The GPU Vendor Bias Admission Thread

[railven]

Don't mean to put you on the spot but you prove my point. You're not a new member, but this is your first post and you explain why you chose AMD. Many people who don't post or post very little voted in these polls.....

I don't like to go that route, but it always seems when topics are "heated" or the wars are flaming, we get an influx of returning low-post members from 2-3 years ago or new accounts.

I just assume people are making alt accounts to avoid infractions because some of them tend to go bonkers with the rhetoric. Haha.

 

[OVerLoRDI]

I was Nvidia except for a quick 9700 pro break. Then I couldn't pass of up the price of the 5850 after being on a 8800 GTS for ages.

Geforce 2 GTS
Geforce 4 Ti-4200
Radeon 9700 pro (best card ever)
Geforce 6800 GT
Geforce 7800 GT SLI
Geforce 8800 GTS 640mb
Radeon 5850 (best deal ever @ $259 launch price)
Radeon 6950 XFire (flashed to 6970)

Discovered bitcoin (estimation, I forget the exact numbers)
8x 5870s
10x 5850s
9x 5830s
4x 6870s

Radeon 7970 Xfire
Radeon 290x Xfire

Probably going to stick with AMD when the new Polaris GPUs launch later this year and maybe go full AMD if Zen ends up being good.

 

[UaVaj]

only a fool would be bias. simply buy what will get the task done.



right now.
even the fastest since single gpu is insufficient for my level of eye candy and exotic resolution.

given that said. nvidia does not have a leg to stand on. amd "xdma" crossfire is single gpu butter smooth. so hopefully pascal has something competitive.

 

[Batmeat]

I prefer 3dfx. My voodoo 5 is still relevant😉

I actually lost double when the voodoo 4,5 came out. The GeForce 2 put 3dfx out of business, I lost driver support and my stock in the company all within a few hours while I was school.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I'm pretty set for GPUs right now. Have two 7950 3GB, and a GT740 1GB, and bought three GTX950 2GB cards.

Probably not going to upgrade except for 4K monitors, or some compelling VR game comes out.

 

[Game_dev]

I suspect whoever gets next gen out first are going to enjoy themselves a spot of price gouging.

Current rumors put NVIDIA 3 months ahead of AMD

 

[Silverforce11]

And yes, even in 2016, there are games that are playable on those cards. There were more new games that could be played than there were that could not back in 2013 when AMD completely dropped support for its equivalents.

I still have a 5850 lying around and recently I put it back in a spare gaming rig to test, it ran all the new games fine on low/med details. Even Battlefront ran very well. That's using old drivers.

I consider that good considering how old it is. I don't have anything older than that on me to test though.

So rather than looking at the date of a driver, one would have to look at how it performs instead because that is the ultimate purpose of a GPU.

Classic example, NV loves putting out "Game Ready" drivers, the last for Ashes, did nothing, no difference in performance or visuals. Why is it "Game Ready" and what does that even mean? Their last "Game Ready" MS certified one caused BSODs and boot-up-lock they had to remove it and release a beta.

Another prime example of "Game Ready", in Rise of the Tomb Raider. It's good that they release a fast driver for it (AMD's driver to improve perf & fix Fiji was 3 days post-release).

But look at the 770, 780 and 780Ti. These aren't that old, but it looks like "Game Ready" do not apply to them. We've seen this again and again, when NV sponsors game development, Kepler tanks.

I don't consider this good support. Someone who bought a 780Ti for $650 in 2014 is basically spat on with this kind of business practice.

 

[Game_dev]

I would be more concerned if I paid $650 for a Fury X and it comes with a "slight stutter"

 

[Bacon1]

I would be more concerned if I paid $650 for a Fury X and it comes with a "slight stutter"

Which was fixed 3 days later like he mentioned, how is 700 series performance doing? Its a Nvidia title you'd expect their games to do well it in at launch right?

 

[Game_dev]

Which was fixed 3 days later like he mentioned, how is 700 series performance doing? Its a Nvidia title you'd expect their games to do well it in at launch right?

