Do you prefer Nvidia or AMD?

[Jumper118]

ibm

[Mattyd7829]

AMD because R9 295x2 was on sale for £500 and I needed a decent graphics solution.

[CatCloud]

Honestly, neither.
If you asked this last year or the year before I'd say Nvidia... But now? Neither.

Edited October 18, 2015 by Godlygamer23
Typo correction.

[watts300]

Which ever is cheaper.

[Guest]

If I had the money, I'd buy a Fury X so that I could use FreeSync with my monitor. The Titan would be for CUDA.

[Swndlr]

Personally, Nvidia

[TheRandomness]

I prefer AMD because... Uhm... I don't have a reason tbh, I just do. I will choose an NVIDIA card for builds though and I'm probably getting myself a GTX 295 and 480 for some experimentation

[TheRandomness]

AMD because R9 295x2 was on sale for £500 and I needed a decent graphics solution.

R9 295x2 isn't decent... It's amazing

[pit5000]

i prefer Nvidia because of they have an all-in-one game capture solution in their GPU's. Full 1440p60fps gameplay videos, no extra software required and no drain on CPU resources.

[TechStyle]

Nvidia because they provide compelling features for me rather than just "being cheap". ShadowPlay, CUDA, and geforce experience have been good to me.

[Virus__]

Personally I prefer Nvidia, been using their GPU's since the 6600GT (which I got off a mate after an ATi card died on me), before that I had a few ATi cards which were alright, from memory. But my last ATi card whatever it was when I had when I had my AMD Athlon x64 desktop back around 2006 just up & died on me just outside of the warranty period which soured me toward them.

 

But I was sold with Nvidia when I got my 8800GTS, I loved that GPU it lived for almost 5 years before it packed it in, in late 2011. It was still capable at the time of running a lot of games at max setting which I loved. But now it looks like a joke with it's 640MB GDDR3 vram, when compared to even my current GTX560.

 

But saying all that, can't say I wouldn't disregard an AMD GPU in a new rig given how impressive they have been in recent for terms of performance for price.

[Lethal Seraph]

Amd - best bang for your buck but it has it drawbacks, like heat output. Their leading the tech industry with multiple partnerships for worldwide tech adaptation/standardization. Meanwhile the other team, markets on their huge fanbase with little improvements and high premium.

[Kobathor]

Wheres the I dont care option.  Current card-AMD 7970, Last card-Nvidia GTX 570.  Whatever offers better price/performance for my budget is what card I choose..

holy shit are we twins I did the exact same upgrade from the same card

[Prysin]

i used to like Nvidia, like a lot... but over the years iv'e come to like AMD more. Mainly because with Nvidia, it feels like you are just waiting for them to grab the next opportunity to screw you over just for the heck of it...

[BrightCandle]

I don't really have a preference, when asked to choose between two evils its hard to choose which one you like least. These are companies not football teams, they sell products and the useful comparison is at a product level. Everything else is just tribalism and that isn't a good thing.

[Quincy15]

Nvidia, and I used to have AMD Graphics cards !

 

AMD seems as if its a company thats about to collapse, certainly if their new Zen Processor is crappy

[Wolfseye]

Nvidia. I used ATI / AMD graphics way back, also at the time because of the price compared to Nvidia. But with many compatibility issues, especially back then, I switched to Nvidia a long time ago and never have watched back. The only thing that I think now is a little bit annoying is the whole Registriation for Nvidia drivers. I dont have a problem with Geforce Experience, but I also dont think all so called optimizations it offers are necessarely the best to use, but its not that I have to use those presets. They are suggestions, I still can choose if I want to use it. But still, why now so many companies try to bind people with accounts to stuff, I really dont appreciate.

But if nothing else is getting worse, I will keep Nvidia in the future as well.

[Coaxialgamer]

Amd , because i like the idea of supporting the underdog .

But honestly both brands are fine .

[Mihle]

AMD because Prize/Performance at cards that is not completely top end

[Clayton R.]

NVIDIAaaaahhhhhhhh[.]

Edited October 19, 2015 by Godlygamer23

[DarkBlade2117]

I prefer whoever has the best price - performance.

Examples-

980Ti > Fury X

390 > 970

390x > 980

Fury > 980

380 > 960 and so on.

[DarkBlade2117]

Nvidia just because of Shadow play

To bad other streaming programs exist such as OBS

[PlayStation 2]

NVIDIAaaaahhhhhhhh[.]

I've come to say AMD, not because brand favoritism, but more of that I've worked with a crap ton more AMD devices (two laptops and a desktop) than Nvidia devices (a friend's laptop). I'm used to Catalyst Control Center. I'm used to Gaming Evolved. I can't really say the same for Nvidia.

Edited October 19, 2015 by Godlygamer23

[ShadowCaptain]

I have no specific preference, but I have enjoyed using Nvidia cards more, I find their feature set, drivers, and install process easier than AMD

[don_svetlio]

I prefer what gives me more for my money - I'd gladly swap my 280 for a 680 4G/670 4G/770 4G/760 4G but I am not touching Maxwell - until you get to a 980 you are just getting an underbuilt card.