AMD vs NVIDIA - THE GRAPHIC WAR

One is not necessarily better than the other, as both have areas where they excel and where they leave something to be desired. For the most part, AMD is mostly better when it comes to budget and mid-range cards, whereas Nvidia is the only way to go for high-end graphics cards.

PERFORMANCE AND PRICING:

Mostly the war is regarding the performance and pricing. People searches for a good performance graphic card with a reasonable pricing. The performance and pricing comparison is listed below:

Fig:Performance and pricing

Well, we simply cannot generalize on this subject since performance varies greatly from model to model, and with Nvidia and AMD. There are lot of ups and downs in performance graph. When we overlap both the companies’ GPU pricing and performance, it results in the filling of others pricing and performance gap. For example, say that Nvidia launches a $100 GPU that can achieve 30 FPS in 1080p. Then, AMD releases a GPU that costs $120 and can achieve 40 FPS, only for Nvidia to release a $150 GPU that can reach 50 FPS, and so on.

SOFTWARE:

Both Nvidia and AMD releases its new and stable drivers frequently. On a comparison scale, Nvidia have a slight better record in term of stability and consistency.

Fig: Nvidia Control Panel

Fig : AMD Control Center

As for the control panels, we have the Nvidia Control Panel and the AMD Control Center. You will immediately notice that the Nvidia Control Panel looks quite dated – as a matter of fact, it still looks like it’s running on the long-discontinued Windows XP. AMD’s Control Center, on the other hand, looks a whole lot better, boasting a clean and modern design, complete with some eye candy in the form of background blur effects.

CONCLUSION:

So, with all things considered, which is better, Nvidia or AMD? The answer is – neither. In truth, it all comes down to your requirements and your budget, as both the Nvidia and the AMD graphics cards are great at what they do.Nvidia consists of better high end cards whereas AMD is featured with low end and mid range cards. Nvidia supports only 2k and 4k capable GPUs whereas in comparison AMD uses higher number of monitors that use FreeSync. So choose according to your requirements.