So much for "game ready"

 

[casiofx]

I would be more concerned if I paid $650 for a Fury X and it comes with a "slight stutter"

Hmm when I bought my R9 290 Tri-X early january 2014, it was $485 at my place (south east asia). 780Ti was going for around $750.

But apparently my 290 performs as fast as or faster than 780Ti now, what a bargain.

Not to mention around the $250 i got made from the mining craze with this card.

 

[Zodiark1593]

I completely agree, buy a quality PSU once and keep using it for 3-4 builds. There is a group of people (college and high school gamers without parents money) that may ONLY have $350 to spend as a hard cap. There's actually quite a lot of those, I meet them almost daily when they come to our shop to browse GPU's. A lot of these customers have a pre-built machine that was gifted for college with decent enough components (i5's, 8GB, 600W PSU) that want the absolute best GPU that fits into that system without any mods. These are the ones that buy the GTX 960 and GTX 970 in droves, AMD needs to steal these customers from NVidia.

For a single six-pin PSU, it really doesn't get a whole lot better than the 960 currently, which is fine I suppose as long as you keep expectations in check.

 

[Bacon1]

So much for "game ready"

When did anyone claim AMD had game ready drivers the day of? They released them right after. Notice how this happens with all nvidia sponsored titles?

Now, the last Nvidia "game ready" WHQL drivers caused massive reboot loops and monitor issues... I'd call those much worse "game ready" than anything AMD has released lately.

 

[boozzer]

When did anyone claim AMD had game ready drivers the day of? They released them right after. Notice how this happens with all nvidia sponsored titles?

Now, the last Nvidia "game ready" WHQL drivers caused massive reboot loops and monitor issues... I'd call those much worse "game ready" than anything AMD has released lately.

you need to stop taking his claims seriously. just do it like he does, make outrageous claims there is no need to back it up, just do it.

 

[3DVagabond]

Which might just be due to Kepler's architectural weaknesses compared to GCN becoming more apparent in modern games


Look at Nvidia's support for both its DX9 and DX10 GPUs however, they've been supported for much longer than AMD's and also support newer Windows.
And for the DX11/12 cards, Nvidia still supports Vista whereas AMD dropped Vista support at the end of 2013.

Are you running Vista with Fermi?

 

[thesmokingman]

So much for "game ready"

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

 

[biostud]

Diamond stealth 64 all the way!!!!
Matrox mystique
3dfx voodoo 2
Geforce2
Geforce4 Ti4200
Radeon 9800
Geforce 7800gtx
Geforce 8800gt
Geforce gtx 670
Radeon 7990

Atm I'm leaning towards amd because I prefer open standards.

 

[xthetenth]

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

Well actually, The Division is a cover based multi-monitor bug and reboot loop game. You're not really getting the full experience with the most recent AMD drivers.

 

[thesmokingman]

Well actually, The Division is a cover based multi-monitor bug and reboot loop game. You're not really getting the full experience with the most recent AMD drivers.

I didn't mean driver issue on amd side.

 

[Headfoot]

So much for "game ready"

You sure you want to bring up the latest game ready driver release?

 

[xthetenth]

I didn't mean driver issue on amd side.

That was a joke that you aren't getting the multi-monitor bug and reboot loops, just cover-based shooting with AMD. Their drivers have been rock steady for me.

 

[NIGELG]

I am biased towards AMD/aTI.....nVIDIA is disgusting.

 

[DaveSimmons]

I am biased towards nvidia, partly because power efficiency is more important to me than cost. If I was on a budget then AMD offers more frames per dollar at most price points.

I've bought AMD gaming cards off and on since the 90s and my Radeon 4870 and 6850 were both great cards.

 

[KaRLiToS]

I am biased towards nvidia, partly because power efficiency is more important to me than cost. If I was on a budget then AMD offers more frames per dollar at most price points.

I've bought AMD gaming cards off and on since the 90s and my Radeon 4870 and 6850 were both great cards.

Which power efficiency are you referring to?

 

[Fanatical Meat]

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.