It's with a heavy heart, that I have to say “probably nvidia”.
I bought a 5700 XT from Scan (who have been utterly awful with their aftersales to the point I will be avoiding them in future) in September but had nothing but problems. The card was woefully unstable, and looking through Reddit etc., I'm in no way in isolation.
The final straw was when I was in the middle of a support call and the card crashed. I simply can't have something that falls over all the time.
I was really wanting to shift from nvidia's insane pricing over to AMD, but it simply isn't feasible for somebody who makes their living from their computer (as well as gaming, natch). Looking further into the problems, crashing AMD drivers, irrespective of the generation, seems to be a not uncommon occurrence.
I'm sticking with a 1070 Ti for the time being, but I might pick up a second to SLI it, or keep an eye out for some deals on the 2000 series next year or something.
You're really let me down AMD.
A couple of months ago i purchased an nVidia Geforce GTX 1650 and couldn't have been happier, now they bring out a 1650 super, but i'm happy with the one i have, so i guess i'll stay with nVidia for the foreseeable future. My next pc will have an nVidia also… I've tried Radeons and i don't like them..
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Did a new build not long ago with an 8gb Radeon RX580. First non Nvidia card I've used for about 15yrs. I'm very happy with what I've got.
Whatever comes my way at the most suitable performance/price point on the second hand market.
I'm not sure, Nvidia are particularly expensive while there have been high discounts on 5700XT models that heat way too much, despite one being a triple fan setup. I depends on pricing, but I'm also not sure whether either are wise choices. The console generation seemingly is going to support raytracing so it seems somewhat wise to go for that if you want something more long term, but I'm unsure if first gen nvidia is the way to go.
I'm not sure yet. I'll take a serious look at the NVidia camp this time, I might just stick with 1080p 120hz so I can stay midrange.
It should depend on how much I game, but to be honest I might just end up making another “enthusiast” purchase and wasting a boatload of money. We shall see if Hexus can save me from myself!
Hopefully Intel. I'm still incredibly salty with nvidia over the 2080Ti. 30% more performance for damn near double the cost, it sickened me. I've been buying from them for as long as I can remember, and it's been a consistent, reliable increase in performance over the last one for a bit of a bump in price. But the RTX bullcrap just rubbed me the wrong way - forcing tech onto people, which actually has no real use on the high end, because who would give up 4K just to get slightly prettier lights ?!
So I'm pinning my hopes on Intel coming out with something good. Because I just don't think AMD are in the high end graphics game anymore.
It depends on what gives me the best value for the money spendt, usally going for stuff such as 1080 ti and the likes, but uhm… if it means I lose 10-15 fps in some games by buying AMD or Nvidia or whatever am gonna live with it as long as min fps is above 80.
Most likely AMD Radeon since they tend to get supported (in terms of feature additions and extra performance in drivers) for longer than NVIDIA does their GPUs. Along with usually being better value for money of course.
It's unlikely to be for at least a few years now though, as I bought a Vega 56 last year in anticipation of it going along with a new system that still hasn't been bought and built yet, but will be based around a 3950X CPU.
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Whatever comes my way at the most suitable performance/price point on the second hand market.
This is my buying criteria too. Although I'm considering going to the next generation of console depending on how AMDs raytraycing stacks up.
If I had to buy one right now, it would probably be Nvidia. But…
Depends - I won't be buying a new card for at least year, so I'm waiting for AMD to release higher end models and to see what Nvidia plans for the next year. It sounds like AMD will have an answer to Nvidia's ray tracing “supremacy,” as the cool kids are saying now, so let's see what happens with price vs. performance. I think we also need to see what happens as far as games tailoring for one GPU over the other - the surprise performance of the 5700/XT in RDR2 seems to be indicative of what happens when people start programming for AMD gpus since they are in all the consoles now. I'm not brand loyal in the GPU space.
I'm keeping an eye on AMD for my next purchase, I have been NVidia a few years (after being AMD for over 10) and AMD look to be becoming a lot more competitive at the higher end.
My new 5700XT red devil card are doing fine, though i must admit it seem to have caused some problems for me too.
