Are Radeon cards good?

[Federation]

I'm planning to build a new PC and I am wondering, are AMD cards good? I decided to research but a lot of my friends told me to just get Nvidia, but when i checked the prices I got shocked by how expensive the cards were. So I am just wondering if Nvidia cards are worth the price or should i just go with AMD. This is my first time planning a PC and I don't know much.

[filpo]

2 minutes ago, Federation said:

I'm planning to build a new PC and I am wondering, are AMD cards good? I decided to research but a lot of my friends told me to just get Nvidia, but when i checked the prices I got shocked by how expensive the cards were. So I am just wondering if Nvidia cards are worth the price or should i just go with AMD. This is my first time planning a PC and I don't know much.

yes they are

Whats your budget, use case and country? And what resolution are you going to be using?

[RONOTHAN##]

AMD cards used to be bad, but in the past ~2 years they've really cleaned up their act driver wise and are actually quite competent GPUs. I wouldn't say they're quite up to the same standard as Nvidia, but they're very close. Given how the pricing has gone, I wouldn't blame you in the slightest for making the jump to team red, and realistically unless you need CUDA or a low power high end card AMD is probably your best option. 

 

Source: daily a 6900 XT and have run Nvidia cards for 6 years straight before that. 

[Federation]

1 minute ago, filpo said:

yes they are

Whats your budget, use case and country? And what resolution are you going to be using?

My budget is 50,000 PHP or almost $900, I am going to use this for gaming, coding, and work, and the resolution im going to use is probably 1080p.

[filpo]

1 minute ago, Federation said:

My budget is 50,000 PHP or almost $900, I am going to use this for gaming, coding, and work, and the resolution im going to use is probably 1080p.

So this is for the whole system? I would make a new thread in the new builds and planning section since that sections pretty popular

[Federation]

2 minutes ago, RONOTHAN## said:

AMD cards used to be bad, but in the past ~2 years they've really cleaned up their act driver wise and are actually quite competent GPUs. I wouldn't say they're quite up to the same standard as Nvidia, but they're very close. Given how the pricing has gone, I wouldn't blame you in the slightest for making the jump to team red, and realistically unless you need CUDA or a low power high end card AMD is probably your best option. 

 

Source: daily a 6900 XT and have run Nvidia cards for 6 years straight before that. 

Thanks for telling me, all my friends keep saying "It's trash don't buy it".

[Federation]

1 minute ago, filpo said:

So this is for the whole system? I would make a new thread in the new builds and planning section since that sections pretty popular

I only need help with my GPU I think, but when I need help I will make another post in another section.

[filpo]

1 minute ago, Federation said:

I only need help with my GPU I think, but when I need help I will make another post in another section.

I would either get this one ASRock Phantom Gaming D OC Radeon RX 6600 XT 8 GB Video Card (RX6600XT PGD 8GO) - PCPartPicker

or this PowerColor Fighter Radeon RX 6600 8 GB Video Card (AXRX 6600 8GBD6-3DH) - PCPartPicker

One is the 6600 xt tho (the asrock card) which is much better

[venomtail]

I used to be on the NVIDIA bandwagon for some 10+ years until I bought a 5600XT, like a day prior to the lockdown announcement. From my experience, AMD has crashed less and I've got so much more options and gimmicks for what I want to use, from recording, settings to even graph overlays. It's to the point where I want to stick with AMD for my next GPU and not go back to Shadowplay, with its 2 settings, like mic off or on compared to AMD that has like 5 for the mic alone.

 

Maybe NVIDIA has improved their software game in the 3 years I haven't used it.

[Federation]

4 minutes ago, filpo said:

I would either get this one ASRock Phantom Gaming D OC Radeon RX 6600 XT 8 GB Video Card (RX6600XT PGD 8GO) - PCPartPicker

or this PowerColor Fighter Radeon RX 6600 8 GB Video Card (AXRX 6600 8GBD6-3DH) - PCPartPicker

One is the 6600 xt tho (the asrock card) which is much better

I got the Gigabyte Radeon RX 6600 Eagle because I don't really need an XT

[filpo]

Just now, Federation said:

I got the Gigabyte Radeon RX 6600 Eagle because I don't really need an XT

well the XT is actually better so I would have gone for it. But its your decision

[Xkillerpn]

Amd cards are good, amd drivers are good, this is the short one. 

 

The long one is They have been always good, depending on the price that you want and performance they are good compared to the competition. 

 

Now if you want a card now the 7900xtx and the one to get the jump to a 4090 will cost you alot more. If you want mid range you can get a 6950xt for around 500 to 700 and thats a really good card, for the mid range cant go wrong with the 6700xt .

