What GPU brand do you prefer? - AMD | NVidia ZA Edition

[EKD Online (Pty) Ltd]

Pallit because: Cheap

PNY seems to also be a cheap brand, but I haven't owned one yet.

Can't speak for AMD as I haven't owned one, but that would be my next GPU if there's damn stock of the stuff.

@Marcell1992 What AMD card are you referring to that you can't seem to find stock of?

 

[FeelsBranMan]

Rather than brand, its always the aesthetics for me. I usually find the looks of the Sapphire nitro cards to be pleasing!

 

[Kromas]

I hope it wasn't this one

Sparkle Intel Arc 3 A310 ELF Graphics Card, 4GB — Best Deals at Progenix — South Africa

The SPARKLE Intel Arc A310 ELF enhance your creation and gaming with AV1 hardware encode and AI-enhanced XeSS upscaling. ELF Series featuring single fan and dual slot design brings the new balance of performance level and price point. No need for addition

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Ah hell. If only I had known earlier I would have saved some shipping time.

 

[Crouchinglee]

I've been a EVGA whore since I bought a GTS 8800 (if I remember correctly).
but my current card is a Gainward RTX 3060ti... and man do I miss my EVGA's.

 

[TheJudge]

thats a partnership thats goes back to the dawn of graphics cards, when ATi was still ATi.

I had a PowerColor Savage 2000 in the late 90s

I always wanted to test an S3 card (outside of the old Virge). I remember them showcasing S3 texture compression on Unreal.

 

[EKD Online (Pty) Ltd]

Alright, to wrap up the first day of votes:

1. ASUS
2. Gigabyte/Palit Share 2nd place
3. XFX
4. MSI

I have changed the Poll voting to a maximum of 2 votes for those that prefer multiple brands.

I find it interesting that there are no votes on Intel Ark graphics, Afterall I have seen a lot of customers going for the 16GB variant ark cards at affordable prices.

I would then like to ask the fellow carbos what are your thoughts on the Colorful iGAME series cards?

Would you buy the iGame series if they were here?

Colorful-Graphics card

Established in 1995, Colorful is a brand with 20+ year history. Colorful business range covers DIY product lines, including graphics card, motherboard, RAM, SSD, all-in-one PC, server, etc. It is a comprehensive company that holds the largest share in the Chinese graphics card market...

en.colorful.cn

 

[TheJudge]

If I'm not mistaken, you just got the ASRock the other day ? Very nice card paired with a white system.

Correct, its so white the box contains a DA membership card when its shipped to you.

 

[NI∀ƆOƆ‾⊥ᴚ∩ʞ]

Would you buy the iGame series if they were here?

Very attractive cards. Why are there no 4090's?

 

[Oops!!!]

I always wanted to test an S3 card (outside of the old Virge). I remember them showcasing S3 texture compression on Unreal.

S3TL was so buggy that it was disabled by default. The only game that it actually made a big difference in was Unreal.

 

[Valheru]

Would you buy the iGame series if they were here?

Colorful-Graphics card

Established in 1995, Colorful is a brand with 20+ year history. Colorful business range covers DIY product lines, including graphics card, motherboard, RAM, SSD, all-in-one PC, server, etc. It is a comprehensive company that holds the largest share in the Chinese graphics card market...

en.colorful.cn

Yes, this looks nice

Colorful-Product-iGame GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER Vulcan OC 16GB-V

Established in 1995, Colorful is a brand with 20+ year history. Colorful business range covers DIY product lines, including graphics card, motherboard, RAM, SSD, all-in-one PC, server, etc. It is a comprehensive company that holds the largest share in the Chinese graphics card market...

en.colorful.cn

 

[Kromas]

Alright, to wrap up the first day of votes:

1. ASUS
2. Gigabyte/Palit Share 2nd place
3. XFX
4. MSI

I have changed the Poll voting to a maximum of 2 votes for those that prefer multiple brands.

I find it interesting that there are no votes on Intel Ark graphics, Afterall I have seen a lot of customers going for the 16GB variant ark cards at affordable prices.

