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PC - AMD vs nVidia: Go! - View Post

Xen said:
Captain_Tom said:
spiffiness said:
It's interesting that this poll's results are the opposite of what they got on Kotaku. As of right now:

Nvidia or AMD?

Nvidia 58.09% (13,527 votes)
AMD 30.86% (7,187 votes)
Both 7% (1,631 votes)
I don't play PC games 3.11% (725 votes)
Other 0.93% (217 votes)

Total Votes: 23,287

Most of the comments for NVidia cite poor drivers/support on AMD's side.

That is what annoys me so much!  I switched to AMD and had a FAR better driver experience, and none of my AMD friends have ever had any problems.  I realize our experience is not everyone elses', but come on if NONE of us have the problems it can't be as big a deal as some people like to pretend...

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AMD had no critical driver problems since at least a year now. People are saying that for the sake of justifying themselves.


Nvidia already moved further than just drivers while AMD pretty much just caught up on the driver stability part though, they have better 3D support(like, 3D glasses and stuff,) better multi-card profile support and customization, general profile setup that might fit your machine with the click of a button assuming the game is supported(or at least using it as a reference for tweaking settings,) Nvidia Shield streaming, PhysX, better support for their CUDA SDK compared to AMD's more open source approach(even though I like the open source practice more, the support is well....) I mean, my household runs more AMD GPUs than Nvidia and I can still see it clear as day just who has the superior software engineering. That's just how it is. Mantle is an interesting retro approach and any long time PC gamer would know what I mean by that, but there is a reason we moved away from shit like that in the first place so we'll see where it goes in the future.