AMD vs NVIDEA

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waffles

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I know there are many Threads (not necessarily on this forum) about who is better AMD or NVIDIA as in specs and pricing but what i want to know more of is how they are run. Where are they based? how do they support the American economy? Where do they manufacture etc. Thanks
 
Both are American companies. But most parts are made overseas. As far as which is better. Depends on what you want to spend and which models.
 
As for which is better that depends entirely on what you're willing to spend. At the 200 dollar mark AMD might be better. However if you're up to 275 then maybe an Nvidia option makes more sense. Personally I think AMD has a better lineup this generation (7000 series) than the current 600 line from Nvidia. However last generation with the 6000 and 500 series I think Nvidia got it.
 
I would say it depends more on what you are doing with it than what you spend on it. If yo absolutely need CUDA driven apps, then AMD is going to be complete crap no matter how many FPS it can pull in games.

Start with a budget and list of apps you use, then use that to pick AMD or Nvidia.
 
wolfeking said:
I would say it depends more on what you are doing with it than what you spend on it. If yo absolutely need CUDA driven apps, then AMD is going to be complete crap no matter how many FPS it can pull in games.

Start with a budget and list of apps you use, then use that to pick AMD or Nvidia.
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Yeah forgot to mention that. I was talking more from a purely gaming standpoint.
 
waffles said:
I know there are many Threads (not necessarily on this forum) about who is better AMD or NVIDIA as in specs and pricing but what i want to know more of is how they are run. Where are they based? how do they support the American economy? Where do they manufacture etc. Thanks
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To people responding to this thread, I think he's more going for how they are ran.

To the OP;
AMD
NVIDIA

I'd start off reading everything in those. Remember that they will be biased, but it should give you some basis. Next I would research anything in the news about either company. This is going to be a little harder, because it posts all the latest updates for products.

From what I have found, both are good companies in the sense that they keep their nose out of the news. They both look clean from what i gather. They both seem to offer quite good careers and education. Both employ a vast employee basis in technology research. AMD company as a whole has been around longer, where as NVIDIA was born in 1993.

As I read about these two companies, they seem to have the same company attributes of Apple vs Microsoft. They both are in competitive markets and specialize in certain areas.
 
Nvidia's drivers are much more consistent, particularly for multi GPU setups. AMD have always struggled with micro stutter which I have never had from Nvidia cards.

In terms of hardware Nvidia supports CUDA and Physx. If you don't require either of those and are just running a single card there isn't much difference between the two brands. Although it now looks as though Nvidia are going to be licensing Physx to AMD for the use in the PS4.
 
Spesh said:
.. Although it now looks as though Nvidia are going to be licensing Physx to AMD for the use in the PS4.
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Really? That's awesome. Where did you see this?

That's one thing that I do like about both of these companies. They differ in design. So it gives consumers a choice. If NVIDIA is in fact licensing Physx to AMD, it's nice to see that both companies like to play the role of the "battle" but still come together with projects.
 
CrazyMike said:
Really? That's awesome. Where did you see this?

That's one thing that I do like about both of these companies. They differ in design. So it gives consumers a choice. If NVIDIA is in fact licensing Physx to AMD, it's nice to see that both companies like to play the role of the "battle" but still come together with projects.
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Have a look on Google. There should be a fair amount of info on it.
 
Microstutter is fixed with the last drivers. (Crossfire has it still, SLI too)
And I never really noticed the stutter before though...
With the new drivers, frame latency is much lower, on some games even lower then nvidia.
 
You won't really notice it if you're using a single GPU. On Crossfire it is still quite visible. Not so much with SLI. I posted an article in the other thread which is all about microstutter.
 
http://techreport.com/review/24218/a-driver-update-to-reduce-radeon-frame-times
Amd and nvidia are very much on par with each other right now, but if you are interested in overclocking, in this case the 7950 is slightly better, if you are interested in txaa, physx and less power usage the gtx 660ti is better in this case, but once you start turning up the AA the 660ti starts to see a steeper decline in fps. Amd and nvidia both trade blows with each other, some models more then the others, for instance for $150 the gtx 650 ti boost destroys the 7790. (both models aren't widely available yet). All in all it mostly depends on your budget, availability, and what you will be using the graphics card for.

So its not that one company is better then the other because one of them might be in your case depending on your situation and needs/wants, what it is that both are really good and both will do you really good, you cant go wrong with either.
 
Spesh said:
Nvidia's drivers are much more consistent, particularly for multi GPU setups. AMD have always struggled with micro stutter which I have never had from Nvidia cards.

In terms of hardware Nvidia supports CUDA and Physx. If you don't require either of those and are just running a single card there isn't much difference between the two brands. Although it now looks as though Nvidia are going to be licensing Physx to AMD for the use in the PS4.
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Hey Thanks for the useful information,but how it helps American Economy,its still a question?:)
 
Made in Asian countries and controlled by Americans. Like Apple. But without the scummy business practices.
 
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