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What do AMD GPUs do better than Nvidia GPUs?

There is some evidence that ray tracing on AMD (it is hardware based though) has improved since launch. I doubt if it will be improved enough to catch-up with NVIDIA however.

Not that anyone cares about raytracing though :cry:

I can see the nice side of RT but it's all very subjective I mean outside of light on cyberpunk......not seeing a huge difference, Minecraft looks really cool and the additions to Doom Eternal look pretty great too

I read earlier that Quake RTX has support in the latest AMD drivers? Or is that a belated April fools joke? (Seems it's been doable for a while and i have been dwelling in a cave it appears lol)
 
AMD GPU's tend to crash more with BSOD. Also prone to black screen flickering issues.

That's my experience with RX480, Vega64 Liquid Edition and Radeon VII. Read about many, many issues with rx5700's with black screen issues, crashing etc.

I believe the RX6000 series are better, though wouldn't touch AMD with a bargepole due to prior experiences. Intel/Nvidia far safer option IMO :)
 
AMD GPU's tend to crash more with BSOD. Also prone to black screen flickering issues.

That's my experience with RX480, Vega64 Liquid Edition and Radeon VII. Read about many, many issues with rx5700's with black screen issues, crashing etc.

I believe the RX6000 series are better, though wouldn't touch AMD with a bargepole due to prior experiences. Intel/Nvidia far safer option IMO :)

you know, ironically Im having a lot of crashes since going Nvidia in recent times haha.

When I first got the 5700 XT when it was released, it was bad, really bad, I had so many crashes but it became very stable though freesync became hit and miss.

Both are good and bad as each other really.
 
I've never had stability or crashing issues with any of my AMD cards. In the past 5 years those have been the 390X, Fury X, RX 580, 590, Vega 64, 5700XT and 6900XT. Just saying.
 
I've always found that while AMD rarely have the faster flagship card, their cards have more often sat at the high end with better pricing, so if you're on a budget then getting a medium/high end AMD card makes a lot of sense. And especially during the era where crossfire and SLI were widely supported and worked well, that crossfire made a lot of sense because of this pricing model. I had crossfire setups with 2x 4870s back in the day which was a kick ass setup for the cost, and the 5970 which was crossfire on a single card which was also very good.
 
I want to do machine learning along with gaming on the system. It is my understanding that OpenCL is the open specification to use instead of relying on CUDA.


But OpenCL just isn't used

Nvidia and CUDA is the industry standard. If ML is important then a Nvidia GPU is the only choice
 
AMD GPU's tend to crash more with BSOD. Also prone to black screen flickering issues.

That's my experience with RX480, Vega64 Liquid Edition and Radeon VII. Read about many, many issues with rx5700's with black screen issues, crashing etc.

I believe the RX6000 series are better, though wouldn't touch AMD with a bargepole due to prior experiences. Intel/Nvidia far safer option IMO :)

That's the thing, my experience with AMD for the last few years has been rock solid. That includes the RX 480 and 580, Vega 64, RX5700 bios modded, and my current RX 6700. Whereas the Nvidia drivers for my 1070, 980ti, RTX 3070 has been very hit and miss and overall not a great experience. Only my 780 lightning and GTX 1080ti have been mostly without issues. Driver package still blew but crashes and other issues were rarer.
 
But OpenCL just isn't used

Nvidia and CUDA is the industry standard. If ML is important then a Nvidia GPU is the only choice

If you are writing your own software, then choose OpenCL (in fact our Uni mandates it for any new software written by Ph.D/Masters students on programmes here) but if you want to use existing software, then it has to be CUDA. Hopefully that is starting to change though.
 
AMD GPU's tend to crash more with BSOD. Also prone to black screen flickering issues.

That's my experience with RX480, Vega64 Liquid Edition and Radeon VII. Read about many, many issues with rx5700's with black screen issues, crashing etc.

I believe the RX6000 series are better, though wouldn't touch AMD with a bargepole due to prior experiences. Intel/Nvidia far safer option IMO :)
I have used AMD card's for over 10 year and I have probably had < 5 BSOD's in that time, zero in the last 5 years. I have had 290X, FuryX, 480 XT, 5700XT and now 6900XT. Also have 2*6990's in my M18 laptop that I used 7 days a week in crossfire for 3.5 years.
 
For all the earlier comments about the 370 being £300 more than the 6700xt. The prices on the manufactures websites are only £10 apart, funnily enough in NVidia's favour. But seeing as neither card can be sourced at those prices, maybe extra for the one card just shows the perceived value in this ridiculous scalping climate. (retailers are just as much to blame here as anyone)
 
For all the earlier comments about the 370 being £300 more than the 6700xt. The prices on the manufactures websites are only £10 apart, funnily enough in NVidia's favour. But seeing as neither card can be sourced at those prices, maybe extra for the one card just shows the perceived value in this ridiculous scalping climate. (retailers are just as much to blame here as anyone)
The RTX3070 mines much better.
 
Not too many things really. Unless you find them for much lower prices, Nvidia cards are better at almost everything.
i have to agree, only had a few nvidia cards, but plenty of amd, only they tend to age better is about all can think of, though i maybe wrong.
 
If you are writing your own software, then choose OpenCL (in fact our Uni mandates it for any new software written by Ph.D/Masters students on programmes here) but if you want to use existing software, then it has to be CUDA. Hopefully that is starting to change though.

Hmm...
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I think its safe to say there isnt a whole lot of difference bar differences in the software stack, its these differences which may dictate your use, beyond that when your talking compute every consumer card from both vendors are crippled when you are doing fp64 double precision stuff anyway.
 
I want to do machine learning along with gaming on the system. It is my understanding that OpenCL is the open specification to use instead of relying on CUDA.

Not done any ML stuff so cant comment really. ROCm supports tensorflow/Pytorch if that helps.

I've noticed a lot of comment that relates mainly to Windows, I guess most people have missed the main OS use being Linux ;)
 
Not done any ML stuff so cant comment really. ROCm supports tensorflow/Pytorch if that helps.

I've noticed a lot of comment that relates mainly to Windows, I guess most people have missed the main OS use being Linux ;)

90% of replies :) There are plenty of deep learning frameworks that support opencl, matlabs has opencl frameworks, pluggins, wrappers and toolboxes for all kinds of deep learning projects. I guess the real questions OP needs to aks is what kind of ML projects? What are you trying to achieve? Whats the right technology for the job?

You dont buy first and decide later. What you do is outline the work, tools used etc and then buy to fit the kind of projects you want to do. @op opencl is basically the open source equivalent of cuda on NV so is where you would be looking. Mind you if you are serious then 6800xt (approx 1.2tflop fp64) radeon 7 (3.3tflop fp64)... where amd used to smash it with a one architecture does it all is no longer really true really what you want is a radeon 7 (mi50)... a true compute card cut down for the masses.
 
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