Which video card is better? AMD vs Nvidia - Ask a PC expert
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Date: 2022-03-15
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undeadbobop
To me its funny that people still to this day complain about amd drivers, all of last year I had nvidia driver issues, those driver issues being so bad I ended up selling my card just so I wouldn't have to deal with it no more. One of them so bad that it could have potentially killed my 1660ti, the fans wouldn't turn on no matter the temp, and the newer drivers have more performance issues than the drivers did in early 2020, I'd commonly use these drivers for reference of issues and debugging them, and fans would work, performance wasn't gimped by nvidia on purpose to try to force you to buy a new 30 series card and over all much better experience until it came to gaming that required those driver updates that were so buggy that they had a monthly release followed by a hotfix for issues and problems that would always end up breaking even more and then attempt to be fixed in the next monthly fix or hotfix that would break even more things. It took them nearly a year to fix a pretty big issue that I would have to say was widespread, as I experienced it on all of my machines where the video signal would randomly cutout after several hours of use and then cut back in, this was a driver issue that spanned septermber 2020 to august of 2021 and for the most part it was a annoyanance at best case, and a domino effect of program crashing at worse which if you do content creation of any kind its a nightmare of a issue. It effected 5 different cards 4 different machines for me, and I visably seen it effecting others I knew and they too were having to downgrade their drivers to resolve the issue, of course they didn't know how to and I did. Most of the AMD driver complaints come from long ago and don't effect current cards, and nvidia fanboys still claim their drivers are perfect. I also compared apples to oranges with blender renders and the configuration that came out on top was AMD on linux, nvidia on linux was terrible, nvidia on windows had a lot of noise still leftover in the blender render, amd on windows did too, but amd on linux ended up being a clean highres render with all details intact and overall better lighting quality. This was done with the opensource drivers and not amd's how ever.
Also in july of 2019 there was a card that could do 4k gaming just fine and you even stated it in your video, and no it wasn't a could years old at that point the 5700xt. It couldn't do 4k ultra at 60fps or higher in some games but it could in most.
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To me its funny that people still to this day complain about amd drivers, all of last year I had nvidia driver issues, those driver issues being so bad I ended up selling my card just so I wouldn't have to deal with it no more. One of them so bad that it could have potentially killed my 1660ti, the fans wouldn't turn on no matter the temp, and the newer drivers have more performance issues than the drivers did in early 2020, I'd commonly use these drivers for reference of issues and debugging them, and fans would work, performance wasn't gimped by nvidia on purpose to try to force you to buy a new 30 series card and over all much better experience until it came to gaming that required those driver updates that were so buggy that they had a monthly release followed by a hotfix for issues and problems that would always end up breaking even more and then attempt to be fixed in the next monthly fix or hotfix that would break even more things. It took them nearly a year to fix a pretty big issue that I would have to say was widespread, as I experienced it on all of my machines where the video signal would randomly cutout after several hours of use and then cut back in, this was a driver issue that spanned septermber 2020 to august of 2021 and for the most part it was a annoyanance at best case, and a domino effect of program crashing at worse which if you do content creation of any kind its a nightmare of a issue. It effected 5 different cards 4 different machines for me, and I visably seen it effecting others I knew and they too were having to downgrade their drivers to resolve the issue, of course they didn't know how to and I did. Most of the AMD driver complaints come from long ago and don't effect current cards, and nvidia fanboys still claim their drivers are perfect. I also compared apples to oranges with blender renders and the configuration that came out on top was AMD on linux, nvidia on linux was terrible, nvidia on windows had a lot of noise still leftover in the blender render, amd on windows did too, but amd on linux ended up being a clean highres render with all details intact and overall better lighting quality. This was done with the opensource drivers and not amd's how ever.
Also in july of 2019 there was a card that could do 4k gaming just fine and you even stated it in your video, and no it wasn't a could years old at that point the 5700xt. It couldn't do 4k ultra at 60fps or higher in some games but it could in most.
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Commander
Geforce is better.
Because the XFX RX580 I bought online back in 2019 lasted 2 weeks and then died on me. And before you ask me why I didn't send it back for repairs, well, XFX accepted checking it, in Canada, and I live in South America, so it meant I would have had to pay for the transportation which would have costed me nearly 100 dollars to have it back, and of course that was if I got lucky and XFX decided not to just say -no it was your faul-.
So in the end I did the only sensible thing I had left, I buried the piece of junk in my closet, because no one here knows how to repair this sort of stuff, I saved money up for a couple of months, then I bought a RTX 2060 at a local store, it's been more than a year and its still standing despite a particular hot summer (which would have probably killed an RX 5700) and me playing Total Warhammer and Modern Warfare at high settings, and you can be sure it's eventual successor is going to be green too.
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Geforce is better.
Because the XFX RX580 I bought online back in 2019 lasted 2 weeks and then died on me. And before you ask me why I didn't send it back for repairs, well, XFX accepted checking it, in Canada, and I live in South America, so it meant I would have had to pay for the transportation which would have costed me nearly 100 dollars to have it back, and of course that was if I got lucky and XFX decided not to just say -no it was your faul-.
So in the end I did the only sensible thing I had left, I buried the piece of junk in my closet, because no one here knows how to repair this sort of stuff, I saved money up for a couple of months, then I bought a RTX 2060 at a local store, it's been more than a year and its still standing despite a particular hot summer (which would have probably killed an RX 5700) and me playing Total Warhammer and Modern Warfare at high settings, and you can be sure it's eventual successor is going to be green too.
