Why Nvidia has your blessing?

[SpaceSquid]

Cause miners

[Foxxer]

Heat buddy, it gets abit warm with no A/C here, unless you want to fry some eggs and throw some toast with jelly.

[One Who Craves Souls]

Nvidia cause SLI is better than CFX at the moment.

Really? huh, I always thought AMD's crossfire scaled better. :mellow:

[TheNinjaNextDor]

Temps, they OC a ton better, and EVGA.

[kaneandtaker]

Really? huh, I always thought AMD's crossfire scaled better. :mellow:

You have not heard of micro-stuttering aka frame rating.

[One Who Craves Souls]

You have not heard of micro-stuttering aka frame rating.

No, and I've never done Sli, my previous build was one 680. Thanks for sharing, I'll take a look into that.

[droidxd00d]

Because when I used my 6950 the drivers were terrible and it didn't like overclocking at all. My 780 is a beast the drivers are amazing and I have no issues putting a massive overclock on it either

[ErickS89]

Here is what Nvidia has going on.

- PhysX

- CUDA

- Shadowplay

- Excellent Drivers

 

But here is what sucks about Nvidia right now

- Low amount of VRAM

- Low Framebuffer compared to AMD

- Stuck with 3 screens in Surround UNLESS you go with a PRO card

 

 

Here's What AMD has going on.

- Superior multi-monitor, it's just better atm compared to Nvidia's offerings.

- Large framebuffer (what are we at 512?)

- Large Vram (6GB on a single GPU)

- Mantle

- OpenCL, actually performs better than Nvidia with OpenCL

 

Here are drawbacks of AMD

- Drivers...

- PhysX (Not a drawback if you're doing a multi CPU setup)

- It's a Heater, great in the winter!

- No Cuda Support

 

 

I'm sure someone else could probably add to the list but both AMD and Nvidia make great chipsets, if you want multi-monitors your choice is better off with AMD due to the large amount of VRam and Framebuffer.  But if you want Cuda well your only choice is Nvidia same with PhysX.   You can have the best of both but AMD has to be your Main card and honestly the only logical solution for this is high end cards which would be the new r290x2 and titan black(for better cuda and PhysX performance just SLI another Titan Black)   This way you have a great system, have open PCI-E slots, and can have the best of both worlds.  But your Video all the time will be handled by AMD, all cuda and physX support will be from the Nvidia card but only be used for gpu computations.   Just remember to install the amd drivers FIRST than Nvidia.  If there's any updates just make sure to update AMD first if both are at the same time.

 

This is what I'm going to do just so I have an awesome experience of both worlds. 

[nokturrduk84]

I like Nvidia firstly, cause they have physx, which I find very cool, adds nice effects in games, second it's quite a long time I use their cards & can't say anything bad about them, no bad drivers issue, no defective models, nothing like that, only good experience with them...So, I think I'll stay loyal to them.

[Askew]

Reference cards with well built blower coolers (Titan)

Often (not always) better drivers.

Hardware implemented frame pacing solution before the AMD issue even came to full light.

CUDA for rendering/editing.

Power efficiency/better thermals.

Get the advantage of being able to buy from EVGA and enjoy their great service and step Up programme.

Shadowplay is a cool feature, PhysX is a bonus but it doesn't influence my purchase decision that much on it's own.

For my needs, Nvidia is better, AMD can sometimes provide superior gaming performance at a given price point but that is only one of the criteria that I look at when looking for a card.

[One Who Craves Souls]

I bought my 7970 Lightning Editions because they weren't locked down like the 680 Lightning, also the 7970's (when I was looking at benchmarks) were scaling a lot better then 680's. The 2GB of vram on the 680 Lightning was ultimately the turn off for me.

For how long have you been using that card? Would you buy an MSI card again?

 

I'm sure someone else could probably add to the list but both AMD and Nvidia make great chipsets, if you want multi-monitors your choice is better off with AMD due to the large amount of VRam and Framebuffer.  But if you want Cuda well your only choice is Nvidia same with PhysX.   You can have the best of both but AMD has to be your Main card and honestly the only logical solution for this is high end cards which would be the new r290x2 and titan black(for better cuda and PhysX performance just SLI another Titan Black)   This way you have a great system, have open PCI-E slots, and can have the best of both worlds.  But your Video all the time will be handled by AMD, all cuda and physX support will be from the Nvidia card but only be used for gpu computations.   Just remember to install the amd drivers FIRST than Nvidia.  If there's any updates just make sure to update AMD first if both are at the same time.

