Would I regret going for an AMD GPU in my build vs going with an NVIDIA GPU?

[Geekazoid]

Hey guys,

I keep finding myself thinking back and forth about going the AMD GPU route vs going down the NVIDIA route like I've always done. My PC will be mostly for video editing and I currently use Sony Vegas Pro 10 but will be upgrading to Sony Vegas Pro 12 with my upgrade to take advantage of the GPU since Vegas Pro 10 doesn't currently do that too well. From most benchmarks that I've seen AMD GPUs seem to fair quite substantially better in comparison to NVIDIA GPUs in SVP 12. What do you guys think, what would you all do in my situation?

Thanks in advance for your help guys .

[TheMissxu]

If the AMD GPUs perform better and have a better price to performance, you won't regret it. Right now because of mining coins, AMD cards are uber expensive, so you'll have to do the math.

[ANUPLUCIFERGAMER]

If you are likely to do mining, then you will certainly not regret AMD!. I think NVIDIA is made for you .   

[Geekazoid]

If you are likely to do mining, then you will certainly not regret AMD!. I think NVIDIA is made for you .

Nope, I'm no miner at all, no need to factor that in. It would be great if there was a video demoing the, say, AMD R9 270X when editing on the SVP 12 timeline vs doing the same, say, on a GTX 760. This would help me a lot. But

I realise such a video probably doesn't exist. Just wishful thinking.

Your comment is a tad confusing. You say that I won't regret going with AMD yet then you say "I think NVIDIA is made for you". Are you just going off my original post?

[ANUPLUCIFERGAMER]

Nope, I'm no miner at all, no need to factor that in. It would be great if there was a video demoing the, say, AMD R9 270X when editing on the SVP 12 timeline vs doing the same, say, on a GTX 760. This would help me a lot. But

I realise such a video probably doesn't exist. Just wishful thinking.

assuming that you game, just go with NVIDIA. 780 if you have the money. or the 760

[Geekazoid]

I'll add a poll for an overall view of what you guys think I should do (please no bias opinions please).

[brob]

GPU rendering in SVP is spotty at best. Due to an architectural change, SVP only uses a fraction of the available CUDA in new generations of nVidia cards. And according to a note in http://www.hyperactivemusic.com/vegaspro/vegaspro.html, the sofware also has trouble with 7xxx and higher AMD cards.

[Geekazoid]

GPU rendering in SVP is spotty at best. Due to an architectural change, SVP only uses a fraction of the available CUDA in new generations of nVidia cards. And according to a note in http://www.hyperactivemusic.com/vegaspro/vegaspro.html, the sofware also has trouble with 7xxx and higher AMD cards.

So by architectural change I assume you mean the change to completely 64bit, yes?

[Scottonpc]

Nvidia for Shadowplay and GeForce experience!

[Geekazoid]

@brob, I think those results pretty much answer my question, I'm sticking with NVIDIA. Thanks for that .

[Geekazoid]

Got the results I wanted so I decided to delete the poll. NVIDIA seems to still be the best choice, wasn't expecting that.