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Has Anyone Moved From Nvidia To Amd And Not Regretted It
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This generation, I went from a 7900xtx, to a 4080 Super, to a 4090. I sold my 4090 last month. All in all, I just should have stuck with the 7900 xtx as it hit right on the mark for the performance I need and price. The 4080 Super costed an extra ~£200 for virtually no benefit, and the 4090 was way overkill for a lot mor money. I actually regret going with nV this generation because I wasted a lot of money for not a lot of benefit.
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Was Nvidia from 280 all the way to a 2070s. The 7900xtx nitro is my first amd card and have no regrets switching and tbh it will take a lot from Jensen to make me slip on a midlife crisis leather jacket again. Drivers are no worse than Nvidia's and I actually prefer the adrenaline software way more than Gayforce experience crap. And am really looking forward to what they bring to the table after RDNA 4 or when they announce that they are going to compete at the high end again
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I switched from a 3070 to a 7900XTX. No regrets at all. Its a beast.
Does ATi count? Otherwise no.
After the 8800GT I had a ATi HD4890, awesome card, no problems. Next I had the AMD HD7990, which would self immolate and had to be down clocked via a BIOS mod, then the AMD R9 290 which had black screen flicker with dual monitors, this was an AMD driver issue that wasn't fixed until I had long moved on to the 1080Ti.
I've heard the last few generations currently have driver timeout/crash issues which AMD seems to dragging their feet with, will be interesting to see if the 9070 is also affected.
Edit: Before the 8800 I had ATi 9800 Pro and X800 and X850XT PE, all good cards as well.
After the 8800GT I had a ATi HD4890, awesome card, no problems. Next I had the AMD HD7990, which would self immolate and had to be down clocked via a BIOS mod, then the AMD R9 290 which had black screen flicker with dual monitors, this was an AMD driver issue that wasn't fixed until I had long moved on to the 1080Ti.
I've heard the last few generations currently have driver timeout/crash issues which AMD seems to dragging their feet with, will be interesting to see if the 9070 is also affected.
Edit: Before the 8800 I had ATi 9800 Pro and X800 and X850XT PE, all good cards as well.
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I've been back and forth over the last few years (RTX 3070, 3080, and 3090 as well as rx 6600 and rx 6700xt). It was the emergence of local LLM's that has pushed me away from AMD. Hoping they can do something about that with the 9070 XT but CUDA is just entrenched in non-gaming workloads.
i think nvidia's mid range cards are just better, i have a 4070super and a 7800xt in the house, at point of buying they was about the same cost.
the 4070super is faster and cooler.
but i personally bounce round as needed, had a 6950xt not too long ago was a very nice GPU. my current 4080Super is only because i was XTX shopping and found the 4080s at a very good used price
i love AMD that much i paid £500 for a 6600xt in lockdown
the 4070super is faster and cooler.
but i personally bounce round as needed, had a 6950xt not too long ago was a very nice GPU. my current 4080Super is only because i was XTX shopping and found the 4080s at a very good used price
i love AMD that much i paid £500 for a 6600xt in lockdown
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Something about this is so tragically sweet
tbf at launch it did have an MSRP is £380.
I went from a 1080TI to a 7900 xtx, And it's been awesome my only complaint is that all the ai gen stuff Is basically dominated by cuda which is why I'm having to switch back to team green. But from a gaming standpoint I have not been disappointed with my time with amd.
what Ai Based tasks are you wanting to run?
Tried using ZLUDA?
Local image gen stuff.
Yup, I was really happy when it first came out and actually worked, the Speed on it was awesome but it has its own problems. As soon as you try to run or add any LORA stuff My speeds were dropped down to the usual 2~3 it/s.
Other stuff like controlnet Not working properly at least for me, Just really started frustrating me. I tried comfyui, tried sdnext, they all had different issues or just didn't work. And when you see the kind of generation speeds over on Team Green can't help but feel a bit envious of it...
I've heard good things about ROCm on Linux, But I don't have the patience to figure out which Linux distribution I'm supposed to install and go about installing it and all the dual booting stuff it's just not in my realm of patience.
This is the tragedy of AMD (for me at least). Be interesting to see if they can come up with a fix, given their new AI-focused CPU's. I'd like nothing more than to be able to go back. Or even to be able to grab a 7900 XTX with all of that VRAM.
These days most application providers will give the commands to install their software on to a variety of distributions. You can get a USB to SATA connector pretty cheaply and install on a spare SSD or buy one for not too much. Most modern BIOS's will have a "press F-whatever to choose a boot disk" at start up. Makes it easier than faffing with a boot loader and leaves your windows install untouched. YMMV.
well I might be putting mine up for sale at the end of the month
