Which GPU do I Need?

[Windows10Home]

Im planning on getting a R9 380, but my friends say I should go for a GTX card instead, because "Nvidia has much better drivers/updates"

Please help!

[Mew]

In 2016, it really doesn't matter. 

[19_blackie_73]

nvidia messed up recently pretty bad with their drivers - blue screens, crashing, etc - so this is not a valid argument. I would get at this price point the 380.

[Rune]

Don't blindly pick one over the other. Consider both at your pricepoint and then decide.

I personally prefer Nvidia cards myself, but that is because I choose the highest performance and no other metric.

[Cela1]

Have you looked at the new Pascal cards by NVIDIA?

[Ophidio]

while a 380 tends to perform better in most games compared to a 960 Nvidia does have the better drivers. Your signature says you already have a 960 so I'm curious as to why you would want to buy a 380 if you already have a 960? 

 

If you already have a 960 then wait for the new cards to come out. Buying one right now is not going to benefit you at all. 

[Bradders]

I have heard the same thing about AMD drivers, A friend of mine has an AMD card and he told me to spend more and get an Nvidia card, I've also heard more games run smoother on them, also means the build runs cooler ( AMD Cards run pretty Hot).

 

Personaly Opinion : Go for an Nvidia card

[Windows10Home]

1 minute ago, Ophidio said:

while a 380 tends to perform better in most games compared to a 960 Nvidia does have the better drivers. Your signature says you already have a 960 so I'm curious as to why you would want to buy a 380 if you already have a 960? 

 

If you already have a 960 then wait for the new cards to come out. Buying one right now is not going to benefit you at all. 

I don't, since it was Planned Specs, I do not have it. And I can't afford the new cards coming out

[Cela1]

1 minute ago, Ophidio said:

while a 380 tends to perform better in most games compared to a 960 Nvidia does have the better drivers. Your signature says you already have a 960 so I'm curious as to why you would want to buy a 380 if you already have a 960?

His signature says PLANNED specs.

[Tedol]

If Nvidia support game it will be better, If Amd it will be better.... for 80% of game they the same 

[Ophidio]

ahhh gotcha, I'd honestly say go with the 380 then. Their drivers are still a little buggy but they will probably work all of that out when Polaris is released which shouldn't be to long from now. And with the prices the 1070 and 1080 are looking to be, the 1060 should be around the same price as the current 960. So really it's just preference on how you want your card to look. They're both about the same these days. 

3 minutes ago, Cela1 said:

His signature says PLANNED specs.

Sorry, my eyes don't like that color of blue for some reason so I couldn't really read it to well I just saw 960 and my brain thought "okay he has 960".

[Majestic]

13 minutes ago, huilun02 said:

In that case you should get the 960 because its better in DX12 and won't get nerfed to sell the next generation cards like AMD does.

I think your left and right hemisphere are crossconnected. Because those allegations are thrown at Nvidia, not AMD.

 

And you can objectively say, thusfar, the performance edge goes to AMD for DX12. However! And this is a big caveat, performance metrics are really basic at this point. I'd like to see more rigorous tests come out with proper frametime captures and percentiles before I'd choose either way. Both the developers and Microsoft are really iffy about letting go of those tags that are required.

[rattacko123]

AMD is generally better value for the money (except for fury X), although you might need a beefier CPU due to higher overhead compared to Nvidia. AMD drivers are no worse than Nvidia drivers. It's been nearly a year since windows 10 was released and Nvidia still hasn't fixed some issues with their Windows 10 drivers. 

[Simon771]

About drivers ... both Nvidia and AMD did mess up few drivers so far, but in the end everything was fixed.

If you play only specific game that favor either Nvidia or AMD, go for that.

Otherwise pick what's cheaper.

 

GTX 970 or R9 390

GTX 960 or R9 380

 

In some games nvidia will be 5% faster, and in other AMD will be 5% faster.

 

If you are aiming for R9 380, I guess you are not into QHD or 4K gaming, so just pick cheaper of those cards.

