DennistheII Wrote:I'd go with AMD only because of better fabrication.
They both use 28nm fabrication right now so please explain.
DennistheII Wrote:Plus AMD on average offers better performance for the dollar then nvidia.
This depends greatly on the application. At the same price point AMD cards generally have better performance in d3d10/11 applications that their drivers have been optimized for. Nvidia cards still beat them in d3d9 and openGL performance and are generally less picky about optimizations (which is why applications that haven't been optimized for either are more likely to favor nvidia cards).
DennistheII Wrote:Plus you may or may not run into this but AMD cards on average perform better with Open GL. Which if you go on Open GL forums sites a few people have issues with nvidia cards and I never heard of complaints from ATI owners. But that said good luck with your build.
OpenGL performance and compatibility is better on nvidia cards for all three major OS (on a whole, some applications may still favor AMD cards). So I'm not sure what you're talking about. On linux in particular AMD drivers are loaded with openGL problems.
As a general rule of thumb if you just want to run AAA games or openCL appications on a windows PC AMD is usually better. If you want to do anything else with your GPU it is highly recommended that you grab an nvidia card.
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