Why would you purchase AMD over Nvidia?

[felixthemaster1]

haha its ok. keep thrusting, trusty slick

Forever.

[LukaP]

Forever.

i love it how it was me that made you even think of it as thrusting

[felixthemaster1]

i love it how it was me that made you even think of it as thrusting

Pls, I can only get so erect.

[I/O]

AMD makes compelling products. That said I try and stay clear of nvidia if I can cause of the over hype and fanboism that it attracts. The 970 was compelling when it first came out but when the hype settle we found out that OC for OC the R9 290 is just as good.

[DigitalHermit]

Mantle...

Price... The 260X is still cheaper than the 750Ti locally...

I don't need/want most of nVidia's features except for CUDA and PhysX...

[Gdourado]

AMD makes compelling products. That said I try and stay clear of nvidia if I can cause of the over hype and fanboism that it attracts. The 970 was compelling when it first came out but when the hype settle we found out that OC for OC the R9 290 is just as good.

And amd did significant price cuts to the point that some 290x are cheaper than GTX 970.

[iSuzak]

I usually like rooting for the underdog if their performance is similar because competition is always good

[HippY]

for me it is AMD for the 6 monitor support on a single card

and that is it.

both has their pros and cons, ups and downs, and generally you cannot go wrong with any of the cards at same tier

[Oshtro]

When I started building my first pc this was an easy choice! I personally have nothing against AMD, sure it wouldve been great to save some money and buy AMD. Instead though, I choose to spend a little more money and go with the more well known, bigger, and more solid company. Because of that, I know I will be getting a great card from them.

[Private_Ceg]

For me AMD at my price point for gpu's (£150-£200) it just makes more sense.

[Aniallation]

Why are you purposely creating an AMD vs Nvidia war?

[Opcode]

Simple they offer the best price to performance ratio. With an added bonus of extra performance on top of that with Mantle. Not to mention Never Settle has been going strong for a while now. Three games with higher end GPU's almost cover the cost of the card itself. So it's really an all around win to go with AMD over Nvidia. Tho Nvidia does have their own fanboys who will buy Nvidia regardless if they perform better or worse than AMD's offerings. I personally buy the most performance I can for my budget (don't care of manufacture) which usually lands in AMD's pockets.

[Picklenuttz]

VS threads are for chumps.

[Scarymonkeys]

At the moment, Nvidia personally for me. Most of their cards run cooler, suck less power, are more efficent, and the new GTX 980 can go 4-way SLI. Nvidia has Shadowplay, and as you mentioned, PhysX. (Though I haven't looked into PhysX much.).

[CJHGunner]

I would say Nvidia. Just because my 660 has had less teething problems then my 6970, Its not a roaring monster like the 6970 and it does not shit itself in physx games (I have a few games I love but with my 6970 frame rate would die like shit on Physx or Nividia optimised titles as where the Nvidias hold their own on the AMD optimised.

[Dango]

In recent times, AMD have moved miles ahead in terms of driver reliability, though not quite near Nvidia's quality control, though we have all had NV driver troubles here and there.

 

Nvidia and AMD have had a generation of power sucking./hot/loud GPU's.. for Nvidia the most recent being Fermi.

 

AMD and Nvidia slug it out in Compute performance whether that be NV staying with their locked down CUDA, or AMD pushing the envelope with the open Open-CL and demolishing the GeForce GPU's.

 

Nvidia has PhysX which is awesome in certain titles, though you could say scarcely used, they also have ENVC using the x264 hardware built into the GPU (Kepler onwards), they also have ShadowPlay which is a fancy name for this hardware acceleration.

 

AMD simply offer less in my opinion, though if the price is right, i do purchase them, my latest being the R9 290 4GB from Sapphire, ok it runs hotter than a Vindaloo in India, and sucks power more than a Supercharged V12, but it is a capable card and has drivers that often than not work...

 

What is all your opinions?

 

NO BITCHIN'

I'm using AMD over Nvidia because AMD is better for my rig.

