Nvidia to AMD Comparisons?

[Snikerdoodlz]

I can imagine the approximate performance levels of most recent desktop and laptop Nvidia GPUs, but I have almost no idea about AMD. All that I know is that the RX 480 performs somewhere in between a 970 and 980, and I'd like to know more about AMD's performance levels in gaming. Could you please enlighten me, probably going back to the HD 5000 series, preferrably comparing to Nvidia? Thanks!

[m0k]

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Edit: /derp

Edited January 16, 2017 by mok
im an idiot

[Guest]

5 minutes ago, mok said:

incoming flame war 

He wants a comparison, not want to ask what's better

[Guest]

• GTX Titan X Pascal
• GTX 1080
• GTX 1070/R9 295x2
• GTX Titan X Maxwell
• GTX 980 Ti
• R9 Fury X
• R9 Fury
• GTX 1060/RX 480
• GTX 980/R9 390x
• GTX 780 Ti/R9 290x
• RX 470
• GTX 970/R9 290
• GTX 780
• R9 280X
• GTX 1050 Ti
• R9 380
• GTX 770/GTX 960/RX 460/R9 270x
• GTX 1050
• GTX 950/GTX 760/R7 370

[19_blackie_73]

well thing is: atm amd has nothing to offer that is good for 4k ultra 60fps or depending on the games 60fps 1440p ultra (allthough you can game with a rx480 at 1440p)

amd is atm pretty strong at 1080p, nvidia everything above. matching point is rx480/gtx 1060. below that, I'd take amd, above that nvidia. but choice between rx480/1060: it really depends on whether you have a use case for that cuda (for example rendering) or not

[Joe Bennett]

Hmmm... Interesting list, can nvidia and amd be mixed in one mobo? Not concerned with gaming, I'm a Blender Artist...

[Guest]

1 minute ago, TowerCG said:

Hmmm... Interesting list, can nvidia and amd be mixed in one mobo? Not concerned with gaming, I'm a Blender Artist...

Yes. amd cpu and nvidia gpu

[Mira Yurizaki]

1 minute ago, TowerCG said:

Hmmm... Interesting list, can nvidia and amd be mixed in one mobo? Not concerned with gaming, I'm a Blender Artist...

Yes, there's nothing stopping anyone from mixing and matching GPUs. They just won't enhance each other. Yet.

[Joe Bennett]

No, I mean an AMD GPU, and a Nvidia GPU... not in Sli or Crossfire of course... 

[manikyath]

look up on userbenchmark to get *mostly accurate* comparisons.

 

something i usually say when people ask about userbenchmark is that it's like distrowatch: great for trends over time, not actual numbers.

it wont tell you how good or bad one component is with any reasonable accuracy, but it's a good way to compare two components.

[Joe Bennett]

1 minute ago, M.Yurizaki said:

Yes, there's nothing stopping anyone from mixing and matching GPUs. They just won't enhance each other. Yet.

Ah, right... Thanks  And yeah, I'd use them separated anyhow...

[Snikerdoodlz]

1 minute ago, TowerCG said:

No, I mean an AMD GPU, and a Nvidia GPU... not in Sli or Crossfire of course... 

 

[Joe Bennett]

1 minute ago, Snikerdoodlz said:

 

Awesome, thanks

[manikyath]

5 minutes ago, TowerCG said:

Hmmm... Interesting list, can nvidia and amd be mixed in one mobo? Not concerned with gaming, I'm a Blender Artist...

you're always gonna have *one* primary card doing the work if your software doesnt support directly talking to several GPUs (like for example folding at home does.) but you can pretty much mix and match to have a really fucked up setup if you want to:

 

EDIT: forgot to add, nvidia cards require to be at least in an x8 slot, AMD at least an x4 slot.

[Nena Trinity]

RX 460 = GTX 1050, RX 470 4GB = 1060 3GB & RX 480 8GB = GTX 1060 6GB!