 

This is what I'm going to do just so I have an awesome experience of both worlds. 

Dude wow! nice and detailed, thanks for sharing! And yes, even thou I like Nvidia, I admit both worlds has awesome features, AMD higher buffer and capabilities are very respectable features. If I were to go 4K right now I would buy a R9 295x2 without hesitation. 

 

Please share that build if you do it, sounds like a beast! :wub:

[One Who Craves Souls]

Reference cards with well built blower coolers (Titan)

Often (not always) better drivers.

Hardware implemented frame pacing solution before the AMD issue even came to full light.

CUDA for rendering/editing.

Power efficiency/better thermals.

Get the advantage of being able to buy from EVGA and enjoy their great service and step Up programme.

Shadowplay is a cool feature, PhysX is a bonus but it doesn't influence my purchase decision that much on it's own.

EVGA is one of my latest reasons for Nvidia, I dare to say that if EVGA made AMD cards too then I would probably buy an AMD card to try...

 

I was thinking of buying a "cheap" AMD card first to know the AMD experience, I feel weird for not trying them.

[DildorTheDecent]

Nvidia is overpriced and gimmicy, like iphones.

I own an Android. Thus I own a Radeon AMD graphics card.

iphone owners will most likely own nvidia.

Yeah we do actually.

But I'd move off NV as I have no loyalty to any brand.

I mean I would totally buy a 290X/295X2 if I could.

[flibberdipper]

I can upgrade from the onboard crap to a 9800GT for less than $30. And I love their reference coolers (especially on the Titan Black).

[Tacitus]

You have not heard of micro-stuttering aka frame rating.

I was under the impression that had been fixed.

[Legion]

I switched to AMD because they had been winning the performance race when I was in the market for a new card.

[NUFCThomas]

I had an original ATI radeon card and thought it was time to change to nvidia and try it out. 

[One Who Craves Souls]

Yeah we do actually.

But I'd move off NV as I have no loyalty to any brand.

I mean I would totally buy a 290X/295X2 if I could.

4K :wub:

 

I can upgrade from the onboard crap to a 9800GT for less than $30. And I love their reference coolers (especially on the Titan Black).

Yeah, the reference coolers of Nvidia do look good and more importantly they actually perform good too. 

[flibberdipper]

4K :wub:

 

Yeah, the reference coolers of Nvidia do look good and more importantly they actually perform good too. 

Weren't Linus and Slick able to get their 780Ti up to 1200MHz or something like that on the stock cooler?

[One Who Craves Souls]

Weren't Linus and Slick able to get their 780Ti up to 1200MHz or something like that on the stock cooler?

I think so, like he said probably silicon lottery but for a reference card is surprising anyways.

[droidxd00d]

Weren't Linus and Slick able to get their 780Ti up to 1200MHz or something like that on the stock cooler?

I'm pretty sure it was their regular 780 that was the golden overclocker

[One Who Craves Souls]

I'm pretty sure it was their regular 780 that was the golden overclocker

I can't remember the name of the video but I thought it was the Ti. :huh:

[StareX]

It's faster, green looking, and I love NVIDIA because it worked with Unreal Tournament (can't let alone the symbol of The way it is meant to be played) ... and also cuz it's pretty much faster than AMD.. dunno...

[The_Strict_Nein]

I've only ever had problems with my friends PC using an AMD core and Graphics. Hell, every time the graphics updates the thing blue screens on start up. I've never had a problem with a nVidia system.

 

Intel and Nvidia is the way to go for me

 

 

[The_Strict_Nein]

I can't remember the name of the video but I thought it was the Ti. :huh:

 

You're right, it is their 780 Ti.

 

They said it's the reason why the Kingpin doesn't appear all that spectacular in their graphs compared to their golden 780 Ti. In reality, the Kingpin is an epically binned 780 Ti and Linus' card is a  golden reference card