The AMD vs HD vs Nvidia War in modern games

[SPCTRE]

I've been thinking of upgrading and lo and behold the GTX 1080 is coming out in a couple weeks, I'm looking to splurge a little bit on that bad boy, it sounds awesome.

my advice would be to go for the 1070 (bang/buck ratio), but maybe that wouldn't be considered splurging

 

[Mr. Adventure]

my advice would be to go for the 1070 (bang/buck ratio), but maybe that wouldn't be considered splurging

You may be right, I get staggered by those stats but I don't game like I used to. I'm not the water-cooling overclocking SLI type so I do like the idea of a card that can do it all but the 1070 would probably answer my needs quite well.

 

[Venardhi]

For half the price you could get an RX 480 in a few weeks, which is the first non-nvidia card I've considered in years. Should be within a few frames of a 1070 in most games and possibly even beat it in a few. That's my plan.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

It's helped my itchy trigger finger that these have been consistently sold out. I have been thinking the 1070 might be a wiser choice than the 1080, though, and might be the sweet spot for me. I haven't been gaming a lot lately but I want to be able to crank it up when I do and I can afford it at the moment (knock on wood). For the moment, I like staying with Nvidia if only because it's what I know and I don't feel like dealing with any possible surprises right now.

 

[Santaman]

I've been using both AMD and Nvidia, nowadays there are no possible surprises, neither can afford any surprises, the only thing they both still suffer from is a dodgy driver once in a while, otherwise its all same all same.

 

[FPAlpha]

Years ago when i bought a PC i would pour endlessly over specs, user and professional reviews and trying to find the best deal out there.. it was actually fun but then i realized (when i was 10+ years older) that it doesn't really matter much in the end. If you get a card in a comparable class to its competitor brand they will operate at roughly the same level. All the benchmark tests are just academic numbers and mean jack shit during actual gaming because people rarely notice any differences whatsoever and will rarely go the highest end if the cards possibilities in a way thatthe 5% more power would actually be noticeable.

So it's basically just brand loyalty that's so pervasise.. the same crap that's plagueing consoles with their Playstation vs. Xbox discussion.

Nowadays i basically pull up a dedicated PC gaming site that does hardware reports and who offer a buying guide.. they usually have setups for all budgets, choose your budget class and then either buy the whole package (in my case they had a deal with a hardware vendor site that sold these configurations already, easiest shopping i ever did) or do some component hunting and build it yourself.

 

[Amaris]

I've been using both AMD and Nvidia, nowadays there are no possible surprises, neither can afford any surprises, the only thing they both still suffer from is a dodgy driver once in a while, otherwise its all same all same.

I am loving my new Nvidia GT 740, though. It packs a hell of a lot of punch for a mid-range card, and while it only has 1 GB of GDDR5 onboard RAM, the bandwidth is 128 bit which I feel is far more important. It also runs DX 11 and 12, so it's good for the near future, and getting it for $60 is a steal, I think. All because it was open box!

 

[Serin117]

Almost amusingly the only issue I've ever had with drivers for my titan x was updating them, once, a month ago... Considering that I almost daily hit the card with rendering in cycles etc etc I'd say that's a fairly good record.
Games on the other hand have never been problematic from a driver perspective.