Why AMD Graphics Cards are Great, but I STILL got Nvidia.

NO FANBOY SHENANIGANS HERE!

Y'all I fell into the trap too. Ended up getting Nvidia out of fear that AMD couldn't deliver, especially since it's such a big purchase. This is why I still bought Nvidia even though AMD is great value. Let's talk.

My Spotify:

0:00- the irony
0:40- Talking head or gameplay?
1:11- my GPU history
2:15- Purchase thought process
2:50- Cuda acceleration
3:42- Raytracing performance
4:49- Drivers?
6:06- Do I regret going Nvidia?
7:03- I wanna try AMD, but...
8:45- I ran some polls

[Symba_Lysm]

The reason you haven't seen much of an increase in davinci resolve support is because *propper* GPU acceleration requires you buy davinci for the full asking price. I experienced this when I first use davinci resolve!

[AnkitKumar-lqoh]

The thing is I like gaming performance of AMD gpus but i also do animation where nvidia gpus comes in handy. Amd should also focous on creative work not only gaming. Nice vedio and good to hear your opinion on the topic 👍

[testtube]

Ray tracing has been the biggest marketing ploy of the last 10 years. It is barely functional in a majority of it's applications and the games that it does work well in are so few and far between it's just not worth the insane margins they are squeezing out of gamers with these 800-2000 dollar cards. All the development time that has gone into this technology could have been used to make rasterization even better but here we are struggling to get 60 fps in most games with RT.

[heksogen]

Its cute how AMD sponsored creators are pissing on their audience face, and the audience is like "oh what a refreshing rain".

[Rudenbehr]

Gamers just want cheaper AMD GPUs so that they can get cheaper Nvidia cards. That's really all it is.

[witekborowski]

I bought a new 6700 XT last summer, just as the prices settled down after the crypto crash. Back then it cost the same as 3060 Ti (at least here, in Poland), and I went with the red team just because of the VRAM capacity.

[hendrixc]

Went from gtx970 to a750. Threw the 970 in an hp prebuilt and it’s an emulation and multimedia pc for the living room. I knew intel would be kinda iffy at first so I got the a750 to hold me over until battlemage.

[Kzxhy]

I recently bought an RX 5700XT used for £150/$185 after being only on Nvidia cards exclusively for around 9 years, upgrading from my aging 980 Ti, and I'm glad I did upgrade. This thing is a beast and can actually play halo infinite at good fps unlike the 980 ti.

[tech]

I bought a 3060 Ti and I'm regretting the 8gb of vram for the price I paid. When AMD's 8000 series comes out I'm gonna switch over. Or if ARC Battlemage is really good I might try that as well. I've owned ATI/AMD cards before (9600, x700, 5870, 6990) and with Nvidia skimping VRAM I think it's high time I switched. We had 8gb back in 2015. Nvidia is just holding the market back just like Intel did with quad cores for a decade. I bought an AMD 2600, then the 5900x I have now because I was done with Intel. I'm also now DONE with Nvidia for a while.

[Retro_Mage]

Don't forget to use something like DDU to completely uninstall your drivers before installing your new drivers, even if you're still on the same Nvidia or AMD side, as it can still cause problems.

[Revoku]

I brought AMD for the first time in years, because the potential for overclocking the 6800XT well above its pay grade looked great, I had heard all the AMD driver issues n problems and noticed most had workarounds etc(being a tinkerer none of this bothered me, so figured why not).

got it, overclocked it, was not disapointed in the overclock at all(it performs better than anything I could have afforded nvidia side by a HUGE margin), but the first two weeks were a nightmare of working out crashes n bugs n issues, that everyone put down to driver issues, and had various work arounds for, such as turning off hybrid hibernate etc etc.

turns out none of issues it had were driver issues at all, they could be reduced or removed by driver tweaks and software workarounds...but that only got rid of the symptoms not the actual problem.

