Amd vs nvidia graphic cards: AMD vs Nvidia — Reviewed

AMD vs Nvidia — Reviewed

Nvidia’s graphics cards had a comfortable lead on AMD’s cards for years, but AMD’s Radeon RX 6000-series lineup put the two brands in a competition like never before. Both manufacturers are constantly adding new features and updating their graphics architecture in their cards to keep the competition hot, but Nvidia’s key features like ray tracing and supersampling have been around for longer, whereas AMD has the lead on frame rates (for now). Ultimately, you’ll have to decide if you prefer the best frame rates or the best ray tracing.

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Performance

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The graphics quality will be nothing short of impressive.

When it comes to raw performance, both AMD and Nvidia make spectacular graphics cards. For 1080p gaming, you can’t go wrong with either company. A mid-tier Nvidia RTX 3060 or AMD RX 6600 XT, for instance, push over 60 frames per second (fps) regardless of the game. For example, using Cyberpunk 2077, a graphically demanding game, set to the ultra graphics preset at that resolution, nets 65 fps with the RTX 3060 and 70 fps with the RX 6600 XT.

1440p gaming on ultra graphics is a bit tougher on graphics cards, but an upper midrange card will get you around 60 fps in Cyberpunk 2077. The Nvidia RTX 3070 squeaks by with 62 fps, while the AMD RX 6700 XT comes close at 56 fps. Of course, turning the graphics preset down will net you higher framerates.

For 4K and ray tracing performance, Nvidia scores a notable lead over AMD. Let’s look at 4K performance first; with the ultra graphics preset on, Nvidia’s RTX 3080 runs Cyberpunk 2077 at 40 fps, and the RTX 3070 runs it at 30 fps. Meanwhile, AMD’s RX 6800 XT (the 3080’s equivalent) runs it at 37 fps and the RX 6700 XT tops out at 25 fps.

At 1080p ultra graphics with ray tracing set to the ultra preset, the RTX 3080 runs at 58 fps, the RTX 3070 at 44 fps, the RX 6800 XT at 38 fps, and the RX 6700 XT at 23 fps.

If you’re curious about graphics card performance beyond gaming, Nvidia wins here, too. Its cards have space dedicated to encoding and decoding media, and that hardware acceleration brings faster performance to multimedia tasks like video production or online streaming. AMD relies on firmware encoding and decoding.

AMD and Nvidia are close when it comes to 1080p and 1440p gaming, but Nvidia’s the clear winner for 4K and ray traced gaming.

Our pick: Nvidia

Features

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Battlefield V with Nvidia ray tracing.

AMD and Nvidia take different approaches to software features. While AMD tends to make software that works for all devices, Nvidia tends to lock its software in proprietary systems. However, they’re very close in the breadth of features they offer.

AMD’s most notable enhancements are FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) and FreeSync. With AI algorithms, FSR upscales the image resolution, or it sharpens lower resolution images and then enlarges them rather than natively rendering images at a higher resolution. This results in much higher in-game frame rates. For example, the RX 6800 XT’s framerates in Cyberpunk 2077 at 4K ultra graphics settings jump from 37 fps to 91 fps.

Nvidia has similar technology, or what it calls Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS). It’s been around longer than FSR, and in our experience, DLSS consistently produces upscaled images that look more accurate to the original image than FSR, but the framerate gains are not as extreme as with FSR. The RTX 3080, for instance, runs Cyberpunk 2077 at 4K ultra graphics settings with DLSS enabled at 58 fps (an 18 fps average gain).

For ray tracing, however, Nvidia’s DLSS takes the lead over AMD’s FSR. At 1080p ultra graphics with ray tracing enabled in Cyberpunk 2077, FSR boosts the AMD RX 6800 XT’s framerate from 38 fps to 74 fps, and DLSS boosts the Nvidia RTX 3080’s framerate from 58 fps to 101 fps.

AMD’s FreeSync helps match the framerate of the graphics card to your monitor. (It’s like AMD’s own version of Variable Refresh Rate (VRR).) Nvidia’s G-Sync does the same. The determining factor here is whether your monitor or TV has G-Sync or FreeSync—but these days, it’s common for monitors and TVs to support both.

