One of my guilty pleasures as of late is seeing the proverbial lightbulbs illuminate over the heads of Nvidia loyalists when they realize that GPU driver quirks and issues aren’t just an AMD thing
Here’s a gem I found on reddit on the pcmr sub (certain words censored):
“but amd has really bad drivers, go Nvidia”
I never wanna hear that line again with how abysmal the 50 series launch and drivers have been because holy sh**. I have a 50 series GPU and these drivers have been nothing but hell.
What’s changed: “Fixed black screen issues”
Yet the one thing you see the moment you open the grd mega thread: “serious black screen issues” “persistent black screen after driver update” like holy f***. My side rigs 7900gre has simply just worked, never once has it had a GPU driver related issue.
Swarf 50 series dont really count. They are NOT a new generation. They are a ti version of 40 series with DLSS4 (ai Multiframe Generation) attached.
Nvidia has no direct competition at all. No one is a making a 4080/5080 or 4090/5090 competitor. So Nvidia is doing exactly what intel was doing PRE Ryzen release. Remaining complacent doing no real innovating and Releasing new Generations (if you want to call them that) that are a marginal increase over last gen.
This is why competition is NEEDED in both the CPU and GPU space. If intel does not come back swinging with their next Gen CPUs AMD will become complacent and stop innovating with their CPUs too.
If I take the engine out of your car and replace all your pistons with performance pistons and your camshafts with high performance ones. Then try to Resell that Engine as a “new and improved engine”? I called it that but it isnt one.
I get what you are saying but you have to understand without competition in the GPU market this behavior wont only continue. It will get worse.
I know that in your super big brained shifty perspective that’s a few light years above the rest of us, you have your own perspective of this; but to all us other ordinary people in the world who have a more common view of things, the 50X series is 100% a new series of Nvidia cards. Strange argument my friend.
But aside from this, the point of the thread isn’t to debate the series? lol…
Nvidia drivers have issues sometimes too. AMD doesn’t have a monopoly on driver quirks.
Sorry for going a bit off topic. My statement was more along the lines of Nvidia just isnt trying anymore. 50 series is 100% proof of that. Why? they dont have to. They have no competition
