ghattas.akkad wroteWell, I am a fan of Nvidia they have good technology but no one can deny that the gtx970 release was a major failure especially the Nvidia's companies reaction to the filed lawsuit still denying what they've done nothing wrong!
AMD launched a great deal for users who bought the card and offered them an exchange offer.
Nvidia is a great company with advanced technology but I don't trust their marketing ads and reviews anymore and I don't trust buying their product before reading solid user and overclockers reviews
and as for the AMD it is great but with poorer marketing campaigns especially in video games where mostly all video games on launch has the nvidia logo and screen flashing first showing it runs best on Nvidia plus AMD is a bit openSource where Nvidia is not
Compare how much money AMD has and how much money Nvidia has, and AMD has still been the one that innovates the most, they're leading the push towards VR gaming, they were always the first to use new memory standards, first cards to use both GDDR5 and HBM were AMDs, they push towards open source, just look at FreeSync, exact same thing that G-Sync does, but the cheapest FreeSync 1440p monitor is 449$, the cheapest G-Sync one is 729$, just because of an unneeded chip.
Open source Linux AMD drivers are unmatched will Nvidia's open source Linux driver are non-existent. Nvidia has the money to pay developers just to use GameWorks for the sole purpose of making AMD cards look bad because "they can't run the game at max settings without having huge framerate drops", AMD doesn't have that library of features that developers can use because they're too lazy to take a few more months and to make games have equal performance on all cards, AMD simply cannot do this, they don't have the capital and they're trying to win the market by being good guys. Of course AMD are no angels and demand profit, but the "fuck you" said to the consumer is more subtle than Nvidia's shouting of "fuck you" to the consumer.
AMD beats Nvidia in the bang-for-buck section, the most important of them all, but Nvidia has a rather excellent marketing scheme of getting the consumer to their side, mostly based on old lies (and new ones too), like:
-Power Usage, I mean who gives a damn about power usage ? People are fooled to think that they'll pay 100$ a month more if they go AMD instead of Nvidia;
-Drivers, AMD had some problems in the drivers a few years ago but now they're fixed, AMD's drivers have been pretty close to Nvidia's and have been rather excellent in improving performance, scaling and optimization in games;
-Heat: AMD has some shitty reference coolers but there's no need to go full retard on this, Nvidia's blower coolers aren't that good either, if you get any non-reference card from any AMD board partner, you'll get a card that's as quiet and cool as any Nvidia card on the market;
We as consumers, should be relieved that AMD exists, you don't want to wait 5 years just to get marginally better performance while paying 600$ for something like the GTX 960. AMD is coming back, and the 400 series are gonna be a big hit, as AMD seems to be stepping away from their "Patience is a Virtue" bullshit (which is kinda strange as their new CPUs are called Zen) and are trying to regain their share of the market and to prove they still exist.