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Why did you choose AMD/ nVIDIA?

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Typically I just want to know why you chose AMD over nVIDIA or nVIDIA over AMD.
I'm not going to make this a bias thread, as I want honest opinions, but here are two examples I can think of at the moment.

nVIDIA, because AMD have poor drivers.
AMD because nVIDIA are not as good bang for buck.

Of course there are many more reasons why you would have went with one or the other, so what are they?
What is the customer service like for both of these companies/ their sub-companies (XFX, ASUS...)?
 
ati because they are better value for money but i would get an Nvidia card again if i thought it was worth the money
 
I choose best bang for buck regardless of AMD/Nvidia, drivers are as good/bad as each other, you just need to go through the forum for driver problems for both imho.

Sheer stupidity to stick to one vendor as they certainly don't care for you, they are both businesses that ultimately are there to take your cash and are just interested in profits.
 
My answer is quite complicated and I just wrote out a full post in response but gonna try and shorten it.

I've little love for either company going back quite a long time amongst other things involving memories of swapping driver verions on ATI just depending on what game I wanted to play and the difference between the 2 companies in supporting video game development when I used to work in that.

At the end of the day with limited choice in the market I'm bias towards nVidia as when it comes to software development they mostly put their money where their mouth is unlike ATI/AMD who talk a big talk but rarely put the goods up unless they absolutely have to.

When it comes to drivers... I wouldn't say AMD have bad drivers - those days of horrendously bad ATI drivers are gone... but... nVidia still have the edge here - a good AMD driver is pretty much on par with a good nVidia beta release (which are good) but AMD have nothing that can compare to a good nVidia WHQL release - they simply don't have the same level of software support.
 
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The 5870 was the card that suited my needs best, nvidia had no high end cards that could use lossless audio over hdmi until gf110.
 
I;ve seen a few posts on twitter of the upcoming gamescom event. noticed that the biggest game BF3 are all running ATI cards one of the main guys asked where he could get 32 ATI cards at short notice.

so im hmmming and arrring about ATI over Nvidia also.
 
The 7900GT was the best bang for buck when I bought it, then I got the 8800GT on RMA, then the 9800GT on RMA.

Then the 5870 was the best bang for buck when I got that.

Would probably get a 570 or 580 now.
 
I want the best card for my money. I couldn't care less who the gpu manufacturer is :).

I sincerely hope that both gpu manufacturers keep a strong market share, as I do not want one on get a monopoly over the market as I want them to remain competing on price and performance.
 
I'd had plenty of ATi cards, more than any other brand so fancied trying one from the green team for a change, - that was one of the reasons.

The other, although I have always found ATi's performance decent in most titles, I wanted to see if the consistent comments about even better, smoother frame rates were as good as people that had switched from ATi to nVidia said they were.

Last of all, I had found that the implementation of AA in games was lacking with ATi, and even worse still was the performance hit when applied. I thought this might have something to do with my ageing cpu but that was soon dispelled when I was able to crank up higher levels without 'any' performance hit in some cases.

However, I must admit that even nVidia's AA implementation in some games is still a little 'average' at times, whereas I thought it would be much, much better for being able to force AA through the control panel, in my experience so far I would say it is better but not that much so - as I figured it would through reading and hearing others opinions. It should be noted here that I am not referring to the performance when AA is applied, that is one of the impressive features about their gpu's, especially when you consider the potential performance hit that is added in to the bargain. Pure win.

Having been an ATi IQ lover I was pleased to see that in game nVidia's demonstration was as good, if not even better suited to my tastes. Though, for some reason, I think I still prefer the 2d desktop IQ from my old 4870X2 a bit more, however, it's not a big issue.

All in all I was easily glad I made the switch, and I haven't had such a big 'wow' factor with a gpu upgrade since several years back.
 
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Having been an ATi IQ lover I was pleased to see that in game nVidia's demonstration was as good, if not even better suited to my tastes. Though, for some reason, I think I still prefer the 2d desktop IQ from my old 4870X2 a bit more, however, it's not a big issue.
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ATI/AMD have a slightly more vivid bias to their colors, nVidia can be a bit dull which does show on the desktop a bit more I think - even playing with brightness and digital vibrancy doesn't really help.
 
AMD brought out a much cheaper card that massively outweighed the performance difference. AMD has also held its value better so I have no regrets on buying them on release day. Saying that 6950's where much better value then my 6970's.

Only card I ever had fail on me was a Nvidia card and with the 400's being poor designs and the 590's blowing up, I feel AMD just offers better hardware while I never had the major driver issues people complain about.
Nvidia would need to be much cheaper for me to give them a try again like the recent OcUK deals, I would have went 580's if they where £290 to start with! :p
 
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8800GT (great card, amazing bang for buck) - 4870 x 2 (amazing cards, but I found crossfire performance was always suspect) - 5970 (simple awful driver performance) - GTX 480 (very hot and power hungry, but perfectly smooth in all games). I think going forward I'll stay with nvidia because onf the consistent driver support, not necessary because they release the fastest cards.
 
ATI since 3870>4870>6870 bang for buck purely before that nvidia 6800LE, Geforce something Ti, Riva TNT. So going by my history it should be nvidia next but its generally bang for buck.
 
I got my first 5850 in the launch week when nvidia had nothing to counter it with. Just wanted to jump on the DX11 bandwagon I think.
 
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