Who do you think makes better drivers, AMD or Nvidia?

[TheHusk]

for any component

[Pelop17]

for any component

 

I have expirience with both gpu manufacture comapnies , i beleive nvidia makes a little more standar without bugs drivers wich has a user friendlier approach

THAT DOESNT MEAN THAT NVIDIA IS BETTER THAN AMD

i find both to be good ,

[EarthboundHero]

Can we not start a flame war?

[Deletive]

They both have flaws... Drivers are the last thing you need to worry about when picking a GPU.

[ionbasa]

This is analogous to asking "Which car manufacturer provides better service on their cars: BMW or Audi?"

 

With anything, YMMV (pun intended).

[vlkn´]

amd ftw, becauze cheapr. harder, faster better.

[d3sl91]

Neither.

 

Both have good and bad releases. Have had same luck with both. 

[LarsReviews]

I WANT FLAMEWAR.

 

Nvidia is supported on my editing software. Amd isn't, so it is a simple choice for me. 

[PlayModeOn]

One time Nvidia makes good drivers and AMD makes bad drivers. Then another time AMD makes good drivers and Nvidia makes bad drivers. It is always changing.

Though one thing you have to consider are Nvidia's and AMD's partnered games/studios. Games with Nvidia branding on it ofcourse will have good drivers for that game on Day One and vice versa for AMD.

2013 seems to be a year for AMD since many games came out that have AMD stamp on it (I could be wrong).

This year (2014) seems to be the year for Nvidia since all Ubisoft games that came out this year on the PC is sponsored by Nvidia and there are heaps of Ubisoft games that did came out this year. 

[Goose Legs]

(Keeping with the tradition of not trying to start a flame war) 

 

Nvidia tends to have better optimizations of their hardware in terms of heat output, power consumption, and driver stability.

 

AMD tends to be more "Brute Force", and sometimes that shows with instability, and higher thermal envelopes.

 

With that being said, there have been times those roles have been switched. (Fermi, anyone?) What I'd suggest is to check how the software you're about to run is optimized for either platform, and choose whoever provides a better experience with that said software.

[TheMidnightNarwhal]

I always see people having problems with AMD so I would say NVIDIA has better drivers.

[Maxibonbits]

I like the sound of Catalyst. So AMD all the way.

 

To be honest i've had issues with them both.

 

The Intel Iris Pro drivers have been the best graphics drivers i've ever used. I've not had any problems with them yet.

[Klerk]

I have a gaming potato w/c is plug and play. No drivers required. Yeah suck on that you filthy Nvidia and AMD fanboys! #potatogodrace