I'm using 7680X1440 res, so eyefinity work much much better than Nvidia surround.

No Crossfire brags...?

Better overclock support.

Most important good price.

I'm using 290X CF now. Only cost  me about $600, same as a 980.... So yeah

[UnknownResident]

I would go either or, but I usually trend toward AMD just because of the price/performance. (I've gotten a little annoyed at NVIDIA lately with the whole gameworks thing). I've also never had driver problems with AMD.

[DarkRift5]

Right now, Nvidia is the best IMO. It isn't always like that (stupid Fermi), but currently Nvidia has the best efficiency, performance, and surprisingly even price (GTX 970). Normally, though, AMD is the best for sheer power and/or value.

[maizenblue]

I like AMD better because they don't price gouge like Nvidia does, and don't treat their fans like gullible idiots the way Nvidia does. AMD knows people who buy their products tend to be more tech savvy and educated, and put price and performance over gimmicks and advertising. That and I like that AMD has become an underdog.I cringe to think what a company like Nvidia would do with a total monopoly.

 

Im not an AMD fanboy, I prefer Intel CPUs over AMD any day of the week, and with intel the price premium is warranted. With GPUs though Nvidias price premium isn't warranted.

[Orblivion]

Because every AMD card I've ever bought has done exactly what I wanted out of it.  Simple as that.

[Keudn]

Considering my room already gets REALLY hot with a 770 having a 290x will make it a furnace, only reason I need

[D3MON]

Reason why I switched was I got sick of nvidias propriatary bullshit, I have no sympathy for companies like that when equal competition is trying to further the industry for free, also I was constantly (and my friends) with geforce experience not having a simple solution to poor screen scaling (would always over or under scan, never correct)
also yellow screen when using a dvi>vga adaptor...
oh and EVERY card from the 9600gt, 8800gts, gtx260, gtx285, gtx480....2 dvi's and usually s-video...wtf? ok the 480 offered mini hdmi but cmon!!!
i switched when the 7970 was priced like the 670 (£300) and performed like the 680 (£400)
also nvidia releasing part locked cards (gtx260, gtx460, gtx480) then releasing the full die alter on for less (gtx260 sp216, gtx465, gtx580), iknow the reasons for this but to my knowledge atleast for the last few years amd hasnt done this, they've sold cut down cards (like my 7850) from the get go along side the full core version.
selling the titan for £800.....then selling 85% of that card for 50% of the price once they've sold enough titans to the idiots wanting "the best out there", then a little later releasing the titan black once again as the new "ultimate card" for £800 showing that nvidia sold the normal titan at a higher cost jsut because $$$, then once they've sold a few of those (not lots of them but it gets headlines) they release the much cheaper 780ti for half the price £500, only when AMD cuts the price of their cards from £300 to £250 does nvidia cut thier prices from £500 down to £300, they chose to charge £200 extra just because thier customers will blindly pay it because "cuda"...while amd performs equal sometimes better for less.
titan-z
nvidiots proclaiming "the titan isnt a gaming card!" while i read nothing but "Introducing GeForce® GTX™ TITAN Black.

TITAN Black is a masterpiece of design and engineering. Evolved from the award-winning GTX TITAN, the Black edition gives you the added horsepower to drive your most graphics-intensive games while still maintaining whisper-quiet acoustics and cool thermals."  on thier website and adverts.

I'm not a biased, ill still buy thier cards if they're cheap enough and equal in performance but this is always second hand once depreciation has kicked in, they wont get a penny from me. the number of cards ive had in the past is something to behold and I still love my mx440 but unless they change (and they wont), i'll be going for the red team.

[Sintezza]

lets booh all the AMD vs Nvidia garbage away!

 

Oldskool Matrox is where its at! lol

[Hatsune Miku 「 」]

Nvidia overclocks higher.

[Hatsune Miku 「 」]

@D3MON Fix your grammar and punctuation please.