[Morgan MLGman]

I made this a short while ago and I believe it's fairly accurate:

 

Tier 1: GTX Titan XP

Tier 2: GTX 1080, Radeon Pro Duo
Tier 3: GTX 1070, R9 295x2, GTX 980Ti, GTX Titan XM, R9 Fury X, R9 390X2

Tier 4: R9 Fury, R9 Fury Nano

Tier 5: RX 480, GTX 1060 6GB, GTX 980, R9 390X, R9 290X, GTX Titan Black

Tier 6: GTX 1060 3GB, RX 470, R9 390, GTX 970, GTX 780Ti, R9 290, GTX 780

Tier 7: R9 380X, R9 380, GTX 960, GTX 1050Ti, GTX 770

Tier 8: GTX 1050, GTX 950, RX 460, R9 370, GTX 760

 

Combination of more common GPUs from both sides, put in tiers based on performance (of course some are a bit faster, some are a bit slower but they deserve each tier)

[TheRandomness]

1 minute ago, manikyath said:

you're always gonna have *one* primary card doing the work if your software doesnt support directly talking to several GPUs (like for example folding at home does.) but you can pretty much mix and match to have a really fucked up setup if you want to:

I mean, I had an R9 290 as well as a 750Ti, with the 750Ti 24/7 F@H and the 290 used for gaming. Until the 290 died. Then the 750Ti became the gaming card and the 560Ti became the heat producer

[Joe Bennett]

2 minutes ago, TheRandomness said:

I mean, I had an R9 290 as well as a 750Ti, with the 750Ti 24/7 F@H and the 290 used for gaming. Until the 290 died. Then the 750Ti became the gaming card and the 560Ti became the heat producer

My software, Blender, does support using many GPUs at once... For rendering...

[m0k]

20 minutes ago, Snikerdoodlz said:

I can imagine the approximate performance levels of most recent desktop and laptop Nvidia GPUs, but I have almost no idea about AMD. All that I know is that the RX 480 performs somewhere in between a 970 and 980, and I'd like to know more about AMD's performance levels in gaming. Could you please enlighten me, probably going back to the HD 5000 series, preferrably comparing to Nvidia? Thanks!

 

13 minutes ago, deXxterlab97 said:

He wants a comparison, not want to ask what's better

pardon my ignorance

[manikyath]

1 minute ago, TheRandomness said:

I mean, I had an R9 290 as well as a 750Ti, with the 750Ti 24/7 F@H and the 290 used for gaming. Until the 290 died. Then the 750Ti became the gaming card and the 560Ti became the heat producer

this picture features a GTX970 doing the work, and a HD5770 doing literally nothing else than making noise, because it's honestly not really good for anything else anymore, on top of the cooler on mine being.. "questionable"

- i've replaced the fan

- i've repaired the fan i put in as a replacement

- i've repaired the fan again

- i've made a different shroud to fit a, *normal size* fan

- i've yet to bother getting the different fan, because the card is just old, dodgy, and seems to run hot whatever i do.

[LawrenceBarnes2013]

Well, for the last 4~5 years nvidia has been taking a shit in AMD's back yard since the 7970Ghz edition, yes AMD did have some good competitive mid range Cards like the 280x, 380x but when when it came to top tear, nothing could keep with the 980Ti, the 780Ti also was beating the 290X, and the the 960 took AMD's mid range teen choice of the year award, until team green's 970 VRam problem witch shifted every one's attention to AMD who tried to solve it's lack of performance by supercharging their Graphics cards to the point where a 390X consumed up to 300W alone, AMD had a bit of glow with the Fury witch had HBM witch was awesome but still couldn't match the 980Ti witch only had Ancient GDDR5, and than nvidia pulled the triger on AMD by releasing the Titan XP witch was so powerful and still not as power hungry that AMD is using it on it's RYSEN prototype builds.