As for some other features, if you have an Nvidia GPU, you can use GeForce Experience to stream games or to play games remotely on an Nvidia Shield streaming box (you can use third party software to stream to other devices). Radeon cards have similar software called AMD Link, which includes support for multiplayer games and remote play on multiple devices.

Both Nvidia and AMD have noise suppression for background microphone noise if you do a lot of talking, but they’re both competing with Microsoft, Discord, and Google.

AMD bundles all its features into one overlay menu, but Nvidia chose to split its features into several programs and menus. If you want a streamlined experience, AMD will have resolution, HDR, FSR, refresh rate, and other settings all in the same place.

Our pick: AMD

Compatibility

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AMD generally leads in frame rates, but Nvidia leads in ray tracing.

Both AMD and Nvidia do a good job of ironing out compatibility issues and performance issues for games. It’s impossible to declare a winner—both graphics card drivers break and unbreak as software gets updated and patched. However, while both GPU manufacturers release consistent firmware updates, software developers do not prioritize both manufacturers evenly.

Because more people own Nvidia graphics cards than AMD graphics cards, software developers are more likely to focus on performance for Nvidia graphics cards first. For most software, this doesn’t cause issues, but it’s important to check compatibility for specific software in applications critical to your productivity. (In our experience testing graphic cards, we’ve run into some issues with AMD’s drivers, depending on the card being tested, while Nvidia’s drivers haven’t given us trouble during testing.)

Additionally, professional 3D software like 3DSMax and Maya currently support more Nvidia cards than AMD cards. In Autodesk Maya 2023, for instance, many Nvidia GeForce RTX and GTX cards have worked in testing, but the same cannot be said of the Radeon RX 6000-series cards. (Note that this does not mean they don’t work with Maya. It just means they have not been tested by Autodesk).

For casual use, the difference between AMD and Nvidia support is most apparent in ray tracing. For applications that support ray tracing, there is usually better optimization for Nvidia drivers than AMD drivers. It’s becoming less common to run into ray traced games that only support Nvidia cards, but AMD cards still feel like an afterthought. Compounded with AMD’s worse ray tracing performance overall, Nvidia is the obvious pick for ray tracing enthusiasts.

Our pick: Nvidia

Price

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If having the highest frame rate possible is important to you, go with AMD.

If we’re comparing frame rates per dollar, AMD wins; if you don’t plan to use ray tracing and you don’t see yourself doing much beyond gaming, AMD has a better value depending

For instance, the RTX 3070 gets 10 fps more than the RX 6700 XT running Cyberpunk 2077 (1080p ultra, no ray tracing), but it’s also about $100 more expensive than the RX 6700 XT and $0.50 more per frame. Ten frames are also such a small difference, especially when you factor in how much AMD cards can bump frame rates with FSR turned on. You can get the RX 6700 XT for $400 to $500, while you’ll have to pay $500 to $600 for an RTX 3070. (It’s not uncommon to find AMD cards selling under retail price currently.)

For high-end cards, AMD’s are slightly cheaper. The RTX 3090 Ti we’ve seen go for as low as $1,100 and the RX 6950 XT as low as $935 at Amazon. Meanwhile, the RTX 3080 goes for about $740 and the RX 6800 XT goes for about $600 on Amazon—that’s $1.38 cheaper per frame in Cyberpunk 2077 at 1080p Ultra without ray tracing.

On the budget side,the RTX 3050 goes as low as $300, and the RX 6600 for as little as $260, or $1.77 cheaper per frame.

Currently, the best value AMD card is the RX 6650 XT for $350 ($4.45 per frame), and the best value Nvidia card is the Founder’s Edition RTX 3060 Ti for $400 ($4.70 per frame).

Our pick: AMD

And the winner is…

Credit: Reviewed / Joanna Nelius

If having the highest frame rate possible is important to you, go with AMD.

Both Nvidia and AMD make great graphics cards, but Nvidia is still in the lead.

