Why AMD Graphics Cards are Great, but I STILL got Nvidia.

NO FANBOY SHENANIGANS HERE!
Y'all I fell into the trap too. Ended up getting Nvidia out of fear that AMD couldn't deliver, especially since it's such a big purchase. This is why I still bought Nvidia even though AMD is great value. Let's talk.
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0:00- the irony
0:40- Talking head or gameplay?
1:11- my GPU history
2:15- Purchase thought process
2:50- Cuda acceleration
3:42- Raytracing performance
4:49- Drivers?
6:06- Do I regret going Nvidia?
7:03- I wanna try AMD, but...
8:45- I ran some polls

[@Symba_Lysm]

The reason you haven't seen much of an increase in davinci resolve support is because *propper* GPU acceleration requires you buy davinci for the full asking price. I experienced this when I first use davinci resolve!

[@khaledm.1476]

damn, I just use premiere pro that I got 100% legally

[@caen-un9cw]

@@khaledm.1476 I should try looking into getting davinci resolve paid totally legally

[@JunkBondTrader]

or it requires you to pirate it. lol. 1337 :D arghh matey.

[@diddymies]

​@@JunkBondTradertoo old version

[@diddymies]

​@@khaledm.1476that sound that you got it illegaly

[@AnkitKumar-lq1oh]

The thing is I like gaming performance of AMD gpus but i also do animation where nvidia gpus comes in handy. Amd should also focous on creative work not only gaming. Nice vedio and good to hear your opinion on the topic 👍

[@jay_arson5075]

3d animation or 2d?

[@AnkitKumar-lq1oh]

@@jay_arson5075 i do 3d in blender and rt cores really help a loot in rendering

[@deuswulf6193]

@@AnkitKumar-lq1oh Yup, even the base model 3060 will run laps around the 7900xtx when it comes to blender renders. In a sane world, that should never happen.

[@dontsupportrats4089]

You know more about my wife's job than I do. She prefers nvidia for her work.

[@nathanlarson6535]

if the majority of people who use blender own an NVIDIA GPU, what’s the financial incentive for specifically optimizing for AMD and intel arc users? this is the main obstacle that AMD has to overcome - the developers of these productivity applications simply don’t care, and that’s why NVIDIA basically has a monopoly in that sense. if fewer customers own an AMD GPU, there are less reasons to optimize for AMD, which leads to even less people buying AMD, which means there are even less reasons to optimize for AMD, etc. it’s the feedback loop that is killing the GPU market.

[@hendrixc6988]

Went from gtx970 to a750. Threw the 970 in an hp prebuilt and it’s an emulation and multimedia pc for the living room. I knew intel would be kinda iffy at first so I got the a750 to hold me over until battlemage.

[@vextakes]

Gl my dude, I’d love to try arc too

[@ovemalmstrom7428]

This me like! 👍

[@detroid89]

Respect for taking the risk on a shaky product like that. To be fair to Intel, they have come along way with the development and improvements of thier arc series.

[@Max-fw3qy]

Lol, what a DUMB decision.....

[@hendrixc6988]

@@Max-fw3qy Found the nvidia fanboy.

[@testtube173]

Ray tracing has been the biggest marketing ploy of the last 10 years. It is barely functional in a majority of it's applications and the games that it does work well in are so few and far between it's just not worth the insane margins they are squeezing out of gamers with these 800-2000 dollar cards. All the development time that has gone into this technology could have been used to make rasterization even better but here we are struggling to get 60 fps in most games with RT.

[@juubilo1509]

As with most new tech, it's bad before it gets good. RT will allow devs to quickly implement photo realistic light with drastically reduced dev time, tge issue right now is cost and the fact that all studiosnare now having to build both rasterized loghting and RT. Once we only need to build games for RT itll be much better.

[@GregoryShtevensh]

Yea yeah... What ever helps you sleep at night mate

[@arenzricodexd4409]

No matter how good rasterization is some lighting effect are difficult or even outright impossible to mimic.

[@mitchelldittes2555]

I mean, nvidia doesn't ONLY have RTX to sweeten the deal. Include Reflex, DLSS, better drivers and software support (imo), and now a new addition, VSR, along with whatever they may have in the future, since new techs are constantly coming out now, and it becomes far more subjective. If u want those features, an extra 150 bucks on top of an already $1050 min card for all that is honestly p justifiable. This isn't to say it's all good value, this is to say that AMD has the same value issues with the gen of cards.

[@GregoryShtevensh]

@@mitchelldittes2555 especially when you consider the bad power usage, vapour chambers, drivers bricking windows, people asking to swap their 7900 cards on marketplace, and the sales on the 4080 that bring the 4080 to the same price as the 7900xtx

[@witekborowski1410]

I bought a new 6700 XT last summer, just as the prices settled down after the crypto crash. Back then it cost the same as 3060 Ti (at least here, in Poland), and I went with the red team just because of the VRAM capacity.

[@Strongholdex]

Good choice.

[@Axeiaa]

Even better choice nowadays as the 6700 XT price undercuts the 3060 TI (at least in the UK and NL). + Better raster performance + More VRAM + Cheaper - No CUDA acceleration (if you don't use programs that support it not really a con) - Worse raytracing support (although in this class of GPU raytracing gimps performance so hard you don't want it enabled anyhow) I had to pick between those two as well as that's within my budget and went for the 6700 XT - no regrets. It still entertains me that I can now play StarCraft 2 without the graphics card fans even spinning haha.

[@evalangley3985]

Who is laughing now... you are my friend...

[@idkwhatimdoin2298]

Same, I built my first PC on January of this year, and I was in between the 3060 ti or the 6700XT, both were around the same price at the time of buying the components, $350 iirc, but since I really don't care about ray tracing and whatever Nvidia decides to focus on more with their gpus, I ended up going with the 6700XT, and boi do I love it, I can record and play games at the same time with no issues, the Adrenaline software helps a lot when I want to check my performance, and it gives me the option to record which comes in handy whenever I forget to open Outplayed (yes I use this to record my gameplay/highlights). I'm satisfied with the GPU and overall my PC

[@thatguy3000]

Just built my PC January of this year and really wanted to go with the 6700 XT but it was like 200 USD more than 3060 Ti. Ended up going with the 3060 Ti. Still would because the performance increase isn't really worth it in my opinion. Most games still use 8GB of VRAM and those that do go over it still give a smooth experience. Just shitty games like TLOU part 1 are unstable but thank God I didn't buy that and actually checked the reviews. Also gonna go with AMD if possible next time, Nvidia really did us dirty by giving the 3060 Ti and 3070 only 8GB of VRAM. At this point, everyone who sold their 2080 Ti for the 3070 are just gonna feel scammed.

[@Revoku]

I brought AMD for the first time in years, because the potential for overclocking the 6800XT well above its pay grade looked great, I had heard all the AMD driver issues n problems and noticed most had workarounds etc(being a tinkerer none of this bothered me, so figured why not). got it, overclocked it, was not disapointed in the overclock at all(it performs better than anything I could have afforded nvidia side by a HUGE margin), but the first two weeks were a nightmare of working out crashes n bugs n issues, that everyone put down to driver issues, and had various work arounds for, such as turning off hybrid hibernate etc etc. turns out none of issues it had were driver issues at all, they could be reduced or removed by driver tweaks and software workarounds...but that only got rid of the symptoms not the actual problem. turns out the problem all along was the displayport cable quality/spec...cables that come with most monitors are version 1.2, and don't actually meet the 1.2 spec, on top of this, most cables you can buy don't actually meet the spec they were rated at.(unless you find a VESA certified cable) why is this a problem? refresh rate lock, if you have an out of spec cable, it can have problems locking to the refreshrate of your monitor correctly, it will lock to a random refreshrate such as 15hz even tho windows is showing 144hz, or it will fluctuate between certain points, 100hz-148hz for example. it also caused problems such as the screen being black after a shutdown(windows 11 by default does a hybrid sleep mode instead of an actual shutdown) and on wakeup if the cable unstableness caused an issue, you got a black screen OR stuttering on the desktop after "cold" boot when it had been off for awhile, and the only fix was a reboot, and if you forced a game while it was in this state before restarting, it would usually crash. how did I test and find this out? accidentally while checking my monitor for ghosting. using the UFO ghosting test site, it has a refresh rate indicator at the bottom. what does not having a stable refresh rate do? it causes random black screens, random game crashes, stutters and other issues. a new VESA certified 1.4a cable fixed all of these issues. the only two issues it didn't fix were video stuttering on a second monitor while playing a game on the primary high refreshrate monitor, and using AMD live recording with HEVC(both of these were known issues listed in the drivers, and got fixed in later driver versions)

[@GhOsThPk]

I can confirm this, when i bought my 6900XT i also acquired an good quality HDMI cable, but some time ago i had to use an random poor quality cable for a week because reasons, that was when i faced my first problems with the card, which i had none up to that point.

[@ricaeldocarmo5005]

I always bought nvidia, but I bought a RX 6600 a while agora and had a BUNCH of bugs, crashes and stuff. I know there's workarounds and all, but fuck it, i bought a card and have to fix it before using it? Hell no. Sold it and bought another NVIDIA one. AMD never again.

[@RafitoOoO]

​@@ricaeldocarmo5005 típico batata que devia comprar um console ao invés de um PC.

[@nathanlarson6535]

i feel like many people that complain about AMD “driver problems” tend to have a DP/HDMI cable that isn’t good, which leads to screen flickering and sometimes the screen turning black completely due to insufficient bandwidth through the cable in question. maybe not the majority of users who experience “driver problems” but i feel like some people just automatically blame AMD and blame the GPU itself because they don’t know what else could be wrong. it sucks that buying the right cable can be confusing but that’s just the way it is i guess. nothing is perfect.

[@doraafelfedezoofisol]

​@@RafitoOoO Nah people just wanna play a game on high fps and not fuck around with badly optimised hardwares

[@tech6294]

I bought a 3060 Ti and I'm regretting the 8gb of vram for the price I paid. When AMD's 8000 series comes out I'm gonna switch over. Or if ARC Battlemage is really good I might try that as well. I've owned ATI/AMD cards before (9600, x700, 5870, 6990) and with Nvidia skimping VRAM I think it's high time I switched. We had 8gb back in 2015. Nvidia is just holding the market back just like Intel did with quad cores for a decade. I bought an AMD 2600, then the 5900x I have now because I was done with Intel. I'm also now DONE with Nvidia for a while.

[@simon6658]

RX 7600M XT only has 8GB VRAM. That means Navi 33 GPU only has a 128-bit memory controller. 7600 XT, which should have a similar performance as the 3060 Ti, will also have 8GB VRAM. So there is no need to regret it. Do you remember AMD deleted their comments that VRAM is important in the 5500 XT advertisement and released the 64-bit 4GB 6500 XT? AMD doesn't care about VRAM. 7900 XTX and 7900 XT should compete with 4090 and 4080 so they have 24 and 20GB VRAM. But RDNA 3 is too slow to compete with Ada. AMD can only lower the price to 4070 level to sell them. That's where the VRAM advantage in AMD comes in.

[@X862go]

What those also have 8gb 😅

[@Varue]

I would be tempted by battlemage as well, but drivers may steer me away.

[@enzomercier2789]

Why would you be unhappy with 8Gb of VRAM on a 60 series card? Not like you're going to have the performance to play 4K AAA with it anyway even if you had the VRAM. I do agree that Nvidia is a bitch and should really put more VRAM in their GPU, especially 70 and 80 series, but let's be real, it doesn't make any difference in your specific case

[@khaledm.1476]

Ye I am not going intel till atleast Celestial because their drivers won't be as fully stable yet. If I rate AMD/Nvidia they're like an 9/10 stability while intel seems like a 3/10 even if it jumps to a 6/10 that's still alot lower. The problem is AMD isn't super competitive, like Vex said they're just matching nvidia. If you're matching nvidia and I am used to nvidia why would I switch to you? Give me a valid reason AMD: be super aggressive on pricing, create brand new technologies instead of following nvidia's lead, do something cool for once

[@Kzxhy]

I recently bought an RX 5700XT used for £150/$185 after being only on Nvidia cards exclusively for around 9 years, upgrading from my aging 980 Ti, and I'm glad I did upgrade. This thing is a beast and can actually play halo infinite at good fps unlike the 980 ti.

[@idhamproaqw98]

Neat, one of my buddy got em for 125$ for one, no box tho

[@Strongholdex]

That is a screaming deal.

[@simon6658]

5700 XT is $100 in Hong Kong now. It is a good deal. But I think 1080 Ti is better. It has 3GB more VRAM than 5700 XT. VRAM has been a big problem for games now.

[@3s0t3r1c]

@@simon6658 no it does not. LOL

[@simon6658]

@@3s0t3r1c Then buy the 4GB 6500 XT and 8GB 3070😅.

[@Retro_Mage]

Don't forget to use something like DDU to completely uninstall your drivers before installing your new drivers, even if you're still on the same Nvidia or AMD side, as it can still cause problems.

[@MrKsan05]

Be careful if you're like me and don't know anything about DDU, I deleted everything even my motherboard drives and it took a while to get everything right again.

