Nvidia vs AMD! - What's ACTUALLY Better For Gaming?! 🤔

wants better Nvidia or AMD it's the age-old question and it's the one that's now more relevant than ever we've literally just had the refresh of gpus from both vendors from a tiny Radeon RX 7600 all the way to the Benchmark blowing RTX 4090 and all of them are great for gaming in their own right but some of them are definitely stronger than others so let us take this opportunity to answer the big question which brand is better and ultimately which should you buy stay tuned to learn absolutely everything you need to know right after a short word from this video sponsor Aces Predator Orion 7000 is a pre-built desktop Powerhouse coming equipped with a 13th generation Intel I9 processor and a GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card not only does this Crush 4K gaming but it looks incredible too with RGB frostblade fans liquid CPU cooling and a vertically mounted GPU not only that but selected Acer Predator and Nitro gaming machines even come with one month of Xbox game plus ultimate included so you can get gaming in later Empires Forza Horizon 5 Halo and match more all at no extra cost learn more today with the link down below right then let's get started what exactly are the differences between the two both AMD and Nvidia design gpus or Graphics processing units which are then specked with an electrical board with voltage Regulators memory i o and all of the other gubbins these are then purchased by Third parties like power color MSI or gigabytes where they're then assembled matched with a custom cooling design packaged and shipped to stores and this is exactly why graphics cards tend to look pretty similar these days I mean could you guess which is which about reading the text I would wait a no pretty much all the important stuff is actually going on under the hood AMD and Nvidia do take very different approaches to how they design their GPU but both achieve the same thing thousands of cores for parallel processing which of course is perfect for running video games the main difference is well really it all comes down to the direction of the development and I know this might sound a little bit boring but Nvidia seems to care about two things more than pretty much anything else which is Ray tracing and Ai and this is probably the single most important thing that you need to think about when choosing a new GPU because ultimately who do you agree with the most Nvidia really wants to be seen as at the Forefront and Cutting Edge technology is their way of showing that Nvidia is the best and their killer strategy has been to have the highest level of Ray tracing performance on the market they achieved this with dedicated Ray tracing cores baked straight into the GPU which while similar to the ray tracing units that's found on amd's Hardware has been on the market for longer and generally speaking lets raytrace games run better on Team Green over team red but that's only half the story because Nvidia also leverages AI with their dlss technology and say what you will about Nvidia you really can't argue that dlss is awesome the quality of the image is indeed nion indistinguishable in most games yet the frame rate increases by huge margins dlss stands for deep learning super sampling and it runs the game at a low resolution thus having a high FPS but upscales the image using AI tensor courts to make it look as good as if it was natively rendered now sure this doesn't always work well I still avoid using it in F1 2022 as you can see some motion trailing but in pretty much every other game I play it is on but wait I hear you cry what about the other option AMD FSR this is the same right well kinda Fidelity super resolution is amd's open standard for games that want upscaling but isn't dynamically AI accelerated yet it instead opts for a much easier to run approach the result is that essentially any GPU or game can use it but the image quality isn't quite as good as dlss in my personal experience granted it has got much much better FSR 2.1 onwards looks pretty crisp but dlss uses motion vectors to sharpen up moving visuals whereas FSR can start to appear a little bit softer and then there's a new kid in town frame generation that was meant to be a cowboy but that was just terrible Carl can we cut out the video and start again and the way that this works is arguably a lot more complicated because instead of lowering down the resolution frame generation essentially guesses what the next frame will be and dynamically adds a new image between rendered frames thus increasing the FPS it works really well on the higher end cards delivering much smoother visuals but the cost of some latency otherwise known as the time it takes to render the visuals that you're seeing this does mean that games can start to feel a little bit more disconnected depending on the exact title and settings and GPU that you're using but as I say the higher end it works really well it's just things like the RTX 4070 when your frame rates are lower anyway but you do start to notice things aren't quite so good but fundamentally with single player games it's not really too much to worry about just keep your latency below 60 milliseconds for the best result at the time of filming AMD doesn't currently have its own version of frame gen but it is working on it as part of FSR 3.0 so watch this space but at least for now if you do want the highest full frame rates in games like cyberpunk or flight Sim an Nvidia 40 series card is probably the best way to go however put your a pitchforks down for a second AMD Fanboys because there is definitely something that AMD has that Nvidia does not and that is actually when it comes to IO we have DisplayPort 2.1 and this isn't massively useful at the moment but essentially you get higher bandwidths which mean you can run high resolution monitors at higher frame rates other than that the cards are pretty similar for the average gamer both cards let you record gameplay on the Fly the latest releases pack av1 encoders for the highest streaming quality and performance across the stack is generally pretty good okay let's be realistic here it certainly sounds to me as if Nvidia is going to be the best bet when it comes to features and while there are always going to be differences personally speaking I love the fact that with the team green cards you can run Ray tracing arguably a higher level better performance and of course you get things like dlss frame generation and a load of cool features that are exclusive to Nvidia whereas even if you prefer FSR well you can still run that on the Nvidia graphics card but before you buy Team Green and completely shun AMD there has been a reason recently that a lot of people are turning to am graphics cards and that's all about vram vram or video memory is on all graphics cards think of it almost like the graphics card's hands the more it can hold close to it the more resources ultimately it can use and games are getting so big these days with new AAA launches with Ray tracing high-res textures numerous effects all of these need more vram and the problem is that Nvidia just hasn't really been specing enough vram on their mid-tick cards for a few years case in point the most recent release at the time of filming this is the RTX 4060 TI and this is selling for just under 400 pounds with eight gigabytes of vram this isn't about a Witch Hunt or hating on Team Green the simple fact is if that if you buy a new card with 8 gigabytes of vram in 2023 then you are going to be limited to lower settings in certain games at high resolutions and the big question I still don't think has been properly answered on YouTube at the moment is whether this is actually an issue that is going to affect you and the answer is well yes and no because while it's not really going to affect you now especially if you're mainly playing multiplayer titles things like war zone or maybe some Apex Legends the fact of the matter is people want a graphics card to last many years so if you're struggling with a few games now then obviously newer releases that are coming out are going to be more likely to run into these issues and if you are someone that has spent 400 pounds on a graphics card chances are you're not going to want to turn down settings to actually get this card to work properly the simple truth is that if you don't have enough vram you're going to have to turn the settings down otherwise you're going to see game breaking stuttering or just some weird visual artifacts where textures seem to go walkabouts and your whole overall experience is pretty mad not something you want to see when you spend 400 pounds on a new card and this is exactly where amd's previous generation of gpus come in because they're now a lot cheaper than they were before but especially with things like this the RX 6700 XT it's equipped with more vram than the Nvidia counterpart currently this card costs around about 70 pounds less than the RTX 4060 TI yet it comes with 50 more video memory okay the performance isn't quite as good overall but when you're talking fairly small margins it's kind of a no-brainer for 1440p gaming there are so many different cards out there to compare though I don't want you to necessarily think that AMD has more vram because strictly speaking that wouldn't be true just be aware that there are deals to be had out there if you know where to look but let's bring up the graphs now so you can get a better idea of performance across the range you will start to see that AMD gpus really do look to perform very well for the money pretty much all of the cards have been coming down over the last couple of years which is great to see but there is definitely a clear push from Nvidia to offer more expensive GPS for gamers and the performance of the RTX 4090 and 4080 is very clearly dominant when you take dlss and Ray tracing into account if you're looking at new cards the value picks at the time of filming are the RX 6600 and the 7600 for 1080p gaming the RX 6700 XT or the 6800 XT for 1440p and the RX 7900xt for 4K so it would appear that unless the upcoming RTX 4060 blows us all away at the lower end AMD is a pretty sure Firebase but at the higher end you might want the flexibility of having dlss 3 and better Ray tracing so you should absolutely consider the RTX 4070s the 4080 and the 4090 if you are serious about AAA Fidelity so as you can see we're almost in a little bit of a weird climate right now when you've got two different options generally speaking it seems as if AMD is better for Pure value whereas Nvidia is better for Ray tracing and I guess just overall features how much weight or worth do you put behind these features well for multiplayer gaming probably not much I mean both AMD and Nvidia have lower latency multiplayer modes that will make your games feel more responsive and I'd argue as long as you can drive your game at over 120 FPS you're in good hands as for single player well this is definitely much more of a personal choice if it was up to me I guess I would personally probably prefer an Nvidia card to access those features but as we've discussed quite a few times recently on the channel if you can buy the exact same sort of performance level for less money and it's only gonna I guess hurt you in like five ten percent of the time when you're like playing that triple A release then I'd argue it's probably worth going for the AMD graphics card there's going to be trade-offs with both and whilst you might get better features with Nvidia I think most people are going to talk with their wallets and that at the moment seems to be where AMD is leading but I would absolutely love to hear your thoughts on this which way would you go AMD Nvidia or Intel we haven't even mentioned that in this video maybe we need to do a three-way next time no no that's it we've crossed the line not on this channel absolutely not smash the like button if you enjoyed it get yourself subscribes 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Channel: PC Centric

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Length: 11min 21sec (681 seconds)

Published: Sat Jun 24 2023