[Joe Bennett]

2 minutes ago, LawrenceBarnes2013 said:

Well, for the last 4~5 years nvidia has been taking a shit in AMD's back yard since the 7970Ghz edition, yes AMD did have some good competitive mid range Cards like the 280x, 380x but when when it came to top tear, nothing could keep with the 980Ti, the 780Ti also beaten the 290X, and the the 960 took AMD's mid range teen choice of the year award, until team green's 970 VRam problem witch shifted every one's attention to AMD who tried to solve it's lack of performance by supercharging their Graphics cards to the point where a 390X consumed up to 300W alone, AMD had a bit of glow with the Fury witch had HBM witch was awesome but still couldn't match the 980Ti witch only had Ancient GDDR5, and than nvidia pulled the triger on AMD by releasing the Titan XP witch was so powerful and still not as power hungry that AMD is using it on it's RYSEN prototype builds.

True that...

[stealth80]

Why do you need to go back so far?

 

AMD 5000 and 4000 series were very good, they had Nvidia beat hands down during this period in terms of performance, I'd had both a 4850 which I gave to my wife and bought a 5870. Nvidias competing 400 series just couldn't really compete at the price point which AMD offered, Nvidia still out sold cause of lemmings buying blindly

 

Next up 6000 vs Nvidias 500 series : the 6000 series was never top end performiong card and couldn't touch the nv 580, however the 5970 was priced very similarly and often outperformed it, but was a 2 gpu card.

 

AMD 7800/7900 series vs Nvidia 600/700 - This where things got a little odd. For what ever reason AMD started to release products with unoptimised drivers, meaning on card vs card release reviews, Nvidias were often faster across the board. I had a 7850, went to my wife and I bought a 280x vapour x which I eventually replaced with a GTX670. The 680 was the faster card, but released a few months after the 7970, to which AMD followed up with the Ghz edition which tied with the 680 and used massive power/heat

 

AMD 200/300 vs Nv 900 - On release Nvidia had this wrapped up, Maxwell was a marvell, lower power and heat and great performance. However the driver maturity soon meant that the 290 overtook the 970 and the 290x caught up the 980. AMD then caught Nvidia with their pants down and quickly followed up with the 300 series, the 390 the choice for enthusiasts and the 390x trading blows with the 980 and Fury beating it. Nvidia released the cut down titan X with the 980ti, a card AMD still haven't really managed to beat, even their newly released Fury X couldn't get near it at anything less 4k or compute heavy games (Ashes)

 

AMD 400/ Nvidia 1000 - Pascal was/is a marvel, the performance gains are massive, however it comes at a price. AMD has pretty much got the mid level wrapped up, but can't get anywhere near Nvidias current top 3 offerings - Titan XP, 1080 GTX and 1070 GTX - However keep in mind that 2x 480's will outperform a 1080 in crossfire supporting titles for less money - but at the expense of heat/consumption

[ace_cheaply]

56 minutes ago, deXxterlab97 said:

• GTX Titan X Pascal
• GTX 1080
• GTX 1070/R9 295x2
• GTX Titan X Maxwell
• GTX 980 Ti
• R9 Fury X
• R9 Fury
• GTX 1060/RX 480
• GTX 980/R9 390x
• GTX 780 Ti/R9 290x
• RX 470
• GTX 970/R9 290
• GTX 780
• R9 280X
• GTX 1050 Ti
• R9 380
• GTX 770/GTX 960/RX 460/R9 270x
• GTX 1050
• GTX 950/GTX 760/R7 370

This list is pretty good.  My only issue as an owner of a 770 and a 270x is that they don't perform nearly on par to one another.  The 770 is 25-40% faster.

[stealth80]

8 minutes ago, ace_cheaply said:

This list is pretty good.  My only issue as an owner of a 770 and a 270x is that they don't perform nearly on par to one another.  The 770 is 25-40% faster.

Ye the 770 is gonna be near the 280/280x without a doubt, my I upgraded to a 280X from a 670 and performance difference was like 15% which is much faster than the 270x so I would expect the 770 to be faster again