nVidia vs AMD - No Price comparisons, please.

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In general, nVidia has higher pixel rates and lower power consumption while AMD has higher texel rates and memory bandwidth, but the highest-end nVidia cards outperform the highest-end AMD cards.

Inb4 "AMD sucks cuz of drivers and they get 2 hot"

I would choose AMD at this point, has both next generation consoles will include AMD GPUs, so chances are that most games will be better optimized for AMD cards.

You cant just discredit price, you might as well compare a preowned ford to a finally tuned Ferrari then and label it fair.

Nvidia, always had issues with my ATI drivers, sure I was savvy enough to figure the issues out but I rather pay a slight premium and not deal with that. Physx also looks nice in some games so thats a plus I guess depending on the person.

AMD is far better. Less heat and less power consumption. And the price is better too. :)

I don't know if matters to you, but one of the differences is Nvidia has much better Linux support.

The only reason why I would chose Nvidea is for ease to use PhysX instead of messing with INI files to enable it on AMD. But thats all, AMD rulez!

Nvidia all the way, I have owned both and all of my ATI cards died after a year (but before 2). Besides, Nvidia consistently beats ATI/AMD: http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html

VooDoo card user and when Nvidia bought them out I just followed and never looked back.

ITT: A bunch of people, most of them completely clueless, saying whichever manufacturer they own is better.

Also, you can't discredit price, that doesn't make any sense in a discussion like this. Then you can just say Titan is the best, but who cares you can buy high end gaming PC with monitor for that price.

Mobile versions of both suck, you can boil water on both of them when you play any new game like Crysis 3. Desktop ones - no idea, both had issues few years ago (AMD driver issues, nVidia crashed a lot). If I had to pick one it would be nVidia though...

If you're going for "no price comparison", it's nVidia hands down. Their stuff is just far better.
I personally go for AMD based on price though (which you don't care about)

good luck man :)

nVidia have better performance most of the time, in recent times at least.
They also have better driver support because they release drivers more often.

I would go for nVidia :)

I think nvida although it's a little priceier

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Nvidia has better compatibility, and has always had the better drivers, and the best stability for me so far.
ATI wins some of the top top benchmarks, but ain't no one got money for that and almost every ATI card I've ever bought has either died or overheated and suffered corruption issues.

ATI usually has a better performance per dollar ratio, but I'd rather pay a few bucks extra for a stable card.

neither, Intel 4life

For everyday use I can't tell the difference. When it comes to gaming it depends on what the manufacturer decided to optimize the game for. I have had equal success with both cards when it comes to durability. I really makes no difference to me anyway because by the time I decide on what new video card to get there's always one that's better that comes out a short time later.

Had problems with AMD cards... switched to nVidia and no complaints whatsoever.

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Definitely AMD.

I prefer AMD cards myself. Better price/performance ratio. More versatile and the company ins't artificially blocking their stuff from working on other cards. (PhysX anyone?)