The GPU Vendor Bias Admission Thread

[Ken g6]

And here I was planning to come in here and admit my slight EVGA and MSI bias.

I am somewhat Nvidia biased for Linux support, CUDA, and power efficiency.

 

[iiiankiii]

Call me an odd ball, I've owned 5 amd/ati cards and 1 NVIDIA card but I really prefer NVIDIA. For some reason their cards are more exciting to me however my brain usually takes over and goes the value route.

I currently have a 280x it was exciting for the ability to avoid dx and I recently learned its a dx 12 card too. I really should be more excited but I'm not.

Their marketing is really good. Nvidia is much, much better at marketing. They know how to grab your attention. I really do think a lot of people view Nvidia as the premium product. As such, whenever you buy a high end product (regardless what it is), you get that smugly feeling.

 

[IEC]

The irony of going "there" after the recent driver fiasco.

Ironically, I had to roll back because the latest nVidia driver was giving me black screen/corruption issues.

I haven't had to roll back a AMD driver in recent memory.

 

[Mezzanine]

Nvidia all the way now and I owned ATI cards from the 9800pro up to the 6950.

 

[tential]

Their marketing is really good. Nvidia is much, much better at marketing. They know how to grab your attention. I really do think a lot of people view Nvidia as the premium product. As such, whenever you buy a high end product (regardless what it is), you get that smugly feeling.

Yup I mean the person I bought my 290 from us playing games in which the 290 is faster than the 970 he just bought but he has Nvidia so now he feels he has the best gaming performance possible. Sadly I'm gaming at 1440p most settings maxed while he aims for 1080p High settings.
. I mean he's also had far more issues too than me jn terms of driver resets or full system formats.

Average people don't benchmark so they don't realize it they even lose performance switching cards

 

[myocardia]

But look at the 770, 780 and 780Ti. These aren't that old, but it looks like "Game Ready" do not apply to them.

"Game Ready" has never been about the performance of any single card, unless as was the case with AMD this time, one of them was stuttering, etc. The drivers that both companies release for new AAA games have always been, and will always be, about adding SLI or Xfire for that game. Nothing more, and for most games, nothing less.

 

[Deders]

Us Kepler owners are now 2nd teir customers. The optimisations will happen, just not at release.

 

[Silverforce11]

Figured I get to the bottom of this and find out some interesting truths in the CPU section.

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2466655

 

[Rngwn]

Slight preference towards NV because I sometimes need to program in CUDA.

BTW, where is a choice for Intel IGP? *poof*

 

[jj109]

It's quite clear that there's a large number of posters here favoring AMD as company despite their claims that they just chase perf/price.

I find it really ironic that the same people crying about vendor bias for days when Nvidia mid-range beats AMD high-end in a particular game are also found celebrating when AMD leverages their console wins to turn the tables in another game.

 

[thesmokingman]

It's quite clear that there's a large number of posters here favoring AMD as company despite their claims that they just chase perf/price.

I find it really ironic that the same people crying about vendor bias for days when Nvidia mid-range beats AMD high-end in a particular game are also found celebrating when AMD leverages their console wins to turn the tables in another game.

Like you are here crying on your soapbox?

 

[Yuriman]

I prefer AMD cards but lately their strengths aren't aligned with what I value in the machines I've been building. I'm a little sore that their drivers are much heavier on CPUs, that they generally have inferior performance per watt, and that their low-end to midrange cards mostly use old cores that haven't received refreshes.

I'm inclined to wait until AMD releases their new products rather than buy an NV card right now, but if I had to build today, AMD would not get my money.

 

[Bacon1]

Figured I get to the bottom of this and find out some interesting truths in the CPU section.

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2466655

Needs a "I perfer X but bought Y because of performance"

I don't like how Intel acted against AMD to force out market share when AMD was better, but I use them (used) because the performance is much better.

 

[happy medium]

Would you rather have had a Grand National or a Corvette?
They both were about the same quickness but I think most of us rather have a Vette.

That's why I like Nvidia. Its the better overall product ,most of the time.

 

[Silverforce11]

Would you rather have had a Grand National or a Corvette?
They both were about the same quickness but I think most of us rather have a Vette.

That's why I like Nvidia. Its the better overall product ,most of the time.

Did you get that Sapphire Tri-X 290/X?

 

[SlowSpyder]

Would you rather have had a Grand National or a Corvette?
They both were about the same quickness but I think most of us rather have a Vette.

That's why I like Nvidia. Its the better overall product ,most of the time.

Sorry for the off topic post, but have to say, in it's own way a Grand National is much cooler than a Corvette. (That statement is not an analogy and has nothing to do with video cards, just to clarify!)

 

[tential]

Would you rather have had a Grand National or a Corvette?
They both were about the same quickness but I think most of us rather have a Vette.

That's why I like Nvidia. Its the better overall product ,most of the time.

I may think Nvidia is the overall better product a lot of the time, but it's my experience that most Nvidia users never utilize any of the features of Nvidia products that would justify actually buying it over an AMD product. Many don't even know of the features....
In the end, up to the to buy what makes them happy though, but I notice most people are getting terrible value for their money.

 

[badb0y]

In my younger years I was biased to ATi/AMD but now I just get whatever has high performance for my needs. And currently that is nVidia.

 

[thesmokingman]

Sorry for the off topic post, but have to say, in it's own way a Grand National is much cooler than a Corvette. (That statement is not an analogy and has nothing to do with video cards, just to clarify!)

Hell yea. A GNX from that era is much more prized than a Vette from the same time.

 

[crashtech]

Hell yea. A GNX from that era is much more prized than a Vette from the same time.

So much for the retarded car analogy!

 

[3DVagabond]

Hell yea. A GNX from that era is much more prized than a Vette from the same time.

^^^This!^^^

 

[happy medium]

Did you get that Sapphire Tri-X 290/X?

Na ,someone got it before me:thumbsdown:
I think I'm just gonna hold my money �� for a few months for the new cards.

 

[happy medium]

Hell yea. A GNX from that era is much more prized than a Vette from the same time.

Who said GNX? :\
I would need to use the Callaway Vette for a GNX.

 

[CropDuster]

I'm on my first AMD card and have been very happy with it. I ran nvidia after 3dfx folded, but my 6800GT died and my GTX460 suffered through driver TDR crashes for a year before it got fixed so I decided to give team red a try this go around. My 290 is two years old and almost seems better now than when it was brand new.

 

[Silverforce11]

Compared to the poll in the CPU forum, we get a very clear anti-NV backlash.

On the CPU side, Intel dominates the marketshare, so they have a lot of users who are Intel biased, but interestingly, a lot more are neutral, no favoritism due to AMD being an underdog, but simply going for the better CPU.

On the GPU side, NV dominates the marketshare, but most people are either against NV or neutral, due to the often cited reason of "NV's shady business".

Why?

GameWorks has angered a lot of gamers, even NV ones, you notice this on steam, reddit and other forums, where GW is dismissed as being poorly optimized, made to gimp performance and shove planned obsolescence at gamers.

Despite this backlash, NVIDIA is doubling down on even more shady tactics, now aimed at discrediting DX12 with two very shoddy/broken sponsored DX12 ports: GOW and Tomb Raider.

It seems they will only get the message when it affects their bottom lines. I look forward to the next gen, will put my $ where my ethics align to and go with Polaris.