NVidia VS AMD - Which one is better?

We know it's a cop-out to say, "Well, there's no telling which is better, both companies are great, And celebrate competition!" However, both AMD and NVidia truly have their benefits and drawbacks alike.

Sure, you can count on Ge-Force Experience projecting an eye-candy UI across your G-Sync-enabled monitor while simultaneously keeping your drivers up to date. But, with AMD, you can grab those drivers yourself whenever you want directly from the company's website. You don't even have to install bloatware!

Both have their exclusive technologies, but they're essentially the same. Both come in at around the same price points for similar performance (though Nvidia is a clear winner in terms of offering the most performance on the high-end). And, in some capacity, they even both have some brilliant software support that makes PC gaming almost as seamless as popping a disc into a console.

Unfortunately, they both appear to have exclusive partnerships with game makers as well, which is good for no one.

Of course, everyone has a budget lined up when configuring a PC. You would like to aim for the best value-to-performance ratio.

You may be wondering how both the companies offers same price for the GPU.

A misconception is that AMD makes the cheaper graphics hardware while Nvidia makes the pricier, luxury GPUs. Shop around, however, and you'll notice that's not necessarily the case.

While an Nvidia GeForce 980Ti might cost upwards of $600, AMD's closest equivalent - the R9 Fury X - is around the same price, sometimes even more expensive. And that goes without mentioning the 980Ti's sheer performance advantage in just about every benchmark that we've seen.

All in all, straight price-wise, both Nvidia and AMD's graphics cards are on roughly the same level in terms of cost.

Performance

In terms of horsepower, however, NVidia is almost consistently on top. AMD's highest offering, the Fury X for example, boasts an effective memory speed that's seven times slower than that of NVidia’s presently fastest Titan X, according to PC Gamer. Save for texture mapping units, the Titan X is superior in just about every other regard.

And that's without taking into consideration NVidia’s recently announced GTX 1080. For less than the cost of the R9 Fury X, you can wield the power of two GTX 980s or a single Titan X. That means, for about the same price as an R9 Fury, you'll get about twice the power from NVidia.

Thankfully, AMD is readying its answer. While the GTX 1080 represents the premiere of NVidia’s latest Pascal architecture, AMD's own next-gen offerings through its Polaris line are right around the corner.

I hope this helps. Hope to see you again in my next post.