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QOTW: Does AMD or Nvidia offer better value for money?

by Tarinder Sandhu on 2 October 2015, 16:31

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It's fair to say that Nvidia has stolen a march on AMD in the graphics-card stakes this year. Various research bodies have the green team way ahead in terms of market share and sales, though very recent opinion reckons the red team is fighting back.

Performance is only one aspect of a card's allure. Other factors such as partner reputation, driver support, game bundling, availability, price, and future potential all come into play for the well-informed enthusiast.

AMD appears to concentrate its marketing firepower on a larger number of products that overlap one another more so than Nvidia. But, coming back to point, which company do you believe offers you, the enthusiast, better value for money?

Better value is a subjective notion that's constituted by various factors, so, in the interests of good debate, we'd like to know why you'd plump for one side over another in the value-for-money stakes. Is it just cost? As always, use the comments facility below to make your views known to the community at large.



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I'd say AMD for most price points, sub £350ish AMD has the cake and eats it.
However i struggle when it comes to the FURY line up, especially the NANO, for the price range of that card i'd say NVIDIA has more to offer.
Also this is just in a desktop sense, would be interesting to see how there mobile chips compare.
AMD offers better forward thinking tech at a better price. Sadly Nvidia control the market.
For Price/Performance, it's always been AMD for me in the sub £350 ish range (in agreement with AFD). When you get to money is nearly no object, AMD just falls short.
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AMD offers better forward thinking tech at a better price. Sadly Nvidia control the market.

Forward-thinking in a GPU? So by the time that tech is useful, the card is obsolete….no wonder AMD are in trouble.

Like so many of the QOTWs lately, it's a loaded gun with the answer “It depends on what you want from your GPU….”

Any chance we could have a more thoughtful QOTW next time?
AMD seems usually first to adopt new tech, like HBM, but that just means Nvidia get to learn from AMD's mistakes and usually do it better or adopt it once the creases are ironed out.
Nvidia certainly seem to do nicer software. AMD's always looks a bit naff and fogeyish. Non-reference Nvidia cards also seem to appeal more to me overall, for some reason.

Ultimately so long as it works, I'm happy with either and have had plenty of good AMD cards in the past, which were all decent performance for the money. Nvidia are probably overpriced, but still feel like you get your money's worth.

I think it's just the green colour that does it!