It's important to keep the big picture in view throughout this analysis. That primarily means looking at AMD Big Navi and Nvidia Ampere graphics cards - and maybe one of these days, we'll even need to add Intel Arc into the mix. We want to find a winner in the current battle of AMD vs Nvidia GPUs. Its graphics cards account for the majority of GPUs on the Steam Hardware Survey, for example, and in terms of pure finances, Nvidia is worth roughly three times as much as AMD (with a large chunk of AMD's resources devoted to CPUs).īut we're not interested in the distant past or finances. The AMD vs Nvidia flame wars have been cooking since the late 90s, with Nvidia currently leading in the GPU arena by many metrics. Our focus here will be on graphics, however, and we'll be looking at performance, features, drivers and software, power and efficiency, pricing and more. You'll also need to choose between AMD vs Intel CPUs. AMD vs Nvidia isn't the only decision you’ll need to make when building a PC, of course. Both companies make GPUs that power the best graphics cards, fighting for supremacy in our GPU benchmarks hierarchy. If you're building a gaming PC, you'll inevitably be faced with choosing between the two GPU heavyweights.

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