Does GPU manufacturer matter?

[Roth]

So I'll be planning on getting a non-FE RTX 50xx card on release, the first time I'm buying a GPU while paying attention to the finer details. Supplies will be limited, so I want to prioritize the list of GPUs I'm going to be looking at in order. There's a lot of different manufacturers, and multiple versions from each of them. How much does choice of manufacturer matter in choosing a GPU, in terms of build quality and performance? For example, am I going to regret trying to go for a lesser known brand over, like, an ASUS card to save a bit of costs? How do people choose which manufacturer to buy a GPU from?

 

[Zach_01]

So I'll be planning on getting a non-FE RTX 50xx card on release, the first time I'm buying a GPU while paying attention to the finer details. Supplies will be limited, so I want to prioritize the list of GPUs I'm going to be looking at in order. There's a lot of different manufacturers, and multiple versions from each of them. How much does choice of manufacturer matter in choosing a GPU, in terms of build quality and performance? For example, am I going to regret trying to go for a lesser known brand over, like, an ASUS card to save a bit of costs? How do people choose which manufacturer to buy a GPU from?

99% of the time there is no point on beeing loyal to a vendor blindly or the opposite even, to dismiss one prior to review results.

Though, I'm trying to avoid purchasing ASUS products the last few years and if I can in future because of their lousy (stating it politely) management of RMA process.

The most sane thing to do is to read/watch multiple reviews from different reviewers of as many different GPU variants as you can.
AIB GPUs can be very different on exterior design but also internally. Different power limits, single/dual VBIOSs, clocks (GPU/VRAM), and of course on cooling.
The most important factor for me personally, the cooling/noise performance and of course like I said above the RMA process.

By experience every vendor has a time in its catalog that did well and also did bad on different times.
So there is no real rule about a GPU variant selection before you can see whats what, in terms of performance, cooling and everything else that you care for.

Admittedly in the past without so broad selection of reviews you would (as I) go with what you heard or experience by your self from an older model.
Kinda... this one worked well before, I trust the next one from same vendor too... or the exact opposite and then try something else.

But not today with all the info you can find on line.
Multiple reviews serve as eliminating or minimize the fact that some of them can purposefully push one product over the other because of sponsorships that are potentially happening left and right.

 

[Dr. Dro]

ASUS (preferably ROG) cards for me, ever since EVGA went under. Under no obligation or loyalty, of course.

 

[Shou Miko]

Personally I do not buy the "Manufacturer" I buy the model I like being AMD or Nvidia.

 

[3DVCash]

I've owned more MSI cards than any other vendor, usually because I find they're the quietest or near the quietest on TPU's charts. But the one Strix I've owned (Ampere) had the most impressive build quality and the most OC headroom of any card I've owned (small sample size, but it is what it is). So... IDK how to answer that.

I will say, my experience with MSI's RMA service has also been top tier. I've never had to RMA anything with Asus.

At the end of the day though, I'm not loyal to any vendor. Will probably get an Astral once the 50 series drops just because they look SO dope and I'm betting the 4th fan will complement the cooling setup in my A3.

 

[londiste]

Why does it lack "no preference" choice?
Price matters, give ma a cheap card and I'll go for that one.

 

[freeagent]

I tend to stay away from Gigabyte and MSI.