If you care about ray tracing, streaming, video production, or professional applications, Nvidia graphics cards are the better choice. Its cards’ ray tracing performance is leagues ahead of AMD’s, and more Nvidia cards are compatible with 3D modeling software than AMD cards. However, if you’re not interested in ray tracing and just want to push frame rates, AMD will offer better performance at the same price point.

The difference between Nvidia and AMD is much, much smaller than it used to be. AMD has a better user interface experience, and it’s constantly adding new features and updates to improve performance and match Nvidia’s feature set. Both manufacturers support monitor syncing, upscaling, ray tracing, online streaming, and noise reduction.

Nvidia’s implementation of said features is smoother, but most of us don’t need these features to begin with. If you want to save some money, AMD cards make more sense, and you should think more about what tier of card you need rather than which manufacturer you’ll choose.

For 1080p gaming, the Nvidia RTX 3060 and the AMD RX 6600 XT are excellent choices. For 1440p gaming, it’s worth upgrading to the Nvidia RTX 3070 or the AMD RX 6700 XT. If you’re planning to push 4K frame rates or take advantage of ray tracing, the RTX 3080 is worth the splurge. The AMD RX 6900 XT can keep up with 4K gaming, but it will have a much worse time with ray tracing and it won’t save you much money over similar Nvidia cards.

You should also keep an eye on the RTX 3090 and 3090 Ti, which have both been spotted for as low as $1,100 and are likely to keep dropping in price (this RTX 3080 Ti is just $740, which is $40 more than the base RTX 3080).

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AMD Radeon RX 7000 vs Nvidia RTX 40 series: Which GPU wins?

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The AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT and 7900 XTX are here. Built on the company’s new RDNA 3 architecture, AMD’s current-gen graphics cards deliver comparable performance to Nvidia’s offerings. Not only that, but both GPUs cost hundreds of dollars less in comparison. They’d rest comfortably inside the best gaming PCs.

Price alone might make AMD’s GPUs more appealing to some folks. However, there are other important factors worth considering. Are you willing to sacrifice certain features to save money, or are you comfortable spending big for a GPU with a bunch of proverbial bells and whistles?

Below, we’ll compare the AMD Radeon RX 7900 and Nvidia GeForce RTX 40-series GPUs and try to determine an overall winner.

AMD Radeon RX 7000 vs Nvidia RTX 40 series: Price

Generally speaking, AMD’s GPUs (and CPUs) are easier on the wallet than its competitors. The same holds true for its Radeon RX 7000 graphics cards.

The top-of-the-line Radeon RX 7900 XTX costs $999 while the less powerful Radeon RX 7900 XT comes in at $899. This is a price hike from the previous generation, as the Radeon RX 6900 XT cost $679 while the more powerful 6950 XT sold for $849.

The AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX and Radeon RX 7900 XT cost $999 and $899, respectively. (Image credit: AMD)

While AMD has a reputation for releasing relatively affordable components, Nvidia is known for releasing premium-priced GPUs. This is the case with the company’s RTX 40 series.

The Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 has a $1,199 price tag, while the beefier RTX 4090 has a starting price of  $1,599. These cards also see a price hike from their predecessors — the RTX 3080 and RTX 3090, which were priced at $699 and $1,499 (respectively) at launch.

Price-wise, AMD’s Radeon GPUs are the clear winner compared to Nvidia. Only the Intel Arc A750 ($289) and Intel Arc A770 ($329) cost less.

AMD Radeon RX 7000 vs Nvidia RTX 40 series: Specs

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AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT	AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX	Nvidia RTX 4090	Nvidia RTX 4080
Price	$899	$999	$1,599	$1,199
Compute units	84	96	N/A	N/A
Ray accelerators	84	96	N/A	N/A
Game frequency	2000 MHz	2300 MHz	N/A	N/A
Infinity Cache	80	96	N/A	N/A
Max memory size	20GB GDDR6	24GB GDDR6	24GB GDDR6X	16GB GDDR6X

The Radeon RX 7900 XT and 7900 XTX are the first AMD GPUs built on the company’s new RDNA 3 architecture. What’s perhaps more intriguing is that these are the first AMD GPUs to feature a chiplet design, something competitors Intel and Nvidia have not (yet) attempted. AMD is more familiar with the technology, having already employed it in the design of its new Ryzen 7000 CPUs.

