I switched to AMD from Nvidia

Do I regret switching to AMD from Nvidia?

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Chapters:
0:00 WHY WOULD YOU BUY AMD THEY ARE GARBAGE!!!!
1:09 Why did I buy an RX 6800 XT Instead of a RTX 3080?
4:45 Is AMD good for gaming?
5:52 Thoughts on FSR vs DLSS
7:58 Thoughts on Ray Tracing
9:02 1440p gaming thoughts
9:42 AMD driver issues in gaming?
10:54 AMD's software?
12:16 AMD vs Nvidia- do I prefer a company?
12:48 Gaming performance summary
13:14 Content creation issues- AMD encoder vs Nvenc
14:16 Content creation issues- OBS compatibility
15:31 Content creation issues- Davinci Resolve
15:53 Do I regret switching to AMD?

[SleepyRulu]

Finally someone make a objective pov no fanboying from neither side.

[williamjosephs-miller]

I was honestly surprised when I saw you didn’t have 100s of thousands of subs. Keep up the great work!

[Jacob-tpue]

Luckily, in the past few months AMD made a few tweaks to their encoder to bring it much closer to Nvidia's. Along with this, FSR 2.0 was released, which brought better fidelity.

[antoniobrajkovic]

Don't you just love it when YouTube algorithm does its job perfectly?
Great review and very informative. Subscrived.

[Squishmallows]

I like ray tracing. Amd sucks at it. If it had the same performance as nvidia I would probably buy amd

[aso]

As I'm a normal person, I have no problem with AMD, actually did a complete AMD build. have had no issues with it, to date.

[bardavidson]

I've been in a similar position as you, in my region the RX 6800xt was 45% cheaper than an RTX 3080 so I went with that.
it's been 8 months now and I'm pretty happy with it.

[thepcenthusiastchannel]

I'm super happy with my 6800 XT. I don't think I've ever enjoyed a GPU this much and I'm 40 going on 41 years old. My first 3D accelerator was a Creative Blaster 3D Voodoo. I've had cards from 3Dfx, S3, ATi, nVIDIA, Matrox, AMD, Intel, etc. I generally have bought a new card each generation and often times one from a few competitors each generation (I'm an enthusiast). I've had all of the greats. Voodoo 2, GeForce 256, Radeon 9700 Pro, GeForce 8800 Ultra, Radeon HD 5870, Radeon HD 7970, Radeon HD 290x, GeForce GTX 980 Ti, GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, Radeon RX 5700 XT, GeForce RTX 2080 Ti, Radeon RX 6800 XT, and plenty of cards on the side. The 6800 XT has so many features while performing extraordinarily well. It overclocks quite easily, which isn't always the case with AMD, hitting 2.8GHz on water with ease (as easy as moving the slider in Wattman). The GDDR memory overclocks to 2, 150MHz with Fast Timings, as easy as moving the slider.

You have full control over the cards voltage at various intervals and clock speeds, everything can be fine tuned. It's not just a graphics card, it's a toy. It can be tweaked like a well oiled machine. And it's not just voltage tuning, clock tuning, or power tuning, there's also the Radeon software that has so many nifty features like Boost, Chill, etc, that I can tweak my game profiles on a per game basis with the clocks I want the game to run at, the feature set, the voltage, the power level, etc. I mean maybe I want enhanced sync with Radeon Sharpness and the game isn't as intense as it's not a competitive game so maybe I just want it to run at 60 FPS, I can use Radeon Chill, I can use Wattman to lower the clocks, lower the voltage, lower the power level, etc. Game is tweaked, inside the game... you get additional Radeon features should the game support them to push this even further.

I think the best way to look at it is that nVIDIA is like iOS and AMD are like Android. Out of the box, iOS is impressive but the flexibility of Android allows you to tweak things beyond what iOS is capable of achieving.

