Who Won This Year: NVIDIA or AMD?

[Money]

What do you guys think? I think AMD won because of how well the 7970 out performs the NVIDIA counterpart.

[BathroomSecurity]

Yep. I'm sticking with AMD as well. The release of AMD's new drivers really impressed me.

[Helltech]

Neither won, they both brought their A-Game. This is one of the few years we have seen each other's counter parts trade punched with each other so well. 2012 was a great year for competition and good for the consumer. Also I would hardly say the 7970 out performs the 680 by that much.

[REDMAFIA]

Both of them won. They both did a great job of delivering a solid performance increase over last gen. AMD did a better job of pricing but that was mainly only so they could keep an edge over nVidia.

[Money]

Its nice to see the competition so tight. Hopefully that motivated them to really amaze us with their new cards.

[cafe]

They both did great but price to performance AMD all the way dude. Nvidia sucks when you have to pay for overpriced hardware

[Helltech]

Its nice to see the competition so tight. Hopefully that motivated them to really amaze us with their new cards.

I am so excited for what they bring this year as well.

[Jakus]

Allegedly the 8000 series is going to be awesome as is the 700. I hope that nVidia fixes the issues with computing on Kepler, but I doubt they will as they probably want to drive customers towards their Quadro cards.

[Money]

Why would they want people to buy the Quadro cards?

[VSyncGamer]

While I don't have the exact sales numbers, I pretty much agree that both of them "won" in 2012, AMD got a head start on NVIDIA by releasing their 7900s lineup ~3 months earlier, but NVIDIA came back firing with their GK104 based GPUs, which at the time of release beat AMD on both performance and price, forcing AMD to slash prices to stay competitive, then AMD went ahead and released what I consider the best driver release in all of my years following computer hardware, the 12.11s, forcing NVIDIA to so some serious hat tricks with their drivers as well, 310.54...

So all in all, I'd say that they both had incredibly successful years, this is why competition is good, is good for everyone, even for them.

[killerx525]

Both companies had a good year, with AMD being once again the value king.

[Dim]

Well, AMD won because of the Matrix Platinum imo.

However, AMD went full retard on their dual-GPU card, and didn't even finish the designs for it.

Nvidia easily wins the dual-GPU card with their sexy 690.

[Nexus]

Tricky question, they both produced amazing cards this past year. Looking only at the top end cards AMD has the fastest single GPU but it runs hotter, louder and uses more power that the 680. So i would say here it is a draw.

NVIDIA won in the sense that they brought a dual GPU out that wasn't pawned off to board partners. It was a pretty amazing card all things considered.

Further down their line up i would say fairly even for the most part when looking at performance, thermals, noise and actual size of the card etc when compared to the price.

Overall i would say that NVIDIA won but sales were similar

[Pyromaniaca]

AMD for pricing, Nvidia for performance and driver support.

[Nexus]

AMD for pricing' date=' Nvidia for performance and driver support.[/quote']

AMDs driver support has been amazing, regularly updated and we have had substantial boosts in performance with the latest drivers...

[gasho]

both did a amazing job! maybe AMD wins my favor because they did bring excellent hardware in times that were not very easy for them. and they fixed the drivers problem !

[kght22]

i am loving this community, no trollish fanboys on a thread like this. and i agree with the majority, they both had an awesome year, great competition, they both have the strengths and weaknesses, but they both are as a post above this stated, bringing their a game.

[Helltech]

i am loving this community' date=' no trollish fanboys on a thread like this. and i agree with the majority, they both had an awesome year, great competition, they both have the strengths and weaknesses, but they both are as a post above this stated, bringing their a game.[/quote']

I'm honestly surprised and glad, hope it stays this way. Any other forum this would have been a 100 post thread by now full of bashing.

[TechFan@ic]

Neither won, they both brought their A-Game. This is one of the few years we have seen each other's counter parts trade punched with each other so well. 2012 was a great year for competition and good for the consumer. Also I would hardly say the 7970 out performs the 680 by that much.

It's like a 100$ cheaper, AND it's faster , being just faster is good, being just cheaper is good ,being both is epic .

AMD brought the house down this year, I personally believe it's their best year in the last 10 years .

[TechFan@ic]

Well, AMD won because of the Matrix Platinum imo.

However, AMD went full retard on their dual-GPU card, and didn't even finish the designs for it.

Nvidia easily wins the dual-GPU card with their sexy 690.

Yeah it's pretty funny as it's usually the opposite.

[TechFan@ic]

AMD for pricing, Nvidia for performance and driver support.

This argument died this year, with AMD having the better performance , the better driver support and the better pricing.

[Dim]

Well, AMD won because of the Matrix Platinum imo.

However, AMD went full retard on their dual-GPU card, and didn't even finish the designs for it.

Nvidia easily wins the dual-GPU card with their sexy 690.

AMD did badly though; it comes down to the manufacturer doing well.

AMD could have done well with their dual-GPU card as well, if they had at least finished the thing and not run away to PC.

[TechBlitZ]

Nvidia kinda f*ck*d people over with their 'Greenlight' scheme. That annoyed me :-/

But for me its always best bang for buck, which seems to always be AMD =P

[ryanshimia]

Nvidia mad a great 660ti, but amd also made a good 7870. the 7970 is sexy in all editions, though the 680 is still a beast and wins in some to most games. i think this year we progressed farther than any year in the past with all the competition. amd and Nvidia had a tie, fanboys can take any side, but they both threw a nice fight. 2013 will have to offer something different though. give each team a chance this year. Happy new Year to all Amd Fanboy=Nvidia Fanboy

[Rhizo]

I would say that amd had an amazing run, with 7850 and 7970 primarily, and so did nvidea, the 660ti, 670 and 680 are all great cards.