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Re:Nvidia's earnings are up 206% from last year as it contin... by opportune on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @11:49AM (#38447786)
I made the same argument to myself when I bought an AMD GPU for gaming 4 years ago. What doesn’t show up in a side by side comparison is that AMD’s drivers (or Windows’ treatment of them) fucking suck. Until I bought an NVIDIA replacement recently I was very frequently having to reinstall the drivers and also intermittently encountering driver crashes in games and browsers.

That’s not to mention having to fiddle with the drivers/games more than I was accustomed to, which IIUC is more a consequence of having less market share and thus not being a priority for game developers to work out of the box. I can excuse that, but not crashes or reinstalling every couple months.

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Re:Nvidia's earnings are up 206% from last year as it contin... by tokai on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @12:24PM (#38448241)
On linux its the opposite. Its was such a relive to get an AMD card and finally have a good stable driver.
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Re:Nvidia's earnings are up 206% from last year as it contin... by kulahan on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @02:23PM (#38450032)
Heh, I remember this being the reputation they had back in the early 2000s. Guess they never got past it.
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Re:Nvidia's earnings are up 206% from last year as it contin... by gabeaweg on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @03:05PM (#38450502)
Completely agree. I bought an AMD GPU like 6 years ago. The software support fucking sucked. The drivers were bad, games weren't optimised for AMD. AMD looks great on paper in benchmarks. As a product, overall, it is bad. That's why people keep buying nvidia. I will gladly pay double for a product that works.
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Re:Nvidia's earnings are up 206% from last year as it contin... by fenesiistvan on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @04:19PM (#38451468)
I am using a Radeon RX 6900 XT GPU since two years and never ever had any stability problem or crash running my PC ~10 hours/day, playing a some (various, demanding) games almost every day.
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