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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (17 children)

I bought an AMD GPU before and the experience was so horrible that it's deterred me from ever buying one again.

I never knew how good I had it with Nvidia until I tried AMD. The main issue? Drivers. AMDs drivers were abysmally shit. I never had to 'choose' specific versions of Nvidia drivers to get them to work. I did with AMD, and some features would work while others would break depending on the version.

Ended up returning it because it was that bad.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (10 children)

On Linux all the drivers are included with the kernel. No software to manage either, it just works. Nvidia drivers need to be installed separately on Linux and are generally very low quality with performance and technical issues.

Idk about Windows though, never used an AMD GPU on it personally. My Nvidia GPU has always worked perfectly on Windows.

So I guess it's just your OS choice really.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Nah. It's my experience with both Linux and Windows.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I had similar issues with Linux on AMD.

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