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What AMD Vs Nvidia experiences have you had?
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Bought loads of cards from both. Never had one I bought new fail from either.
My first GPU in the PC I built myself was a 6870 and I remember it being pretty good, but I had some Nvidia friends who seemed to have better cards. I then got a 7850 for a friend, then replaced that with the 970 I've got now. I haven't used an AMD card for about 4 years now.
Had a large range of card from 3dfx/Nvidia/ATI then AMD (even still have an Asus PhysX card). Never had a PowerVR Kyro or Matrox Parhellia though. Both AMD and Nvidia have good then rubbish then good again drivers, had cards from both green and red teams die on me , had more Nv card fail, both the fan stopping driver bug killed cards, twice. Both teams have good drivers now, but had less issues with AMD in windows 10
I've had more hardware issues and failures + driver problems with AMD (well ATI mostly) cards than Nvidia. I might have just been unlucky though.
This has made me buy Nvidia ever since and I've had very few issues.
I'm sure il try an AMD card again at some point.
This has made me buy Nvidia ever since and I've had very few issues.
I'm sure il try an AMD card again at some point.
Over the last 20 years or so i've probably had about a 50/50 split of ATI/AMD and Nvidia. I can't say that i have ever had an issue with any of the GPU's when they were "current". What i will say though is that it's clear to me that Nvidia "nerf" the drivers for EOL cards to lower performance in relation to what ever is the latest card.
For a very long time i had 1080ti and performance actually got better with drivers until the release of the 2080ti. Within a month of the 2080ti release, every new driver release saw worse performance with the new 1080ti drivers.
This has never happened with ATI/AMD. In fact, the opposite has happened. That's why i'm now back with AMD for my GPU.
For a very long time i had 1080ti and performance actually got better with drivers until the release of the 2080ti. Within a month of the 2080ti release, every new driver release saw worse performance with the new 1080ti drivers.
This has never happened with ATI/AMD. In fact, the opposite has happened. That's why i'm now back with AMD for my GPU.
I've been building systems since years before AMD made GPUs (and before that, ATI) and nVidia was building viable GPUs. They're both similar and their products generally work without issue. I care not to count how many cards I've owned (and money I've spent) from both companies over the years. AMD has had a few blips on the driver front, but for the past 5-6 years they've been solid. I generally have no qualms going with either, and am led by pricing and rasterization performance above all.
I have seen way more shenanigans from nVidia where they really push the envelope of what's morally (and sometimes legally) acceptable e.g. 970 "3.5GB", impeding mobile overclocking, continual and insidious methods to push pricing ever higher, banning reviewers who don't follow script. I could spend the next hour listing examples... They're really shady which has generally pushed me towards AMD of late, all things being equal. Not to say AMD doesn't have their fair share of anti-consumer incidents (ahem, completely dropping driver support for "mobility" chips when it didn't suit them, pressuring ), but they been generally more kosher in this respect, possibly due to having for so long not been in a position of power they could abuse.
I have seen way more shenanigans from nVidia where they really push the envelope of what's morally (and sometimes legally) acceptable e.g. 970 "3.5GB", impeding mobile overclocking, continual and insidious methods to push pricing ever higher, banning reviewers who don't follow script. I could spend the next hour listing examples... They're really shady which has generally pushed me towards AMD of late, all things being equal. Not to say AMD doesn't have their fair share of anti-consumer incidents (ahem, completely dropping driver support for "mobility" chips when it didn't suit them, pressuring ), but they been generally more kosher in this respect, possibly due to having for so long not been in a position of power they could abuse.
That's a good point, and one I missed. I find it hard to believe nVidia just focusing on driver support for new GPUs would actually degrade performance of older GPUs -- but that's what seems to happen with the older cards. If you look at a lot of newer reviewers that include GTX 1080 tis, for example, they're performance has somehow gotten worse over time in the same games -- there's really only one way that practically happens
. On the other side, there's a common adage that "AMD drivers age like fine wine".That's a good point, and one I missed. I find it hard to believe nVidia just focusing on driver support for new GPUs would actually degrade performance of older GPUs -- but that's what seems to happen with the older cards. If you look at a lot of newer reviewers that include GTX 1080 tis, for example, they're performance has somehow gotten worse over time in the same games -- there's really only one way that practically happens
Yep, i had owned the 1080ti for so long that i had forgot how quickly Nvidia just dump support for for last gen owners. Now by that statement i don't mean they don't release new drivers, because of course they do. But they absolutely nerf those drivers so that performance goes down. The only reasons for that are twofold, first to make the latest Nvidia card look better than it should and second to coerce you into buying that latest Nvidia GPU to get better performance.
As you say, ATI/AMD have never done that, drivers just get better and better........................fine wine is absolutely true.
I really do feel sorry for peeps that are holding onto 2080ti's at the moment, because i bet any updated drivers they install give worse performance than the last one.
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I`ve had both and never had a problem with either, my last AMD card was a R390 which I ended up swapping to a Nvidia 1080ti as the Vega 64 was very disappointing in comparison. I was tempted with the RX 6800 XT but as availability was none existent I went for the 3080FE and I wouldn`t have a problem going back to a AMD card next time round.
I remember owning a Nvidia Geforce 4600 TI and replacing it with a 9700 Pro from ATI (which later became AMD). Playing Battlefield 1942 with the 9700 Pro I noticed all the textures that had been missing with the Nvidia card. Huge areas with the Nvidia card were simply untextured as Nvidia decided it was OK to cheat with AF so they didn't lose as badly in benchmarks. Nvidia will use every dishonest or underhand tactic they can and rip off their consumers by doing so without remorse or even shame. Only had one card ever fail on me a 1080TI but overall had 50:50 from each vendor and generally good experiences from both.
You just brought back a memory that made me cringe a bit by mentioning the 4600 TI... I had just purchased a 4600 Ti and clumsily broke clean off one of the big capacitors at the end (and I wasn't really proficient at soldering at the time). This was before there were full-coverage PCB shrouds and HS/Fs on cards so bending/breaking a VRM, Capacitor or cable was quite possible when installing. I sunk $450 into that card, then went and bought a 4400 Ti (which I learned later I could have just overclocked to 4600 Ti levels), then the 9700 Pro came out a few months later. This was a three-fold slap in the face in retrospect: 1) I could have easily soldered the capacitor back on, or 2) I could have just bought a 4400 Ti to begin with, or 3) I could have just been patient and waited for the 9700 Pro to come out.
Linux has Zink that does that.
https://www.collabora.com/news-and-...ntroducing-zink-opengl-implementation-vulkan/
Had an RX580, worked really well, very happy. Now have a 3070 FE, works really well and also happy. Honestly, I think the whole AMD v Nvidia thing is a load of rubbish, both are great.
Bigger problem these days is finding an affordable one at all.
Bigger problem these days is finding an affordable one at all.
I've never personally had any driver issues with the older AMD Radeon/R9 cards, nor the 970. They may be more problematic on the more recent cards, which I'd kind of expect for a while...