Nvidia fanboys: what makes you shill for them?

[RVRY]

What about Nvidia creates so many fanboys?

[Holmes108]

Good products?

 

I know I'm coming off as a shill, and I'm really not. I have zero brand loyalty and buy mostly on price/value alone. But given the products, and the market share, the focus seems logical. Nobody is calling people Windows Gaming shills. It's just where it's at.

 

I like AMD though, I hope they make great strides.

[deadlou666]

Nvidia has better raytracing performance and dlss which apparently warrants spending a ton extra money as well as being power hungry!! Nvidia have better top of the line gpus which are needed in VERY niche places (professional design etc). ATM though the 7900xtx around 799 i think it was and 4090 at 1.8k smh 

[da na]

For me, they just have nice reliable cards. I've had far better experience with Nvidia cards and drivers, having owned many from them and ATI/AMD, so I feel better recommending their stuff, as they've proven reliable.

[LloydLynx]

Probably because most people use Windows and Nvidia tends to work the best on Windows. AMD and Intel are known to Windows users for having flakey drivers. Nvidia popularized real time ray tracing and attached a catchy brand name to it. Nvidia tended to have better value back when AMD was slacking in the mid 2010s, giving them market share and recognizability. 

[Blademaster91]

Nvidia has more to spend on marketing and influencers than AMD does, gamers think you need ray tracing,dlss, and NVENC just to play games.

[Zando_]

They consistently make the fastest GPUs. They have their proprietary tech better supported than their competitor(s now that Intel is in the game) as they dump shitloads of money into developers and will send out an engineer to be on-site, helping you best implement their stuff. Leads to better support for their hardware in both games and workstation tasks (see how common CUDA support is). Usually better built-in media encoders as well. And a rep for more stable/better drivers vs the hit or miss that AMD cards often are (or the bug soup that Intel ARC is currently). 

 

Simply put, for all their faults, they make the best stuff. Usually that's all folks care about when it comes to spending money on something. 

 

2 minutes ago, Caroline said:

My two cents: nvidia cards have always been expensive, and fanboys like that as it allows them to boast about being rich. Sort of like Apple phones and now Tesla cars. Actual products might be completely shit but it's how expensive they are that matters.

The GTX 1060 6GB was on the top of Steam hardware charts until it finally got dethroned this year, specifically because it was an insane value and held up against 1080p gaming for far longer than it "should" have. Though yes their high end stuff since 20 series has been overpriced (or really any Titan ever, that used to be the spot the XX90 cards live in now). 

[WkdPaul]

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