Anonymous at Tue, 4 Feb 2025 10:47:57 UTC No. 1006829

Nvidia has the best performing card but AMD's most costly cards usually trade blows with the Nvidia cards just under the top end for a bit cheaper. CUDA is still a bit ahead of ROCm but its not as wide a gap as some would leave you to believe, it mostly comes down to support for AMD tech not being as good as the Nvidia stuff these days. AMD will also backport new software side tech to older cards and they generally get longer driver support. If you're on linux for whatever reason, Nvidia will graciously give you new drivers twice a fucking year.
So in short: Team Green costs more and you're going to lose support sooner but they preform better. Steer clear if you use Linux.
Team Red is likely going to have compat issues depending on how competent the software monekies are but your going to get support from AMD much longer since AMD is still making drivers for cards released in 2017 and they're usually orders of magnitude cheaper. You might have some weird ass compat issues

Anonymous at Tue, 4 Feb 2025 12:28:42 UTC No. 1006833

>>1006829
is nvidia for linux that bad? I'm thinking about moving over to linux instead of windows 11, I feel like I always need to have CUDA for some reason, like some python library will need it

Anonymous at Tue, 4 Feb 2025 16:15:13 UTC No. 1006842

>>1006829
>Team Green costs more and you're going to lose support sooner
Does it even apply to 3D work or just games? I get it - that all that new fancy DLSS and framegens are sometimes forcibly locked behind drivers by Nvidia.
But is there any 3D software that is up to date with all that stuff? Would software devs make something that's compatible with like 10% of their user base GPUs?
If I'll buy RTX 4xxx or 5xxx I should have no problems for the next at least 5 years?

And yes, I do some gaming, but rarely new AAA stuff

Anonymous at Tue, 4 Feb 2025 17:59:10 UTC No. 1006847

>>1006842
The only reason graphics cards exist now is because of faster productivity. A 1080ti or M4 mac is good enough for 3D even for particle effects. The gaming industry is absolutely adding terrible performance by unoptimizable margins. 3D and game engines aren’t the problem, it’s the creators who don’t care enough to fix their mistakes.

Anonymous at Tue, 4 Feb 2025 18:25:12 UTC No. 1006849

>>1006847
>it’s the creators who don’t care enough to fix their mistakes.
Or maybe they are not getting enough time to finish the game. Also UE5 just got 0 fucks given optimization system

Anonymous at Tue, 4 Feb 2025 19:00:36 UTC No. 1006851

>>1006829
I'm not a big fan of nvidia, and honestly wish there was proper competition in the professional space for GPUs, so I wouldn't be forced to buy from them.

That said, an AMD gpu is absolutely never the correct option for any productivity work, be it 3D, video editing, AI, or whatever. CUDA is extremely important for pretty much everything that is not gaming.

The only use case for AMD GPUs is gaming. That is it. Never buy AMD if you're not building specifically a gaming pc, you will regret it. On the processor side of things, AMD is the main choice on the other hand.

Anonymous at Wed, 5 Feb 2025 01:33:50 UTC No. 1006869

>>1006851
0.001 leather jackets have been deposited to your account

Anonymous at Wed, 5 Feb 2025 11:14:52 UTC No. 1006890

>>1006869
I mean, if you buy AMD, great. Maybe it'll finally put some fire under nvidia's ass, if more people opt for AMD. But if you're buying it for 3D, you will definitely regret it.

Anonymous at Wed, 5 Feb 2025 21:51:10 UTC No. 1006921

Most things work on AMD. But in compute stuff like Blender AMD GPU are 2nd class citizens. This is because current Nvidia GPU's are build for things like Path Tracing. But also because CUDA is the gold standard for GPU compute.

AMD's approach to GPU compute is a joke, ROCm is a disgrace, even Intel's GPU compute solution has better support.

Of course there's a silver lining, AMD GPU's have great Linux driver for games and general usage(mostly thanks to valve), they tend to have more VRAM at most price points which is important for 3D rendering and are a bit cheaper.

So it really depends on what software you are using.

If you use Linux the Nvidia GPU driver is worse than the windows driver, not just in terms of performance but there are bugs Distros/users need to workaround.

You should probably talk more about what things you plan to do, what programs you use, budget, if you are willing to buy a used GPU etc.

Anonymous at Fri, 7 Feb 2025 12:14:02 UTC No. 1007057

>>1006788
the best card that you can get is the one that you can afford , so if you don't have so much money , go AMD , is all about vram, if you want to get into AI slop, I suggest you to learn to photo edit, is almost the same shit or better against AI for make any image/texture

Anonymous at Sat, 8 Feb 2025 12:54:21 UTC No. 1007113

>>1006788
>gpu
>holding an hdd, probably pata
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Anonymous at Sat, 8 Feb 2025 15:45:32 UTC No. 1007119

>>1007113
Maybe she had to remove the topmost HDD so the GPU could fit inside her case?

Anonymous at Sat, 8 Feb 2025 16:11:20 UTC No. 1007121

>>1007113
>arguing about random image that's purely for visuals

Anonymous at Sat, 8 Feb 2025 19:29:39 UTC No. 1007128

>>1006788
intel

Anonymous at Sat, 8 Feb 2025 19:35:08 UTC No. 1007129

>>1007121
shieet nigga wat