YA Why do you prefer AMD or NV Thread

[HendrixFan]

I have been with ATI since the Rage 128 days. I had one with a built in TV tuner.

Once I moved to dual monitors ATI was offering better support at the time for dual configurations. My mom's computer has had Nvidia cards and she seems to have more headaches with dual monitors, leaving me to have to work on fixing it. Usually the resolution of the secondary monitor goes awry and it won't give an option for the native resolution.

I stick with ATI because I'm familiar with their multimonitor support and settings, and I appreciate their low power product lines (4770, 5770, 6870).

 

[Sind]

I hold no preference to either manufacturer and buy depending on my personal checklist of what I am looking for. Some of the posts and fud I read here everyday are certainly amusing and I really don't understand brand preference sometimes at the expense of remaining with a certain manufacturer. To each their own, it just sucks reading some of the posts here sometimes, which while under the guise of discussion are nothing more than the spreading of fud or some fanboys opinion, the recent tesselation issue comes to mine.

If I had to pick a team, it would be team consumer.

 

[OVerLoRDI]

I have historically been a NVidia guy because they were on top when I was in the market. 6800gt, then 7800gt, then an 8800gts that I held on to for a really long time. I bought a 5850 when they came out at $259 and I have loved it.

Only downside I have noticed going ATi is that older games seem to have more issues with ATi. Need for Speed Most Wanted has some really exciting shadow issues that I never saw on my 7800gt or 8800gts. Not a huge deal but it irks me slightly.

 

[nitromullet]

I tend to favor NVIDIA, but I'll buy ATI.

Cards I've owned:

Riva TNT
Radeon 7000
GeForce 3 ti500
GeForce 4 4200
Radeon 9700 Pro
GeForce FX 5900
GeForce 6800GT
Radeon X800 XL AIW
GeForce 7800 GTX (SLI and single)
GeForce 7800 GS
Radeon X1800XT (CF w/ Master Card and single)
GeForce 7900 GTX (SLI and single)
Radeon X1900XTX
GeForce 7900GX2
GeForce 8800 GTX
GeForce 8800GT (SLI and single)
Radeon 3870 X2
GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB
GeForce 9800 GT 1GB
GeForce 9800GX2
Radeon 4850
Radeon 4870
GeForce GTX 280
GeForce GTX 260
Radeon 4870 X2
GeForce GTX 275
Radeon 5870
GeForce GTX 470 (SLI and single)

 

[Kenmitch]

Bang for buck is the way I go. Performance to $'s to power consumption is what concerns me.

Guess the overclocking ability of a card is also important

Household is currently:
Nvidia 3
AMD/ATI 1
Intel 1

Think my progression was something like Trident 64, Rage 128, Voodoo(original) , geforce TI4200, 6600GT, 8600GT, 850XT-PE and many more I've flipped over the years.

 

[Nemesis 1]

Should have been another vote option . Like I buy AMD/ATI because its open platform

 

[blastingcap]

I have been with ATI since the Rage 128 days. I had one with a built in TV tuner.

Once I moved to dual monitors ATI was offering better support at the time for dual configurations. My mom's computer has had Nvidia cards and she seems to have more headaches with dual monitors, leaving me to have to work on fixing it. Usually the resolution of the secondary monitor goes awry and it won't give an option for the native resolution.

I stick with ATI because I'm familiar with their multimonitor support and settings, and I appreciate their low power product lines (4770, 5770, 6870).

AMD's current solution to multimonitor is a lot easier and quicker to use than NV's clickfest. Hotkeys FTW, especially re: Eyefinity.

 

[Idontcare]

Should have been another vote option . Like I buy AMD/ATI because its open platform

I buy based on vendor specific features.

Yes?

 

[Nemesis 1]

Thanks ,IDC I couldn't come up with correct terms. Pretty tired . can't wait till tomoorow night so I can rest .

 

[Rifter]

I buy whatever gives me the best gaming performance in the price range im looking at.

I dont take into consideration noise or power consumption, strictly look at gaming performance. Im usually running a highly OC'ed system so things like noise and power consumption have gone out the window before i get to the GPU selection anyways.

Have owned ATI, Nvidia, 3dfx, S3, Matrox cards over the last 20 years. All have had good cards, bad cards and there share of driver issues. One thing i will give Nvidia is better driver support for non microsoft OS's.

 

[Puffnstuff]

I buy both brands in gpu's and cpu's. Although I'm running gtx480's I just bought my son a 6870.

 

[Check]

I prefer nVidia because of their drivers, but when push comes to shove I'll take AMD if that is the best viable option (my Vaio laptop only had an AMD option)

 

[fffblackmage]

Looking back, I haven't used an nVidia gfx card in a long while. I typically choose bang for the buck, and lately, ATI just seems to be the better choice, especially at the time I was actually buying.

GeForce 2 MX400
GeForce 4 MX440
GeForce 6600GT (AGP)
Radeon X1950XT 256MB (regret not paying for the 512MB)
Radeon HD4830 1GB (my fav - cheap, but helluva OCer)
Radeon HD4890

I think I picked up the X1950XT because it was at the top before the GeForce 8000-series came out. I picked up the 4830 because it was cheap and seemed like an excellent OCer (and it is!). Not really too sure which way I would go if I wanted to upgrade right now though.