1: Gigabytes RGB fusion software, while it have always been miserable it can not launch on my computer since i put this GFX in the machine and did a clean install of everything.
2: most of my few games are fine with the new card, but gears 5 which i have gotten free access to with the Xbox Game Pass, well i little into campaign there is a time where i have to install another thing on that flying thing, but i just cant.
Up until that moment in the game there have been no problem accessing the drone by pressing TAB.
The game don't crash or anything i just can not install that thing and so i can not move on with campaign, and gears 5 are not a game i would even consider to play multiplayer, i love my good mood too much to attempt that.
Of course it might not be the 5700XT that are to blame, but other seem to have been able to play thru campaign just fine, i doubt i will be able to do that before my free XGP run out on January 4
Wolfstein new colossus and metro exedus I am sampling via XGP + railway empire all run perfect.
Other programs also work fine even GFX dependent programs like my video editing suite.
I would like to win in lotto and get a 4K monitor and a big navi card if that's not a pipe dream, but that's only the only way i will ever be able to finance that.
1920X CPU @ 4GHZ / 48GB ram @ 3300 MHZ and pretty happy wit my “all new” AMD machine
As a Linux user I pretty much feel the only option is AMD.
Purchased a RTX2070 Super while on holiday in September. I've been very happy with it
Just bought a Zotac GTX1650 Low profile. Big improvement on the old 750ti.
Big increase in performance, however it is a noisier. Perhaps I should have gone for a 1050ti low profile, but it'll do me for at least 5 years.
The one I will win in one of your giveaways.
We'll see what is available in two or three years, when it's upgrade time again.
No idea at this stage as I only got my 1080TI last year. I gave my last amd card to my parents but they ended up having to go back to intergrated graphics as one of the windows 10 upgrades caused windows to crash and amd cut support. Thing is i purchased the amd card after a previous nvidia card which was still supported . Unless amd driver support has got better will likely stick to nvidia.
Currently 1080Ti, 980Ti and a laptop with a 1070. Turing was a major fail thus skipped. With AMD promising good things for next gen console, it would be silly to write them off. So lets see what next year brings.
I have a 1070 Zotac. I am hoping for a AMD card with the next generation. Though the cards are slightly less expensive. If I don't like the next batch of cards, then I will likely go Nvidia again. All I know is that both companies are screwing people over on price.
Nvidia Ampere, most likely. Turing isn't enough to pull me off of my 1080 Ti. AMD is still playing catchup to 1080 Ti, so unlikely to be AMD next gen unless they pull off a surprise, which I won't rule out, just unexpected.
Got an RX 5700 being delivered on Monday. Think I've done my homework so it should be a sensible cooler. Most I've ever spent on a GPU
Nvidia. I need CUDA for Tensorflow, and ROCm just ain't there yet. Probably a 2060S, but I'm waiting for next gen.
AMD have nothing to offer at the top end.
Didn't we have this question a little while ago….
Mines pretty much restricted to nvidia due to my software working primarily/better with cuda than open-gl.
I got a RTX 2080Ti after one of my GTX 1080s died. Running a single card for the first time since Nvidia reintroduced SLI back in the Geforce 6000 series. Point being I will likely not upgrade until 3rd gen RTX cards drop or AMD releases something faster the nvidia's top tier cards (again after skipping next gen…I hope).
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It's with a heavy heart, that I have to say “probably nvidia”.
I bought a 5700 XT from Scan (who have been utterly awful with their aftersales to the point I will be avoiding them in future) in September but had nothing but problems. The card was woefully unstable, and looking through Reddit etc., I'm in no way in isolation.
The final straw was when I was in the middle of a support call and the card crashed. I simply can't have something that falls over all the time.
I was really wanting to shift from nvidia's insane pricing over to AMD, but it simply isn't feasible for somebody who makes their living from their computer (as well as gaming, natch). Looking further into the problems, crashing AMD drivers, irrespective of the generation, seems to be a not uncommon occurrence.
I'm sticking with a 1070 Ti for the time being, but I might pick up a second to SLI it, or keep an eye out for some deals on the 2000 series next year or something.
You're really let me down AMD.
