I don't understand why would someone actively want an nvidia card.
CUDA or AI for work - that's the only legitimate reason I see.
My reason for wanting an AMD card is price for VRAM, and the better Linux support, although I've heard Nvidia has improved a lot in that area recently, which I'll have to test with the cards I have at hand (yes, I have several Nvidia cards in my HTPCs as well as spares, but somehow "I'm an AMD fan"). If it's true, then I'll say I'm good with any card that represents good value, regardless of the colour on its box.
Mentality and psychology pushes humans to root for the underdog. Rooting for the bigger company club or whatever is boring.
I agree, although I always try my best to keep an open mind about all sides.
I usually try to get out of my way to buy an amd card but it's kind hard to justify it the last few years. I'm willing to spend 2k on a gpu but amd isn't even obliging.
I feel the same way about Nvidia, to be fair.
- They keep holding the fully enabled die back for a "refresh" series (how is more cores on the same architecture a refresh? Nevermind) - sometimes even at an unexplained discount (4080 vs 4080 Super).
- They keep equipping their cards with less VRAM than they should at their given price range in my opinion (12 GB 5070 for $550? No, thank you).
- They keep hiding behind DLSS and AI, which I personally don't care about, for lack of raw performance improvements.
- They keep hiding behind the fact that they own the halo card. The top of my comfortable price range is around £500, so why would I care about the halo card?
- They don't seem to compete on price in any way, which I get from a business standpoint, but I have to think about my own wallet first and foremost.
- They lie (
3.5 4 GB GTX 970, now Ampere can run FG even though they were adamant that it can't).
- (Edit) I like a free market where you have access to all features regardless of which brand you buy - Nvidia seems to disagree with me recently.
With that said, I fully understand if someone feels the same about AMD. Lack of competition is boring on both sides. It's only that the drawbacks of an AMD card are far outweighed by the positives in my case.
Regardless of what people think about RT, I just wanna use it / try it / test it / see the improvements and all that, but amd is so far behind there that it makes it unusable. Which they seem to understand and focusing on it now, but they withdrew from the high end market all together which is sad.
That's exactly why I bought a 2070 back then. It's only that it didn't come with the jawdrop effect that I was expecting, so until the performance cost gets figured out on both AMD and Nvidia, I'm not gonna care.
Also due to amd being the underdog it seems like they allow a lot more leeway with their AIBS when it comes to profit margins, resulting in better cards than the nvidia ones. As an owner of a "cheap" 4090, it sucks, usually cheap amd cards are better in terms of both power delivery, design, fans etc.. My wet dream is to buy a xx90 tier SAPPHIRE AMD card but somehow I'm an nvidia fan, lol
That is true as well. My Evga Black (Regular Joe edition) 2070 kept running near throttling temps until it died on me after just two years. On the other hand, I briefly had a Sapphire Pulse 7800 XT which was a brilliant card in almost every sense. Cool, quiet, even with room for overclocking. The only thing that bothered me is RDNA 3's famous high video playback power consumption. I hope that gets fixed for RDNA 4. All things considered, I would have kept it, and wouldn't be looking for a new GPU right now if I hadn't been in some dire need of cash at one point.
I'm not so optimistic. I'm will just kick back and wait. See what the new stuff will bring and evaluate the price etc. if I actually need it.
I've been thinking about buying back the 7800 XT that I once had, so I'm good with whatever that is faster and comes at a good enough price. I have expectations, but they're not through the roof.
