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Has Anyone Moved From Nvidia To Amd And Not Regretted It

humbug said:
That is true about the memory not clocking down with multiscreen on 7000 series GPU's, i think they fixed that?

See this, i had this with my 2070S for two years, reinstalling windows, drivers.... nothing but turning off Hardware Acceleration worked, this is the same issue AMD had 10 years ago and every tech jurno was all over it like a rash. Part of their "bad AMD drivers" theme of the time. Now? Silence...
This video is from this year, they still haven't fixed it...... swapping my 2070S out for the 7800 XT fixed it, never seen that problem since. AMD fixed it 10 years ago.

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Yeah, don't think I've seen that one.
Which just shows how dealing with multiple graphics cards increases your chances of hitting these sorts of issues. Just my theory that this is why tech tubers might have a worse opinion of a certain brand than those of us that only experience a few of the cards over a longer period of time.
 
I've bounced about between AMD/Nvidia and I've never had a major issue with either. I'm on Nvidia at the moment (1070ti), but before that I was on an r9 290 and that was fine, passed it onto my brother and it was fine there as well until it died. He is on an RX580 now and has been for years and hasn't had any issues. I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but the only place I've ever seen modern AMD drivers bad, whole system unstable, constant updating etc is the internet. I've never had any issues like that on mine or anyone I know with them, they've generally been fit and forget, same as Nvidia.

It does seem like Nvidia get more slack with their drivers though. Gears 4 was broken by Nvidia for a year, it would bsod on Pascal (and only pascal, fine on others and AMD) past X driver. Not only did I not see many mentions of it, people would blame the coalition for X or Y update, even though rolling back to the working driver would fix it. Even when Nvidia eventually got around to it, I saw comments on the Gears forum along the lines of "the coaliton are lazy and needed Nvidia to fix". AMD wouldn't get that slack, it would be straight back to "bad drivers".

I'm just waiting for next gen now (I'm mostly playing indie and esports games so the 1070ti can hold on fine), but I would have no issue going back to AMD if the pricing is right and RNDA4 has a decent ai upscaler. More and more games seem to be leaning on it even at 1080p, don't have to like it, but that seems to be the way games are going.
 
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I wish people would stop obsessing over brands. I don't yet know whether my next GPU will be an RTX 5060 or an RX 8600 but the one and only thing that will influence my decision are the reviews. Not some stupid metric like, "I've been buying XXXX brand for 15 years so I'll stick with them". That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard yet most people do it. Crazy.
 
CuriousTomCat said:
I wish people would stop obsessing over brands. I don't yet know whether my next GPU will be an RTX 5060 or an RX 8600 but the one and only thing that will influence my decision are the reviews. Not some stupid metric like, "I've been buying XXXX brand for 15 years so I'll stick with them". That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard yet most people do it. Crazy.
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Personally i think price performance is always the way to go. Nvidia never win this battle for me but in this day and age with DLSS and RT if that's what you want then they probably are worth the extra money. The only time Nvidia made sense to me was the 8800gt over the 3870 i ended up with. The gt was sold out and my card had failed so had to get a card asap as i played in leagues and was not waiting months for the better card. While the 3870 was not bad it was my least favourite card as i knew it was not what i wanted at the time. Tarnished from day one lol.
 
CuriousTomCat said:
I wish people would stop obsessing over brands. I don't yet know whether my next GPU will be an RTX 5060 or an RX 8600 but the one and only thing that will influence my decision are the reviews. Not some stupid metric like, "I've been buying XXXX brand for 15 years so I'll stick with them". That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard yet most people do it. Crazy.
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I find a lot of reviews to have slight biases one way or another and very often forget important bullet points or alternative use cases which is why the only thing i use from reviews is the raw data that I then compile into my own dataset.
 
Phixsator said:
I find a lot of reviews to have slight biases one way or another and very often forget important bullet points or alternative use cases which is why the only thing i use from reviews is the raw data that I then compile into my own dataset.
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You are the same as me. I have the same thoughts on almost every type of review. Cars, CPUs, GPUs etc.
 
Phixsator said:
I find a lot of reviews to have slight biases one way or another and very often forget important bullet points or alternative use cases which is why the only thing i use from reviews is the raw data that I then compile into my own dataset.
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Unfortunately reviews are bias whether they mean to be or not because unless there is a fundamental flaw that everyone will pick up on, they don't tend to highlight flaws or poor value in fear of not getting the next product to review.
 
roachyuk said:
Oh well just ordered the Asus 7900xt tuf oc version, I know I should have asked in here first if it is a ok card but has 3 power connectors and I use a Lian Li strimer with 3 power connectors so decided on this one.
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I’ve heard the cooler is very chunky so cooling should be excellent. Let us know how you get on.
 
roachyuk said:
Will do gonna trawl the 7900xt owners thread tomorrow and watch some videos on best settings, options and tips on moving over from Nvidia thanks.
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If you have ever used msi afterburner to tune an Nvidia card on your current system remove it as that can cause some very odd behaviour. You can always re install it. Download the latest AmD driver. Disconnect your network card or WiFi. Uninstall Nvidia drivers and turn off PC. Swop the cards over and power up. Install AMD driver and reboot. Connect network.
 
ive been debating this for a while, I do love nvidia but amd seems to be more consumer focused compared to nvidia locking their tech behind the latest and greatest ive been wanting to use amd's frame gen stuff. ive got a 3080 in my main rig but have thought about getting a amd gpu for my sff pc in my nr200
 
eeii said:
If you have ever used msi afterburner to tune an Nvidia card on your current system remove it as that can cause some very odd behaviour. You can always re install it. Download the latest AmD driver. Disconnect your network card or WiFi. Uninstall Nvidia drivers and turn off PC. Swop the cards over and power up. Install AMD driver and reboot. Connect network.
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Thanks for the heads up as I do use MSI Afterburner for profiles for gaming and when I am just using PC for browsing the net and also a little undervolting.
So you can still use MSI afterburner for doing profiles on the AMD card aswell?
 
tonyt3rry said:
ive been debating this for a while, I do love nvidia but amd seems to be more consumer focused compared to nvidia locking their tech behind the latest and greatest ive been wanting to use amd's frame gen stuff. ive got a 3080 in my main rig but have thought about getting a amd gpu for my sff pc in my nr200
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I was the same debating for ages but took the leap.....Ill let you know how I get on.
 
tonyt3rry said:
ive been debating this for a while, I do love nvidia but amd seems to be more consumer focused compared to nvidia locking their tech behind the latest and greatest ive been wanting to use amd's frame gen stuff. ive got a 3080 in my main rig but have thought about getting a amd gpu for my sff pc in my nr200
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AMD didn't really have a choice. They are severely behind when it comes to upscaling and frame generation so opening it to the market buys them street cred.

Don't think for a moment that they wouldn't lock their tech behind a paywall if they had the opportunity.
 
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