I've always had Nvidia at home and not had any issues so tend to default to them (with the exception of the absolutely abyssmal 5200 cooker back in the day where it should never have been made as a passive cooled option). My experience with AMD drivers at work was not great so I'd still lean going Nvidia now but with stock as it is it's all a moot point isn't it?!
I won't be buying Gigabyte again following failure of my GTX-1080ti 2 months outside warranty and Gigabyte refusing to honour their £50 over warranty service as no component stock.
The replacement Nvidia 2060 FE is well made and I would buy FE going forward (it anything ever comes into stock again!)
that sucks. my gigabyte SoC card is still going well 10 years on, and I always paid for those for the extra binning they got. What version of 1080 did you have from them? I must admit I'm always suspicious of the cheaper tiers as that cost saving has to go somewhere...
After 10 years of using only AMD cards (probably like... 10 different cards), I am all "green" for some time now.
Palit GTX 1080 GRP in my main rig, EVGA GTX 1060 SC 3GB in my HTPC, GTX 1060 & GTX 960 in my laptops.
To be honest I still love AMD's products (my main rig is sporting a Ryzen CPU), but Nvidia's Pascal series was WHOA!
My current rig started with a Sapphire 6870 that was very good, reliable and quiet with good temps.
In 2015 I temporarily upgraded to a Diamond 290X with a reference cooler. It sounded like a helicopter taking off in my living room, so it went back to the store, and I stuck with the Sapphire as it was still mostly adequate in performance.
In 2016 I upgraded to an MSI Gaming X RX 480. I switched to MSI because their card had the best reviews for cooling and acoustics, and after the 290X experiment that was important. And indeed, it's fantastic in that area. It did have an issue where it would stop outputting to the monitor after being idle, until I unplugged and replugged the display, which was annoying. But a driver update has made that almost entirely go away.
I'll probably slightly favor Sapphire for my next card, though I'd still buy an MSI as well. I wouldn't buy an AMD reference cooler; it's not worth saving a few bucks when it means having a noisy card for the next 4 years. Might consider other partner cards depending on their reviews.
EVGA RTX2070 Super. Still working well
Stuck with Nvidia mostly through all my builds, currently have a EVGA GTX 1070 SC Black, no plans on upgrading in the near future. Want to get Valve Index VR first, and a 144Hz+ GSync monitor, then maybe I'll consider saving for a new GPU upgrade.
I have a RTX 2080 Ti. I'm not in a rush to upgrade. I expect Nvidia to release their 40xx cards towards the end of this year and I'll see how they fare. But I'm not brand-loyal: if AMD release their 7xxx cards at the same time it's game on!
Currently running a Palit GamingPro OC RTX 2080TI and love it although I'll never spend this kind of money on a video card again
A AsRock 6900XT Reference card i was lucky enough to get at original $999 msrp. Looking back im glad i took the leap of faith cause right now the GPU scene is unsightly. So far 0 issues with it and it replaced an MSI GTX 980 Gaming(4+ years old still going strong) which i put into another machine to replace a ASUS GTX 650 Ti Boost( still kicking but just so outdated).
Currently and still on a 1080ti it is not so much about the brand though, whatever highend card that this next time will give me most for the bucks in the higher end will get my next purchase, however, no point in going wild or anything as the low amounts of GPUs from both teams must be having a really bad yield, though RED team seem to have the best topend card for the best price in comparison to team Green
I've had AMD cards for years now, 10+. Current card is Sapphire RX580 with 8Gb, which replaced my eight year old AMD 7850 with 2Gb only last year. I did notice the difference!
I don't think this posted, so I'll try again.
3DFX.
Pretty relaxed on the GFX side of things, tend to buy a cheaper brand card as i dont go creative with the GFX cards.
Need to learn the same with mobos as i dont really go creative on those either, just want to puck some parts together inside a box and get on with it.
I'm mostly team green. Had some success with a Radeon 9500Pro, but otherwise nvidia does what I went with less driver fussing than I've had from AMD.
Currently rocking a 3080FE. I'm a fan of MSI for the value vs cooling offer. But for a 3080, only the FE fits in my case. Almost designed for the airflow (In Win 901).
I favor Nvidia's GPUs and prefer EVGA. Their cards are well-built and supported with the very cool Precision X1 utility to boot.
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