AiB rankings

[Festive]

Was wondering what people would rank the different companies in terms of overall quality. I already know that EVGA is seen as having the best customer service, but I dont know the strengths/weaknesses of other companies in depth.

 

I would also like to stay away from responses like "buy what you like" or "every company has good cards" because 1. I'm not interested in buying anything and 2. I know they all make good cards but what I want is a ranking system from best to worst. 

 

This is in no way, shape, or form an official list or anything, just a little fun ranking.

 

 

[TheRandomness]

I can only say for AMD:

Sapphire/XFX > Powercolor/HIS >> Gigabrick/Asus

^ Usually makes the best cards of the bunch, and the XFX one can overclock amazingly.

                          ^ Powercolor is usually fine, but they kinda screwed up the component choice for their devil RX 480, where the power delivery can and will melt when running Furmark.

                                                          ^ Gigabyte's coolers look alright and may perform well, but I've heard from multiple sources that they can be very loud. Asus may be good in terms of motherboards, but their coolers for the graphics cards are recycled from other ones, and usually not all of the heat pipes make contact with the GPU. 

[That Norwegian Guy]

The only companies from either team (green/ red) that I know of that have never had any "lemons" (aka. SKUs with highly common, reproducible issues) are Palit and HiS. (Palit however do own Gainward who have had one or two issues in the past, notably their GeForce 9800GTX+ series burning out.)

 

So from a pure manufacturing standpoint, those are the ones I'd gravitate towards.

[ivan134]

4 hours ago, TheRandomness said:

I can only say for AMD:

Sapphire/XFX > Powercolor/HIS >> Gigabrick/Asus

^ Usually makes the best cards of the bunch, and the XFX one can overclock amazingly.

                          ^ Powercolor is usually fine, but they kinda screwed up the component choice for their devil RX 480, where the power delivery can and will melt when running Furmark.

                                                          ^ Gigabyte's coolers look alright and may perform well, but I've heard from multiple sources that they can be very loud. Asus may be good in terms of motherboards, but their coolers for the graphics cards are recycled from other ones, and usually not all of the heat pipes make contact with the GPU. 

To be fair, Powercolor released a new SKU with better VRMs.

[Festive]

8 hours ago, That Norwegian Guy said:

The only companies from either team (green/ red) that I know of that have never had any "lemons" (aka. SKUs with highly common, reproducible issues) are Palit and HiS. (Palit however do own Gainward who have had one or two issues in the past, notably their GeForce 9800GTX+ series burning out.)

 

So from a pure manufacturing standpoint, those are the ones I'd gravitate towards.

cool

[Knurd]

On 15/12/2016 at 1:35 PM, ivan134 said:

To be fair, Powercolor released a new SKU with better VRMs.

can you tell me what models came with this new SKU?

[ivan134]

4 minutes ago, Knurd said:

can you tell me what models came with this new SKU?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814131697&cm_re=red_devil_480-_-14-131-697-_-Product

 

Always look out for the SKU that has a V2 on the end. 8GBD5-3DHV2/OC