How's it going Europe?

[-]

notapandah@reddit

Why are nvidia cards always more expensive than their Radeon equivalents?

[-]

futainflation@reddit

because nvidia cards are better and sellers know that so they just make up stupid prices and people will still buy them

[-]

ff_Tempest@reddit

They aren't even better unless you use them for high end AI shit

[-]

Skjellnir@reddit

shhhh, let him spend his money how he wants to.

[-]

arbiter12@reddit

I bought 3 amd cards over the past 20 years. ALL of them, without fail, ended up being incompatible (long time ago), having weird drops in performance, or just failing and needing to be returned.

At some point I don't need to eat the entire bush of poison berries, after it made me sick 3 times, to realize I don't want to eat more.

AMD folks strike me as the same as the linux ones: You want to believe your product is better, I mean it's objectively cheaper and it beats the benchmarks, right? And yet it's significantly less used in the wild, meaning it's a clearly worse experience/product for enough people.

inb4 no! the normies dunno what's good!

The people who buy their own high-end GPUs are not stapple-consumers. They know what they want and spend on it. If everybody just used what's given by default in pre-built, most people would use Edge (or just buy AMD pre-built).

[-]

Doyoulike4@reddit

I bought my first AMD card because my Nvidia card was incompatible with games, had weird drops in performance, hit VRAM limits, and had buggy drivers. The AMD card was still a bit buggy, but somehow less than the Nvidia, never hit the VRAM limits and rarely had game compatibility issues and that experience has only gotten less buggy over the past 15 years. If AMD ever manages to actually piss me off I'm 100% going to either try Intel Arc or go back to Nvidia but they've yet to do it.

[-]

CopeSeethSneed@reddit

So you had problems with a single graphics card form nvidia in the 2010’s and decided to go full amd at that time. lol. Amd cards were terrible at that time and only recently have they been decent, software wise.

[-]

Doyoulike4@reddit

Well had problems with 2 in a row, and when contacting their support, was pretty much told there's non-zero odds the 3rd one is going to have the exact same set of problems and there was talk of just refunding me and more or less giving up on this, or trying to do some trade up to a 460 or even 470 in exchange for the 450 and the price difference. So rather than gamble on the thing that's already not worked twice,

You don't have to believe me, and I'm not gonna say it was a flawless experience, I still did have some game optimization or outright not running issues on that HD6950, but it never blue screened like the GTS450 did, it never cut out my audio like the GTS450 did, and I didn't hit VRAM limit game crashes like I did on the GTS450. Honestly I had a good enough time with that HD6950 and RX480 back to back that I gambled on that all new at the time AM4 socket and did an entire fresh build with an RX590 and an 1800X.

If I can ever get a really good deal on an Nvidia card over AMD when I'm upgrading or AMD bungles their software/drivers bad enough I'll go back. Although at this point Intel has also entered the fray, they never really did anything bad to me on the CPU front, and if they offer a real mid-range or even high end GPU at the same basement prices they have been, I might snag a C770 or something in 2026/2027.

[-]

CopeSeethSneed@reddit

No I believe you , I just hope amd is better now then it was , since the last time I bought their gpu in 2013

[-]

Doyoulike4@reddit

They're better than they were then for sure, whether they're on Nvidia's level varies wildly on GPU generation and if Nvidia slips any to drop their level. Intel right now is probably making GPUs on the reliability tier of 2010-2015 AMD, but I can excuse them between it being so much cheaper than AMD/Nvidia, and outside their integrated CPU graphics, they've only been making GPUs for like 3 years now.

[-]

Gogr_eu@reddit

Kind of funny how I see my old card mentioned first time in like 15 years. I used to play World of Warcraft Warlords of Draenor and Heroes of Newerth on GTS 450, had some freezes in WoW when there were too many people blasting at the same time, but other than that it worked fine. I changed it later because it wasnt powerful enough for new stuff, not because it had some weird bugs or anything like that.

[-]

GrayStray@reddit

The old "AMD is for poor people" meme is definitely true. Good luck playing older games with those turds. Their ryzen CPUs are good at least.

[-]

futainflation@reddit

that's cope because you can't afford the extra $200 for an nvidia card without starving for a month. nvidia smokes the ass off amd in almost every individual metric, not including software support

[-]

Status-Position-8678@reddit

If you're not planning on doing any AI, 3d or any software type bullshit then Radeon is just way better bang for your buck.

[-]

futainflation@reddit

i don't want bang for my buck, it's only an extra couple hundred bucks, i'd rather just have something better

[-]

ff_Tempest@reddit

I wouldn't buy Nvidia even if I were a millionaire lmao, keep getting scammed kid

[-]

IrregularrAF@reddit

NVENC is better by miles as well. I guess you’re a fan of ~~RTX~~ FPS On/[Off] Nvidia is also the obvious choice.

[-]

snrup1@reddit

Because they aren't equivalent. NVIDIA makes low, mid and high-end cards. AMD makes low and mid-range cards. They announced a few years ago they would stop competing on high-end.

[-]

StJe1637@reddit

because npcs will buy them no matter what

[-]

ZZerker@reddit

The better question is why AMD keeps raising the prices of their cards always 50$ or € under the price of Nvidia cards, which makes Nvidia the better offer usually.

[-]

C_umputer@reddit

Used to be you could get a slightly better AMD card for almost half the price, making them the best price/performance choice. Now it's so similar, might as well go for Nvidia and get that DLSS/CUDA

[-]

DreamsServedSoft@reddit

because no one buys the Radeon equivalents

[-]

abhi91@reddit

Cuda is the framework that allows you to build ML models better on these GPUs

[-]

yJz3X@reddit

5090 runs out of vram on wan and qwen models. You are better off with 450 USD 3090.

[-]

Careless-Lie-3653@reddit

Buying PC hardware over Amazon...

(ok, you can find some cheap ssd or hdd there)

[-]

nufeze@reddit

Dude I bought a 5070ti 9800x3d prebuilt from walmart for 1899

[-]

Careless-Lie-3653@reddit

And?

[-]

nufeze@reddit

Walmart is supposed to be worse than amazon?

[-]

Careless-Lie-3653@reddit

Never heard that, only saw posts of good deals from walmart here on reddit.

[-]

I_Am_Sharticus_@reddit

Cool, when are they going to make any games that justify upgrading?

[-]

nufeze@reddit

Gta 6

[-]

I_Am_Sharticus_@reddit

Maybe. Until it's released in its finished form, it's just marketing. If it really is that good then you're completely right.

[-]

TheRealBucketCrab@reddit

Do you need it for anything besides AI or mining? Or do you need it for that one crappy new unoptimized shit game that doesn't look one bit better to a previous title?

[-]