[191x7]

I'm using primarily Radeons since the 9000pro 64MB, which was some 20 years ago, and I can say - they aren't bad, I don't remember having any major issues.

[Federation]

Just now, Xkillerpn said:

Amd cards are good, amd drivers are good, this is the short one. 

 

The long one is They have been always good, depending on the price that you want and performance they are good compared to the competition. 

 

Now if you want a card now the 7900xtx and the one to get the jump to a 4090 will cost you alot more. If you want mid range you can get a 6950xt for around 500 to 700 and thats a really good card, for the mid range cant go wrong with the 6700xt .

I went with the not the best but not the worst 6600. Maybe I will upgrade it to a 6050 XT when I am ready.

[kb5zue]

I have a Radeon RX 6750XT and have never had a single problem with it.  I recommend it one hundred percent.

[Brooksie359]

1 hour ago, venomtail said:

I used to be on the NVIDIA bandwagon for some 10+ years until I bought a 5600XT, like a day prior to the lockdown announcement. From my experience, AMD has crashed less and I've got so much more options and gimmicks for what I want to use, from recording, settings to even graph overlays. It's to the point where I want to stick with AMD for my next GPU and not go back to Shadowplay, with its 2 settings, like mic off or on compared to AMD that has like 5 for the mic alone.

 

Maybe NVIDIA has improved their software game in the 3 years I haven't used it.

That is weird. I am not sure if recording is different from streaming but I know nvidia is significantly better at doing gpu encoding using nvenc. It's one of the reasons I would still consider nvidia cards better for streamers that don't want to use a 2 pc setup. That and Cuda are the two main reasons why I could think of why someone would buy nvidia other than the 4090 which is a good card if you want the best and don't care about price. I mean I wouldn't touch the 4080 and the 4070ti looks pretty bad considering you can get a 7900XT for cheaper or you can get the 7900xtx for a bit more. Then you look at the 4070 and I am pretty sure and you can honestly find new rx 6000 series gpus that preform better for cheaper and with more vram. 

[venomtail]

27 minutes ago, Brooksie359 said:

That is weird. I am not sure if recording is different from streaming but I know nvidia is significantly better at doing gpu encoding using nvenc. It's one of the reasons I would still consider nvidia cards better for streamers that don't want to use a 2 pc setup. That and Cuda are the two main reasons why I could think of why someone would buy nvidia other than the 4090 which is a good card if you want the best and don't care about price. I mean I wouldn't touch the 4080 and the 4070ti looks pretty bad considering you can get a 7900XT for cheaper or you can get the 7900xtx for a bit more. Then you look at the 4070 and I am pretty sure and you can honestly find new rx 6000 series gpus that preform better for cheaper and with more vram. 

For streamers yea, NVIDIA would be the better choice because 3rd party software puts everything down to performance either can offer but I don't stream, I just record footage. For someone like me, when it comes to merely recording offline, margins between performance become much smaller and the software option on AMD side start to outweigh what was there for NVIDIA. If 1st party software is compared, Shadowplay vs ReLive, I'd pick ReLive any day.

 

Looking at latest screenshots from both, they're worlds appart.

 

Shadowplay screenshot doesn't have mic options but last I remember your only options were "Mic: On/Off"

[bezza...]

3 hours ago, Federation said:

Thanks for telling me, all my friends keep saying "It's trash don't buy it".

yh ive ran both amd and nvidia in the last year and a half and honistly no driver issues with ether and personally i prefer the amd sofware. (my nvidia card died)

[bezza...]

1 hour ago, venomtail said:

For streamers yea, NVIDIA would be the better choice because 3rd party software puts everything down to performance either can offer but I don't stream, I just record footage. For someone like me, when it comes to merely recording offline, margins between performance become much smaller and the software option on AMD side start to outweigh what was there for NVIDIA. If 1st party software is compared, Shadowplay vs ReLive, I'd pick ReLive any day.

 

Looking at latest screenshots from both, they're worlds appart.

 

Shadowplay screenshot doesn't have mic options but last I remember your only options were "Mic: On/Off"

i mean if ur streaming then use obs? for casual recording or streaming bot set of software is fine

[Federation]

53 minutes ago, bezza... said:

yh ive ran both amd and nvidia in the last year and a half and honistly no driver issues with ether and personally i prefer the amd sofware. (my nvidia card died)

Ok thanks for telling, I was still kinda unsure.

[xFluing]

4 hours ago, Federation said:

Thanks for telling me, all my friends keep saying "It's trash don't buy it".

Be ause of the nvidia herd mentality. Then you see the same people comlain about no competition.

 

AmD cards have been good for far longer than 2 years too.