 

[Nemesis 1]

Yes?

LOL was that there from the beginning ? Even after ya pointed it out I missed it . LOL . So I voted wrong .

 

[Nemesis 1]

Ya the last NV I paid for was the Ti4800 or the 4600 its been so long I can't recall. The one just befor the ATi 300.Drivers were horriable on the 4800 and it was hot. I have had a few cards from NV here but I just didn't like the crashes . I had those with the ATi cards also . But less often .

 

[Paratus]

Hey guys, I tried to put some generic poll answers without going overboard.

I actually like fusetalks poll capabilities better.

 

[Idontcare]

If the major metrics are ballpark comparable (price, performance, power-consumption, noise) then I usually make my choice based on vendor-specific features.

Long ago that feature was dual-screen (or whatever Matrox called it at the time).

When Matrox went tits-up in the performance category I was fine transitioning to Nvidia with their dual-head feature and the price/performance was ballpark comparable to the rest of the field at the time (sans the losers of course).

Fast forward a number of years, I now do a lot more 2D desktop stuff than gaming and I've gotten a lot more into video transcoding.

So my most recent upgrade was a tough choice entirely because of vendor-specific features.

I liked the prospect of eyefinity and >2 screens from a single vid-card (for my coding projects) but at the same time I also liked the prospect of leveraging CUDA to speedup my transcodes in TMPGEnc (I do a lot of filtering).

For the level of gaming I do pretty much any $200 vid-card was/is more than ample.

So my recent purchase was GTX460 and I am pleased enough. It delivered as I expected. I probably would have been equally pleased with a 2x2 eyefinity setup from a 6850 too, but that upgrade would have entailed buying another two LCDs and that was really more money than I cared to spend on my computer at the time.

 

[Piano Man]

Always been price/performance from $150-250.

ATI Mach 32
ATI Rage 128 coupled with a 3dfx Voodoo2
Nvidia Geforce4TI or a MX. Can't remember
nVidia Geforce 6800GS (which ever one was unlockable to the GT or Ultra, can't remember)
nVidia Gefore 8800 GTS 320
ATI Radeon 4850
ATI Radeon 5850

Next card will probably be a 6950 if has good value for the money and is less than 300. Otherwise, I'll wait a little longer.

 

[Leyawiin]

I tend to prefer Nvidia for whatever reason (think my 8800 GTX permanently impressed my in their favor), but I'm not a blind idiot. If, when I'm shopping for a card, there would be an AMD that was better in every way in the same price range I'd buy it instead. Thing is I just don't shop that often - the 8800 GTX lasted me over 3 1/2 years before I replaced it in September. At that time the best deal in my price range was the GTX 460 1GB. Really, none of the poll options fit me. In the last 7 years I've bought four Radeons and five Nvidia.

 

[Gloomy]

Used ATI out of habit and lack of any real enthusiasm towards learning "the ropes" for the longest time. Recently I had a bit of income and I've been going laptop crazy. Did the research and was pleasantly surprised to find AMD was somewhat better than Nvidia in the laptop market.

Now though, it's a wash. I've been a lot more attentive to everything about the electronics I use, and I'm learning the pros and cons to everything that I use. I'm a born-again nerd :sneaky:, and I'm open to anything.

 

[Rebel44]

I always decide based on:
Price/performance
Power requirements
Driver quality
How much does NV/AMD try to pissme off (things like disabling Phyx when your primary GPU is not NV)

 

[fffblackmage]

Used ATI out of habit and lack of any real enthusiasm towards learning "the ropes" for the longest time. Recently I had a bit of income and I've been going laptop crazy. Did the research and was pleasantly surprised to find AMD was somewhat better than Nvidia in the laptop market.

When I was buying my Inspiron 1520 a couple years ago, the only decent discrete graphics solution seemed to be from nVidia. The 8600m GT is rather underwhelming, but alright enough to play some games on low settings (even though mine is crippled with DDR2 vram).

Fast-forward to today and we have some real competition from AMD/ATI. There's just more choices and even laptops just under $1000 can have a decent discrete graphics card for a bit of real gaming. It's just too bad I'm not in the market for a new laptop.

 

[RussianSensation]

I buy based on price/performance. I don't care for multi-monitor support, power consumption or HTPC features. Don't care if it's NV or AMD or Intel or ABC. Just give me a good performing, stable card at a reasonable price.

8500
9700pro
6600
8800gts 320
4890
gtx470

 

[pw38]

Last card I owned before my current build was the GeForce 2 MX400. I got out of the PC game for a long time and when I came back the 5770 was appealing because of the bang for the buck it offered. I really don't care about brand loyalty either way anymore but I will say that AMD has impressed me with their latest offerings. I remember always seeming to lean Nvidia's way back in the day for whatever reason. I like the current market now, plenty to choose from with better than ever value. Good stuff.

 

[zerocool84]

I've always been an Nvidia person as I've had 5 Nvidia cards until I got my first ATI card in Feb since they didn't have anything out. Been very happy with my 5870 and don't see a need to upgrade until sometime next year. Honestly though, it's a great time to be into any GFX cards. Competition has heated up so much in the past two years and has only helped all of us.