Apart from the issue with Scan, that ^^^, is why I have chosen Nvidia for many years now. The memory of the frustration of crashes and graphical glitches has kept me away from AMD ever since. Personally I have never had an issue with an Nvidia card so that is where I will stay.
It may be that I am maligning AMD for no good reason but the memory persists and steers me away from them every time I have to make a choice.
I used to be Nvidia but since I bought my 144hz 1440p Freesync monitor I've owned a Fury pro, Vega 64 and now a Sapphire Pulse 5700XT. Although Nvidia now claims to support Freesync I'll probably get another Radeon in about 18 months time as I usually go 2 years GPU cycles. I've been lucky with drivers I guess and if you go on Nvidia forums they complain about NV drivers too so I don't read too much into driver issues.
I also own an XBonex and I'll be buying the new MS console when it comes out next year to do 4k gaming on my 50" LG HDR TV. That will be my main purchase next year for sure.
Radeon for me this time around, BIG Navi with HBM2 :P
Still have Vega 64 LiQuiD (AMD with LC).
It's a great GPU for 1440p up to 100FPS, paired with 10Bit Freesync 74Hz.
so it's who do we want to be most ripped off by…
a real dilemma that I'm still in. Cannot justify the cost of either AMD or Nvidia atm, and this has left me without a gaming system. Too little performance per £ and too little discount of previous generations mean I'm teetering on the edge with not gaming.
I seem to buy at about every fouth iteration of Nvidia: 220, 660, 1060… so things mght have changed the next time I feel an upgrade would be worthwhile. Maybe even Intel will have become a significant player by then.
As much as I'm loathed to give nVidia a single red cent, I might end up grabbing a GTX 1660 Super at some point after it drops. Mostly for the turing nvenc engine, by all accounts it provides a reasonable quality/size ratio thanks to h.265 B-frames support, and it can obviously run rings around x265 and pretty much any CPU in terms of encoding framerate. I just haven't seen anything to suggest that AMD's VCE/VCN is anywhere near as capable in efficiency stakes, even on Navi, and the software support for it is certainly… not great.
I mean the RX 5700 and RX 5700xt are the best value cards in years, so if you've got $350 to $450 to spend, these are the cards to get.
I'm just hoping for a reduction in prices so I can snap an RX 5700.
Nvidia Turing for NVENC most likely.
Value in this case isn't purely cost per frame.
My next build will probably be another SFF with an eye towards low energy use, so whoever has the best card that doesn't require an extra power plug. Bonus if it's fanless or quiet.
Nvidia for me. I especially like EVGA's graphics cards, and they only make cards using the Green Team's GPUs.
probably AMD for me…. always had better experience with them but I don't game very much any more and I use opencl a lot
Currently have a RTX 2080 and previously a GTX 1070 and I cannot complain so Nvidia for me all things being equal..Yes I have to pay more but the performance and efficiency is right at the top and it blasts through all my games with ease.
If AMD do come with a GPU that can compete then of course I will give them a good look but until then Nvidia are doing the job…Granted you have to pay more but ultimately it comes down to my own budget and I will always buy the very best GPU for the money I have to spend be it Nvidia or AMD..
My GPU history has favoured Nvidia far more than AMD, but mainly because their cards offered most appeal for my budget at the time of upgrading. I look at both camps every tine I consider an upgrade and I'll do the same next time.
However, given the fact that I have a 1080 Ti, “next time” will likely be some way off and maybe, just maybe, Intel will also be worth considering.
/tongue in cheek mode
I just watched the Digital Foundry review of the GTX 1660 Super which provides performance at the level of the Titan X Maxwell which launched at $1000 four and a half years ago and now for $230 you get the same performance so I just do not understand the constant hate on both sides and the Nvidia versus AMD argument…yes at the top end you will always pay more but at the low and mid range you are getting a lot of value as opposed to 5 years ago…the performance to cost is actually very good at the low to mid level…Bottom line buy the best you can afford be it AMD or Nvidia…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xf1OQ2c5jEs
I don't anticipate upgrading for at least another 2-3 years, but I usually buy nVidia. I had bad experiences with ATI back on the day, but if nVidia continues to keep its prices so high I'll probably see what AMD & Intel are offering first.
