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Is it a 'green tax' when NVIDIA's product is superior in almost every way? There's only two negatives to NVIDIA products right now: poor MacOS support and their

Is it a 'green tax' when NVIDIA's product is superior in almost every way? There's only two negatives to NVIDIA products right now: poor MacOS support and their linux drivers aren't quite as good as AMD's. Everything compute uses NVIDIA/OptiX. AMD's Windows drivers suck. I had no end of problems with games crashing and micro-stuttering. I used DDU to remove the old drivers, ran Tron, all sorts of troubleshooting steps. Switching to an NVIDIA card fixed it. Can't remember the last time a game crashed on me. AMD's GPUs use significantly more power in their class. The RX 580 is a 185W TDP card. NVIDIA's 1060 is 120W and outperforms the RX 580. The 1070 is a 150W card and handily outperforms the 580. The 1070TI is still (slightly) under the RX580 (by 5W), and wipes the floor with it. The 5xxx series cards were also garbage. AMD had nothing to respond to DLSS or RTX - and the RTX cards were a huge leap in compute performance in particular. The cards crashed like crazy because of driver problems, and people also discovered that all the "creators" with pre-release cards had been basing their performance tests off benchmark runs that lasted just long enough before the cards overheated. NVIDIA cards performed better if you planned on gaming for more than 5 minutes at a time.

neogodless 5y ago
If anyone is reading this and wondering, I've run a Radeon RX 5600 XT for about 16 months with no issues at all. Fan noise is super well controlled (Sapphire Pulse three fan model.) Power draw was generally below 115 W. (Performance is roughly comparable to a GeForce RTX 2060.) More recently, I upgraded to a 6700 XT. Rock solid stable, excellent performance, great cooling. Haven't really watched power draw closely, but I think it might be closer to 130-150 W. I'll try to remember to check this when I play games after work today. But if you care, you'll go read reviews anyway! (Performance is roughly comparable to a GeForce RTX 3070.) Both were/are powered by a 13 year old Corsair 620W power supply. Almost all my gaming is done at 1440p.
0des 5y ago
Is it a 'bad relationship' when you're mistreated every day but the dinner's still tasty?
AnthonyMouse 5y ago
The RX 580 is four years old. The RX 5xxx series is two years old. The current series is RX 6xxx and has competitive performance per watt. You can't afford to buy one, but the equivalent Nvidia cards are no better. It's a terrible time to buy any GPU. The stupid old RX 580 costs more now than it did when it came out.
CobaltFire 5y ago
The overheating and crashing issues are fixed; I’m running a W5700 completely stable. With the drivers sorted they aren’t significantly behind the 6000 (RDNA2) cards that superseded them. Maybe 5%, equivalent cards compared. Makes for a good deal in today’s market.
nextaccountic 5y ago
> AMD's GPUs use significantly more power in their class. This says otherwise https://www.tomshardware.com/features/graphics-card-power-consumption-tested https://www.tomshardware.com/features/graphics-card-power-co... - it puts RX 6800 at the best performance per watt

neogodless 5y ago

If anyone is reading this and wondering, I've run a Radeon RX 5600 XT for about 16 months with no issues at all. Fan noise is super well controlled (Sapphire Pulse three fan model.) Power draw was generally below 115 W. (Performance is roughly comparable to a GeForce RTX 2060.) More recently, I upgraded to a 6700 XT. Rock solid stable, excellent performance, great cooling. Haven't really watched power draw closely, but I think it might be closer to 130-150 W. I'll try to remember to check this when I play games after work today. But if you care, you'll go read reviews anyway! (Performance is roughly comparable to a GeForce RTX 3070.) Both were/are powered by a 13 year old Corsair 620W power supply. Almost all my gaming is done at 1440p.

0des 5y ago

Is it a 'bad relationship' when you're mistreated every day but the dinner's still tasty?

AnthonyMouse 5y ago

The RX 580 is four years old. The RX 5xxx series is two years old. The current series is RX 6xxx and has competitive performance per watt. You can't afford to buy one, but the equivalent Nvidia cards are no better. It's a terrible time to buy any GPU. The stupid old RX 580 costs more now than it did when it came out.

CobaltFire 5y ago

The overheating and crashing issues are fixed; I’m running a W5700 completely stable. With the drivers sorted they aren’t significantly behind the 6000 (RDNA2) cards that superseded them. Maybe 5%, equivalent cards compared. Makes for a good deal in today’s market.

nextaccountic 5y ago

> AMD's GPUs use significantly more power in their class. This says otherwise https://www.tomshardware.com/features/graphics-card-power-consumption-tested https://www.tomshardware.com/features/graphics-card-power-co... - it puts RX 6800 at the best performance per watt