 

If you would be playing at higher resolution, maybe AMD would be better since it have more RAM.

[ChrisCross]

52 minutes ago, Windows10Home said:

Im planning on getting a R9 380, but my friends say I should go for a GTX card instead, because "Nvidia has much better drivers/updates"

Please help!

actually amd caught up with the drivers since crimson so it really doesnt matter. go for the 380 if you want.

[Majestic]

2 minutes ago, Simon771 said:

In some games nvidia will be 5% faster, and in other AMD will be 5% faster.

This is a little disingenuous. In games where the CPU isn't important it might be 5% give or take. But where the driver overhead is an issue it's a little more than 5% mate.

Plenty of AAA games released lately where the Fury X only managed to trade blows with the much cheaper 980.

[BrightCandle]

The release of Doom I feel is the classic problem we see in the industry. AMD has historically had really buggy and poor performance openGL drivers and Doom is one of the few openGL games released, and AMDs performance is terrible on release, unplayably so. Id says AMD is working on it, the AMD owners are blaming Nvidia and well Nvidia is just performing as you would expect it would. Seeing as how this is openGL this isn't even a gameworks game which is the usual target of hate and more and more games are using gameworks to get quick free access to advanced effects in games. AMD likes to blame others for its problems but Doom really does appear to be just AMD's fault and they'll fix it in a months time as they always do.

 

This story plays out a lot, AMD screams blue murder but as you watch everytime the fix is an AMD driver release its hard not to finally conclude that AMD today has the same driver issues that have plagued it for over 15 years. But the caveat is that they do tend to fix it on big release games. So if you want the same performance for less money and don't care too much about day 1 performance then AMD is a better deal. But day 1 Nvidia remains the better option, their performance just works and its because they spend a lot of their money embedding their engineers in game developers to make that a reality.

[Citadelen]

Unless the 960 is a lot more expensive then the 380 is the better choice.

[TheGamingBarrel]

1 hour ago, Ophidio said:

while a 380 tends to perform better in most games compared to a 960 Nvidia does have the better drivers. Your signature says you already have a 960 so I'm curious as to why you would want to buy a 380 if you already have a 960? 

 

If you already have a 960 then wait for the new cards to come out. Buying one right now is not going to benefit you at all. 

NVIDIA Dont have better drivers.

[Nena Trinity]

Nvidia kills:

*Nvidia killed my Linux install...

*Nvidia bricked my friends 980...

 

[Majestic]

2 hours ago, BrightCandle said:

the AMD owners are blaming Nvidia

But ofcourse they are. Just goes to show how reasonable people are.

 

Hey my volkswagen golf is giving me troubles. IT'S THOSE GODDAMN JAPANESE FROM TOYOTA!! THOSE SNEAKY SQUINTS MUST'VE PAYED ALL GARAGES TO MAKE THEM LOOK BETTER AND SABOTAGE MY VW.

[AngryCherry]

Never had an AMD card so idk how their performance is but I've had my 660 for about 2-3 years now and I love it, planning on upgrading to the 1080 when it releases.

[MMKing]

Nvidia better drivers than AMD? Your friend must be delusional. These past few months we have had serious problems with Nvidias latest, to the point that Nvidia recommend we uninstall the latest drivers and get hold of older ones instead. Obviously some problems relating to broken cards have been exaggerated, but drivers shutting down and whatnot have occurred.

 

As for which cards to buy?

960 < 380/380x. Don't even consider the 960, it's beaten in virtually every test.

970 < 390. This one is a bit closer, but if the price is very similar go for the 390.

Fury > 980 > 390x. These three sort of fits between one another in terms of pricing, buy whichever your budget allows.

980Ti > Fury x. No question, the 980Ti is superior.

[DXMember]

380 performs better

[WEEEEEE]

Look at benchmarks for the games that you want to play. For some, Nvidia will be better optimized, and for others, AMD will win. It all depends on the games you want to play.