I think the R9 290X doom was premature.

[Jizz_Beard_thePirate]

Captain_Tom said:

Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:

Well... I never said it was a great deal loll... All I said was that for those that just want the best of the best, they will get a 980, even if the price/performance isnt there

And I have had better driver support from Nvidia than amd, specially considering how often Nvidia updates their drivers with new profiles by comparison

I got better driver support from Nvidia.  I know people who will say one way or the other as well.  My point is that clearly there really is no difference.

Well... The thing is, Driver support from Nvidia does "enhance" the experience a bit more than amd does. And what I mean by that is that in some situtions that me and my friends have come across, both having used amd and nvidia cards, having a bit better driver support would have been great for some situtions.

For example, when Crysis 2 came out, it had tons of issues with SLI/Crossfire configurations. The game had tons of graphical glitches and it was virtually unplayable but Nvidia rolled out the lastest profiles faster than amd in which case, the Nvidia users with SLI got to experience the game a lot faster than the amd users did. Another example was when cod ghosts came out, it was poorly optomized as hell but Nvidia's driver updates helped with the issues a lot sooner than amd did.

Now, I am not saying that if the Nvidia card costs like $200 more and its only slightly better than the amd card, you should get it cause of driver support but if the cards are similary priced with similar performance, people should go for the Nvidia card or at least consider the driver support as an option