AMD VS Nvidia - GPU

[AurumHype]

Looking at building a new pc soon. Iv always been more of an AMD fan due to their "under dog" position on everything yet as far as GPU's go I have always gone Nvidia. I know intel is coming out with a gpu soon but since it does not look like it will be to exciting im not planning on waiting for it. I was wondering what every one's opinion on the ethics of Nvidia as a company. I feel the have a monopoly on high-end gamer GPUs and personaly am considering going with a 5700xt over a 2070 super due to the monopoly that nivida has on the market. The big question for me is are Nvidias engineers so much better then every one else so they can make the best products or are they doing anything sketchy to hold the rest of the market back? Let me know what you guys think.

 

Found some data-

AMD spends about 400 million quarterly on research for their products.  

 

Nvidia spends about 750 million quarterly on their products. 

 

considering most of Nvidias products revovle around graphics one could assume a large portion of that went towards gpus

 

AMD has a wide range of products and I would say most of that would have gone into CPUs vs GPUs. 

 

I think it would be safe to assume that AMD is just not trying to dethrown 2 giants at once. So due to this I might be going with green eggs and ham for this build. 

[ZFD]

2 minutes ago, AurumHype said:

Looking at building a new pc soon. Iv always been more of an AMD fan due to their "under dog" position on everything yet as far as GPU's go I have always gone Nvidia. I know intel is coming out with a gpu soon but since it does not look like it will be to exciting im not planning on waiting for it. I was wondering what every one's opinion on the ethics of Nvidia as a company. I feel the have a monopoly on high-end gamer GPUs and personaly am considering going with a 5700xt over a 2070 super due to the monopoly that nivida has on the market. The big question for me is are Nvidias engineers so much better then every one else so they can make the best products or are they doing anything sketchy to hold the rest of the market back? Let me know what you guys think.

I doubt they are doing anything severely sketchy, obviously big business deals or something. I would go with the better card though. Bang for the buck if you know what i mean.

[Dedayog]

They;re just better and have a lot of a headstart with which to work,

 

You're looking for some shady corporate espionage thing to hate Nvidia for so you can go AMD?

 

Support whichever you want, it's basic business nothing special.

[boggy77]

it's not like you're going to make a big difference for either company by supporting them. at the moment, in terms of hardware, amd is closing the gap. but their drivers are still buggy and people report crashes, while nvidia have very stable drivers. even though I am an amd "fan" and I have a ryzen cpu, i wouldn't buy a amd gpu until they sort out their drivers.

[JoshHendi]

I hope the best for AMD, and glad they are having success with their CPUs, but Nvidia just has the GPU market right now, and would guess their pipeline is looking a lot more promising vs AMD in the GPU space

[Xiee]

When AMD manages to fix all the issues on their drivers then I'll make the jump as well. Sticking with Nvidia for now since they have the better driver support.

I'll be changing my video card soon. I currently have a GTX 1060 6GB. My options are either the 2060 super or the 5600XT. I'm leaning towards the 2060 Super, but if things change in the next few months, who knows. I might just jump to AMD's side.

[18358414]

AMD (and ATI) have always had buggy drivers for me.  If you're gaming, then I'd say nvidia.  But AMD's powerful hardware is a compelling choice if you're doing scientific computing/opencl (just as long as it doesn't bug out)

[.Apex.]

2 hours ago, Xiee said:

I'll be changing my video card soon. I currently have a GTX 1060 6GB. My options are either the 2060 super or the 5600XT. I'm leaning towards the 2060 Super, but if things change in the next few months, who knows. I might just jump to AMD's side.

Been dealing with AMD drivers for 10 years, they've always been buggy and they sure as hell ain't changing in a few months, I don't know what's going on there that they still can't get their shit together on the driver side of things.

[Nemaja]

6 hours ago, AurumHype said:

 I was wondering what every one's opinion on the ethics of Nvidia as a company.

What about your ethics ? What mobile phone are you using, what clothes do you wear , what shoe you have on ?  If you bought any of those 3 , you are literally supporting child labor and modern slavery , unless you make your own shoes and clothes , which is highly unlikely . Just buy whatever, dont white knight here

[WkdPaul]

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