Nvidia Vs AMD

[Froger]

Hi, looking at comparing two cards for buying i was wondering about AMD compared to Nvidia, not just on price to performance but also on things such as drivers and SLI vs CrossFire scaling, Drivers, Nvidia's CUDA and Physx etc... compared to AMD's openCL etc..
also quality and future updates.
here i am not trying to compare two cards specificly but the two company's as the different factors that they give can change the desicion on buying something, so i was wondering about what everything thinks comparing the two companies, and comparing each ones specialities and similarities (such as crossfire or sli)

 

[Feronix]

- AMD cards are generally a bit faster for the price
- SLI works better than CorssFireX, the last one has a lot of micro stuttering
- Eyefinity works better than Nvidia surround, handy when you use multi monitors
- AMD cards will work better at higher resolutions due to the memory bus
- CUDA is only useful when you do editing/rendering
- PhysX is just extra eyecandy. It's nice, but not supported by every game.

You're going to need to give us a bit more info mate. Like what resolution you will use, what you use your pc for and what kind of cards you were thinking of (mid range or high end ones)?

 

[Roooker]

- AMD cards are generally a bit faster for the price
- SLI works better than CorssFireX, the last one has a lot of micro stuttering
- Eyefinity works better than Nvidia surround, handy when you use multi monitors
- AMD cards will work better at higher resolutions due to the memory bus
- CUDA is only useful when you do editing/rendering
- PhysX is just extra eyecandy. It's nice, but not supported by every game.

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[Froger]

i dont want it for me, im just using this as a guide for people that are comparing Nvidia cards Vs AMD.

 

[Feronix]

i dont want it for me, im just using this as a guide for people that are comparing Nvidia cards Vs AMD.

You can't really do that. The main things are performance and price, which also happen to be the things that fluctuate most. Prices change all the time and every time new drivers come out, so does the performance.

 

[alpenwasser]

i dont want it for me, im just using this as a guide for people that are comparing Nvidia cards Vs AMD.

Well in that case Feronix' answer from post #2 is pretty much it. If you want
to go deeper than that you will need to look at an individual build, its needs
and the available budget. Sure we could start posting benchmark scores, but
that's what Google is for, and as said prices fluctuate quite a bit.

It's a lot simpler for a person to simply ask "These are my needs, this is
my budget, these are my possible future upgrade plans, what makes sense to
buy for me?", and the quality of advice in that case will be better as well since
you can take into account the most up-to-date prices and benchmark scores.

The rest is just reading latest reviews and looking up prices. Simply reposting
that info here wouldn't really make sense imho. But that's just my take on it,
if someone would like to start writing an epic essay about this topic I won't
stop them, but they will be busy for many hours doing that :lol: