NVidia vs AMD

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What's your preference?

  • nVidia exclusively

    Votes: 14 17.3%
  • Prefer nVidia, but would consider AMD

    Votes: 34 42.0%
  • Prefer AMD, but would consider nVidia

    Votes: 27 33.3%
  • AMD exclusively

    Votes: 6 7.4%

  • Total voters
    81
I really would prefer for there not to be an argument over this stuff because I'd prefer the poll results to not be influenced by the discussion, but I would be interested in evidence of HardOCP's bias if you have a link handy? No worries if not, I'll bear it in mind anyway, but I've found them pretty trustworthy so I'm interested to know if that's not the case.
 
I do mostly GPU computing things, such as mining crypto, so I do AMD exclusively. But, I am not like the other people who are AMD exclusively, as I am not fanboyishly into AMD. I would switch to Nvidia if they improved their computing power. Right now, they are so very behind AMD that I don't see them improving in this aspect any time soon. Also, AMD is cheaper (great for me since I am not very rich at all)
 


nVIDIA is not behind on compute. They're behind in the particular type of compute (single precision I believe) that benefits Bitcoin mining. In other compute-intensive applications (like Folding) they're way ahead of AMD.
 


But that's a lie.

Anyway, why am I posting in a bait thread? >.>

 

Bitcoin/litecoin and F@H are both double precision which AMD kick butt at