should i still buy an nvidia card?

odiukurac70 · Oct 13, 2018

i'm quite pissed off because nvidia decided it would be a good idea to downgrade their old gpus with new drivers, because they want people to buy the new gpus, i get it "PROFIT", but i mean, really?!! what the actual f, so i'm thinking of buying an amd rx 580(4gb), i was thinking of buying a 1060 and i've always loved nvidia cards, but when i heard about the new drivers destroying fps on older nvidia gpus, i just decided, no, no way, i currently have a gt 1030 paired with an i3 4170, but i don't know if the rx 580 would bottleneck my cpu.

Colif · Oct 13, 2018

Newer drivers have always been pointed at the latest cards, the 1030 is hardly an old card...

Could be worse, AMD have 2 types of drivers, the new ones for the last few generations and legacy drivers for everything else. Chances the legacy ones work with your card are restricted.
Neither of them really worry too much about cards they released a few years ago

I don't think drivers is a reason to choose one over the other

odiukurac70 · Oct 13, 2018

Colif :

thanks, but i think i would like to try amd for a bit, i just want to know if the rx 580 would bottleneck my cpu

13thmonkey · Oct 13, 2018

Has anyone seen any actual reports on the fps drop with new drivers? the 1030 won't have many fps to drop in the first place, whilst a 10% drop on a 90fps card is very noticeable by the numbers, a 10% drop on a 30-40fps card is a lot harder to spot.

I'd also treat it as an accident and not some grand conspiracy, in my decade+ of owning nvidia cards i've not seen any noticable drops in performance with new drivers on old cards, so it's not something that they are planning to do as they'd have been doing it or a while. Additionally they would be foolish to drop it on the 1030 as they have no replacement for it.

Colif · Oct 13, 2018

I found this for the I3 4160 which is close to your CPU - http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-3158500/bottle-neck-4160-480.html where the CPU was likely to bottleneck the 480, so I expect it is only slightly worse with your combo. The advice in that case was get a better CPU

think it depends on the games you play.

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