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Features - QOTW: AMD or Nvidia, who makes the better graphics driver?
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Let's hear it from you, the consumers, which team's drivers serve you best?
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Re: Features - QOTW: AMD or Nvidia, who makes the better graphics driver?
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Re: Features - QOTW: AMD or Nvidia, who makes the better graphics driver?
I reckon in terms of performance per die area Nvidia might have the edge, hard to say based purely on power/performance as it depends on your use case as AMDs ulta-low idle power state counteracts slightly higher load power usage. However, what AMD is doing is really adding a whole load of value to a purchase with the games bundles - so if I were in the market for a GPU at the moment it would definately be an AMD card.
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Seriously Hexus, are you trying to start a flame war? Would have to be Nvidia though, AMD have been good recently but Nvidia have always been good imo.
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Re: Features - QOTW: AMD or Nvidia, who makes the better graphics driver?
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martian_aphid
I reckon in terms of performance per die area Nvidia might have the edge, hard to say based purely on power/performance as it depends on your use case as AMDs ulta-low idle power state counteracts slightly higher load power usage. However, what AMD is doing is really adding a whole load of value to a purchase with the games bundles - so if I were in the market for a GPU at the moment it would definately be an AMD card.
Oops, don't skim read the title damnit! Yeah as for drivers, probably right with Nvidia but AMD have caught up a lot, espcially if you look at certain games like BF3. I think AMD need to focus a lot on remedying their micro-stuttering though as Nvidia certainly have them beat on that front.
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Nvidia still better.. But still expensive..
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Re: Features - QOTW: AMD or Nvidia, who makes the better graphics driver?
I've not had any problems with either. I think the whole thing about AMD's drivers is now redundant and needs to be forgotten.
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Re: Features - QOTW: AMD or Nvidia, who makes the better graphics driver?
In my experience it's fairly the same, I did have slightly more crashes using nVidia in my time, but I did a lot of OC'ing and stuff when I Did use nVidia. Honestly they are around the same, there's obviously a case of microstutter that needs to be worked on, but AMD cetainly aren't bad at making drivers.
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Obviously Nvidia...
Multi-Gpu can be a micro-stuttering nightmare with AMD.
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Re: Features - QOTW: AMD or Nvidia, who makes the better graphics driver?
AMD obviously since they don't cause your pc to catch fire
http://www.neoseeker.com/news/13306-...-fans-to-stop/
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What different does it make if next generation cards are just around the corner? We get this every year with pc's. It's not such a big deal as consoles... As for drivers, I'd say AMD/ATI are winning it for gamers right now. Nvidia seem to be having more problems lately. Once I'm done with my GTX 670, I'll likely be switching back to AMD for various reasons.
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Gah, ur just baiting us Hexus! Stop it!
*sigh* But as I'm here: I use both and atm Nvidia just edges it I think but I want both 'sides' to improve. I'd like to try Crossfire and am waiting for AMD's solution to micro-stutter to appear...
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Re: Features - QOTW: AMD or Nvidia, who makes the better graphics driver?
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Pleiades
Gah, ur just baiting us Hexus! Stop it!
*sigh* But as I'm here: I use both and atm Nvidia just edges it I think but I want both 'sides' to improve. I'd like to try Crossfire and am waiting for AMD's solution to micro-stutter to appear...
haha yeh they definitey baited us - successfully! i'm a little sick of these amd vs nvidia questions though. they would be much more interesting if these things were polls. be way easier to see what people think.
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I haven't used an nvidia card for a long time so can't really compare, but I certainly wont be 'updating' my amd 'legacy'(4870) ever again as despite them attempting to streamline the process it just didn't work smoothly.
As one day it popped up on login would I like to update to 13.1 drivers, sure why not. Update happens must reboot pc ... so I reboot and up it pops would I like to update to 13.1 erm didntI just do that, maybe it just un installed the last lot and now wants to install the new ones. So I say yes it wants to reboot again so I let it and up it pops again would I like to update this time I say no. I check the version installed and find it's still the old ones so goto the website grab the latest version install it and reboot, huzzah no prompt to update and quick check and i'm on 13.1, goto run an opencl application program starts and immediately closes itself without an error. Try a different opencl app and it does the same thing.
Opencl was working fine the day before ... so i update the opencl sdk, still nothing.
I then spent the next couple of hours wiping all traces of amd software off my machine and reloading it all to latest spec, so catalyst drivers, opencl drivers and sdk.
Finally get it going again to find opencl running 20% slower than before.
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Well, after thinking about every aspect of a drivers I could think of I have to say nVidia comes out on top in all of them, with the sole exception of the GUI; AMD's drivers are friendlier to look at.
Granted, I haven't used AMD drivers on one of my machines since October last year so things could have changed, I just highly doubt it.