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Charles
I am wondering how reliable AMD cards are. I know they are usually less expensive than comparable nVidia cards anyhow. I just want to make sure that for the most part it would be trouble free and run most games. I know with an AMD card I may have to adjust more settings to make some games run but I am OK with that. My card in my desktop at the moment is a GTX 960 with 2 GB of RAM. I would like to get something better but my spending limit is $250 right now. I would at least like to be able to run games that need ray tracing. If necessary I can spend more than that $250 but I don't want a crazy expensive card. I was mostly wondering about the awful drivers and half baked software you were mentioning. You see that is what was holding me back from AMD (previously ATI. I also want it to be able to do some video transcoding and not make the CPU do all of the work.
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I am wondering how reliable AMD cards are. I know they are usually less expensive than comparable nVidia cards anyhow. I just want to make sure that for the most part it would be trouble free and run most games. I know with an AMD card I may have to adjust more settings to make some games run but I am OK with that. My card in my desktop at the moment is a GTX 960 with 2 GB of RAM. I would like to get something better but my spending limit is $250 right now. I would at least like to be able to run games that need ray tracing. If necessary I can spend more than that $250 but I don't want a crazy expensive card. I was mostly wondering about the awful drivers and half baked software you were mentioning. You see that is what was holding me back from AMD (previously ATI. I also want it to be able to do some video transcoding and not make the CPU do all of the work.
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Riley
Nobody ever mentions efficiency! I remember when the 1080 ti was first released Blender (3d rendering software) didn't even support amd, so if I bought one it would be useless to me! Not the case today but when your pumping out over 1000 watts on a rendering machine 24/7, the initial cost of the card ends up not mattering compared to the difference of your monthly electric bill. Being objective here, Nvidia has always been better for CG and most computer artist. You only really save money with amd if you don't pay your electric bill
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Nobody ever mentions efficiency! I remember when the 1080 ti was first released Blender (3d rendering software) didn't even support amd, so if I bought one it would be useless to me! Not the case today but when your pumping out over 1000 watts on a rendering machine 24/7, the initial cost of the card ends up not mattering compared to the difference of your monthly electric bill. Being objective here, Nvidia has always been better for CG and most computer artist. You only really save money with amd if you don't pay your electric bill
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KrazyKoalaBear
Idk about AMD drivers/software not sucking anymore. I've got an AMD RX 5700 XT and sometimes my custom fan curve will randomly reset to default and I have to reload the profile. Also, sometimes when I'm playing a game and try to launch the graphics software on another monitor it will just come up with a completely white box and only loads the software if I close the game I'm playing. Before this I had a gtx 480, gtx 760, and gtx 1060 which I have never had issues with drivers/software.
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Idk about AMD drivers/software not sucking anymore. I've got an AMD RX 5700 XT and sometimes my custom fan curve will randomly reset to default and I have to reload the profile. Also, sometimes when I'm playing a game and try to launch the graphics software on another monitor it will just come up with a completely white box and only loads the software if I close the game I'm playing. Before this I had a gtx 480, gtx 760, and gtx 1060 which I have never had issues with drivers/software.
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Hope
I went from a gtx 970 oc to a xfx 6700 xt swyft and im enjoying it so far get to put my settings on ultra and all with a good amount of frames, this might sound weird but for some odd reason I do get frame stuttering in certain games like fortnite (Even tho I don't play fortnite I just used it to benchmark my 6700xt. it just felt like my 970 ran more smoother and consistent even tho I was getting less frames idk if its driver issues or what but it is odd.
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I went from a gtx 970 oc to a xfx 6700 xt swyft and im enjoying it so far get to put my settings on ultra and all with a good amount of frames, this might sound weird but for some odd reason I do get frame stuttering in certain games like fortnite (Even tho I don't play fortnite I just used it to benchmark my 6700xt. it just felt like my 970 ran more smoother and consistent even tho I was getting less frames idk if its driver issues or what but it is odd.
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firegirl
I think comparing brands is dumb unless you're looking for specific features like nvidia broadcast app
the only exception right now dlss 2. 0 but it's going to be irrelevant soon when amd releases super resolution
you should compare specific graphics card to each other
in a price range nvidia might win but in another amd might win everything depends on your budget
compare graphics card not the brands
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I think comparing brands is dumb unless you're looking for specific features like nvidia broadcast app
the only exception right now dlss 2. 0 but it's going to be irrelevant soon when amd releases super resolution
you should compare specific graphics card to each other
in a price range nvidia might win but in another amd might win everything depends on your budget
compare graphics card not the brands
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Mac
Bro can someone reply I-m only trying to run wow never had thoughts of building a pc until my buddy gave me a lot of his old parts. the graphics card that came with it is pretty old it-s a 7870 twin frozr I-m not looking to run anything crazy just wondering if I need to buy something new?
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Bro can someone reply I-m only trying to run wow never had thoughts of building a pc until my buddy gave me a lot of his old parts. the graphics card that came with it is pretty old it-s a 7870 twin frozr I-m not looking to run anything crazy just wondering if I need to buy something new?
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Bradley
People do not listen to this clown he has no idea what he-s talking about I bought a 6700 XTN troubleshot for two weeks straight it was nothing but problems and problems and problems the card itself was fine the drivers and software are awful do not buy AMD GPUs
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People do not listen to this clown he has no idea what he-s talking about I bought a 6700 XTN troubleshot for two weeks straight it was nothing but problems and problems and problems the card itself was fine the drivers and software are awful do not buy AMD GPUs
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elvancor
Bought a 5700 XT earlier this year and thought I'd be settled for a while. NOW I'm learning about RTX, DLSS and more Nvidia stuff, and I'm pissed. I'm so pissed I didn't know the choice of manufacturer would make such a difference, I feel almost scammed.
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Bought a 5700 XT earlier this year and thought I'd be settled for a while. NOW I'm learning about RTX, DLSS and more Nvidia stuff, and I'm pissed. I'm so pissed I didn't know the choice of manufacturer would make such a difference, I feel almost scammed.
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