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

[Signex]

AMD 7970, because of price/performance and i think AMD will become better then before.

 

But i like both cards, last three cards we're NVIDIA.

[ttktran]

Prefer Nvidia but went to AMD 7979 DCII for <$250 + gold tier game bundle. Nvidia is miles away to beat that price.

[Eddyall]

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

 

My point of view is that price can be change to accommodate price/performance ratio, ergo AMD make the card cheap on purpose so people find some reason to buy the product, that ratio is important for some people but not me.

I find AMD to be the necessary competition to prevent a monopoly, that's really sad and not making me happy because it end's up as a monopoly for me.

 

Looking at the thread the only reason I see people brought an AMD card is because A it was cheap B game bundle.

[Tr3vor]

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.

 

 

I'm not talking about just "pro reviewers" or whatever I mean everyone's benchmarks from back then. the 7970 wasn't that good until the more recent drivers. the 680 is still faster in some games today.

[Mr. Expert]

I'm not talking about just "pro reviewers" or whatever I mean everyone's benchmarks from back then. the 7970 wasn't that good until the more recent drivers. the 680 is still faster in some games today.

The 680 and all nvidia cards had good driver from the beginning. The thing that set AMD Radeon HD apart was that the drivers continued to improve but the nvidia drivers remained stagnant. The 7970 cost over $100 less than 680 so it's really a no contest.

[Focux]

The 680 and all nvidia cards had good driver from the beginning. The thing that set AMD Radeon HD apart was that the drivers continued to improve but the nvidia drivers remained stagnant. The 7970 cost over $100 less than 680 so it's really a no contest.

And how often does AMD release driver updates compared to Nvidia

[Mr. Expert]

And how often does AMD release driver updates compared to Nvidia

Don't know but they seem to really bring out the performance of the architecture.

[Tr3vor]

The 680 and all nvidia cards had good driver from the beginning. The thing that set AMD Radeon HD apart was that the drivers continued to improve but the nvidia drivers remained stagnant. The 7970 cost over $100 less than 680 so it's really a no contest.

 

It did have better drivers at the beginning. It was also $50 cheaper. Thats why it made sense to buy Nvidia around the 600 series launch. Nobody predicted that AMD drivers were gonna get better and their lineup was gonna overtake the 600 series.

[Spannerhands]

 

And people who choose Nvidia over AMD: Why?

Price, performance, Temperatures, FPS stability? Fan of nvidia? was Nvidia something you always chose and scared to give AMD a try?

 

Thanks for replys!

 

I used Nvidia for many many years, but when Adobe started using OpenGL I had issues with all the GD computers and Nvidia was less than helpful, and that was that... AMD ever since... 

[badogski29]

Adaptive v-sync and sli is just better imho.

[Vampire2.0]

amd over nvidia

amd= cheaper

and the are 10/100times better in coin-mining

and opengl

[Mr. Expert]

It did have better drivers at the beginning. It was also $50 cheaper. Thats why it made sense to buy Nvidia around the 600 series launch. Nobody predicted that AMD drivers were gonna get better and their lineup was gonna overtake the 600 series.

GTX 680 only drop $70 in price since launch and comes with one game. HD 7970 dropped $230 in price since launch is faster and comes with 3 games. nvidia's trollin ... AMD is 100% better than nvidia right now. 

[Mr. Expert]

Never Settle now with Saint's Row IV .... BooYAA !

[Qpm5]

I chose nvidia because it had features i wanted that is why i got my 770 and the gtx 650 was purchesed because there was no other cards at the computer store down the street for that price or cheaper that i would use.

[Cryptonite]

I choose the best price to performance I can find, AMD is outrageously expensive here so most of the time I tend to go with Nvidia. (I can get a second 660 Ti for $ 270 while the 7870 can cost more than $400 some are around $350 though and the 7950 is around $430+)

[Tr3vor]

GTX 680 only drop $70 in price since launch and comes with one game. HD 7970 dropped $230 in price since launch is faster and comes with 3 games. nvidia's trollin ... AMD is 100% better than nvidia right now. 

 

I know that. Thats half the reason I bought my 7970, the other half was all the never settle games.

 

But back when Kepler launched, it was a better deal. 

[Cryptonite]

I know that. Thats half the reason I bought my 7970, the other half was all the never settle games.

 

But back when Kepler launched, it was a better deal. 

sorry, but how can you live with only 1 tb of storage? I'd die seriously.

[GIJew]

I choose the best price to performance I can find, AMD is outrageously expensive here so most of the time I tend to go with Nvidia. (I can get a second 660 Ti for $ 270 while the 7870 can cost more than $400 some are around $350 though and the 7950 is around $430+)

Nothing pisses me off more than AMD fanbois who ask why I bought Nvidia when AMD is "sooo much better and cheaper".

 

Well theres my point, in SA you can pretty much buy the AMD cards respective competitor for like $40-$80 less.

[leipero]

I can use AA without lag, I'm not forced to use v-sync, i don't have any stutters, all games works well with one set of drivers.

 

With nvidia, i always had one or all of those problems above.

[gasho]

I chose AMD because of the "never settle bundle" . I've got tomb raider & bioshock infinite

[Mr. Expert]

I know that. Thats half the reason I bought my 7970, the other half was all the never settle games.

 

But back when Kepler launched, it was a better deal. 

I don't even think so. nvidia just paid off the review sites to make it look better than it really was.

[Mooshi]

My old ATI card had really horrid cooling and at the time of upgrading, the GTX 560 Ti had mad price to performance on it's side. I've heard AMD's drivers have gotten better and I am looking forward to their Hawaii series GPUs.

[carolkarine]

My point of view is that price can be change to accommodate price/performance ratio, ergo AMD make the card cheap on purpose so people find some reason to buy the product, that ratio is important for some people but not me.

I find AMD to be the necessary competition to prevent a monopoly, that's really sad and not making me happy because it end's up as a monopoly for me.

 

Looking at the thread the only reason I see people brought an AMD card is because A it was cheap B game bundle.

Fair enough. Most people have budgets (mine was 200 usd back in November) so price performance when buying is still very important.

[chaozbandit]

Simple: pricing (at the time of purchase at least). Got my R6950 basically brand new (although it was a bit used) for less than any similar Nvidia card at that time. Same applied for my previous 5950, though that was directly from a retailer.

[TymmVonD]

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