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Hey g/u/rls. Graphic card question
| GTX950 all the way. If you have the money for it, always go for 950, unless you're facing it against an R9 or something.
| i have a somewhat similar question, so i have a notebook with a GPU with 180mg of vram, im not smart but with this notebook i can somewhat play games that use more than that.
question is, im killing my notebook by playing them?
| Honestly when comparing same tier GPU's from both Radeon and NVIDIA, they generally output the same performance. NVIDIA only sometimes exhibits a slightly higher performance rating.
Get whatever you feel like spending honestly. I'm one to go for the cheaper option if what I'm getting is practically the same. I can turn around and spend that money on other parts or snacks.
| >>88161
Notebook is sort of out of the question. They tend to use a lower-powered card optimized in balance, so as to not kill the notebook's battery life.
There are those that use full-sized desktop cards, but we'll leave that out of the equation because they're more "luggage PC" than "laptop."
To answer your question there, no, you won't 'kill' your notebook by playing demanding games. Unless your notebook is /heavily/ overheating (like, 90-100-ish °C) while doing so.
| 1. Don't support nvidia. They are evil buttholes when it comes to driver development. AMD/ATI deliver same Performance at same price AND free/open drivers.
2. think about the more linear increase of performance compared to the expotential increase of costs in the upper price segment.
3. Don't buy the cheapest shit when it comes to the mechanical quality, especially regarding the cooling system.
| >>88649
If you want anything nvidia past the 900 series, don't be a retard like this guy, buy it (for the record, I LOVE AMD and recommend their products) if you want something cheaper then go for amd. I'm very excited to get the thread ripper soon so I can pair it with my fury x :)
| >>88672
I don't think AMD has any decent offering for mobile GPUs, no? At least not those on-par with the "almost full-size" 1070/1080.
I mean, the Ellesmere-series card aren't that popular in mobile gaming rig (laptops, notebooks, etc), the landscape is filled with Nvidia from left and right.
Of course, unless we're talking about older-gen cards, such as Whistler and whatnot. Pre-9xxM Nvidia sucks, so AMD often times, AMD have better mobile cards in store.
| Well did some research and found that the R9 270X from ATI is still a capable card even for being 4 years old.
| >>88851
It absolutely is. I had the GTX960 for a while, and it is still capable of running some games in High settings.
Just as a reference, the R9 is about the equal to GTX960. So, most, if not all, things the GTX960 can do finely, the R9 would do it finely as well.
| Jesus is my savior
| >>88333
I don't get your point.
I mean it's totally understandable why the nouveau developers are pissed of on nvidia. It's not just that nvidia does not actively supports the development of an open driver for the hardware they want to sell - no, they actually put actively rocks in their way.
Custumors with brain should reject buying hardware that they don't own in the end, because they are dependent on the manufacturers proprietary shit software.
| So.. R9 280 not X for 70 bucks?
| Used of course
| >>89900
(Nice digits)
It's not that because I don't understand the rage of the nouveau peeps. It has been like that since forever. But the point is, I'd worry less about this /if/, by the end of the day, what OP wants is something that works — and works wonderfully.
Not saying I support Nvidia's super crappy attitude towards FOSS developers. Torvalds' middle finger sums up my thought to Nvidia, but that doesn't mean they make crappy hardware in general.
| >>90830
And here is the dilemma: Even the best, superior, high quality hardware is useless if it bounds you to use exclusive and non-free software from one company (in this case the manufacturer).
And it may be that OP once want to use his graphics card in as way and/or longer than the manufacturer wants him to do, with up-to-date and continuously maintained drivers.
It also may be, that OP decides once to sell his graphics card, an if it's nvidia e.g. I would not buy it.
| >>92362
This isn't a dilemma by itself. It's more of a localized problem. As much as I disregard non-free/proprietary drivers, I wouldn't start calling the hardware that binds them "useless."
It's these "FOSS is always better" attitude that makes me have my distance from some of peeps I knoa. Sure, of course, yes, I get it, proprietary is bad. But we are convoluting the problem even further because you will also be caging yourself to selecting hardware supported by the community.
| Further enhancing the problem is when maintainers of the drivers suddenly decides "Okay, let's not support this any further" for whatever reason.
And now suddenly we have two hundred forks of it with each problems unique to some of the fork.
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| Heya to all my fellow nerd g/u/rls. Am currently working on a budget PC build and can't decide whether getting an NVIDIA Geforce 950 or R7 370 for it.
Am not the high setting graphic loving one. Middle settings and even 900p is fine too.