Understanding how chiplet GPUs differ, performance-wise, from more traditional GPU designs is a complicated topic. Our sibling site Tom’s Hardware has an excellent in-depth interview with AMD’s Sam Naffziger about entering the GPU chiplet era and what it means for the industry. For simplicity’s sake, chiplet designs let AMD stack individual self-contained «chiplets» tightly together in configurations that are potentially more powerful and power-efficient than a processor on a single piece of silicon.

The RTX 4090 is Nvidia’s most powerful GPU yet. (Image credit: Nvidia)

According to Nvidia , the RTX 4090 with DLSS 3 is up to four times faster compared to last generation’s RTX 3090 Ti with DLSS 2. It’s also up to two times faster in modern games while maintaining the same 450W power consumption. This GPU features 76 billion transistors, 16,384 CUDA cores and 24GB of high-speed Micron GDDR6X memory. It’s capable of consistently delivering over 100 frames per second at 4K resolution gaming, according to Nvidia.

The RTX 4080 has 9,728 CUDA cores and 16GB of the aforementioned high-speed Micron GDDR6X memory. With DLSS 3, Nvidia claims the card is twice as fast in modern games as the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and more powerful than the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti at lower power.

Comparing the company’s graphics cards isn’t exactly straightforward. For example, the RX 7900 XTX has 24GB of VRAM (memory) compared to the RTX 4080’s 16GB. With that said, the latter uses speedier GDDR6X memory. Because of that, the two GPUs are effectively on-par in terms of balanced bus width and speed for gaming. But for applications that use a lot of VRAM, the RX 7900 XTX might prove more beneficial.

AMD Radeon RX 7000 vs Nvidia RTX 40 series: Performance

Sibling website Tom’s Hardware reviewed AMD and Nvidia’s latest cards. We’ll use their benchmark results to compare the GPUs.

For its 4K gaming benchmark (which tested nine titles), the site found that the RTX 4090 Founder’s Edition averaged a 55% improvement over the last-gen RTX 3090 Ti. There’s a 71% uplift compared to the RTX 3090 and a 77% improvement over the RTX 3080 Ti.

Tom’s Guide noted that the 55% average includes games like Microsoft Flight Simulator, which is still hitting CPU bottlenecks. The RTX 4090 maintained performance when going from 1080p Ultra to 1440p Ultra to 4K Ultra.

In its RTX 4080 review , Tom’s Hardware wrote that the GPU delivers 78% of the RTX 4090’s performance for 75% of the price. It’s also 21% faster than the RTX 3090 Ti and 51% faster than the RTX 3080. Compared to the RTX 3080 Ti it’s meant to replace, the RTX 4080 is 38% faster.

Games like Microsoft Flight Simulator (pictured above) run wonderfully on the RTX 4090. (Image credit: Microsoft)

In Tom’s Hardware’s rasterization benchmark suite, which tests games with ray tracing disabled, the site found that the RX 7900 XTX won against the RTX 4080 in five out of nine games tested in 4K — with a general lead of 3. 7%. You can see the results of individual game titles in the site’s AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX and XT review.

The RX 7900 XTX offers a 39% improvement over the last-gen RX 6950 XT. Results ranged from 22% in Forza Horizon 5 to 52% in Flight Simulator and Total War: Warhammer 3. AMD’s GPU is also 22% faster than the RTX 3090 Ti when playing games in 4K.

AMD’s RX 7900 cards look good in 4K games with ray tracing disabled. However, the GPUs struggle when ray tracing is turned on. The beefier XTX barely managed to average 30 frames per second on Tom’s Hardware’s test suite, for example.

