And no flame war is more prevalent than the NVIDIA snobs vs the AMD fanboys.
Whats really going on with these two companies, and which card should you get?
Todays Sunday Showdown is going to be a bit different.
By far the most important factor in choosing a video card is its price to performance ratio.
How well does it fare in games against the other cards in the same price range?
But this fluctutates often, and can even vary from card to card.
In some cases, AMD has equivalent technologies, but NVIDIA is often first to the punch.
AMDsFreesynctechnology is very similar, but didnt show up until after G-Sync was already on the market.
For example, NVIDIA and AMD recently had a spat over their respective hair technologies.
NVIDIAs HairWorks does something similar, but works much better on NVIDIA cards than it does on AMD.
So much so that after The Witcher 3 launched, AMD accused NVIDIA of purposely crippling their cards.
The two companiessniped at each other for awhile, gamerstook sides, and the battle still rages on.
And thats just one example.
AMD constantly has a bad reputation for unreliable drivers and cards that run hot.
Many users cite disappointment over AMD cards that are merely rebrands of the previous generations.
you might see how the flame wars might get pretty heated.
Very few of these scandals are as simple as one side would have you believe.
And beware of people making grand predictions of the future based off one benchmark or one marketing campaign.
you could never know what the future will bring.
First and foremost, look at which cards perform best in your budget.
