Besides the 980, 980ti, and titan, is there any reason to buy NVIDIA?

[xXGadfly09Xx]

The 980ti is a monster and the titan is just that, a titan. The 980 is a beast too, overpriced but a beast non the less. However the gtx 950,960, and 970 arent worth buying anymore.

 

Lets go from the top down,

 

the r9 390 > gtc 970 AND the r9 390 is CHEAPER

 

THe r9 290 is slightly more expensive than the gtx 960 4gb AND beats it handily

 

even if we go price comparison 

the r9 380 > gtx 960 at BOTH the 2gb and 4gb price points

 

as for the gtx 950 the r9 285 is THE SAME PRICE and is better than the gtx 960 let alone the 950

 

 

IS there anything I am missing or does it seem that from a price to performance standpoint team red is winning in the sub $250 price range?

[sivertholmvik]

the 290x wouldnt be a bad choice for price to proformance ratio

[PlayStation 2]

Unless you NEED the CUDA cores, not really.

[HmmR]

i totally agree with this

[79wjd]

The 970 and 390 trade blows in pricing, it just depends when/where you look. 

 

But AMD has almost always been cheaper in terms of price/performance. While Nvidia tends to push at WHQL drivers, Gsync, Shadowplay, Nvidia Shield streaming, Cuda, PhysX, Gameworks, and Nvidia optimized games and probably a few other things I've forgotten about. 

[DudeWazap]

The main reason you go for either NVidia or AMD is for the features they offer.

[sivertholmvik]

Unless you NEED the CUDA cores, not really.

yee just you need to buy the card that you need for the task!

[iamdarkyoshi]

If you want power/performance, Nvidia has been rocking the spec sheets lately.

[OAcesync]

Apart from CUDA(good for video editing and rendering) and flagship end I don't see a point in buying Nvidia apart from preferences but in terms of actual full comparison I don't see a point

[Atmos]

If you really, really, really, really LIKE the color green, and you are willing to ignore facts, spread sheets, and the voices of practically everyone here; then you can get a 960 instead of a 380/290, or a 950 instead of a 285, or a Titan X instead of a 980ti or Fury X (for 4k)

[Manny Calavera]

nvidia sounds better and also its meant to be played sooo....

[TechDistrict]

The 980ti is a monster and the titan is just that, a titan. The 980 is a beast too, overpriced but a beast non the less. However the gtx 950,960, and 970 arent worth buying anymore.

 

Lets go from the top down,

 

the r9 390 > gtc 970 AND the r9 390 is CHEAPER

 

THe r9 290 is slightly more expensive than the gtx 960 4gb AND beats it handily

 

even if we go price comparison 

the r9 380 > gtx 960 at BOTH the 2gb and 4gb price points

 

as for the gtx 950 the r9 285 is THE SAME PRICE and is better than the gtx 960 let alone the 950

 

 

IS there anything I am missing or does it seem that from a price to performance standpoint team red is winning in the sub $250 price range?

AMD's graphics cards are quite good.

[xXGadfly09Xx]

The 970 and 390 trade blows in pricing, it just depends when/where you look. 

 

But AMD has almost always been cheaper in terms of price/performance. While Nvidia tends to push at WHQL drivers, Gsync, Shadowplay, Nvidia Shield streaming, Cuda, and probably a few other things I've forgotten about. 

 

Yeah I just double checked the 970 prices came down a bit, I thought they were 25-30 more than the 390 (thats almost 10%) 

[KarateHottie93]

But Nvidia has all these worthless features that are "better" than AMD's counterparts.

[Curufinwe_wins]

950 is better than the 370 in everyway. Unfortunately the 370 is stupid and no one should buy it. I haven't seen comparisons with the 270x etc yet.

Also in the US the price difference between the 950 and 960/380 make the 950 really meh imho unless you have an exceedingly strict budget.

Also for super small form factor htpcs the 750ti still holds all the cards as a pcie only powered card even if it's price to performance isn't very good.

[solarflare]

I always see people talk about power-use/performance but its laughable really. 

 

I wonder if people realize they save literally like cents per month on the power bill between a AMD or Nvidia GPU. 

 

The only reason anyone should even care about power use, is heat in room if no windows or AC or lack of PSU power in chassis. 

 

if a AMD GPU is 100-200$ cheaper than its Nvidia counter part in performance there is no way you will ever make that $ back in power savings in a normal gamer environment. 

 

In server farms when your deciding between 2 relatively similar servers price wise.. yes power usage comes into play then but for a home user not really. 

 

You have a better chance of your power bill going up or down just based on what your company decides you pay that month per kw.