Okay, i made this thread just for my friend to see because i'm seeing him as being VERY biased towards AMD. I'm waiting on the 960 but he keeps saying 'no you HAVE to get the 300 series amd is better' - he's basically giving the 'i'll hate you if u go with nvidia' attitude. I said i will wait for 300 series because that will basically launch alongside 960. I have strong reasons to prefer nvidia without being biased at all. I've had experience with both brands, i've owned a 1gb 650 ti in the past and i currently own the even stronger 7850 2gb card.
Here are my reasons to likely go with nvidia:
-Geforce interface is better than Catalyst interface
-Adaptive v sync
-DSR - my main reason
-Power consumption (maxwell architecture. amd's next line up is rumored to consume little wattage)
-Green (this is my favorite color so it may sound biased but i don't mind going with red)
-MFAA (equiv look of the brilliant msaa, useless though if smaa is available)
-better optimization
Now the reasons to go with AMD:
-usually better value (760 remains great value however and 970 is a better value than 290 imo for dx12 and power consumption)
-better overclocking (new nvidia maxwell architecture allows for great overclocks)
-true audio (im partially deaf by about 5% so i don't see true audio being of any use)
-mantle (no point in mantle when dx12 releases)
My friend claims the 760 is rubbish. Yet he thinks 270x and 7850 are great cards. I however think the 760 AND 270x is great for this gen in gaming. He has literally no valid reason to hate the 760. He doesn't seem to like 660 either. If you think he has a valud reason i'd like to see you point it out. However, i am someone who prefers to have a lot of vram which is why i would prefer to have say a 280x over a 770 even when 770 wins in benchmarks.
My experience with amd is pretty bad, i owned a computer before that used an amd triple core and it was the slowest thing ever. I currently own an i5 and it's just smooth and fast and never overheats like amd cpus. One of my friends own an 8350 which is a good cpu but he said it overheated like mad so he had to watercool it. I tried to downsample with custom resolutions for 7850, i looked for many solutions online but none of them worked out and i got a blue screen error twice from this. I also had many amd driver problems at first, sometimes in any game i would play, the frame rate would drop suddenly by half the amount and stay there. I fixed this problem though but it was an honest nightmare to fix. I had to clean and reinstall the drivers twice. It felt like i owned an apu for a while. Also when looking at benchmarks, nvidia usually seems more stable even with weaker hardware due to better optimization. My friend literally grew up loving amd because his older brother would use a 5870 crossfire config but he doesn't seem to admit that him growing up with amd makes him biased towards them. He's even saying 'i hope amd rape nvidia with their next line up'. Can someone just give a clear answer for him so he doesn't have to read it coming from me?
Here are my reasons to likely go with nvidia:
-Geforce interface is better than Catalyst interface
-Adaptive v sync
-DSR - my main reason
-Power consumption (maxwell architecture. amd's next line up is rumored to consume little wattage)
-Green (this is my favorite color so it may sound biased but i don't mind going with red)
-MFAA (equiv look of the brilliant msaa, useless though if smaa is available)
-better optimization
Now the reasons to go with AMD:
-usually better value (760 remains great value however and 970 is a better value than 290 imo for dx12 and power consumption)
-better overclocking (new nvidia maxwell architecture allows for great overclocks)
-true audio (im partially deaf by about 5% so i don't see true audio being of any use)
-mantle (no point in mantle when dx12 releases)
My friend claims the 760 is rubbish. Yet he thinks 270x and 7850 are great cards. I however think the 760 AND 270x is great for this gen in gaming. He has literally no valid reason to hate the 760. He doesn't seem to like 660 either. If you think he has a valud reason i'd like to see you point it out. However, i am someone who prefers to have a lot of vram which is why i would prefer to have say a 280x over a 770 even when 770 wins in benchmarks.
My experience with amd is pretty bad, i owned a computer before that used an amd triple core and it was the slowest thing ever. I currently own an i5 and it's just smooth and fast and never overheats like amd cpus. One of my friends own an 8350 which is a good cpu but he said it overheated like mad so he had to watercool it. I tried to downsample with custom resolutions for 7850, i looked for many solutions online but none of them worked out and i got a blue screen error twice from this. I also had many amd driver problems at first, sometimes in any game i would play, the frame rate would drop suddenly by half the amount and stay there. I fixed this problem though but it was an honest nightmare to fix. I had to clean and reinstall the drivers twice. It felt like i owned an apu for a while. Also when looking at benchmarks, nvidia usually seems more stable even with weaker hardware due to better optimization. My friend literally grew up loving amd because his older brother would use a 5870 crossfire config but he doesn't seem to admit that him growing up with amd makes him biased towards them. He's even saying 'i hope amd rape nvidia with their next line up'. Can someone just give a clear answer for him so he doesn't have to read it coming from me?