At 4K resolution, games like Forza Horizon 5 (pictured above) run at higher frame rates on the RTX 4090 than on the RX 7900 XTX. (Image credit: Playground Games)

The 7900 XTX falls behind the RTX 4080 by 27%. The 7900 XT falls even further behind by 37%. The RTX 4090 is nearly twice as fast as the 7900 XTX in Tom’s Hardware’s 4K tests and 125% faster than the 7900 XT. This is without DLSS or any other form of upscaling.

Compared to last gen, the RX 7900 XT is over 30% faster than the 6950 XT. The 7900 XTX has an impressive 50% lead over its predecessor. However, in the rasterization suite, the RX 7900 XTX couldn’t surpass the RTX 3090 Ti. Tom’s Hardware believes the GPU would likely tie the RTX 3090 in overall ray tracing performance.

AMD Radeon RX 7000 vs Nvidia RTX 40 series: Which GPU wins?

Choosing between AMD Radeon RX and Nvidia RTX 40 series GPUs ultimately comes down to personal preference. If you don’t care about ray tracing or can’t justify paying over $1,000 for a graphics card, the Radeon 7000 GPUs are your best bet. And though most games are optimized for Nvidia cards, the new AMD GPUs should be able to run the majority of modern titles just fine.

Conversely, you should opt for an Nvidia RTX 40 series GPU if you want a powerful graphics card with features like ray tracing and DLSS. Useful applications like GeForce Experience which optimizes individual titles and easily installs driver updates are also a bonus. Sure, Nvidia’s GPUs command a premium, but their prices are arguably worth it. In that sense, Nvidia cards are still the ones to beat. With that said, it’s possible that Nvidia is cruising for a bruising in 2023.

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What are the differences between technologies, and what do you need to know in order to choose the most profitable and profitable video card for mining?

Whose chips are colder and which ones are more powerful in overclocking?

We will answer all these questions and tell you how to choose the best video card for mining!

The market for PC graphics cards and mining farms is split between AMD and Nvidia.

Companies have been fighting for a buyer’s wallet for a long time, and offer their own approaches to designing video card architectures. The picture below shows AMD Navi (left) and Nvidia Turing (right). nine0003

Difference in load distribution between different video card units:

• Nvidia uses CUDA universal platform and push-pull cycles.
• AMD , on the other hand, relies on a strong connection of control modules with SIMD and four cycles for separate planning and operation.

Quite simplifying, Nvidia combines the tasks of planning and computing, while AMD, on the contrary, allocates separate processes for this. nine0003

The most important thing is that even mining cannot overload any of the approaches. In real use, only architectures do not give any difference in performance, because the internal structure and content of the blocks are almost identical. The chips themselves and their frequencies play a much larger role.

Another color has joined green and red — blue. Intel has been developing its own GPUs for a long time, and finally released its first video cards — Intel Arc A770 and A750. Of course, it will be difficult to keep up with the mastodons of the industry, but the company has taken the first confident steps. The graphics cards are cheap enough to compete with Nvidia and AMD, but not without compromises. nine0078

Models are created so that each buyer finds an option in the right budget. This applies to all manufacturers:

• The top options are practically devoid of cons and are ready for anything.
• Cheap models get less memory, cut graphics cores and other limitations.

But not always is cheaper = worse than . Sometimes the buyer, choosing a slightly lower power, can save a lot of money and be a winner! nine0003

It is important to note that we only consider the consumer segment of video cards. Professional solutions Nvidia Quadro, A, P, T, V or AMD FirePro are not an option for mining due to poor payback.

Video memory

Current video cards do not suffer from small memory size and speed. Almost any modern version has 6-8 GB of fast GDDR6 or GDDR6X memory on board.

This is useful both for games — more detailed objects in the frame, and for mining — voluminous DAG files. Less is simply unacceptable in 2022/2023! nine0003

HBM2 memory is also found in AMD video cards. You should not be afraid of it — it’s just another technology.

Which is more important — the chip manufacturer: Hynix , Samsung or Micron . Video memory can be overclocked in terms of frequency and timings, and different manufacturers have different results.

