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About LinkBackspersonally, I've always been an Nvidia fan. But recently, there has been big things going on for both platforms. what do you guys think? (Try to keep away from fan-boy/girlish!
personally, I've always been an Nvidia fan. But recently, there has been big things going on for both platforms. what do you guys think? (Try to keep away from fan-boy/girlish!
I think that's the wrong question to ask really. Each card should be considered on its own merit because there's such a range from both companies. Instead the question is which is the best card for my budget and uses? The answer is usually far more dependant on model of card than it is who happened to design and manufacture the card. There are some exceptions of course, where you might have software that's certified only for use with one vendor for example, but they are very rare and if you're in the specialised fields you would know about it!
Askew (12-10-2014)
Depends what you play, some games favour Nvidia and some AMD.
I play BF4 and AMD mantle makes a big difference in performance.
Or if you prefer Batman the phys-x of nvidia makes the game that much sweeter.
Price wise AMD has usually had an advantage over Nvidia, but the pricing of these GTX970's is pretty hard to compete with.
If I was in the market today to spend £300 on a gpu, the GTX970 would be a no-brainer.
I thought the real difference is that now with new the GTX 9xx, the power consumption of AMD cards look really horrible.
Looking at the reviews, and with £200 max budget, to play the likes of Skyrim on a 1080p screen at top resolution and frame rate the AMD R9 285 looks the one to get.
I'll be honest, this was more of a curiosity than anything... I have an Nvidia GTX680 at the moment and doubt I'll be upgrading soon... what do people know about AMDs Mantle Technology though... What does it do?
http://www.amd.com/en-gb/innovations...antle#overviewOriginally Posted by Dark57ar42
http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/17...-cpus-not-gpus
Mantle is just AMDs answer to reduce draw calls and latency. It is just a low level API like DirectX/OpenGL to allow developers to have more control on and also to reduce driver overheads.
For instance Mantle will eliminate frame rendering when the frame is empty, to eliminate draw calls (latency) etc. Though DX12 is starting to offer similar features
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My summarized opinion on each, Nvidia is more refined with cooler temps, more power efficient and a great deal more features. AMD is raw power with less features with less power efficiency and generally at a cheaper price point although i think Nvidia have really done well with the 970 price/performance wise.
Fair comments there... Particularly the one from mikeo01 explaining what mantle does... Much more succinct than the marketing blurb! I'm going to be interested to see what pushes me to upgrade from my current setup, though from all I've read, I'll probably be sticking with NVIDIA
Nvidia
-Shadowplay (gameplay capture and compression on the fly, works quite well but isn't as good as some software solutions that can run on any system)
-PhysX (Proprietary physics simulation software, integrated into a small selection of games (Batman, Borderlands to name major ones) cannot run on AMD and Nvidia recently removed the ability for users to run a cheap Nvidia card as a dedicated PhyX card when running an AMD card as primary)
-Gsync (Nvidia's implementation of variable refresh rate for monitors)
-CUDA (For workstation/rendering applications that are able to utilize GPU cores to assist the CPU in performing tasks)
-Arguably better driver software and multi GPU implementation (SLI)
-Current flagships consume less power than AMD's current flagships.
AMD
-Mantle API as explained above
-Freesync (AMD's implementation of variable refresh rate for monitors)
-Better OpenCL performance (Again for workstation/rendering work, also mining cryptocurrencies)
-Wider memory bandwidth and higher VRAM at a few price points
-Better performance per £ at quite a few price points (R9 290 held the price/performance crown at high end for quite a while, the R9 280 is still a better option than a GTX 760 for performance)
-Arguably worse driver software (their latest driver Catalyst 14.9 has some fairly major issues that required a beta to be rushed out, 14.9.1) and multi GPU implementation (CrossFire)
-Current flagships consume more power than Nvidia's current flagships.
I have missed things for sure, but there are some basic points for comparison between the two, I'm sure people will come to correct me and add to them.
As the first post in this thread said, it is better to work from a budget and existing system specification perspective, then your needs from the GPU and then an accurate recommendation can be made to you.
Both companies produce great products, they do different things in different ways in some areas, are strong in some areas and weak in others it all depends on the customer's requirements and budget as to what you choose, I currently run Nvidia and AMD powered GPU configurations in my systems and am very happy with both.
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