[@Kevlord22]

I usually format drive when i get a new gpu or even a cpu. I don't really keep anything on it anyway that i cannot download.

[@Accuaro]

I also use DaVinci and Premier with a 6900XT and it works very well. Steve from HUB also uses a 6900XT in his main machine with Premier. On the topic of what games I play it's very similar to you, Overwatch and some indie games. It's been great at throwing out frames with my 360hz monitor.

[@asdfjklo124]

I like seeing gameplay footage a lot, but I also like the other homey bits sprinkled in. It's the mix that works best imo. As I see it, you're on a good track already with your content, keep it up! :-)

[@rushinz3761]

Hey i’m interested in what camera/webcam is being used in this video? Also what kind of lighting setup is going on here, I’m interested in setting up something similar.

[@curtin_]

I’ve got a 6800xt and have 0 issues. I upgraded from a 2080 super and I couldn’t be happier. Honestly my biggest fear was the drivers but I was so wrong. Drivers have always been stable for me and with it having 16GB of VRAM I don’t have to worry about it not being able to run things at good fps and while looking amazing

[@Strongholdex]

Do you have stutters when you play a game in its first Minutes?

[@nightdark2616]

​@@Strongholdex AMD has this feature where if you play a new game, it will read and adjusts it's drivers to the game for exactly 10 minutes until it stabilizes and then runs fine. But only the first time you play a new game and for ten minutes. It is a feature, not a bug.

[@bmwofboganville456]

The 2080 Super is just as good as the 6800xt if you use DLSS Quality...

[@GrandoSilver]

​@@bmwofboganville456so and 6800xt use FSR? Huh?

[@s17benjamin]

@@D3nsity_ I would take this optimisation over the current Nvidia Driver Update BS that they are doing the past few months, been really shit compared to AMD's side

[@musek5048]

i took a gamble on a couple of used "not working" 6800xt's recently, got them for $200 each and after ddu wiping all my drivers and installing the latest ones they are both working nicely with a slight undervolt to keep temps down a tad. the seller said that they would crash under load or stress testing which made me wonder if he was using older drivers or something. for $500 though brand new they still seem a bit pricey but thats the market lately.

[@adammartin4906]

they need the thermal paste replaced...common issue on Radeons

[@musek5048]

@@adammartin4906 i plan to do that soon but i've been just running these cards to see if they run into crashing issues at all but so far they're chugging along nicely. I do plan to also replace the thermal pads once I crack them both open.

[@BarisYener]

Davinci Resolve free version doesn't come with full CPU and GPU encoder/decoder support. You need the studio version for full Hardware acceleration. It's not a problem of the nvidia drivers.

[@markusbronst7942]

For professional video editing 4K and higher there is currently only the 4090 option due to 4080 having 16 GB VRAM. YT channel Tech Notice is covering topics for content creators. He did review the 7900 XTX and found that there have been significant improvements, but in certain effects used, it’s not there yet. He did review the 4070 ti as well… VRAM limitation. When it comes to blender rendering, Nvidia cards are better. But big studios more likely use Nvidia and AMD Pro Lines for those type of work. Big studios however have render server farms that can be utilized. Nvidia has the ADA 6000, which has 48 GB VRAM and sells for about 6’800 $. What AMD does better than Nvidia is one centralized application for everything whereby Nvidia has an outdated look, requires 2 applications plus and forces to sign up online. I’ve used myself the screen recording via AMD catalyst and it works very well. I don’t use OBC anymore, which initial setup isn’t most user friendly for people who use it the first time. A YT channel that used Nvidia historically tried AMD and was positively surprised concerning streaming and desktop recordings.

[@Ivan-pr7ku]

My last ATi/AMD GPU was Radeon HD 5870 that I bought back in 2009, just a month after its release -- it only reminds me how much more affordable was the high-end hardware back then. Anyway, two years later I got a really good deal for a used GTX570 by Palit only to end up with burned VRM due to faulty vapor chamber couple of years later (no more Palit for me), but I stuck with NV hardware for various reasons to this very day with my RTX4080 (which was the first brand new GPU since that Radeon 5870, btw), although for my needs I could have switched to AMD. We are all creatures of habit, I guess.

[@generalawareness101]

My last AMD card was the 7870 and it had 1 bad fan that allowed it to cook the GPU (before throttling was a thing) and it was funky so I had to upgrade as it was locking me up, plus doing weird stuff. I purchased a 1060 6GB and still using it, but now is the time in my upgrade cycle and these prices are insane. I do use CUDA, and I mean I use CUDA heavily for AI so I feel like I am Jensen's beoytch. I am leaning towards a 7900XTX, but rocm is not released to allow this gen to work. We need 5.5.0 while 5.4.3 is the last version released (a ton of pissed off people on their github). I wish I could find what are the numbers for training and for generating of a 6700xt (for instance) so I could then sort of know where a 7900XTX would fall, but no dice. I think the AMD stigma with no CUDA everyone is on Nvidia since everything just works hassle free with Nvidia for AI/ML like Stable Diffusion and Kohya trainer.

[@bartdierickx4630]

During the 770 era and 1070 era AMD was competitive in the mid range. If I remember correctly both 280x (which competed with the 770) and vega 56 (which competed with 1070) were more performant for less money.

[@rmgaminguk7079]

I just game, but I ocassionly create videos. However I use the free shortcut for editing but have been considering other editors. With the divinci resolve, is it a case that it won't work at all with AMD cards or will it just be slower ?

[@techwandoUS]

Vex, your videos are great man! What camera do you use, it's very crispy. Also to ad on to the Davinci thing... I loved my time with the 6900xt but it greatly made my experience suffer with Davinci. I also experienced freezing and lag in the timeline, whereas on the Nvidia cards even going back to a 1060 I had as a drop in wait for 40 series card, I had no issues.

[@Akizurius]

I think buying Nvidia card right now is like paying extra just for Ray-Tracing and CUDA. I have been using Nvidia cards for years and I have been happy with them but with the current prices AMD just gives much better deal. I live in Poland and RTX 4080 is about 20% more expensive than RX 7900 XTX here at the moment and prices didn't change much in the last few weeks. Raster performance is roughly the same on those 2 cards. Paying 20% extra for ray-tracing and CUDA seems like a bad deal. Its not like RX 7900 XTX can't do ray-tracing either. I've seen benchmarks that show that its RT performance is still above RTX 3090 in most games. Performance in productivity apps varies but in some AMD wins and in others Nvidia is better so its very case by case thing.

[@user-dh7sm9zh9e]

New technologies are bound to improve and make it easier to run. Hating on RT and DSLL is just following a hivemind. I think nvidia is just taking a different path than amd and it's not yet worth getting for performance. Video game devs are lost cause tho can't defend them not finishing their games lol.

[@GDsergio]

i was on the same boat back in December, i was trying to choose between a 3080 or 6900 xt both new, but then a sudden price drop happened on the 6950 xt leaving it at 670$. I ended up taking the risk with AMD i couldn't be happier, seeing all the sudden vram issues popping up with new releases, I'm so happy with my 16gb of vram plus since I still don't care for raytraycing, i got myself an absolute beast of rasterization performance.

[@ForEverTon78]

Nvidia's 8gb cards won't last as long as AMD's 12gb ones. Not everyone is able to upgrade on a frequent basis. I've made the same choice as you did.

[@ForEverTon78]

@Thomas B I'm using my 10yo 750w Cooler Master PSU with the RX. Except for ray tracing theres no comparison in AMD's cost benefit I am really happy with my choice.

[@Rudenbehr]

Gamers just want cheaper AMD GPUs so that they can get cheaper Nvidia cards. That's really all it is.

[@SuubUWU]

The thing about audio versus gameplay; the video is in the background for the most part until I need to glance over for statistics. Digging the content mate.

[@Flamingo4280]

I just recently upgraded from a GTX 1080 to an RX 6800xt, and I found that it was an incredibly smooth transition! I had considered buying an Nvidia card, but in my market, even a 3070ti was selling for more than a 6800xt, so I would have to be crazy to buy Nvidia. This thing is a beast and it's particularly strong against the older 1080 in the games I like to play the most right now(Forza Horizon 5, RDR2, Monster Hunter World). I'm not sure what the situation was like at launch, but I'm confident that anyone buying AMD right now would not have any issues. Honestly, I had way more driver issues with my old RTX 3060 laptop, so Nvidia definitely isn't perfect either

[@adammartin4906]

don't listen to these fanboys like who cares about a creator card AMD is for gamers Nvidia screws gamers over FACT and ray tracing is in the gimmicky stage and will be for good 10 years so once again AMD is really the only choice right now unless you're so rich you can buy anything but back to the real world were people have budgets it becomes so clear AMD GPUs are the clear choice here period

[@slavicodyssey]

I'm building a PC from scratch and the reason why I'm planning on getting a 4070 ti is because I also plan on doing productivity on my PC. Nvidia still does a better job than amd with that. The 4070 is also the most I want to spend on a GPU so stretching to a 4080 is out of the question. Also a lot of 30xx cards didn't budge in price so they are similarly priced to their 40xx counterpart here in Germany. Except the 3070/3070 ti but I want more than 8gb vram.

[@mishea13]

I would research that card before you buy... many are saying Nvidia has screwed that card up and it is a poor performance. Or maybe it was the 4060? Cant remember right now..but I would still reserach this. Cheers.

[@slavicodyssey]

@@mishea13 the 4060s were the mistake, 4070 probably is the only one that is "worth it" since it's a 3080 with 12gb vram, dlss 3 and better power efficiency. Plus it's not that big as far as new GPUs go. The 4070ti is fantastic in performance but spending almost 1k for a GPU with 12gb of vram didn't sit well with me. In the end I just bit the bullet and got the 4080.

[@9myke]

Can you do a mix of b-roll (when you have some) gameplay and face cam. Absolutely loving the content by the way

[@wackynwild980]

Like the content Vex, a video randomly popped up in my recommendations when I was watching pc videos, definitely surprised you're channel isn't bigger. You got a sub brother. Yeah I want an AMD card but I want ray tracing too and I chase the most powerful stuff on the market... So nvidia will likely always be my go too. Ray Tracing cores man, I've always wanted a pc that could run that shit and now it's just becoming a thing were we can. Edit: I will say I'm more of a Team Red fan then I ever was tho cuz I got a laptop that uses an AMD GPU and I absolutely fucking love it. Like if you're going the laptop route, imo nvidia can't touch AMD. Nvidia 4000 series are like $2600 and up for a base fucking card.

[@pondracek]

The only reason I upgraded past a 1080ti is VR. AMD didn't show up to play for like the first 4-5 years of VR existing. (CV1 & Index released during the GTX980 era.) So a lot of the older classics just work better on Team Green. Which, granted, is less of an issue with today's GPU hardware on yesteryear's VR titles. But for anything roomscale, I don't want a wire. And nVenc + Reflex (+Virtual Desktop) is basically uncontested for that use case. I'm surprised nobody else has mentioned it, but AMD's OpenGL performance on Windows is also attrocious. It's not a big deal for me, only really making a difference when emulating PS2 titles, but if I was into PS3 emulation or Switch emulation (specifically the community that has sprung up around Breath of the Wild), I would be hard on Team Green's side for that reason.

[@BryanGarcia-qy4qg]

For me software wise I was having issues with my RX 6900 XT. In my situation I have three monitor, one of which is an ultra wide and the other 240hz (the third monitor was for Spotify/Discord). For some reason my graphics card acted weird and glitchy from time to time. I tried different sets of cables, reinstalled windows and upgrade to a top of the line SSD. Nothing solved this so I ended up gettint rid of it. Ended up buying an RTX 4070 TI and haven't had issues. Maybe I got unlucky with my AMD card. These days I just tell people to buy whatever works for them.

[@hawkinsjd11]

heading through all your videos over tha last year. love the channel. I would have subbed twice if I could.

[@michaelmaness5493]

Ball Caps are not to hide your hair, or lack of it. For those of us that are follicley challenged, it keep you warmer in the winter, and from having sunburn in the summer.

[@derschnuff8819]

i would love to have a AMD card - but i have to admit, Nvidia GPUs have simply better and reliable support for applications. Thats also the reason why i would stay with the green ones, although the AMD cards have more bang for the buck. They need to catch up. 6800 XT would be a great pick - but besides its out of my possibilites to buy them atm - AMD is just not very good at Blender Rendering and the company does not have a history of continous support for such applications.

[@evalangley3985]

That's such a load of crap... reliable my ass... My EVGA 1080 FTW was RMA twice in 10 months. I sold the third sample to a sucker like you that drink the coolaid... kzbin.info/www/bejne/oanSiZWcr7VoeLc kzbin.info/www/bejne/paOan52Lob6Hgqs

[@Fedreal_Bureau_Of_Investigaton]

blender rendering? just switching to linux you half your rendering time

[@TheLordNugget]

I currently have a GeForce GTX 1080 TI. It's a solid performer still, but I am looking at what options there will be for upgrading. I'm likely going to be looking at the next generations of cards. Hopefully the cost comes back down to earth a bit. NVidia has been anti-consumer for a while. Their actions have me wanting to move away from their gpus. Intel was a little disappointing. Looks like the hype for their next generation is starting to bubble up. Most of my decision on what card to go with will come down to what everything costs and their respective performance. I don't give a rat's azz about ray tracing so NVidia has no advantage with me.

[@chamorro81]

Good for you bro. I say get what works for you. I picked up the XFX 6800 XT merc and i’m super happy about it. It’s crushing all of my games at ultra wide 1440p with no issues at all. Games and hardware nowadays are amazing.

[@chrismachica5219]

Needed to replace my old gaming PC (i5 and 2 980s in sli). Went with the red team because of Micro Center bundle deal w/ Ryzen 9 and they had the 7900 xtx in stock ($999 retail). I have no complaints. I think the biggest thing is, I don't feel I over paid. Playing Overwatch, 1440p ultra at 500 + FPS.

[@Astravall]

Well CUDA and other proprietary stuff like G-Sync and DLSS are the reasons i refuse to buy Nvidia again (and i did for a long time since the Riva TNT). It's not like AMD cards would be bad at productivity apps, but Nvidia managed to stuff CUDA in that market and for what ever reason a lot of productivity apps refuse to provide OpenCL support. I want manufactures compete on good products not on locking out competition with proprietary features.

[@arenzricodexd4409]

Open source is double edge sword. Just look what happen with OpenGL before. OpenGL end up being behind DirectX in development because OpenGL needs to satisfy everyone on the consortium. In fact Khronos end up separating Vulkan altogether from OpenGL to avoid the API being held back by professionals that want their open source API to conformant with their legacy stuff. OpenCL as a compute API will be more important in professional space. In this space time is money. So some IHV cannot let themselves held back by API development that being slowed down just because Khronos looking for a solution that can satisfy everyone. So intel end up going with their OneAPI, Apple with Metal and AMD with their ROCm.

[@go_gonu]

Actually Driver issue was huge for me. Used 6800XT for 3 months with all other parts brand new incl. 13600K CPU. All steam games were doing fine, it's just that it had issues with online games, precisely with Riot games which I play the most. It had random freezes and crashes and frame dropping. After looking it up, it was a common issue in the Korean computing community as well as a lot of forum post at reddit too. Lost ark is an another game that had the same issue while I was looking up. Fed up with the crashes and lags, so I jumped ship to 4070ti by selling 6800XT with 40% lost value, but the best decision I made imo... On paper YES that AMD has much better cost value, but practically it is what it is and there is a reason why they have such reputation..

[@Clashy69]

I wouldn't say they have a reputation for bad drivers or at least not anymore it's not how it was like 5-10yrs ago but now most of the time drivers are good and age pretty good and if there is a bad driver they at least acknowledge it and nvidia also has bad drivers literally most recent issues were high gpu/cpu usage when idle and then the Diablo 4 beta blowing up nvidia gpus

[@arenzricodexd4409]

Yes MMO genre is one that AMD have ignored for a very long time.

[@go_gonu]

@@Clashy69 I was referring to my personal experiences and there were alot of people sharing the issue and this was this year.. and the ppl who shared the issue all within 2years period. My prob was immeadiately fixed when I switched to nvidia. So I can only judge from what I've seen. Radeon did work like a charm on Hogwarts Legacy and RDP2 but it just sucks with games that constantly updates like league. It is what it is mate.. I used both. Dont care what fanboys say

[@Clashy69]

@꺼뉴TV not a fanboy just stating the facts both got their pros and cons and is just a preference now

[@parkersgarage4216]

I tried a 6650xt myself and had driver issues w it as well. The moment I switched back no more issues. Like you I tried and won't try again. I returned it and I bought a used 4080strix 4 1100. I'm looking forward to trying an Intel gpu. I wanna see how battlemage does.

[@Spork888]

I like a mixture of relevant gameplay, face cam, and screenshots / photos. Just whatever is most relevant at the time. I especially like when you name a product or game and put it on screen.

[@projectc1rca048]

I like the Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy reference at the end there.

[@erazzed]

This is a pretty interesting topic and I feel like a lot of it has to do with feature economy. Nvidia products are highly driven by features (e.g. G-Sync, RT, DLSS, Reflex, NVENC etc.) and a wide range of industry support for productive use. While Nvidia is innovating and engineering new features AMD is trying to catch up most of the time and even if AMD follows up with their own implementation it's almost always slightly inferiour to Nvidia's implementation (image quality in DLSS vs. FSR, performance in RT, ...). For me, personally, this creates some kind of fear of missing out (FOMO): What if AMD's implementation is worse than Nvidia's in a new game or what if AMD's implementation is just not supported by this game? What if Nvidia invents a new feature that they make available for older cards as well (Nvidia hasn't in the past, but... what if they do the next time?)? And then there's also the fact that Nvidia is just better at working with/paying game devs to make them implement their "awesome new feature" (e.g. Reflex for competitive games). Maybe it sounds crazy, but these are the considerations that almost always drive me back into Nvidia's arms. I hate it and I would love to switch to AMD, but... there's always this "but, ..." that makes me hesitate and question whether AMD would be a good choice or not.

[@Adri9570]

Seriously, it is about time for some tech youtuber to do a clear whole list/comparison about the set of features that you miss when you chose AMD or Nvidia. It would make waaaay easier to be safe switching from one brand to the other and it would promote the best brand with something more than "mere intuition" or just "fear of missing".

[@LiquidSnake690]

I decided to get an RX 7900 XT over the RTX 4070 Ti despite the RTX 4070 Ti having better ray tracing performance and DLSS because I figured I would benefit more from the RX 7900 XT's 20 gigs of vram in future games.

[@weirddylan7721]

And FSR 3.0 will come out this year

[@NomForSuccess]

Hey man if you’re still looking for an answer then the free version of davinci resolve does not utilize the gpu for exports at all.

[@ledizzy2634]

This was a chill af video. Loved the discussion. You need more subs XD

[@RashakantBhattachana]

अच्छा नहीं! अब और नहीं! मुझे सुंदर महिला चाहिए!

[@IAMNOTRANA]

my man why you want bobs and vagana in a fuckin' tech channel comment section lmao

[@Saturn2888]

It's strange to hear you talk about "maybe AMD will gain marketshare" because they were one of the big 3 when I was a kid, and NVIDIA couldn't hold a candle to AMD's (ATi) video quality. Windows was visibly blurry with NVIDIA. Games too because their AF was bilinear or something. From my opinion, AMD is still a power house, but NVIDIA suddenly got the leg-up when I wasn't looking.

[@roshawn1111]

more like that bought a bunch of devs

[@-Ice_Cold-]

AMD can't gain market share, when everybody is buying NVIDIA cards

[@Saturn2888]

@@-Ice_Cold- and now they have competition from Intel. It's bad today, but next gen is where they can really shine. NVIDIA is running into die size issues.

[@damn1580]

Oh well, I don't blame you, just like you said on your previous vid, you did this purchase out of the fear of uncertainties, I personally went with 6800XT but then again it's not any different to the 3080(in rasterized games), hope you enjoyed your new card, great vid❤

[@bulletmuangkhoua]

I thought Davinci's resolve only supported gpu acceleration if you bought the program. Correct me if I am wrong

[@NiceSk1ll3r]

Used 1060 6GB since 2017 and this year upgraded to new 6800 XT (wanted to be safe and have warranty). Been using it for more than a month now and haven't encountered any major problems. Little nitpicks here and there, but nothing so serious that I consider returning it.

[@thatguy3000]

I mean, the pretty much fixed all the issues. AMD takes like 2 or so years to fix their drivers on the cards. Look at the 6700 XT for example, it used to go toe to toe against the 3060 Ti but can now surpass the 3070 in raw performance (Not being VRAM limited) in every game. You just bought the GPU at a nice time is all. The 7000 series are going through issues of their own now though.

[@gradient602]

I think I want to make the switch to AMD as well. I’ve had nothing but Nvidia on 4 different current rigs and been using them since my 650 Ti. It’s just that Nvidia isn’t enticing anymore, too much money what you get, especially with vram needs increasing.

[@ThisIsLau]

Yeah, the vram thing is one of the biggest things to consider. Looking at the leaks, nvidia is not going to give good amounts of vram

[@Wobbothe3rd]

Lol, yeah right. Suuuure.

[@glw607]

With NVIDIA having better ray-tracing and a software stack of features (CUDA, DLSS etc.), but AMD being very close or better in raw rasterizing performance in most games, when it comes to the 4080 Super vs 7900 XTX, do you feel that the "extra" 8gb vram is worth the ray-tracing & software stack of the 4080 Super, or is the extra vram being "wasted" in pretty much all current (and forseable) games and all but a hand full of very specific applications? Pretty much, will games need or be able to use 16-24gb vram before the processing power of either gpu is an issue?

[@Varue]

facecam during gaming is epic! let's people see genuine reactions. just discovered your channel and it is good content. i look forward to your videos.

[@Nighthearted]

My reason to go with Nvidia is Emulation. AMD made an effort for OpenGL, but still has a long way to go. I think it's a bit of a gray area to them since they make consoles' hardware, so they don't mess with emulation support much. It's a shame AMD won't even try on that front.

[@raresmacovei8382]

What are you even using OpenGL in emulation? XEMU? Citra? Meh. And OpenGL AMD's performance is now great.

[@justaguy6216]

It was US$50 for you it was US$130 for me so I went with the 6800xt. Later on the price fell by a further $170 but the Nvidia only fell by another $70. So I do have a tiny bit of buyers remorse but not as much as if I went with Nvidia. I'm more than happy with it.

[@Tiber234]

This was a very interesting little discussion - thanks for this vid, Im late to this party but im at THAT point - I literally have an Nvidia 4070S and an AMD 7900 GRE next to me (both still boxed) As im upgrading from my 2060S I "naturally" flowed towards Nvidia but having had a very positive experience transitioning from an Intel i7 processor to an AMD in 2020 (still using my very capable Ryzen7 3700X) and also seeing the VRAM and price disparity btwn said GPU's I did my due diligence and trawled KZbins review/comparison vids (including a number of yours) - im now 80/20 for keeping the AMD although still a bit concerned about having issues. I agree with you - its definitely good to be open to new alternatives (budget allowing). And if I do, I hope that in 2028 I look back with satisfaction at my option to go with AMD

[@notree666]

Hopefully your channel pops off and you can start testing!!

[@NipahAllDay]

My first gpu that I bought was a 1060 3GB. I didn’t know it was a bad GPU at the time, but it was dead on arrival anyway. I just decided to get a 580 and began becoming an AMD fan. It was probably the best outcome, tbh. I did try a 3070 as my temporary gpu until I got a 7900 xtx, but it wasn’t that impressive. I think Nvidia is overrated for gaming, and even on some productivity uses.

[@-Ice_Cold-]

I agree, my RX 580 8GB is rocking, when at the same price i could afford only 1650

[@deuswulf6193]

Developers want to use RT (aka path tracing) because it makes their job a billion times easier. The only issue we have right now is hardware related. RT is very important though, just as important as the shift to PBR textures which happened awhile back.

[@TheUAProdigy]

It does not make our job easier at all. Have you ever coded anything in c?

[@deuswulf6193]

@@TheUAProdigy Are you under the illusion that every game has its engine being written from scratch with every new project? That 3rd party engine's don't exist? That level designers and the art team are all writing code in C++? C'mon now. On that note, go watch the interview Gordon gave over on PCWorld titled "First Details About Path Tracing In Cyberpunk 2077". Then follow the trail...

[@Deriathan1]

Can you use some low cost nvidia card only for video encoding? Something like 1030 or 1050? And have AMD as main gpu?

[@JunkBondTrader]

I don't see why not. But That's gonna be some slow ass encoding, which can be fine if you just decide to encode overnight.. But the actual video editing itself is gonna be a rough experience on the 1030 or 1050. My 3060 ti struggles to do 4k, or even super complex 1080p edits.

[@thomask1424]

Building a new rig this week, just waiting on the GPU to arrive. Got an Acer Bifrost 16GB, on sale for $339! Try something new, right?

[@Shubhamrawat364]

AMD fanboys are absolutely unbearable, apple fanboys are unpopular for blindly over paying but at least apple makes really good products, but here in the GPU space all amd does is shitt and put out products that are clearly inferior to NVidia but still these corporate suckers vouch for inferior products which is kind of weird to see. Nvidia GPUs are overpriced for sure but nobody can deny their technological lead from having good AI features to industry wide optimization for any software or workloads and not to forget the ML market where amd is completely non existent. amd cards are just good enough raster bricks but with NVidia my GPU can be so much more and because of that I don't mind paying a premium for Nvidia cards as it actually is overall a really good product in respect to what amd is offering.

[@GhOsThPk]

And NVIDIA fanboys are in reality just salivating fangirls of Jensen, ones that like to be shafted in the face every generation, remember the 3.5GB disaster on the GTX 970? You guys like buying gimped cards that becomes obsolete two years later, good luck using RT with high textures in newer games with cards that has 8GB~12GB which are the majority of cards Jensen shits for you. RTX 4050 6GB when the RTX 3050 which was already a TURD had 8GB, RTX 4080 with only 16GB when AMD gave 16GB at 3070Ti (which has 8GB garbage) level on the RX 6800, both the 7900XT and the XTX has more VRAM than the RTX 4080, better yet was the RTX 3080 MSRP of $700 becomes $1200 on the RTX 4080 while AMD gives the 7900XTX at the SAME MSRP of the 6900XT ($1000) while having more 8GB of VRAM, you guys like to be shafted, it's so good.

[@baloo5621]

The irony of this comment is unbearable 😂

[@leucome]

Yeah I looked your channel... I can definitively see all the fantastic thing you produce with your magical device from Nvidia. I definitively can not do anything that impressive with my raster brick.

[@Shubhamrawat364]

@@leucome ha ha ha Iam not a youtuber but i work in 3D animation and VFX industry. Here if Anybody even talks about Amd GPUs they either looses projects or job. You can stay with your below par raster brick and continue to have the Cool Aid drink.

[@leucome]

@@Shubhamrawat364 A studio that fire their artist if they talk about AMD... Hum...sound legit.

[@heksogen4788]

Its cute how AMD sponsored creators are pissing on their audience face, and the audience is like "oh what a refreshing rain".

[@NKNeptune]

you could also try to contact a local used parts dealer. maybe convince them to let you test some parts, potentially for free (to see how well they function). or perhaps you could build some basic budget used computers for them to sell in return.

[@wackynwild980]

Didn't they tout AV1 encoding as a feature of the 40 series? Not sure if the previous cards did it too.

[@kecksbelit3300]

I think a mix of gameplay and pictures/facecam is perfect

[@tradernfts1377]

The fact that amd loosing to Nvidia is that they're chasing Nvidia and not building the part that own

[@dawienel1142]

This is exactly my point w.r.t RT. 3080ti owner here and I also somewhat regret not going 6900xt since it was about 30% cheaper, but what brought me over the edge was the warranty on Palit vs XFX (3 vs 2) Great video and you need more views with your content quality.

[@Miraihi]

If you ever try to get into the machine learning your regrets are going to instantly vanish since Nvidia dominates that niche almost completely. Only promising alternative we have for AMD is DirectML, but it's still in its infancy.

[@dawienel1142]

@@Miraihi not something I'd ever get into so its not part of my decision making factors. I basically only play games on my PC.

[@saricubra2867]

​@@dawienel1142 You are wasting you 3080Ti that can do more than just gaming, by the way, the 3080Ti still beats a 6900XT at 4K, only the 6950XT can be faster from that lineup of products by AMD.

[@dawienel1142]

@@saricubra2867 agreed, but the 6900xt is significantly cheaper and has more VRAM which is clearly becoming a problem even for 12GB high end GPU's. In a nutshell the 3080ti is faster until its NOT since it runs out of VRAM and then it's a stuttering mess, ironically the areas where it beats the 6900xt like 4k/RT would be what makes its VRAM a limitation so the 6900xt may well overtake it in the heavest games at 4k already. Lastly you mean to say that I'm wasting my GPU by not doing something I never ended or wanted to do with it, if you want to be critical the better viewpoint would be that I bought a product that has use cases that I will never utilize, in which case the better argument would be that I should have bought a product that fits my needs better and saved a significant amount of money in the process. I guess it was the warranty that just gave me the piece of mind to go for Pailt over XFX, I personally like the Palit brand a lot.

[@saricubra2867]

@@dawienel1142 3080Ti is twice as fast for 4K RT than the 6900XT even when the VRAM is maxed out. 12GB is not an issue, take a look at the 1080Ti. By the way, the 3080Ti has the 3090 die and the 6900XT isn't as powerful. 6900XT is significantly cheaper with crappy ray tracing, meanwhile you don't sacrifice anything with the 3080Ti in general, just like Turing marketing from Jensen Huang, "It just works".

[@ToshinRaizen7]

does game care about gddr6x ? or they care about quantity? since amd got 24Gb btw in my country reference model is more expensive than asrock aib model...

[@GeneralVeki]

im sorry to break the news, but you need the paid version (yes this is correct) to utilize the accelerators, was wondering the same thing as you until i figured it out

[@BertieJasokie]

You need to keep a good balance of video and narrative input, not too long on the face and no excessive lingering on shots that are sometimes irrelevant.

[@saricubra2867]

If you went for a 3080Ti finding it used, you would get a no compromise NVIDIA experience for the RTX 3000 series.

[@od13166]

My case i had to kept using Radeon since Freesync in NVIDIA doesnt work that well Especially if you go 60hz mod with Freeync being turned on it loses my monitor signal which doesnt happens in AMD

[@-Ice_Cold-]

Yeah, monitors with FreeSync costs significantly less than NVIDIA's G-Sync

[@cheese186]

The free version of Davinci Resolve doesn't have gpu accelerated rendering

[@spaghettiupseti9990]

if you're looking for a card with av1 encoding the rx 7900 xt supports that and it has similar performance to 40 series av1 encoder but doesn't have features locked behind its workstation cards. If you're considering on trying out AMD and want a card with AV1 encoding that probably won't be a bad choice for you

[@adammartin4906]

and being that everything is moving to av1 daVinci resolve and so many others announced there moving to that new format will make amd the go to card for editing in 6 months from now

[@dampintellect]

If you do get an AMD card for your system, remember to remove the Nvidia drivers preferably with DDU and put the correct AMD drivers on. Or you might run into weirdness.

[@rorycastle5257]

Hey Vex, new subscriber and viewer here, and I'm loving the authentic nature of your videos. I'm running a 3080 ti in my daily driver, but the last two systems I built were with Radeon, because of exactly what you talked about. I wanted to see the other side of things. My old lady wanted something to play her Movie games (choose your own adventure), and a few i actually really liked (Her Story, Telling Lies). What I found was they all actually played better and were easier to setup on AMD cards (RX 6650 xt). Not only that, but my own games are easier to optimize and get running. Yeah i can make it look better on my 3080 ti, but i spend an hour gettin there. Plug and play goes to AMD for sure

[@MichaelHolmgaard]

The driver issues with AMD these days just turn me off team red completely. I tried a 7900xt because of Vram and it was just a complete mess. I will rather pay more for an Nvidia GPU that I know will do the job without technical issues. It's plug-in-play and that is important at such prices

[@mhahn]

Can you provide more details about the driver issues you had? Specific examples?

[@ishanmondal3366]

It's the same for if I'm buying a new GPU I want to have more features even if I'm not going to use them cause once I buy a GPU it should do solid 4 to 5 years straight .

