i3-6100 Which GPU

[tommybhoy]

Outwith Fiji price/performance, AMD perform on par with their driver overhead, AMD tends to get faster with age, where as Nvidia outfit their older gpu's with zimmers...

 

[humbug]

Outwith Fiji price/performance, AMD perform on par with their driver overhead, AMD tends to get faster with age, where as Nvidia outfit their older gpu's with zimmers...

And put ground up glass in its porridge

 

[koolpc]

950 seems like the best for me price wise even though the 960 is not that much more in price!

 

[koolpc]

950 coming my way! My nephew will be so pleased!!

 

[koolpc]

Guys, the best way to install his new card?

Install it, then install latest drivers, then go into Bios to make sure PCIe is first, then connect monitor to the new graphics card? Currently he is running off the motherboard Intergrated GPU /CPU.

 

[koolpc]

This the right driver people:

359.06 WHQL

Geforce Experience worth using?

 

[humbug]

This the right driver people:

359.06 WHQL

Geforce Experience worth using?

Yes and yes.

 

[koolpc]

Thanks

 

[humbug]

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Don't blame you mate, I won't be going back to AMD until they show they are not inept with drivers, decent hardware held back by drivers is never a good thing.

You must have been waiting at least a few years, right?

I have had a GTX660,HD7850 and a GTX960 as my last three cards.

Mates have had the following cards - HD7770,HD7850, HD7870XT,R9 270,R9 280,R9 285,R9 290,R9 290X,R9 390,GTX650TI Boost,GTX750TI,GTX760,GTX960,GTX780,GTX970 and the GTX980.

All about the sameness when it comes to most games,and hardly realistically have had "problems" with most games and about the same level of problems if there are any.

Hardware enthusiasts just have way too much E-PEEN problems IMHO,and just try to overdramatise problems for each brand selectively like something like TOWIE or The Daily Fail.

Plus your talk about driver overhead also is incredibly weird especially with the midrange cards - mates have everything from a FX6300 to Haswell Core i7 chips.

Any noise of the AMD driver bottlenecks have been with higher end cards running on AMD CPUs as it is meant to be single threaded one....the Core i3 6100 has plenty of single threaded performance.

The last game I tested was the Nvidia sponsored ARK which is UE4 based.

Saw hardly any difference between an FX6350 and a Core i7 4770 with an R9 280 and a GTX960 in tow. The Core i7 destroys a FX6350.

That's one of the most graphical demanding games out there too,so even the "bottleneck" is not universal.