Nvidia is the most stable Radeon is cheaper, so... Nvidia, ill take stability over cheap anyway.
Poll: NVIDIA or Radeon
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Depends on budget and what's doing better at the moment, I've had multiple of each and have no prejudice whatsoever, the durability of my Nvidia cards has been higher though... They were always XFX and EVGA, the Radeons being Sapphire, Powercolor and HIS respectively.
I've been using a Sapphire Radeon HD5850 for years and never thought it would last as long as it has, but it's brilliant. I might think of upgrading to the one you've listed in a few years, if that's a good model. I know hee-haw aboot graphics cards (having only really bought the one) and the significance of their model numbers, so I guess the safest way to get great value in a card is to rely on educated forum recommendations.Daystar Clarion said:
I use NVIDIA. It has always worked for me with no issue. I have nothing against Radeon, I just have always had good results with the other. The only Radeon card I bought was defective, but I wouldn't use that as my basis for the entire chipset.
Eh, I've had 4 different Nvidia cards (2 were mobile ones, one is currently in my laptop) and they all ran like shit for the most part and the current one i have now runs hotter than the surface of the sun (been that way since about a month of having it).
AMD on the other hand (radeon) I've had 3 different cards, and they all were cheap and have performed like a boss for the price, I've yet to play anything that I can't max out or nearly max out (running skyrim with 100+ mods, especially a shit ton of texture ones, can chug a tiny bit, but i couldn't care less about that for paying 190 for my card.)
I've seen nvidia do some nice shit, especially with the PhysX stuff, but with those duck mcscrooge prices and shoddy experiences in the past, i'll stick with AMD until they prove otherwise with their "bang for buck" policies.
AMD on the other hand (radeon) I've had 3 different cards, and they all were cheap and have performed like a boss for the price, I've yet to play anything that I can't max out or nearly max out (running skyrim with 100+ mods, especially a shit ton of texture ones, can chug a tiny bit, but i couldn't care less about that for paying 190 for my card.)
I've seen nvidia do some nice shit, especially with the PhysX stuff, but with those duck mcscrooge prices and shoddy experiences in the past, i'll stick with AMD until they prove otherwise with their "bang for buck" policies.
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I have a 7850 and my friend has a 7870, they both run great and are pretty damn power efficient (a.k.a. can run anything out there maxed out just fine.)
if you are interested in either of those games, that's a great value, essentially 100 bucks or so that you wouldn't have to spend normally.
NVidia. Just always liked'em better. CUDA's cool.
I've had a Geforce4 MX (barely usable-I should have done more research and gotten TX).
a vanilla GeForce 6600,
a GTX 260 which just died on me, luckily I ordered and received it's replacement before it died,
a GTX 560 Ti, so far I can't tell a difference.
I've had two AMD cpu's though, Athlon XP 2000 and 3200, now an Intel i7 920.
I've had a Geforce4 MX (barely usable-I should have done more research and gotten TX).
a vanilla GeForce 6600,
a GTX 260 which just died on me, luckily I ordered and received it's replacement before it died,
a GTX 560 Ti, so far I can't tell a difference.
I've had two AMD cpu's though, Athlon XP 2000 and 3200, now an Intel i7 920.
I've had two Radeons and both have had issues so guess what? Never using one again. I'm sure I was just unlucky but I've had two bad experiences and that's enough to not go there again.
Geforce and Nvidia have been fine though.
Geforce and Nvidia have been fine though.
right now have a nvidia 550ti And it's not bad I can run skyrim on high with texture mods and the works and still only get little chug (now when I finally change out my motherboard to support two graphics cards I can have my friend's old 550ti now that's gonna be fun)
Generally I like Nvidia more. They always have something cutting edge on the market for reasonable prices and the 1 time I had a problem with a new graphics card their customer service was amazing.
Ive only bought 1 Radeon graphics card before and I had a lot of issues with it plus their customer service rep obviously wasnt experienced enough to help me solve my problem but the nail in the coffin was she was just rude. I kind of swore off Radeon then and havnt tried them again.
Ive only bought 1 Radeon graphics card before and I had a lot of issues with it plus their customer service rep obviously wasnt experienced enough to help me solve my problem but the nail in the coffin was she was just rude. I kind of swore off Radeon then and havnt tried them again.
Ive only used an AMD/ATI card once. My god it was pretty back in the day. Everything was so fluid in my very first PC build. Sadly it only lasted roughly about a month before the transistors popped on the card requiring me to buy a brand new VC on top of almost the 1000$ invested in the total build with the original card. So despite it not looking nearly as bleeding edge good, I went back to Nvidia and have yet to look back or even be compelled to give Radeon a second look.
I'm confused. You act as though all AMD/ATI card manufacturers are the same, (they're not - also why are we referring to AMD/ATI cards as Radeons - that's just a specific family of AMD's cards...). You're going to get different levels of customer service between different companies...some are known to be really good, some are known to be abysmal.Windcaler said: