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

this is all pretty funny because I made a video all about how AMD cards are great but no one buys them and here I am the guy that bought an Nvidia graphics card I'm sitting here with an RTX 3080 with all of its 10 gigabytes of vram and uh Resident Evil 4 is looking great right now and you start up here and this is consistent Behavior it just crashes I I promise you actually I don't own the game but I I know that vram is very quickly becoming a huge limitation with this graphics card also I bet you're wondering why I'm wearing a hat honestly it's just because I'm not super happy with my hair right now it's funny because whenever people wear just like ball caps or whatever pretty much always just to hide your hair before we get into the meat of this video and talk about the reasons I still decided to go with Nvidia over AMD I was curious do you guys prefer me putting gameplay and me just being a voiceover or do you can or do you prefer me just talking into the camera because really either way works um sometimes I have some really good gameplay I just want to show you guys that's why I show you I got you guys hey you got her pretty much always been an Nvidia guy and that uh that came for a few reasons I started off with the GTX 770 back in 2016 and then I got a 1070 I think in 2018 or 2019. and those Generations AMD just wasn't as competitive at the mid-range especially during the 770 like AMD just wasn't really there and then the 1070 I wanted something I got I ended up buying it used and that's why I was so much later by all my graphics cards used because I'm after that value and the 1070 was more powerful than like the RX 480 and 580 which were great value cards but the 1070 was faster and that's why I went with it but now we look at me and I have an RTX 3080 when AMD with their 6000 series was pretty freaking competitive in value and in a lot of cases whenever people recommend it AMD is always the value King for example the RX 6950xt at 700 this AMD Flagship from the rdna 2 era also Bates the 470 TI and 7900 XT by 11 in terms of cost per frame at least for gaming but when I was shopping in September and October I was looking at used graphics cards RTX 3080s were going for about 550 Us in my area and then uh AMD cards uh 6800 XT this is about the budget I was shopping in and 6800 XTS were going for about 500. in my head I was just kind of like it's only a 50 difference to go for NVIDIA I'm just gonna pay the Nvidia tax part of that could definitely be that over the history of just having Nvidia cards like I was comfortable with it these cards perform really really similarly in rasterization in a lot of games but it was really only two reasons and the first one was cuda's support but I use a couple productivity apps that use the graphics card and my computer that is DaVinci Resolve and krita krita is pretty light it's similar to like Photoshop so it doesn't use it that heavily but in resolve I was scared that an AMD card wouldn't be able to accelerate things in it and I would just be relying on my CPU for everything I didn't want to take that risk even though I'd saw benchmarks on AMD cards and they're looking pretty good in competitive renders and everything I paid the extra fifty dollars and just have that peace of mind that it's gonna be supported and resolved little did I know that my RTX 3080 still renders slower than my DTX 1070 and it's a something to do with drivers I have no clue but um I'm on the free version of DaVinci Resolve by the way if you're curious and then the second reason was Ray tracing performance um in my head I was thinking when I upgrade this graphics card I'm paying over 500 for a card I I want to try Ray tracing at that point so I got in video because that was actually a thing that I weighed on me heavily when I bought it little did I know once I tried Ray tracing I realized that I don't want to use it like at all like ever pretty much and something really Niche cases where FPS isn't really a problem but but nowadays I'm playing more like Esports titles and Ray tracing isn't even in those games not to mention the FPS hit that you get and honestly in a lot of cases um there isn't that much of a difference in visuals it's kind of up to personal preference like nowadays I don't really see a good reason to use raytrace and I made a whole video about this until we get like mainstream support where like you could just turn on RT and really not worry about performance impact and everybody has graphics cards that support it and support it well until we're at that point I really don't see developers being able to focus on it as heavily when not many people even use it when it comes down to it the last thing I know that a lot of you guys are thinking is that um you didn't you didn't get named d card because of the drivers right honestly I didn't care about the drivers even back then in September October when I was buying this in 2022 I wasn't even as educated on where AMD was in this space I just I just didn't care honestly um I I figured just buying an AMD card like it's not going to be an unusable piece of garbage they've been around for a long time and it seemed like they were competitive with Nvidia so their drivers are probably good enough to use I've been using an AMD CPU all the way since like 2017 and I just upgraded to a ryzen 5900x so honestly I've trusted their CPUs for a while and I have a laptop that I had got previously before upgrading my graphics card and it has an APU in it that is ryzen and a Radeon combined and I get got to use adrenaline and the relive software and honestly I was pretty impressed with that whole package nothing to really complain about as much as people like to rag on AMD drivers I I really don't think it was a limiting factor for me at least I've had a decent amount of problems Within and video drivers I don't really think it'd be that much different with AMD especially the rendering slower in DaVinci Resolve I I made a whole video about that issue as well so if you want to check that out so this makes me think and it probably makes you guys think as well do I regret buying an Nvidia GPU especially because everything that I mentioned pretty much got written off as being a problem and uh I do I do regret buying an Nvidia GPU I do regret not trying something new like there's a stagnation where you can just get too comfortable with the like your computer and everything the software that you have I I regret not stepping out of what I was used to it's not really that much deeper than that I wish I got AMD just to try it I've been hearing that AMD has been good lately and I I feel like I should have tested it but I ended up getting a 3080 and now I'm regretting the vram thing because of the type of games I play if you're on use it usually isn't an issue usually I'm playing like OverWatch I don't know other games like rap often fortnite and stuff and vram isn't really a problem you know now I'm sitting here like wow I could have got AMD I actually was thinking about it like pretty recently I was like like I just want to get an RX 6800 XT just to try it because that'd be very similar performance to 3080 and I'd be able to try all the software and everything to see like if I could put my money where my mouth is um it's hard to justify buying another graphics card purely to test it honestly in my next graphics card upgrade needs to have av1 encoding in it and if I was just getting a 6800 XT beneficially for for my workflow and the channel and everything it wouldn't help anything it would just give me a test to be curious and I don't got money laying around to buy another 500 graphics card so this leads me to conclude that this idea that people don't buy AMD graphics cards even though they do tend to be pretty nice value nowadays especially in the mid-range that a lot of people are buying in the whole concept is completely true and and what I'm thinking is that hopefully over time AMD will just start to build up market share and become more popular so they can break the stigma that oh they have awful drivers or um they're just not supported in Creative apps or anything like nobody can use them like uh whatever um hopefully over time they can break the stigmas that they have but part of me fears that they're not going to be able to do that because at least in the current generation they're just matching nvidia's pricing and it just seems like graphics cards are becoming this like price premium commodity that people can get I don't think their value is enough that people are going to buy them it's the same thing with me like there's only 50 more dollars to get the Nvidia card so I bought the Nvidia card anyways that is why I still bought an Nvidia card and I kind of regret it to this day so if you found this interesting make sure to like sub and all that stuff um I actually ran a poll or there's a statistically like significant amount of people that said that they own a Nvidia card and they want to get AMD they mention the Cuda support from earlier I ran another poll asking if people use Cuda in their daily workflow because I actually surprisingly don't I thought DaVinci Resolve would use it more but it really doesn't most people said that they don't as much as like at this like loud minority will complain about AMD not getting as much software support with like obviously Cuda isn't really that much of a people to really sway the market um obviously it exists and having a hardware acceleration advantage in certain programs with Cuda is definitely an advantage to the brand but it isn't like that much that is going to flip the market share yeah that was another Paul I ran pretty interesting stuff but what are you guys thoughts and honestly let's not get all Fanboy here like we're just talking about value see you guys in the comments I'll see in the next video peace [Music]

Channel: Vex

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Id: 914kDR-JZ_Y

Length: 9min 51sec (591 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 30 2023