turns out the problem all along was the displayport cable quality/spec...cables that come with most monitors are version 1.2, and don't actually meet the 1.2 spec, on top of this, most cables you can buy don't actually meet the spec they were rated at.(unless you find a VESA certified cable)

why is this a problem? refresh rate lock, if you have an out of spec cable, it can have problems locking to the refreshrate of your monitor correctly, it will lock to a random refreshrate such as 15hz even tho windows is showing 144hz, or it will fluctuate between certain points, 100hz-148hz for example.
it also caused problems such as the screen being black after a shutdown(windows 11 by default does a hybrid sleep mode instead of an actual shutdown) and on wakeup if the cable unstableness caused an issue, you got a black screen OR stuttering on the desktop after "cold" boot when it had been off for awhile, and the only fix was a reboot, and if you forced a game while it was in this state before restarting, it would usually crash.

how did I test and find this out? accidentally while checking my monitor for ghosting.
using the UFO ghosting test site, it has a refresh rate indicator at the bottom.

what does not having a stable refresh rate do? it causes random black screens, random game crashes, stutters and other issues.

a new VESA certified 1.4a cable fixed all of these issues.

the only two issues it didn't fix were video stuttering on a second monitor while playing a game on the primary high refreshrate monitor, and using AMD live recording with HEVC(both of these were known issues listed in the drivers, and got fixed in later driver versions)

[curtin_]

I’ve got a 6800xt and have 0 issues. I upgraded from a 2080 super and I couldn’t be happier. Honestly my biggest fear was the drivers but I was so wrong. Drivers have always been stable for me and with it having 16GB of VRAM I don’t have to worry about it not being able to run things at good fps and while looking amazing

[Gatitasecsii]

What are you even talking about. The Witcher 3 footage you showed was Day and Night (1 and 2 respectively) in regards to ray tracing. what is wrong with you.

[BryanGarcia-qyqg]

For me software wise I was having issues with my RX 6900 XT. In my situation I have three monitor, one of which is an ultra wide and the other 240hz (the third monitor was for Spotify/Discord). For some reason my graphics card acted weird and glitchy from time to time. I tried different sets of cables, reinstalled windows and upgrade to a top of the line SSD. Nothing solved this so I ended up gettint rid of it. Ended up buying an RTX 4070 TI and haven't had issues. Maybe I got unlucky with my AMD card. These days I just tell people to buy whatever works for them.

[pritamraya]

As a blender user, I can't recommend enough for Nvidia GPU. Even if I get AMD at half the price of similar performing Nvidia, I'd still get Nvidia. AMD is way out of league in 3d production.

[michaelmaness]

Ball Caps are not to hide your hair, or lack of it. For those of us that are follicley challenged, it keep you warmer in the winter, and from having sunburn in the summer.

[GDsergio]

i was on the same boat back in December, i was trying to choose between a 3080 or 6900 xt both new, but then a sudden price drop happened on the 6950 xt leaving it at 670$. I ended up taking the risk with AMD i couldn't be happier, seeing all the sudden vram issues popping up with new releases, I'm so happy with my 16gb of vram plus since I still don't care for raytraycing, i got myself an absolute beast of rasterization performance.

[Akizurius]

I think buying Nvidia card right now is like paying extra just for Ray-Tracing and CUDA. I have been using Nvidia cards for years and I have been happy with them but with the current prices AMD just gives much better deal. I live in Poland and RTX 4080 is about 20% more expensive than RX 7900 XTX here at the moment and prices didn't change much in the last few weeks. Raster performance is roughly the same on those 2 cards. Paying 20% extra for ray-tracing and CUDA seems like a bad deal. Its not like RX 7900 XTX can't do ray-tracing either. I've seen benchmarks that show that its RT performance is still above RTX 3090 in most games. Performance in productivity apps varies but in some AMD wins and in others Nvidia is better so its very case by case thing.

[dazeen]

I hope people keep buying Nvidia instead so AMD prices have to keep dropping.

[Accuaro]

I also use DaVinci and Premier with a 6900XT and it works very well. Steve from HUB also uses a 6900XT in his main machine with Premier. On the topic of what games I play it's very similar to you, Overwatch and some indie games. It's been great at throwing out frames with my 360hz monitor.