What's the difference between AMD and Nvidia drivers?
I'm actually on the other side; AMD drivers were always great to me for each OS I've been on; while Nvidia only had a clunky experience ready for me. It gets to show you that it's not white or black when it comes to drivers, you will find possible issues on both ends.
Personally, the fact Nvidia pushes GeForce Experience down your throat, that is a piece of software that still needs work, is a big con for me. Experience will handle your driver updates and settings; but it's that software that will pop up in the worst moment possible, tell that your drivers aren't up to date (sometimes when they actually are) and once you say 'ok go update, I'm already dead' it will come with "couldn't connect, can't update"; then you reset your PC, try again and it starts doing a very minor update, that wasn't actually drivers, but the Experience client itself. Then you proceed to scratch your head and maybe curse a little.
It feels a little bit invasive; it's going to be there wherever you go, each time you start the system, and open itself because 'notifications'. You can choose to send it away, configure your start and forget about it; but many many Nvidia features are tied to it, instead of being part of the driver, or the control panel. If you want to use some of the big gaming features you paid for you are going to need the Experience client open.
AMD is not so innocent; it still has the AMD Gamer Raptor software, that will also be necessary to use some of the functionality; but I feel it's more easy to manage, customize and send 'away'. When you update; each time you do it, Nvidia Experience will pop up back again; AMD won't make Raptor reappear as long as you don't select the option for it.
Nvidia does have a nice overall experience when it comes to the drivers, optimization and having things working smoth, but I've been using AMD and Raedon GPUs for many years now and I haven't find so many problems. Nvidia in the other hand hasn't been so good with me; specially when I go away from DirectX, It takes only to change to OpenGL or similar, and everything goes to $hit, I enjoy old games, modding, and doing the things not the way they were intended, and it's there when Nvidia lets me down, it feels like they care only for their high end products and the latest titles.
But this is MY experience; relatives and close friends have the same experience I do; but each time I talk with other people it seems that Nvidia is the one doing things better. Currently I'm on AMD but I wouldn't mind changing to nvidia on my next GPU upgrade; I know your mileage will vary when it comes to driver and compatibilities.
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