date.

I have used GTX 600 and HD 7000, there is equally nothing wrong with either one.

The only difference between them is price and performance.

 

[deFiniLoGy]

Both have their benefits..
N cards are better at 3D whereas A cards performs better at games (generally).
And A cards are cheaper at each performance grade..

 

[NirK]

New drivers every couple of weeks....

And your 5780 in 2 generations out of date.

I have used GTX 600 and HD 7000, there is equally nothing wrong with either one.

The only difference between them is price and performance.

But it still uses the same drivers... The official WHQL drivers have been at 13.1 for at least 3 months... They have new betas but hardly ever update the official drivers now since they stopped the monthly driver releases...

 

[humbug]

But it still uses the same drivers... The official WHQL drivers have been at 13.1 for at least 3 months... They have new betas but hardly ever update the official drivers now since they stopped the monthly driver releases...

Why does it matter if they are WHQL or not?

 

[Diagro]

If you count the titan then you have to count amds similer priced unit... the 7990 which is faster.

Amd wins

 

[LtMatt]

 

[Gregster]

 

[Rusty0611]

And while he whinges about the price across multiple threads - because you probably can't afford it otherwise you'd get one - Titan owners are happily plugging away with the fastest single GPU currently available.

 

[Yaayuh!]

 

[NirK]

Why does it matter if they are WHQL or not?

Well it is just better to have completely bug free officially certified drives than betas which may have issues. I know they usually don't have issues but obviously it would be better to go back to regular official releases I think.

 

[LtMatt]

Well it is just better to have completely bug free officially certified drives than betas which may have issues. I know they usually don't have issues but obviously it would be better to go back to regular official releases I think.

Actually they way they do it now is so much better. Now we get frequent driver updates giving us more performance with game specific optimizations in for the latest games. Once the drivers have been out for a couple of months and stable they are then all rolled into one for a WHQL release. The fact they don't have to provide a new WHQL every month, which takes considerable time means we get more beta drivers quicker providing quicker fixes and performance buffs.

 

[arc@css]

Are the caps automatically included with each update now?

 

[spoffle]

Well it is just better to have completely bug free officially certified drives than betas which may have issues. I know they usually don't have issues but obviously it would be better to go back to regular official releases I think.

The issue is that you're using certified drivers as a synonym for good/stable.

That's not really what the certification process does. To be blunt about it, you'd be a fool it ignore AMD's beta drivers of late, because they are adding features and performance boosts and fixes on a regular basis.

Certification/WHQL means very little, especially when WHQL doesn't mean a driver won't have issues. Microsoft just certify that the drivers don't break anything with regards to Windows, not that they are bug free.

So Beta drivers are "official", they just haven't been certified by Windows using an irrelevant certification method.

 

[LtMatt]

Are the caps automatically included with each update now?

Yes as of 13.1 WHQL caps are included with the driver.

 

[Gibbo3771]

Waste of time getting in on this.

But yeah.

Poor and/or smart - 7970
Rich and/or stupid - Titan

 

[spoffle]

Waste of time getting in on this.

But yeah.

Poor and/or smart - 7970
Rich and/or stupid - Titan

It seems to me, that despite the constant mentions of how this thread is a waste of time and is going to pot, it's remained civil.

Outside of that though, the issue here is that people are using different definitions of "the best" and presenting it as fact.

Which means in equal measure that the Titan isn't the best.

Nor is the 7970, 7950, 690, 680, 670 and so on, because "the best" hasn't been properly qualified by most people who are stating what the best is.

 

[arc@css]

Yes as of 13.1 WHQL caps are included with the driver.

Ahh, that's better then. Something for me to bear in mind when I get my next card. Quite a lot has changed since I last used a card from the red team. Thx.