nVidia vs AMD - No Price comparisons, please.

7970 ghz edition all the way :)

NVIDIA vs. AMD, no price comparisons, no performance comparisons, no image quality comparisons, no power consumption comparisons, no card size comparisons, no special API's comparisons, no driver comparisons:

NVIDIA has more letters, and I think a generally more pleasing sound. It sounds like a word, rather than an acronym. On the other hand AMD can be changed to MAD by switching letters, which is cute.

Definitely Nvidia mostly because their drivers and hardware quality are better. Everyone i know that has or had AMD cards in the past had problems with them. Everyone i know that has or had Nvidia cards in the past got no issue whatsoever.

Totally worth it to spend like $20 more to get the nvidia card over AMD. This is not an opinion its a fact. Deal with it blinded AMD fanboys ;)

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I don't really know, I haven't really dealt with comparable ones side by side. I have an NVIDIA card now (have had some driver problems), before that I had an NVIDIA card (Driver problems, died too quickly, probly was just a bad card that I ended up getting), and before that I had an ATI/AMD card (driver problems+eventually died, I liked this card a lot until it crapped out)

If you're talking performance only, then the GTX Titan is the best single GPU available, that doesn't make it the best bang for the buck or the one with the best power consumption.

If you don't care about price comparisons then you might as well just get yourself 3 ASUS ROGII (x2 7970GHZ edition, watercooled), or two/three GTX Titan, pair them up and run a few benchmarks, then see the results yourself, at those price points the difference is just a few digits, and boils down to how games are optimized for each brand, or what extra capabilities a brand could have (i'm thinking Physx for Nvidia, but i don't consider it as worth the extra money, personally).

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fucking dumb thread, the answer its too obvious if we cant talk about quality-price

Nvidia all the way

Take both + motherboard with lucidhydra support. Every game will run + GeForce is good for Matlab.

b4 HD7000 and GTX600, Nvidia all the way.

After HD7000 and GTX600/GTX Titan, AMD all the way.

This might help

Titan and 690 should both outperform a 7970 in single card situations. For the price of the Nvidia cards, you can buy two Radeon HD 7970 cards and get higher performance than a single Titan or GTX 690.

Go with two 7970 in Crossfire if you have two PCIe x8 slots available.

If you only have one slot at higher than x8, go with a 690 or a Titan, either one with the best GPU cooler you can find. The Titan will overclock itself when possible to keep itself below 80c temps without interaction from the user, changing speed and voltage on the fly.

Of course, going with multiple Titans will still outperform multiple 7970s. Just make sure that system is SUPERCOOLED.

Also of concern is the scarcity of 7970 cards today. Amazon and Newegg have been sold out for a while, and do not know when they're getting resupplied this year. You can find 7970s on ebay for around 500-600 USD.

I'll break it down

nvidia if you want to run a 3d setup
ati if you would like to run more then 2 monitors on gpus released years ago. (ATI Radeon™ HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 monitors supported)

Both have had bad driver releases, but most of the time its USER ERROR. meaning not the correct hardware or whatever else

meh two PCIe x16 slots , not 8 avoid that shit

NVIDEA TITEN FTW

I don't like AMD or Nvidua. I have a gigabyte radeon hd 7850 and its working better than AMD or Nvidia...

I have been purchasing Nvidia card since my good ol' Riva TNT. At the time AMD was ATI and their cards where terrible. Anyone remember the Rage chipset? By the time I began to consider an ATI card I had been through the TNT, a TNT2, a Geforce2 GTS, and a Geforce 4600ti.

I've always considered ATI (then AMD) when purchasing a new video card since that time. Nowadays, both companies make solid hardware and have timely driver support, with the speed crown bouncing between the two every 6-12 months.

My point is that I've continued to buy Nvidia cards simply because they have made and continue to make a good product that I am happy with. I have no angst or ill will towards AMD cards. Its just that both offer very similar products and I haven't been disappointed with my Nvidia purchases thus far.

Thus I believe you will find a product from either company in your selected price range that you will be happy with.

P.S. I do realize that, had I purchased a Geforce 5000 series, my next could have very well been an AMD/ATI card.

P.P.S Physx may calculate the path of thousands of particles/objects but your poor video card now has a lot more to render. Why do you think the PS4 demo with a million objects where all rendered blue?

I have a shitty laptop with a good Nvidia card and it runs all Nvidia/Source/not very graphics-demanding games very very well.

This is not a game about getting the highest FPSs. You want smooth gameplay, NOT high FPS. They are not the same thing.

It's well documented that multi-GPU setups cause more microstuttering. The ideal setup is a massive single GPU. That means the Titan.

well after I used 7200gs it pissed me so much I turned to ATI last 5 years I used sapphire 3650 --> sapphire 4670 --> sapphire 5830 --> and now sapphire 7850 :D

and my laptop has 4650, I am not going to give a chance to nvidia again :|

You can't compare video cards without factoring in their prices... The "value for money" factor is very important.

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I have had both. I had no issues with both. Intel is crap. that is all.