What you prefer AMD vs Intel ?

[ChaoscripT]

Hi,
I'm sort of new here,
Quick question,
Which chipset of graphics cards you prefer, AMD or Nvidia?

I am locking this, as you titled it AMD vs Intel, but ask about AMD vs Nvidia.
Markfw
Anandtech Moderator

 

[Grubbernaught]

I'm not that old here either, but old enough to know that this could end badly......

Still, I lean towards green....but would change in a heartbeat if Vega delivers the goods.

 

[Kenmitch]

I have Nvidia but I prefer AMD.

 

[DisarmedDespot]

Price to performance is king to me. I did end up getting a Freesync monitor, though, so I've locked myself into AMD unless Nvidia supports Freesync. I expect that to happen when hell freezes over.

 

[CatMerc]

For friends and family I'll suggest what makes the most sense for their budget, though if two offerings are identical I'll lean towards AMD.

For personal builds, AMD can get away with a bit more, but within reason. I would never buy an FX as seen by me owning a 6600K, but I would take an R9 Fury X over a 980 Ti for example.

I just like the general behavior of AMD, in terms of working on open source solutions and community engagement. I also dislike Apple type marketing which NVIDIA adopted very very well. I simply don't like marketing like "The Ultimate.". And obviously with current market dynamics AMD is easier on the wallet, but I don't expect that to remain true forever as AMD plans to get their margins back up within the next few years.

 

[MajinCry]

For processors, Intel. I don't really play games aside from Bethesda's Fallout & Elder Scrolls series, so draw call performance is paramount. AMD's CPUs are just terrible at them. Ryzen is a good improvement over Piledriver in that regard, but still far away from intel.


For GPUs, AMD. They have lower draw call overhead in Direct3D 9, as NVidia's driver doesn't have a hardware scheduler (what that is, idk).

Direct3D 11 performance is similar if the developer designed the renderer for both AMD and NVidia; if the GPU is AMD, assign a core dedicated to just the driver. If the GPU is NVidia, split the driver across cores.

In Direct3D 12 and Vulkan, AMD wins decisively due to their hardware scheduler. The new APIs are then able to communicate with the GPU blazingly fast. With NVidia's current cards, the APIs aren't really any better than Direct3D 11 as NV is lacking the hardware to fly with them.


And since Bethesda's partnering up with AMD, especially with their Fallout 4 VR DLC coming out soon, having an AMD GPU is going to be a good match with their games. VR pretty much requires Vulkan/Direct3D 12, due to the game having to be rendered at least twice (once for each eye), which causes draw calls to go through the roof. And in an open world VR game, with Bethesda's draw call abuse? It's gonna need the new APIs.

 

[Crono]

I root for the underdog, so I'll go for AMD all other things being equal, but I've been using AMD and Nvidia about equally (or really 60/40 in favor of AMD) for a long time. My current main desktop card is a GTX 1070, prior to that it was a R9 390 (and briefly a R9 Nano, which I ended up giving to a family member), and prior to that it was a 970. I'll likely buy a Vega card when the mainstream cards are available.

 

[Elixer]

Hi,
I'm sort of new here,
Quick question,
Which chipset of graphics cards you prefer, AMD or Nvidia?

I think most everyone here prefers open standards, and on that front, AMD is king.

I really like AMD's stance on pushing everything to be open (like freesysnc) & open source a ton of stuff.
I dislike nvidia trying to push proprietary tech (like gsync) and being far less open, as well as having so called "open source" code that requires you to jump through hoops to look at / use.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I'm currently with the "red team" (AMD) for my current gaming card: an XFX RX 470 4GB for $150 on ebay, new, from Newegg, during their RX 470/480 firesale. Previously, I had purchased some HIS 7950 3GB card for $130 new from Newegg's site on fire-sale too.

Great cards all around, hardly any issues, though occasionally there were driver quirks.

I also own or have owned a number of identical model MSI GTX950 2GB cards, that I got for like $120 each from Newegg on ebay.

Also picked up an Asus dual-fan GTX1050 2GB card, and some R7 260X, 250X, and R9 270X cards.

I've got a lot of mid-range gaming cards, for builds and stuff, I don't personally use all of them, except for the F@H race last Dec., I had the 7950, GTX950, and R7 270X cards cranking away.