I am so impressed that if AMD keeps this up and continues to improve at the rate they have improved with RDNA and RDNA2 with the upcoming RDNA3, they will keep me as a customer (For example they need to fix their encoder. Period). If they do they keep this up, I may in fact never go back to nVIDIA. That's how impressed I am.

[ChadeGB]

This is how I see it today, in terms of overall performance Nvidia and AMD gpu's are comparable, the price point is also comparable, with AMD perhaps edging out Nvidia at the moment. The differences in driver quality is non-existant these days, there was a time many years ago when Nvidia's drivers were much better in terms of overall quality and compatibility, but that's something AMD remedied long ago.

So if you're buying a new gpu today, you can't really get one over the other by comparing overall performance, you can't just pick one based on which is priced better and the drivers are on a par also. Which leaves us with one thing to compare, features. In this department Nvidia still has the lead, with better Ray Tracing, DLSS, nvenc, how useful those are to you is entirely down to you. Personally, I still don't see Ray Tracing as a must have feature, DLSS is a bigger selling point, but can be offset somewhat by FSR and nvenc isn't going to be used that much unless you do a lot streaming/encoding.

The takeaway from all this? Just get whatever peaks your interest, stop with the illogical fanboy stuff over two companies that don't give a crap about you and only want your money. Get whatever suits your needs for lowest price possible.

[HeyDan]

The thing is that the influencers out there, you know the guys, promotes Raytraycing and DLSS like things you need to have and if you dont have it almost your PC its incomplete and would not work.

[MnemonicCarrier]

As a Linux user, I love AMD GPUs (and AMD CPUs, come to think of it).

[rswpt]

I always had Intel all my life, recently i decided to stop overpaying for my hardware, when it was time to get a new gaming computer i decided to go for the most balanced cost/performance instead of just looking at what intel/nvidia had to offer, i switched to a complete AMD system, both CPU and GPU and i couldnt be more happy with it

[kevdecimates]

That’s OBS software issues, I have a Asus strix 3080 so I can confirm that’s not a amd issue.

[majikulone]

AMD has got their stuff together, RDNA and Ryzen are HUGE... can't wait to upgrade my 3700x to a 5800x 3d... just patiently waiting.

[lassebrustad]

I will for sure consider AMD GPU when I can afford to upgrade, but I'm a Linux user, which means I get way better drivers with AMD than Nvidia GPU's because AMD's drivers are open-source, while Nvidia is closed-source and sucks at Linux

with Nvidia on Linux, gaming basically sucks, but with AMD, it's awesome and more games can run properly without issues

sure, on Linux, I might not get RT or upscaling yet (haven't really tried with my RTX 2070S), but kinda as you said, it's not really worth to care about it, except upscaling when it's actually required to get a usable FPS, but I do not play heavy games anymore, so it doesn't matter at all for me

[justinp]

I seen how strong rasterization performance was for AMD compared to Nvidia and that alone was enough for me. Fk everything else lol

[SkullBro]

As someone who switched to AMD a while back - the 'driver issues' are 'the driver will crash, sometimes, just like nvidia'

[EXOWill]

My 6700xt is great for 1440p. I also have 2 3070's and they are also very good at 1440p. I set all my games to max settings and all 3 cards run about the same fps around 80-120 fps.. All my machines are on air cooling and the temps are very similar in all. Usually mid 60c's under load.

[patrickleeastarjohnson]

I had a 3070 but got buyer remorse because i wanted a 3080, but then i sold it and got a 6900xt and feel premium 😎

[jameskeane]

My 3070 broke, they sent a replacement back, I sold it for $2000 aud and then bought a 6900xt for $200 aud more - I haven't missed rtx/dlss and teamed with a 5800x it is an awesome combination at 4k - the amd software is improving. The 6900xt was $1200 aud less than a 3090. I've also had more issues with nvidia gpu's breaking after 2-3 years (I don't overclock)... Even with a 3070 I disabled raytracing as it's a waste of time.