Why did you choose AMD over NVIDIA or Nvidia over AMD?

[Jumper118]

i choose nvidia because i do folding otherwise i would have a 7850.

[Masfiras]

If i'm planing to do some video rendering or play a lot games that uses PhysX (Batman, Borderlands, Metro) , I would go with Nvidia with crazy CUDA cores. And SLI is scaling better than CrossfireX.

 

But if i'm only gaming and doing just basic video editing on Premiere Pro or Vegas, I'd definitely go with AMD.

[Worth]

I didn't; Nvidia ftw!

[Glycerin]

I choose nVidia because I like their drivers better, and my first PC build was with an eVGA nVidia Vanta LT.  I also love eVGA and only buy videocards from them.

Though back in the day I had a Radeon 9800 PRO and LOVED it.  I also love AMD but for some reason I just prefer cards produced by nVidia.

[Jumper118]

I choose nVidia because I like their drivers better, and my first PC build was with an eVGA nVidia Vanta LT.  I also love eVGA and only buy videocards from them.

Though back in the day I had a Radeon 9800 PRO and LOVED it.  I also love AMD but for some reason I just prefer cards produced by nVidia.

that first comment isn't true at all, my mate has a amd card and his drivers have been rock soild for months. my nvidia drivers have crashed and killed a brand new gtx 660. my gt610 has had about 2 or 3 unstable drivers too. 

[Glycerin]

that first comment isn't true at all, my mate has a amd card and his drivers have been rock soild for months. my nvidia drivers have crashed and killed a brand new gtx 660. my gt610 has had about 2 or 3 unstable drivers too. 

My nVidia drivers haven't crashed and my 465 has been running very stable, so I dunno what to tell ya.

[Konrath]

that first comment isn't true at all, my mate has a amd card and his drivers have been rock soild for months. my nvidia drivers have crashed and killed a brand new gtx 660. my gt610 has had about 2 or 3 unstable drivers too. 

You really can't expect everything you hear or read to be a constant with every variable in play.  Obviously there will be times where some builds will have problems.  He was stating from his own experience, not the entire GPU population.  

 

I am running Nvidia right now.  EVGA GTX 780 ACX SC.

I used to have crossfire 5XXX Radeon cards in my Alienware laptop but that was 4 years ago.  

[skullbringer]

I went from dual 7970s to dual 680 because of frame rating issues. 7970 crossfire was stuttering like hell.

[A/C]

that first comment isn't true at all, my mate has a amd card and his drivers have been rock soild for months. my nvidia drivers have crashed and killed a brand new gtx 660. my gt610 has had about 2 or 3 unstable drivers too. 

 

 

I don't get people like this, just because you didn't have any problems doesn't mean other people didn't have them. The man nicely said HE HAD the problems and then you go on and basically call him a liar.

[Sgt]

CUDA, PhysX, way better in SLI, Great "stock" design, even tho I put waterblock on all my cards.

Titan/690 cooler > random black and red plastic.

 

Oh and, as a Ln2 overclocker, EVGA. Because EVBot and Classified series. 

So yeah, Nvidia for me.

[serjizzalot]

Got a 660ti but then returned it for a 7950 because the 7950 ran Dolphin a lot better. 

[AirFie]

choose AMD cause my money not enough to get Nvidia. :(

[hadesjoy]

Started out with Nvidia and was ok with it for a time.  Tried ATI (now AMD) and stuck with it since the 5000 series....have not looked backed.  Price/Performance is good with AMD and I enjoy my 7950.  The drivers have improved by  leaps and bounds for both camps and hopefully will continue to do so.  No fanboy...but just something about saving a couple of bucks to spend on other components. 

[totjup5]

my last 2 cards were amd, but i chose to get my current setup ( 660 ti sli) because it was the best setup price/performance i could get at the time.

[leyer32]

xAcid9, on 15 Jul 2013 - 3:08 PM, said:

Another PEBCAK case. :lol:

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Getting errors, when starting programs. No, i dont think so.

[BYOGamingPC]

Simple! Whichever offers the best performance for the price!

[RagingTyphoon]

I went with a AMD 7970 after a tiresome battle trying to find the right driver for my GTX 590 that wouldnt cause my system to crash during gaming.

[mnemonicman]

Chose a 7970 because at the time it had most of the performance of a 680 and cost $140 less. If I bought a card now it probably would be nvidia for linux gaming.

[Mr. Expert]

I've got a question for thoes of you that choose AMD over Nvidia

Why? this is just something i wanna hear from people and not review web sites

was it the price, performance, deal, fan of AMD?

I have ran both brands and they are both good with the same caveats. Right now it's AMD that I went with because they offer better performance and game bundles at virtually each price bracket.

 

My very first card was 6870, and now i have a 670, my next card will be the 9000.

im not a fan boy of any kind, the 6000 series seemed like a better choice over the 400 series, and the 600 series seemed like a better choice over the 7000 series because they were competing with the 500 series which was 1 gen below the new Nvidia cards.

Actually I would say that the AMD 7xxx series just wiped the floor with the nvidia 6xx series due to the nvidia 6xx always being overpriced and without the game bundles and lacking in the OCing department.  

 

[GIJew]

I chose Nvidia cause I've been rocking that sh*t since day one.
My first machine I got/built in 2006 had a shitty Asus nvidia card with literally one fan and a small brown PCB, I wish I knew the name of it. Network cards of today make it look bad.

 

When I got back into the game I bought my 560ti because I trusted Nvidia and it was critically acclaimed at the time.

At the moment I'm impressed with AMD, I wanna see what the 9xxx series is like.

 

So my next card could swing either way.....

[Tr3vor]

I have ran both brands and they are both good with the same caveats. Right now it's AMD that I went with because they offer better performance and game bundles at virtually each price bracket.

 

Actually I would say that the AMD 7xxx series just wiped the floor with the nvidia 6xx series due to the nvidia 6xx always being overpriced and without the game bundles and lacking in the OCing department.  

 

It really depends when you buy the cards. at first the 680 was cheaper and faster than the 7970. now its the other way around.

[NickStorm]

7950, because I got a ton of free games and it was on sale for 269.

Edit: I also used to have a 7770 because Nvidia had no decent cards under to compete with it at the time.

[carolkarine]

Since to me price = marketing, I have absolutely no reason to buy an AMD card, they have no feature that Intel GPU don't also have let alone nVidia.

 

Edit: Well no feature I can think of except multi GPU

Wait Wat? Their price/performance ratio beats nvidia quite often. And you buy a gpu for it's performance, not it's gimmicks.

[Mr. Expert]

It really depends when you buy the cards. at first the 680 was cheaper and faster than the 7970. now its the other way around.

It was the hype that made the GTX 680 seem faster. nvidia paid off all the major publications to skew the numbers in favor of nvidia. This has been done for some time now.

[Hammerhead]

AMD (7970), Price.