AMD 100%, unless something happens and Nvidia starts offering high value/£ cards again
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so it's who do we want to be most ripped off by…
a real dilemma that I'm still in. Cannot justify the cost of either AMD or Nvidia atm, and this has left me without a gaming system. Too little performance per £ and too little discount of previous generations mean I'm teetering on the edge with not gaming.
There are still some bargains out there, I used to pay £130 for good mid end cards that weren't that far behind the high end (4200ti, 6600GT, GTX460) and although the high end has gone mental the likes of the RX 570 means you can still game happily at that price bracket. I paid more for my Vega 56 so I could do decent VR, a capability those old cards never needed, but you still don't need to spend the really silly money to get that level.
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Most likely AMD Radeon since they tend to get supported (in terms of feature additions and extra performance in drivers) for longer than NVIDIA does their GPUs. Along with usually being better value for money of course.
It's unlikely to be for at least a few years now though, as I bought a Vega 56 last year in anticipation of it going along with a new system that still hasn't been bought and built yet, but will be based around a 3950X CPU.
This to me is critical. My Rx480 continues to get new features even years after release. Nvidia stop adding anything to a card once a next gen is out. I don't buy for one generation, but something that'll do me several years. I also prefer the AMD drivers…
Built a new system in a Lianli Dc-O11 case, with the intention of water cooling that I havent gotten around to yet. Got a Sapphire 5700XT reference card which has been excellent so far for me. Never crashes or gets too loud, which is a surprise as there are no fans in the case yet. Might replace it next year if AMD release an RT card, but next thing on my list is a Freesync monitor.
Until 4k HDR becomes a standard thing on HDMI / Display port X.0 I will probably end up sticking to my Vega.
Unless another game like Eve Online comes over and takes over my life for a few years. <eyes Star Citizen sideways>
It would have to be a really good offering from AMD for me to be willing to even look at their cards, they always seem to be ‘nearly’ as good as the Nvidia offerings, and I still have painful memories of the old driver problems (admittedly from a long time ago).
Up to them really I'm not brand loyal, I just buy the best at the time of an upgrade or new build. Now that I am older and wiser with money, All I care about is the enthusiast end these days and am currently on 2080Ti.
Who ever first offers something faster than that by at least 30% will end up in next build.
AMD has won me over on 3950X as soon as it comes out as I'm still on almost 6 year old Haswell-E 5960X, Hopefully they can offer something in high end gpu land within a year or two.
I still have PTSD from the old “Catalyst Control Centre” AMD driver software when growing up. The worst piece of graphics software (if you can even call it that) ever designed. The first time I used Nvidia's GeForce experience it was revolutionary for me, coming from trash like CCC. I've never looked back.
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I still have PTSD from the old “Catalyst Control Centre” AMD driver software when growing up. The worst piece of graphics software (if you can even call it that) ever designed. The first time I used Nvidia's GeForce experience it was revolutionary for me, coming from trash like CCC. I've never looked back.
Agree the CCC was awful. Having since used both Geforce Experience and whatever the replacement for CCC is called they're both fine.
That said, apart from when I first install a new GPU or to apply updates I don't think I've ever spent any time in either software. Unless I overclock is there any reason to do so?
If it ain't broke don't try to fix it - meaning I'll probably get an Amphere gpu to replace my 1070. A priority for me is a gpu that just works, that's more important then a few ££ or fps. As long as Nvidia keep giving me a trouble free life I'll pay the tax.
I have just ordered a full red build and will be buying a 200usd 1440p@75Hz 32" IPS with freesync next month
I've been using Nvidia Graphics cards for over 20 years, and have tried a few AMD cards over the years - Nvidia has always been more stable for me, AMD came close in the crossover years of Win98 to Win XP. And with what I've seen from some of the posts here, that's still likely true.
AMD Radeon possibly a Sapphire 5700XT together with the AMD Ryzen 7 3800X, I already have a Freesync monitor, just waiting to see what the prices are like on Black Friday. Trying to sell off my complete Skylake rig on eBay UK. If not then It'll just have to be an Intel i7 6700K and a Gigabyte Z170X Gaming 7 LGA 1151 REV 1 for sale.