The GPU Vendor Bias Admission Thread

[VirtualLarry]

I was a huge nvidia's fan since I first owned a geforce 2.
skipped 8800GT and gtx 460

Both of those were pretty legendary cards, for their day. The GTX460 made a good match up with a Q6600 CPU, overclocked. It was also excellent for CUDA GPU compute. Edit: Also had good overclocking headroom, as the stock clocks were a tad low.

 

[casiofx]

Both of those were pretty legendary cards, for their day. The GTX460 made a good match up with a Q6600 CPU, overclocked. It was also excellent for CUDA GPU compute. Edit: Also had good overclocking headroom, as the stock clocks were a tad low.

Yeah i still remembered about it. Too bad at that time I stopped playing pc games and focused on my PS3. When i was back at pc gaming i bought hd7870 simply because of mining craze, one and half months later sold it and got myself sapphire 290 trix. The 290 is the best card i ever owned, the reasons you would know why heh.

 

[littleg]

No preference for me, i'll buy whatever gives me the best bang for my buck. If the cards at my price point are about equal, though, i'll generally buy from whichever company is getting a kicking in that cycle, help out the underdog.

 

[Zanovar]

Prefer AMD.I bought nvidia this round as it was the better card for the money i was willing to spend,same reason when i bought a 290 and a 670 before that.

 

[BigDaveX]

Last two purchases (GTX470 and GTX970) have been nVidia, but not because I have any particular preference for them. The former was because Adobe's software back then lacked OpenCL support, and the latter I bought because I urgently needed a new card, and the PSU I had at the time only had two 6-pin GPU connectors, which wouldn't have been enough to drive an R9 290.

 

[ShintaiDK]

The pool isn't that much different from what I expect in the CPU section either.

 

[MrTeal]

The pool isn't that much different from what I expect in the CPU section either.

I'm not so sure about that. I would guess that would skew even more heavily Intel than this one does AMD.

 

[Head1985]

If AMD fix dx11 CPU overhead and drivers and polaris have similar performance/performance after OC and cost less than NV, then i will buy 100% AMD.

Now they have just bad dx11 drivers/cpu overhead.Cant OC like nv cards.So even if they are cheaper i wont buy them.

 

[Arachnotronic]

I'm not so sure about that. I would guess that would skew even more heavily Intel than this one does AMD.

Only one way to find out...

 

[maddie]

If AMD fix dx11 CPU overhead and drivers and polaris have similar performance/performance after OC and cost less than NV, then i will buy 100% AMD.

Now they have just bad dx11 drivers/cpu overhead.Cant OC like nv cards.So even if they are cheaper i wont buy them.

I am confused with your statement.

Why would OC or non-OC performance matter. Fps, $, temps, noise, size, etc. Surely these are the important things.

How is it critical if you achieve it by standard clocks or overclocking?

 

[CuriousMike]

Huge ATI (AMD) bias, indoctrinated when I was a teen and spent big coin to buy my first EGA Wonder! - that let me play games on my monochrome monitor.
When I bought my first color monitor ( NEC Multisync II), I followed it shortly after with the VGA Wonder!

Heaps of ATI ( AMD ) cards and I'm now running an NVIDIA 950.... lol.

 

[Piroko]

Bought Nvidia exclusively from 1999 till 2007, ran into issues with Vista, bought my first ATI card ever, had less issues, have yet to find a reason to buy Nvidia again.

I voted AMD, but it's a very slight bias and easy to change, though it did get confirmed multiple times in the past years. I have no issues recommending cards from either camp as long as they don't suck.

 

[Silverforce11]

The pool isn't that much different from what I expect in the CPU section either.

You should do poll in the CPU section.

As much as I appreciate AMD's open approach, I would NOT put their faildozer CPUs in my gaming rig, no thanks.

Comparing the competitiveness of their GPU vs NV, vs their CPU vs Intel, is light and day.

When it's close, personal factors start to matter more than hardware metrics & performance.

 

[MrTeal]

Only one way to find out...

You're right. You get the chloroform, I'll get the sodium thiopental.

 

[SlowSpyder]

I prefer AMD these days. I think AMD is good for PC gaming and generally video cards with their GPU's seem to be a bit better bargain than Nvidia in the price range I buy at. That's usually the case, but certainly not always.

 

[Rvenger]

Unbiased here. I have owned them all but I normally will end up with a highend Radeon on the main and a midrange Nvidia on my backup machine. The 295x2 keeps me warm in these winter months for sure!

I have a freesync monitor so but it won't sway me because when the FPS are high enough, Freesync isn't even needed anymore.

 

[Game_dev]

The pool isn't that much different from what I expect in the CPU section either.

Doesn't NVIDIA currently have around 80% marketshare? What would make this forum lean so far the other way? Seems suspicious.

 

[Mahigan]

I'm not so sure about that. I would guess that would skew even more heavily Intel than this one does AMD.

I only bought AMD CPUs for mining rigs.

I wouldn't touch any Bulldozer/Piledriver/Steamroller etc CPU for a gaming rig with a ten foot pole.

Last time I ran a gaming rig with an AMD CPU it was an Athlon64 X2 4800+.

 

[Silverforce11]

Doesn't NVIDIA currently have around 80% marketshare? What would make this forum lean so far the other way? Seems suspicious.

Do you know the difference between quarter shipment marketshare and actual marketshare?

 

[Magee_MC]

Doesn't NVIDIA currently have around 80% marketshare? What would make this forum lean so far the other way? Seems suspicious.

My guess is that the people in this forum are better informed about NV's behavior than the general public is. Many people, myself included have said that we currently lean AMD for that specific reason.

 

[Magee_MC]

I only bought AMD CPUs for mining rigs.

I wouldn't touch any Bulldozer/Piledriver/Steamroller etc CPU for a gaming rig with a ten foot pole.

Last time I ran a gaming rig with an AMD CPU it was an Athlon64 X2 4800+.

I'm still running a Phenom II X6 in my secondary rig, but I agree I wouldn't get and AMD CPU at the moment. Now that may change when Zen comes along, but I'll have to see how it actually performs first.

 

[Mahigan]

Doesn't NVIDIA currently have around 80% marketshare? What would make this forum lean so far the other way? Seems suspicious.

Think about it... NVIDIA users have upgraded from Kepler to Maxwell thus showing up on the quarterly results.

AMD users kept their Hawaii cards.

So just because NVIDIA holds 78% of the last quarters shipments doesn't mean they have 78% of the active installed user base.

 

[poofyhairguy]

This is a great thread.

 

[Majic 7]

According to Steam. NVidia 55.79%, AMD 26.02%, Intel 17.78%. As of February 2016.

 

[boozzer]

According to Steam. NVidia 55.79%, AMD 26.02%, Intel 17.78%. As of February 2016.

so the 80% claims are pure bs.