It is generally accepted that Samsung produces the most reliable chips. We explained the topic in separate articles about memory overclocking, and ETHlargementPill. nine0003

By overclocking the memory in terms of frequency and timings, you can get an increase of up to 10-15% hashrate!

Nvidia was a little more lucky — the overclocking process is more user friendly, it’s easier to overclock them. AMD owners are a little less fortunate — video cards have to be flashed and searched for overclocking on the Internet. How to flash an AMD graphics card?

In order not to waste time looking for a suitable overclock, use our overclocking database for any video card! nine0079

Video chips

An important element of a video card in mining is cores: CUDA for Nvidia and stream processors for AMD.

• The more cores and processors, the more profitable.
• The higher the core frequency, the more profitable.

Manufacturers install chips of different power in models of the same line. For example, RTX 2080 Super has TU104 with 3072 CUDA cores.

Other cards with this option are the result of a rejection. They cut the amount and speed of memory and turn off entire computing blocks, in which there are blocks of calculations, texturing, rendering, and others. nine0003

The above math does not work for old AMD popular in mining. Frequent optimizations and model updates have skewed the slenderness of the chip lines in « red «. Take a look at the RX480 and RX580 — we know for sure that this is the same video card.

The promised « new » chip turned out to be just a factory overclock. Often you need to look for other parameters of video cards on the Internet, and compare generations to find out the performance of a particular card « on paper «.

For example, the RX 5700 and RX 5700 XT fit perfectly into the cull model.

Bonus for AMD owners: often low-end video cards can be overclocked or flashed and almost equalized with more powerful models!

As for the AMD RX 6000 Series family, everything is very interesting here.

In an attempt to capture all the price segments of the market, AMD released so many budget cards that it became difficult for users to figure out which one to choose! nine0003

We decided to simplify the choice for you: if you are going to play and mine, stick out models between RX 6600 XT and RX 6800 XT.

• Options below the RX 6600 XT are not capable of anything.
• Options older than the RX 6800 XT are an overpayment that will not give you an advantage.
• The recommended model for mining is RX 6700 XT. Balance of price, power, and electricity consumption.

A little later, AMD released an updated line of graphics cards AMD RX 6X50 Series. RX 6750 XT, RX 6850 XT, RX 6950 XT… Video cards have become a little more powerful, but not for mining. The manufacturer increased the memory clock speed, but worsened the memory timings, which negatively affected the hash rate.

The newer and more expensive RX 6850 XT will mine worse than the older RX 6800 XT.

Power and cooling systems

It almost doesn’t matter whose video card is in your hands: ASUS, Gigabyte or someone else. In a stable mining load, capacitors don’t leak and chips don’t fall off. Cooling systems do an excellent job of uniform tasks, we talked about this in a great video! nine0003

In 2015-2017, it was possible to meet exclusive miners separately for AMD or Nvidia.

Today, « only for Nvidia » continues to exist, but universal options for both manufacturers are much more common.

Kryptex contains all the most profitable and up-to-date algorithms and almost every one is available for cards of both families.

None of the manufacturers can be unambiguously advised today. Even if compared by objective points, each user chooses what will be important specifically to him. It is right not to get hung up on the brand, but to compare certain models any from manufacturers.

Unless it’s easier for Nvidia owners in general to live: a universal driver without special modes is suitable for both games and mining at the same time. Yes, and electricity under load « green » always consume less ( and the room is heated worse ❄):

Whoever stops at one of the red-green camps stays there for a long time, if not forever.

At the end of 2022 — the beginning of 2023, video cards from Nvidia hold a confident lead. 9 series graphics cards0076 Nvidia RTX 3000 took the lead both in terms of gaming performance and mining profitability. The only negative, perhaps, is the price. Mining fever has raised prices that do not want to fall.

We hope that 2023 will be more favorable to consumers ?

Always select the specific model. We sketched a portrait of such a card:

It is difficult to find the best option for mining instantly, without knowledge of technologies and specific features of video cards — it is almost impossible. It is best to rely on the experience of other users and clearly prioritize.