I would then like to ask the fellow carbos what are your thoughts on the Colorful iGAME series cards?

Would you buy the iGame series if they were here?

Colorful-Graphics card

Established in 1995, Colorful is a brand with 20+ year history. Colorful business range covers DIY product lines, including graphics card, motherboard, RAM, SSD, all-in-one PC, server, etc. It is a comprehensive company that holds the largest share in the Chinese graphics card market...

en.colorful.cn

Your own fault to be fair.

The title is

What GPU brand do you prefer? - AMD | NVidia ZA Edition​

No intel on that anywhere.

 

[Valheru]

No intel on that anywhere.

That's because they suck

 

[Kromas]

Depends on what you are doing. They are by far better than anything nvidia/amd when it comes to transcoding.

But gaming ... yeah they suck.

 

[Valheru]

Depends on what you are doing. They are by far better than anything nvidia/amd when it comes to transcoding.

But gaming ... yeah they suck.

Gaming. Bias confirmed.

 

[Kromas]

At least I did give them a chance. Maybe one day when they get a competent driver dev we will see gaming performance on par with low end amd/nvidia cards.

Still. AV1 transcoding blew me away.

 

[Nyt Ryda]

They are by far better than anything nvidia/amd when it comes to transcoding.

Still. AV1 transcoding blew me away.

You sure you're not comparing the Intel stuff to the older NVIDIA hardware/software from when it launched?

I don't know much about encoding but RTX40 sounds like it supports NVENC AV1 : https://videocardz.com/newz/handbra...ing-on-geforce-rtx-40-and-radeon-rx-7000-gpus

 

[Kromas]

Supports AV1 vs built from the ground up with AV1 in mind are two different things.

Even when comparing non av1 transcoding a R50k 4090 barely keeps up with a R4000 A380 in h265.

 

[EKD Online (Pty) Ltd]

Your own fault to be fair.

The title is

What GPU brand do you prefer? - AMD | NVidia ZA Edition​

No intel on that anywhere.

At the bottom of the list, Intel ARC is there for voting. Edit: Ah see what you mean, still on the list.

 

[Kromas]

I meant A380 not a310

 

[NI∀ƆOƆ‾⊥ᴚ∩ʞ]

I meant A380 not a310

You can edit the original post.

 

[TheJudge]

Supports AV1 vs built from the ground up with AV1 in mind are two different things.

Even when comparing non av1 transcoding a R50k 4090 barely keeps up with a R4000 A380 in h265.

You sir are speaking foreign.

 

[Nyt Ryda]

Supports AV1 vs built from the ground up with AV1 in mind are two different things.

Even when comparing non av1 transcoding a R50k 4090 barely keeps up with a R4000 A380 in h265.

I don't think the gulf in transcoding between Intel and high end NVIDIA cards is as big as you make it out to be, but happy to be proved wrong. They seem pretty equal.

From an overall quality and performance perspective, Nvidia's latest Ada Lovelace NVENC hardware comes out as the winner with AV1 as the codec of choice, but right now it's only available with GPUs that start at $799 — for the RTX 4070 Ti. It should eventually arrive in 4060 and 4050 variants, and those are already shipping in laptops, though there's an important caveat: the 40-series cards with 12GB or more VRAM have dual NVENC blocks, while the other models will only have a single encoder block, which could mean about half the performance compared to our tests here.

Right behind Nvidia in terms of quality and performance, at least as far as video encoding is concerned, Intel's Arc GPUs are also great for streaming purposes. They actually have higher quality results with HEVC than AV1, basically matching Nvidia's 40-series. You can also use them for archiving, sure, but that's likely not the key draw. Nvidia definitely supports more options for tuning, however, and seems to be getting more software support as well.

AMD's GPUs meanwhile continue to lag behind their competition. The RDNA 3-based RX 7900 cards deliver the highest-quality encodes we've seen from an AMD GPU to date, but that's not saying a lot. In fact, at least with the current version of ffmpeg, quality and performance are about on par with what you could get from a GTX 10-series GPU back in 2016 — except without AV1 support, naturally, since that wasn't a thing back then.

