Graphics card for 3D.

[KateB]

Hello.

I’m getting a 3D 1080p TV soon, the LG 42LF652V that I will be using as my main PC monitor.

It will be used mainly for movies & sports both 2D & 3D and some gaming, mainly World of Warcraft which I have just found out can also be played in 3D.

I was going to get a GTX 960 but then changed that to a Radeon R9 380 4GB as it seems to come out a bit better in benchmarks and gets recommended a lot more on computer forums.

Now my question is, is one company better than the other when it comes to 3D?

High end gaming isn’t that important to me, the occasional title may appeal but I rarely play them anymore.

3D Blu-ray is the most important, 3D gaming, as I haven’t tried it yet, less so but I want to be able to try it – especially with World of Warcraft, so this is important too.

So Nvidia or AMD?

Thank you.

 

[Gregster]

Nvidia are pretty good when it comes to 3D and 3DTV is your best bet but I can't comment for AMD, as I never did use it when I was on AMD.

 

[ALXAndy]

3D on AMD is like being in a face first car crash with a finger stuffed in each nostril.

So that rules that out. Personally I would not use Nvidia 3D on a TV. Reason being is it doe s not work like desktop 3D and before you can even get started you must pay for an app called 3DTV Play.

And then you game in 3D at 24 FPS or less.

Quite why it's so crap I have no idea but yeah, avoid like the plague.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/3dtv-play-overview.html

 

[KateB]

Ok thanks.

So definitely not AMD.

I don't mind paying £26 for 3DTV Play. 24FPS isn't great obviously but I'm not going to play any FPS in 3D or raiding in World of Warcraft in 3D, just solo play so sounds pretty good to me.

So looks like a GTX 960 then.

Thank you.

 

[Michaeljcox24]

3D gaming used to be fairly well supported 3 years ago, but it's completely died a death now. You needed SLI, two high end cards, and a couple of annadin for anything longer than 10 minutes.

 

[KateB]

I can imagine.

Well like I said 3D Blu-Rays are the priority but I would like to give World of Warcraft a go in 3D and would hate to find out I bought a card that doesn't support it.

If it's crap then fine but at least I have the right card and can if it's not.

Thanks again.

 

[shankly1985]

if its for 3D Blurays any GPU for Nvidia or AMD will be enough.. You need software to play the 3D bluray and your TV will do the rest.

Gaming 3D is dead I wouldn't bother.

 

[setter]

I wouldn't even bother with blu ray of any sort on pc. Done it a while back and tbh it worked out cheaper to buy a stand alone player. The software for br play back is pretty expensive.

 

[tommybhoy]

Tridef was brilliant for 3D on AMD but has went downhill fast since Tridef went into other things like mobile/Rift, now it's pap to the extent I never even bothered.

Does Nvidia even work on 3D playback with the likes of PDVD?

Last time I tried it said it wasn't available and requested to plug in Nvidia's 3D vision kit on my 3DTV(like that's going to happen Cyberlink), but I just presumed it was due to a tired OS that had remnants of AMD drivers kicking about, not tried since.

 

[KateB]

Well I already have PowerDvD 14 and Blu-rays play flawlessly on my PC but I haven't tried any 3D ones yet.

I think I'll go Nvidia.

Thanks everyone.

 

[tommybhoy]

Yes everything else does playback superbly, strictly just proper bluray 3D playback that refused to work, they would only play in normal 2D.

 

[KateB]

Thanks.

I'll try it and if it doesn't work I'll buy a standalone Blu-ray player.