News AMD vs Nvidia: Who Makes the Best GPUs?

[King_V]

At the same time, without nVidia, AMD cards would not have really evolved...since in the end, only nVidia really advances the technology through innovative R&D that AMD is content to copy.

This is false, and it's probably not a good idea to repeat unsubstantiated allegations or engage in what appears to be fanboyism.

 

[KyaraM]

Literally the only cards I ever had issues with, both on the drivers and the hardware side, were AMD cards. Sorry, but if literally every AMD card you ever owned bit the dust to overheating, while the Nvidia replacement worked thrice as long under the same circumstances, and then you also got buggy drivers that mysteriously vanished the second the new card is installed... plus more features on the Nvidia side... sorry, never buying AMD again until they fix that horrible garbage they produce. AMD is nowhere near the winner here unless you consider pricing, but then, you get so much more for those couple bucks more that Nvidia costs.

Also, lmfao about the guy who claims Nvidia drivers were so horrible to install on Linux. No idea what distro you use, buddy, but you need a better one. Never had any issues there, either, and I dabbled into it several times on several systems. The biggest issue so far was to install and get games running that aren't in my Steam library. Considering they usually fail to install at all, that seems to be a Linux issue, not Nvidia. Which is also why Windows is still my OS, together with being unsure about my hybrid Alder Lake CPU running well...

 

[alceryes]

Literally the only cards I ever had issues with, both on the drivers and the hardware side, were AMD cards. Sorry, but if literally every AMD card you ever owned bit the dust to overheating, while the Nvidia replacement worked thrice as long under the same circumstances, and then you also got buggy drivers that mysteriously vanished the second the new card is installed... plus more features on the Nvidia side... sorry, never buying AMD again until they fix that horrible garbage they produce. AMD is nowhere near the winner here unless you consider pricing, but then, you get so much more for those couple bucks more that Nvidia costs.

Also, lmfao about the guy who claims Nvidia drivers were so horrible to install on Linux. No idea what distro you use, buddy, but you need a better one. Never had any issues there, either, and I dabbled into it several times on several systems. The biggest issue so far was to install and get games running that aren't in my Steam library. Considering they usually fail to install at all, that seems to be a Linux issue, not Nvidia. Which is also why Windows is still my OS, together with being unsure about my hybrid Alder Lake CPU running well...

It sucks that all your experiences with AMD have been horrible. I've had mixed experiences with both AMD and NVIDIA so I keep on bouncing back and forth between them.
Back in the early/mid 2000s ATI/AMD did have some consistent driver issues for a couple years straight. They haven't been able to live that down since then - even though their drivers are fine nowadays.

 

[IndyF1]

It seems to me that G-Sync, Nvidia's solution to screen tearing and stuttering that requires special h/w built into monitors is a big negative. There only a few on the market and they are expensive. AMD's s/w only solution, FreeSync, is available on many monitors. Currently, G-Sync monitors are limited to a couple $700-$800 27" QHD monitors, while there are a dozen 27" QHD monitors that are priced from $250-$600 that support FreeSync. Some of these are G-Sync compatible - on these monitors, does G-Sync compatible work as well as FreeSync?

 

[King_V]

It seems to me that G-Sync, Nvidia's solution to screen tearing and stuttering that requires special h/w built into monitors is a big negative. There only a few on the market and they are expensive. AMD's s/w only solution, FreeSync, is available on many monitors. With all things being equal, it seems AMD wins this battle, hence, I am choosing the RX 6750 XT 12GB over the RTX 3070 8GBB. Why be limited to a couple $700-$800 27" QHD monitors, when you can have a dozens choices of 27" QHD monitors that are priced from $250-$600?

Nvidia finally gave up that "works with our proprietary thing only" battle, and added support for FreeSync to its drivers for 10-series and later GPUs.

That support wasn't without some issues, and I'd run into a problem a couple of years ago with it, but I would imagine that Nvidia has its FreeSync support all sorted out by now.