Is there any reason to get an Nvidia GPU for gaming anymore?

[defunkt]

With AMD's Mantle, And now Free-Sync.. And being slightly cheaper than Nvidia. Do you think there is going to be much of a reason to get an Nvidia card for gaming in the coming years with the way things are going?

And I'm talking about gaming only so shush about Cuda.

 

 

Reasons I can think of:

 

Slightly better multi display support in gaming (This is chaging)

PhysX.

Shadow Play. 

 

I watercool everything so I give no cares about heat..)

[Guest]

Shadowplay (for now, AMD may have that as well)

 

....Other than that... fanboyism? =D

[Bloodyvalley]

Free-Sync? Do you mean G-Sync?

 

nvidia (high-end cards) are cheaper atm

[X1XNobleX1X]

With AMD's Mantle, And now Free-Sync.. And being slightly cheaper than Nvidia. Do you think there is going to be much of a reason to get an Nvidia card for gaming in the coming years with the way things are going? And I'm talking about gaming only so shush about Cuda.

Physx....

[Skylark]

Be thankful for the competition, it benefits the consumer.

[X1XNobleX1X]

Free-Sync? Do you mean G-Sync?

No, apparently AMD is releasing a free G-sync type software for free

[CoolBeans]

G sync, physx, Cuda, Shield, only reasons I see to if they are more expensive

[TheSLSAMG]

*slightly cheaper than NVIDIA*

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125463

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125490

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814133489

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125500 (Let's face it, no one wants a card that runs at 95C full load.)

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127771 ($679.99)

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125499 (Let's face it, no one wants a card that runs at 95C full load.)

 

G-SYNC

CUDA (You can't just talk about gaming, GPUs can be used and are used for compute)

PhysX

SHIELD Stream

ShadowPlay

Let's face it, the reference coolers aren't shit.

[defunkt]

*slightly cheaper than NVIDIA*

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125463

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125490

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814133489

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161439

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127771 ($679.99)

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125499 (Let's face it, no one wants a card that runs at 95C full load.)

Meh.. Amazon told me a different story when I checked a while back.. But that was a while back I suppose.

[X1XNobleX1X]

*slightly cheaper than NVIDIA*

 

 

G-SYNC

CUDA

PhysX

SHIELD Stream

 

Who doesn't want to run a heater inside your room for those cool winter days?

[Cookybiscuit]

Whats the info on Free-Sync? Seems vague as to what it will work with, Nvidia and AMD cards? Specific monitors?

[Vitalius]

*slightly cheaper than NVIDIA*

I have a card that runs at 95C and I want another one.

Your move. 

[TheSLSAMG]

I have a card that runs at 95C and I want another one.

Your move. 

Why would you want to heat up the rest of your system? That card has to radiate some sort of heat into the rest of your case and to your components.

[Altecice]

Well this is all rubbish i have two 290x's and they dont go about 70c .... whats everyone doing wrong here?

 

Im not a fanboy of either company but i have to say its looking really good for AMD.

[Vitalius]

Why would you want to heat up the rest of your system? That card has to radiate some sort of heat into the rest of your case and to your components.

All intake FTW. The only exhaust I need is the 290X at 60% fan speeds (headphones). My system runs cool while mining at below 50C (most components are 32C or less while certain ones sit at 48C after hours of mining). 

Also, I plan to watercool in the far future, so reference is best. But I will have the reference coolers until then (long time, 6 months probably). Basically, I want the 95C card because I will water cool it later, but I am perfectly fine with having it as is at 95C until then. 

Let's be honest, the ambient radiating heat to your other components was the best argument there is for not getting a 290X. They handle 95C fine and aren't too terribly loud at 50% fan speed (uber mode). People have just overblown the things surrounding that to make it sound terrible.

It's not. Really. 

[nicehat]

Why would you want to heat up the rest of your system? That card has to radiate some sort of heat into the rest of your case and to your components.

 

You dont have to. I have 2 7950s (one reference blower, one open) and have setup my airflow to negate all the heat. Problem solved. A big case doesnt hurt either. 

[TheMissxu]

Why would you want to heat up the rest of your system? That card has to radiate some sort of heat into the rest of your case and to your components.

Core temp has nothing to do with case temps...

 

If I removed the cooler from an Nvidia card it would run at 200C (arbitrary), would it heat the system more than the 95C AMD card? What does matter a little more is TDP, and AMD is at worse within 50 watts TDP of Nvidia. That means if you overclock Nvidia, it doesn't matter.

 

Also, CUDA and Physx are, in my opinion, just stuff that Nvidia has to market their products (i.e. Only Nvidia can do this! There are open software that runs on both cards...).

 

From the looks of it, G-Sync and ShadowPlay are just for those that want the cutting edge (AMD sees to have their own solution in the near future). Besides $300 more for a monitor? That's got to be a con for Nvidia, at least for a gamer.

[TheSLSAMG]

Core temp has nothing to do with case temps...

The fact that the card is sitting there that hot means that some of the heat will radiate into the case and to other stuff inside. Not all of the heat will be carried out of the back of the case.

[joelthezombie15]

who said mantle is going to be good?

[TheSLSAMG]

You dont have to. I have 2 7950s (one reference blower, one open) and have setup my airflow to negate all the heat. Problem solved. A big case doesnt hurt either. 

 

All intake FTW. The only exhaust I need is the 290X at 60% fan speeds (headphones). My system runs cool while mining at below 50C (most components are 32C or less while certain ones sit at 48C after hours of mining). 

Also, I plan to watercool in the far future, so reference is best. But I will have the reference coolers until then (long time, 6 months probably). Basically, I want the 95C card because I will water cool it later, but I am perfectly fine with having it as is at 95C until then. 

Let's be honest, the ambient radiating heat to your other components was the best argument there is for not getting a 290X. They handle 95C fine and aren't too terribly loud at 50% fan speed (uber mode). People have just overblown the things surrounding that to make it sound terrible.

It's not. Really. 

I see, I always thought it was more of a problem than that.

[TheSLSAMG]

who said mantle is going to be good?

This, 100% this. For all we know, Mantle may not even take off, like the Apple Pippin.

 

While all of the AMD fanboys drool over it, realize that we have had no hands on tech demo of this, and for all we know, it's vaporware.

[Guest]

Why would you want to heat up the rest of your system? That card has to radiate some sort of heat into the rest of your case and to your components.

Forget the PC, that thing could heat your house. We should run our house's heat off of those things instead of Gas.

 

My PC runs at 50-60C and it heats the room several degrees higher than the rest of the house. It's possible.

[FireFox]

Be thankful for the competition, it benefits the consumer.

 

^^

 

Agreed though my preference is NVIDIA so I don't know

[joelthezombie15]

This, 100% this. For all we know, Mantle may not even take off, like the Apple Pippin.

 

While all of the AMD fanboys drool over it, realize that we have had no hands on tech demo of this, and for all we know, it's vaporware.

ya or it could be a total disaster and ruin a bunch of games. I wouldnt say that its a good feature until you KNOW its a good feature. I wouldnt even trust someone like linus on his opinion, he is sponsored by them, I will only trust myself. 

[Art Vandelay]

G-sync and Free-sync IMO are pointless.

 

Nvidia has been putting good coolers on lately.

 

Shadow play is pretty nice, but I think Intel QuickSync is supposed to be a good alternative.

 

Phys-X is pointless.

 

Slightly better multi display support in gaming (This is chaging)

 

AMD has better multi monitor support than nvidia, from what I hear.