Is buying an AMD GPU stupid?

Should you buy an AMD GPU or an Nvidia GPU? It depends...
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[MrBeetsGaming]

Been PC gaming since like 1999 or so and have only owned 1 Nvidia GPU which is a gtx 970 I still have in my Plex PC. That being said I find "brand loyalty" to multi billion dollar companies weird honestly, I've never understood the AMD/Nvidia arguing or the console wars.

[Savitarax]

Nvidia is normalizing 8Gb like Intel did with Quad Core.

[STKReacts]

Bought a founders edition 7900 xt at micro center refurbished for 599.99….a steal and amazing

[highwayvigilante]

I bought AMD because at the time I built my PC, the 7800XT was the same price as the 4060Ti

[Deboo-ozrb]

Ppl are still saying amd software and drivers suck? Lmao Just straight cap.

[eeeps]

I got a AMD 6950xt for $400 last prime day, Swapped out from a 4060TI 8Gb, I was shocked at how much more I got with AMD, only have issue with 1 game so far being Ark SA where I can't get my card to run at all in the game.

Hard to swallow the Nvidia prices now especially for playable 1440p gaming, I'm happy with my system, happy with my GPU. Would love to see AMD getting more market share so game makers need to focus a bit more into giving AMD GPU's a little more love in using and building game engines that work will with all GPUS not just Nvidia's.

[lanelesic]

Always remember that trillion dollar international corporations are not your friend or family and are not "yours"(unless you own substantial amount of stock).

[Ziplock]

My 7900 GRE simply can't be beat for the price.

[juliangallardo]

I got a AsRock 7900XTX for $800 because it was a return on micro-center, I was going to 4090 but it got me worried because of the power pins, but i was impressed it really good raytracing per on cyberpunk and with Radeon boost I get 120fps

[elbuglione]

My reasons to switch from Nvidia to AMD are two:
1) better driver support on Linux (I'm full Linux Gaming now)
2) better value.

[thegamepadguru]

I've been buying AMD GPU's for years...
RX550
RX5500XT
RX6600XT
RX7900XT
Never had a single problem.

[Skotty]

I gave Nvidia the middle finger this generation after they showed the amazing things they could do with the 4000 series with the 4090 and then intentionally didin't deliver any of that capability to the lower tiers. I went with a 7800 XT. I liked the value, the performance is what I wanted, and I liked the 16 GB of VRAM. My only concern is potentially longevity if ray tracing really takes off, but for the near term, what has ray tracing worth bothering to turn on? Cyberpunk and Portal RTX, and I'm not sure Portal RTX really counts. And I don't play Cyberpunk. So I think I'm good for a few more years. I've had zero driver issues, despite playing quite a few different games over the last year. Some people nit pick DLSS vs FSR, but I don't use upscaling, so I totally don't care there either.

[TooBokoo]

I dumped my 3080Ti and got a 7900XTX over a year ago for less than a $1, 000 along with a free $60 game. An incredible deal when you consider the 4080 was $1, 200 and the 7900XTX beats it in 9 out of 10 scenarios (without raytracing). I've had no more issues with the AMD card than I did with my 3080Ti or the 1080Ti I had before that. I don't care about raytracing. It's not even worth it with an Nvidia card, imo. All it does is halve your performance and most of the time, you can barely tell a difference in picture quality versus quality baked in lighting effects.

I would've gotten a 4090, but a 15%-20% performance bump just isn't worth an extra $600-$1000.

[Hexenkind]

The truth is: It depends on what YOU personally prefer in your GPU and what you value more.
There is no universal answer.

I know lame answer, but it is just the truth.

[SpectreICollateral]

You know what they say - Nvidia has majority market share, AMD has majority youtube comment share.

[TheHangarHobbit]

I honestly can't remember the last time I had a driver crash on AMD, and I've been on AMD since the HD 7000 series 🤷‍♂️

[proflex]

A year ago I was between 7800xt and rtx4070, and bought a 7800xt because it was cheaper, more vram and faster in raster

[tobyFOTS]

You forgot to mention the faulty Nvidia power connector, was definitely a factor when i was in the market for a new GPU,

[kohiek]

I just looked today, and I paid $500 for my 3070 over 3 years ago. I checked today and I can get a 4080 Super for $1000, and that card is about twice as fast, and twice as much vram. 3 years and still zero price to performance increase. Nvidia GPUs are so depressing.

[englematic]

my filthy centrist take is none of the modern GPUs present particularly good value. They're all kinda bad for one reason or another at their price points. Intel's drivers still suck, AMD's features aren't as good as nvidia, and nvidia is just doing price gouging for the better raytracing and upscaling while crippling the cards with low vram. It all sucks and I'm gonna hold off on buying any new hardware for as long as possible.