[@TerraWare]

Back in 2020 when these cards released the 16gb vram was a big reason why I went with a 6800xt over a 3080. To me releasing what Jensen referred to as their "flagship" with only 10GB of vram felt like planned obsolescence even though back than games weren't very vram hungry. Now they are though and even the 4070Ti is being held back by it's vram buffer if you try to play at 4K in some of the latest games. I also see comments of people thinking DLSS will make up for lack of vram but it wont. Vram allocation and utilization doesn't change much between native and DLSS.

[@furynotes]

DLSS or FSR won't because people jack up the texture detail on 8gb cards like they are 1440p cards. I can see dlss working for 8gb cards at this point. I found 8gb not to be not enough for 1440p a few years back. Funny how most gamers are mad about a last of us part 1 not running well on 8gb cards at 1440p. They scream bad port partly because of that.

[@minicam2]

Can you please upload in 4K?

[@vextakes]

Cant

[@de4ler]

if you get a 7900 xt in the future pls test it in 1080p

[@pritamraya5295]

As a blender user, I can't recommend enough for Nvidia GPU. Even if I get AMD at half the price of similar performing Nvidia, I'd still get Nvidia. AMD is way out of league in 3d production.

[@BrokeDad1]

I went with Nvidia also because of the steep drop in prices. I needed a whole new system and less than $1500 for all newer components in one was too hard to pass up. It came with a Strix 3080 OC 2 10GB. It should be fine until we see what the 5000 series bring or AMD's next lineup.

[@Hubwood]

I DON'T WEAR A CAP TO HIDE MY HAIR! (I don't have any hair :D) Great Video btw. You're on fire! Kepp going! You'll be big! Great way of explaining and a very pleasent VLOG Voice! Cheers from germany!

[@chridi3]

You asked for opinion so here is mine. I like to see your face, especially when you have deep and important thoughts. 70% face and 30% cool gameplay would be good for me. Keep rocking!

[@primary7208]

I swapped from a 3080ti to a 6950xt and it’s insane how much better it is for gaming, im getting 200+ fps on 1440p in mw2 and 300+ on apex

[@wanotai91]

amd is actually more expensive in my country cause nvidia cards are everywhere while amd cards are very hard to find.... no point going amd if they are more expensive

[@jhart0512]

i just switched to OLED 4k and my 8Gb 3070 is quickly starting to show its age (got it at release). i have a 7900 XT and 5700x showing up in the mail today and I'm pretty hyped (ReBar test too?!). like you i wanted to try RT with the 3070, and sometimes its really noticeable and cool, and other times you can't really tell it's on. RT only seems useful for SP AAA games with a 60fps target. in MP games everything is moving too fast to notice any RT and not worth the fps hit. i had to learn the hard way as usual, but now i know, and now i want to try AMD.

[@atishalii]

Little late comment but Happy 2024 btw ,If you own an Amd cpu , you should be ok with the price drop Amd is supposed to announce when the 4080 Super will be in stores , I mean Amd should decrease the 7900 Xtx price by at least 100 dollars or even more in order to sell their top card. I'm Green Blue ( GPU CPU ) since the beginning of my pc gaming things like about 20 years ago + - , now I do play just one very Cpu bound game, an old one World of warcraft Dragonflight and I found out quite recently than the 7800x3d is a complete overkill for that game especially with the 3dvcache in it so I'm waiting for the prices to go down a little then I'll switch full Red and go from 11700K / 3070 Ti Strix to 7800x3d / 7900 xtx , it's gonna cost me a leg and a hear here in Euorpe ( if the prices go down.............. ) and you're One of the ones that made me change my mind about Nvidia Intel and AMD ! SO THANKS for your honesty, clearness and the way you went straight to the point !!! ( forgive my English I'm French ) I might write things badly ! so time and patience will you come back to Red and me too ;) ;) ;)

[@doomersnek3878]

I got the GTX 1070, still gonna be keeping it for a good while until I can afford the more expensive graphic cards as I upgrade to a new PC. However, I legit have no idea what CUDA even is. I haven't been in the market for GPUs, since I will need to save up a whole lot for a new one, so I yet to learn about the specifics of what to look out for in a GPU.

[@Code_String]

Not necessarily a Desktop person, but someone who came from an I7-4910MQ/880m Alienware laptop to a used Dell G5 with a 5800H and a 3060. It was alright for what I used it, and it did have some pros. Sold it back rather quickly and snagged some ROG G15 AE for the same value as that Dell laptop. There's been some things I've missed from Nvidia's side, but the performance bump in regard to the value when compared to a 3060 is noticeable. Fiddling around with a 5900HX and 6800m combo is kind of like trying to tweak some settings and finding work arounds in regard to AMD's hardware. If I was a little more productive content wise I would have probably stepped up higher with Nvidia, but AMD's offerings have come a long way.

[@hom3r]

I had 5700XT the driver was a wreck. i had to use vega56 to tide it through... now im using intel + 3080

[@mishea13]

What about DLSS that AMD does not have. Curious what you think.

[@brianchan8]

Fsr

[@sunwalker2438]

lately i really wanted to buy an RX 7900 XTX, but at the end i've ordered a RTX 4080. why? because Diablo 4 will get Raytracing support some time after release.

[@Djenkov]

Gameplay with smaller screen of your camera at the corner of your screen would probably be the best imo. It will satisfy the people who prefer gameplay and the people who would like to watch you talking. You can try it for a video or two and see the feedback of your viewers. And yeah, for 50 dollar difference either choice would be fine. I will buy myself a 7900xtx soon, but if 4080 and 7900xtx had smaller price difference I would probably go for nVidia as well, just because of that peace of mind aspect you mentioned. As long as you are not being super fanboyish you are good + it's your money. Furthermore, your reasons for the purchase were reasonable.

[@Pand0rasAct0r_]

i mean im pretty sure you can get a 6900/50xt for the same amount of money as a 3080 right?

[@meadsource]

I prefer the talking head format, that that said the gameplay footage is fine because most of the time I'm just listening to you. Maybe you could have both? Don't be afraid to through some sweet frags in for the moments when you have nothing else to show haha

[@takeoffwithjakesoft]

FWIW: I'm doing the KZbin gaming channel thing with an AMD card and it's fine. I felt apprehensive the same as you, but I took the chance. Glad I did.

[@etherealceleste]

I just had to rollback my NVidia driver because the current driver constantly BSoD my computer. After the installing the previous driver, no more crashes.

[@kevinjeon8824]

For me I currently own an rtx 4090 for gaming and RTX A6000. I do deep learning stuff so I have to kinda use NVIDIA...I initially bought 4090 for both gaming and deep learning and eventually I got RTX A6000 for the 48GB VRAM which helps a lot during training.