Source : Video Encoding Tested: AMD GPUs Still Lag Behind Nvidia, Intel (Updated)

 

[Kromas]

You sir are speaking foreign.

Tl;Dr: If you need a cheap gpu for jellyfin/plex/emby get yourself an intel.

 

[TheJudge]

Tl;Dr: If you need a cheap gpu for jellyfin/plex/emby get yourself an intel.

I'm down for jelly babies and paaper bites but the others I don't know!

 

[Kromas]

I don't think the gulf in transcoding between Intel and high end NVIDIA cards is as big as you make it out to be, but happy to be proved wrong. They seem pretty equal.

Source : Video Encoding Tested: AMD GPUs Still Lag Behind Nvidia, Intel (Updated)

Hmm. I was not aware Nvidia caught up. Truth be told it has been months since I actually checked transcoding comparisons. In fact last I remember a 4090 could not break 60fps 8K AV1. This chart clearly shows they did something in the background or it was a bug maybe.

Then again we are still talking about a massive price difference between a top of the range card and a sub R10k card.

If its for my server I would still just go Intel.

 

[EKD Online (Pty) Ltd]

Very attractive cards. Why are there no 4090's?

Yeah, VERY nice cards.

There are a few 4090 models:

Colorful-Product-iGame GeForce RTX 4090 Advanced OC-V

Established in 1995, Colorful is a brand with 20+ year history. Colorful business range covers DIY product lines, including graphics card, motherboard, RAM, SSD, all-in-one PC, server, etc. It is a comprehensive company that holds the largest share in the Chinese graphics card market...

en.colorful.cn

Colorful-Product-Colorful GeForce RTX 4090 NB EX-V

Established in 1995, Colorful is a brand with 20+ year history. Colorful business range covers DIY product lines, including graphics card, motherboard, RAM, SSD, all-in-one PC, server, etc. It is a comprehensive company that holds the largest share in the Chinese graphics card market...

en.colorful.cn

Colorful-Product-iGame GeForce RTX 4090 Vulcan OC-V

Established in 1995, Colorful is a brand with 20+ year history. Colorful business range covers DIY product lines, including graphics card, motherboard, RAM, SSD, all-in-one PC, server, etc. It is a comprehensive company that holds the largest share in the Chinese graphics card market...

en.colorful.cn

Colorful-Product-iGame GeForce RTX 4090 Neptune OC-V

Established in 1995, Colorful is a brand with 20+ year history. Colorful business range covers DIY product lines, including graphics card, motherboard, RAM, SSD, all-in-one PC, server, etc. It is a comprehensive company that holds the largest share in the Chinese graphics card market...

en.colorful.cn

Will be bringing the iGAME Series in sooner or later.

 

[Kromas]

That iGame GeForce RTX 4090 Advanced OC-V looks pretty damn sick. What type of warranty will it have? I am a little iffy on cards with those 12pv connectors.

 

[Oj0]

I find it interesting that there are no votes on Intel Ark graphics

Possibly because people prefer Acer/ASRock/Biostar Ark cards.

I would then like to ask the fellow carbos what are your thoughts on the Colorful iGAME series cards?

They were here, sales were dismal, they left. The price difference between them and tier 1 AIBs was almost non-existent.

 

[Marcell1992]

@Marcell1992 What AMD card are you referring to that you can't seem to find stock of?

I'm not currently buying, but scrolling Carbs for interest sake I don't see a 7900xt posted often.

I'll be looking at the 8800+- range depending on price when it releases and I hope there will be more stock than what I currently see of the 7900xt.

 

[EKD Online (Pty) Ltd]

That iGame GeForce RTX 4090 Advanced OC-V looks pretty damn sick. What type of warranty will it have? I am a little iffy on cards with those 12pv connectors.

Most of the cards are awesome in the iGame series. The design is unique especially the flagship white editions. Warranty = 3 years. As for the 12pv....yeah no comment.