Difference between NVIDIA and AMD

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So during my whole life,iv used AMD cards

From ATI 4000 series to R9 280x

After all these died im trying for a nvidia card(its arriving in 1 day,GTX 960)

So i wanted to ask ASIDE FROM PERFORMANCE(lets say both cards have the exact same performance) will there be anything different or special about NVIDIA cards?

For eg like Graphics quality and such
 
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To be honest you wont notice much difference. There are a few features you may notice one over the other if you play a specific game that uses one of those heavily. Also if you have a monitor that supports AMD's FreeSync or Nvidia's G-Sync that may sway you one direction or the other.

The Nvidia card with the same performance will run at lower temps and produce less heat.
Nvidia has PhysX support for some games(very rarely used in games).
Nvidia has a better track record with driver updates albeit they have had some flops but they tend to make less mistakes than AMD. AMD has put a lot of focus on drivers in the last couple months so this should change.
Nvidia has Adaptive V-sync.
Nvidia has 3D Vision.
Nvidia has G-Sync.

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To be honest you wont notice much difference. There are a few features you may notice one over the other if you play a specific game that uses one of those heavily. Also if you have a monitor that supports AMD's FreeSync or Nvidia's G-Sync that may sway you one direction or the other.

The Nvidia card with the same performance will run at lower temps and produce less heat.
Nvidia has PhysX support for some games(very rarely used in games).
Nvidia has a better track record with driver updates albeit they have had some flops but they tend to make less mistakes than AMD. AMD has put a lot of focus on drivers in the last couple months so this should change.
Nvidia has Adaptive V-sync.
Nvidia has 3D Vision.
Nvidia has G-Sync.

AMD has mantle support for some games.
AMD has better performance in Directex 12 however that is somewhat a moot point as neither Nvidia or AMD's cards that were designed for Directx 12 are out yet(Both will be released this year). Coupled with the fact that there are only 9 Directx 12 games to date. However if one you play is Directx 12 you may like AMD better in that case.
AMD has HD3D (like Nvidias 3D Vision).
AMD has FreeSync which is a similar feature to Nvidia's G-Sync.
 
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So, the AMD cards usually have a bigger power consumption than the nvidia cards. Also the nvidia cards tend to run cooler (depends on the card). BUT usually the AMD card wins in performance (example the GTX 960 vs R9 380 and the GTX 970 vs R9 390.
 
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You will have several new graphics options available in the Nvidia control panel. For example, you will now be able to force HBAO+ by setting your anisotropic filtering to its highest quality setting.

Other graphics settings will involve various different types of anti aliasing, and you can force FXAA. You will also have access to DSR and Adaptive VSync

Of course you will now also be able to play around with PhysX and there is a complete tab for it within the Nvidia control panel. Just in time to try out the new PhysX weapon debris effects installed in Fallout 4 with the latest patch.
 
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It depends on the game as they said but it usually goes 360<380 X<390=970<390=/=980<fury nano<fury<fury X<980 TI
 
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AMD does have VSR the equivalent to DSR on their R9-290 and up? Or maybe the entire GCN lineup?

Some games just look better on one platform or the other as well just due to rendering paths in the engine.

Generally price/performance goes to AMD. Performance per watt goes to Nvidia. Though the latest R9-380 and R9-380X come quite close to Nvidia on the 28nm stuff.

The new FinFET silicon will be a game changer on the DX12 and HBM 2.0 cards, so it should be interesting.
 
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Yes.
Anandtechs bench is wonderful way to look at this data. The full load testing with Crysis 3 is a good way to look at gaming power consumption.
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1592?vs=1596

You will notice also that AMD typically does better at higher resolutions but Nvidia does better at lower resolutions. Also, your card comparisons are on the money(pun intended). If you look at Anandtechs bench you will see in some tests AMD's card wins and vice versa so if you play a certain game a ton you might want to dig into the details.
 
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Thanks for all of ur answers

I also heard there is a feature tht enable u to like, force the resolution into ur monitor,im not really sure about it

Does it mean even if i have a 1080p monitor i can set the resolution of a game to like 1440p?
 
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Oh i have a 1080p monitor

Will i notice a difference if i set a game DSR to 1440p on my 1080p monitor??
 
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