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Nvidia vs ATI (AMD) Showing my age!

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Morning all,

Interested to hear peoples thoughts if you have gone from team red to team green and vice versa. What prompted you to make the change and if you think it was best decision ever or regret it?

I am used to Nvidia with my 2060 and ideally would like a 30 series card but I am tempted now by the team red 6900xt due to stock issues.

Thanks
Steve
 
I never really picked a side tbh, probably had more Nvidia cards but I've flipped between the two brands over the years depending on price and performance.
 
I would like AMD to take the lead but from my limited knowledge they're still slightly behind. I only started looking into all the GPU stuff late last year. Unfortunately my build coincided with the mess that is the semiconductor market.

From UserBenchmark comparisons (admittedly unreliable) I'd say nvidia are well in the lead with the 3080 through 3090, especially when you factor in price.

I love the look of the latest gen AMD cards and I would like their prices to be lower with more competitive performance. I also like the idea of pairing my 5800X with an AMD gpu.

I think team red can do it for the next gen though. I think they are capable of doing to Nvidia with GPUs what they have done to Intel with CPUs.
 
Yea I was thinking the same as I have a 5800x with the resizeable bar support on the mobo and it does give some performance increases but I like the nvidia driver suite and havent touched AMD GPUs in so long. Think last one I had was a sapphire one thats about 10 years old haha.
 
I've flipped between the 2 over the years:

Geforce 2 MX400
Radeon 9600 pro
Radeon 9800 pro
X1900XTX
Mobility RADEON HD 4570

GTX 750Ti
GTX 970
GTX 980 ti

RX 5700XT
RX 6800

More of a lean towards ATI/AMD since they were historically the more "value" option (e.g. 90% of the performance for 70% of the cost), but that's not so much true any more.

Not sure how I feel about having stuck with AMD this generation - I wish I'd bought a 2070s instead of the 5700XT, and while the 6800 is a great card, DLSS seems pretty impressive (although waiting to see if FSR balances that out). Saying that, having a Ryzen CPU means I've gained an extra ~8-10% FPS from enabling SAM.

No plans to upgrade for a while, so I guess we'll see what gives the best bang/buck in a few years.
 
How much do you care about raytracing? AMD are behind in this area but the 6900XT is still around 3070 performance in raytracing in modern games which isn't bad and it's sometimes faster than a 3090 in rasterisation (the vast majority of games are still made this way). It also has 60% more video memory than a 3080. Nvidia have DLSS which allows upscaling from a lower resolution to increase performance while trying to maintain as much image quality as possible, but now AMD have an equivalent called FSR which although not quite as good as DLSS it works on everything including Nvidia and is much easier to implement in games than DLSS so in future may become the default option for developers to use in their games. There are future versions of FSR planned with improvements, this is only version one and it's open source so can be improved by the community and any developer who uses it. It's not in many games yet but I expect this to change, the first major game to have it will be Far Cry 6.

With FSR we have to wait to see its full potential, DLSS is a more mature technology and in many more games at the moment.

If you can get a 6800XT I'd get that, it's virtually as fast as a 6900XT with same amount of RAM but is much cheaper. On the Nvidia side I prefer the 3080, not the TI, although the 10GB of VRAM may become a problem at 4K resolution with raytracing in the future.

You gain more performance from SAM/ReBar on an AMD GPU, up to 20% maximum vs 10% in very select circumstances.

AMD's driver control panel is now more modern and advanced than the Nvidia one which is the same as 5-10 years ago. The AMD one has built-in automatic benchmarking and performance stats for all your games, a performance and game recording in-game overlay and it's all very responsive and quick. When you install the driver I recommend selecting the standard profile not the gaming one as it enables things that can sometimes cause problems, if you want to enable those things you can do so later per game. If you don't want things like Radeon ReLive (the Shadowplay equivalent that allows you to record your gameplay then you can do a minimal install and you don't have to sign into an account like with Geforce Experience). I haven't used AMD for over a year so things might have changed again.
 
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I would like to try Nvidia again after almost 20 years but they keep being stingy with ram.
Ironically the 3060 is their best value for money in years and the only card that is tempting me if I had to buy right now.
 
I would like to try Nvidia again after almost 20 years but they keep being stingy with ram.
Ironically the 3060 is their best value for money in years and the only card that is tempting me if I had to buy right now.
It's a pity the performance of the 3060 is disappointing, or at least it is to me.
 
I think ray tracing is the only defining factor based on replies. I can run Doom Eternal with ray tracing and dlss but its subtle and not enough to make me go wow thats amazing and think the extra cost is worth it for the dedicated RT cores.
 
I think ray tracing is the only defining factor based on replies. I can run Doom Eternal with ray tracing and dlss but its subtle and not enough to make me go wow thats amazing and think the extra cost is worth it for the dedicated RT cores.

Now, an interesting question would be: "would you pay for a dedicated add-on RT card on top of your GPU?"
 
I think ray tracing is the only defining factor based on replies. I can run Doom Eternal with ray tracing and dlss but its subtle and not enough to make me go wow thats amazing and think the extra cost is worth it for the dedicated RT cores.

Indeed, ray tracing isn't really there yet. That is why it didn't affect my choice of going AMD this time and it was also the reason I skipped on the 2000 series of cards.

I did have a 3080 card on order. So would have gone Nvidia again. And I know we are all paying through the teeth for cards right now. But I bought a 6900 XT and I'm more than happy with it.

I really think that AMD has done a great job with all of the options in their drivers. And FSR does look like it will be widespread in the months to come.

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