Nvidia 980Ti vs AMD R9 Fury X?

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teflon66

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Which one would be better for 1440p?
Is AMD's driver support bad?
Overall, what would be the best GPU to get and have the least problems?
(I know the Fury X hasn't been released yet, but its specs and some benchmarks have)
 
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MarkW

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Everyone has heating issues in laptops. Really. Especially when people try to play games on them. Laptops where designed for web browsing, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, things like that. But people buy em, slap GTA V, Witcher 3, Crysis 3, and everything else on them, and then wonder why they get extremely hot and sometimes even power themselves down as a self-preservation move.

Gaming Laptops are bigger and bulkier than most other laptops for a reason. They have more fans and heat ducts inside trying to keep things cool. And even they get hot.

Does not really matter whose GPU or whose CPU is inside the laptops either.
 
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350.12 works fine with me. haven't tried the latest one though because i'm too lazy to be 'up to date' right now.
 
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Have you heard about the bad drivers both AMD and Nvidia put out last month?

Its not just an AMD or Nvidia problem. Both companies have fails. Especially when there is a brand spanking new DirectX version in the works.

I don't believe either company owns the "better experience" banner. Oh sure, there are times when AMD blows it, and the Nvidia fanboys hoot and holler about it. And then Nvidia puts out a bad driver, and the AMD fanboys hoot and holler about it. It goes back and forth.

I have owned more than a few video cards from both companies over the years. And before these companies existed, from many of the companies that pioneered video cards. I have had good and bad experiences with both companies. Now days, when I am ready to upgrade a video card, or ready to build a new computer, I spend a lot of time comparing the two companies cards, prices, memory and drivers. 13 months ago, when I built this box, Nvidia won out. Next year, we are going to have an entirely new line of 14nm and/or 16nm GPU's on the market. We already know that at least some of those are going to have HBMv2 memory on them, just the AMD R9 Fury X has, which goes on sale everywhere in 2 days. I believe that between the smaller node process, plus HBM, plus better designs that both companies have been working on for over 2 years now, that those new GPU's are going to be radically faster than anything we will see this year. Trying to decide who will get my money next year will be interesting.
 
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It is usually NVIDIA has drivers for big games the day of the launch like Witcher III. AMD was a little late to the party.

However, both teams have crap drivers and points and are sometimes great. Drivers shouldn't be a selling point
 
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Nvidia released new drivers today. Geforce experience alerted me to the update, but when I clicked it to install those drivers, it failed to successfully do the update. So I manually opened Geforce Experience, again told it to install the drivers, and it worked.

Now Geforce Experience refuses to open. And I am not the only one reporting this.

Here we go again... :lol:
 
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Nvidia put out drivers yesterday to cover the Batman release. The update has killed their own Geforce Experience program. :lol:

AMD released drivers yesterday too... But I only have the GTX 770 right now. Going to be eyeballing reviews tomorrow though...
 
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Well, when Geforce Experience displayed its New Driver Banner yesterday, it tells you to click on that same banner to install the update. I did. It went through all of its animations, and in the end, it said the update failed. So I opened up Geforce Experience, and it still showed the 353.30 driver as needing to be installed, so I told it to install it, and it again went through all of its animations, and in the end said it was installed. Hours later, I went to open Geforce Experience to check something, and it would not open. I rebooted, and it still would not open.

In another thread, someone saw me commenting on it there, and they had the same problem I do. So maybe its a hit and miss thing. I do not know. But I know it is broke here.
 
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For those who bought Batman Arkham Knight, get your refund.
This game is one big pile of sh*t!
It is a worse PC port, worse than AC Unity and Watch Dog combined!
Capped to 30fps by default unless you edit some ini file, even with the cap changed to 60 fps, the game stutters heavily, freezes here and there, frame drops from 60 down to 10 here and there, this game is simply unplayable.
The nVidia update does not help at all.
I saw in youtube, I am not alone, even people with 2xGTX980Tis are having lots of performance issues.
Take your money back and to give the clear message that this kind of game releases can not be tolerated.
 
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maybe but as history has proven nvidia is the lesser of the two evils here!
AMD is far worse with drivers.
 
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It'd probably get better after the first update
 
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Yeah I've heard AMD has had far worse drivers than Nvidia. That's why I'm leaning towards Nvidia.
 
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So far AMD's driver fix for Arkham Knight has actually been working far better than nividia's attempt. AMD has got much better and much quicker as of lately patching drivers even for a nividia gameworks game. Nividia are NORMALLY better at launch specially on gameworks games yet with the trending pc port from consoles it doesn't matter which brand you have its almost guaranteed you wont be able to play it for about a week at somewhat optimized settings on AAA titles. You cant go wrong with either in my opinion anymore. Most the AMD driver stuff was back when it was ATI.
 
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What do you think I should go with: 980Ti or R9 Fury X?
 
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