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while PS4 and Xbox One are always playing in the game field, don't forget that PC games are a force to be reckoned with. At the same time, for PC gamers, there seems to be no need to obsess about how to choose between PS4 and Xbox One, as host players do.

But for PC players, how to choose the graphics card is also a learning, any one on the DIY desktop has experience, will have their favorite collocation, regardless of Nvidia or AMD, for us, how should we choose?

　　Price

Everyone has a ballpark budget when it comes to assembling PCs. Unless you are the top of the money players, all the pursuit of the ultimate, otherwise we should pursue the highest cost-effective as the goal.

A common misconception is that AMD graphics are generally cheaper than Nvidia, which is more expensive and more powerful, but when we compare them in detail, we find that this is not exactly true. For example, NVIDIA's GeForce 980Ti price is 600 dollars (about 3920 yuan), while the same level of AMDR9 Fury X in fact, the price is almost the same, even more expensive than Nvidia. At the same time in the running score, no one has the absolute advantage.

In short, whether it is Nvidia or AMD, positioning the same products, in fact, the price is similar.

　　Performance

In terms of performance, it seems that Nvidia has some advantages over AMD. Taking the current AMD flagship Fury X as an example, according to a PC gamer test, its effective memory speed appears to be 7 times times slower than Nvidia's Titan X. In addition to the texture unit mappings, NVIDIA Titan X is superior to Fury X in almost all respects.

But in addition to the flagship products, we can take a look at Nvidia's just-released GeForce 1080. It is cheaper than AMD Fury X and can achieve two GTX 980s or single Titan x in performance. This means that the same price as R9 fury, we can get twice times the performance from Nvidia.

But AMD also seems ready to respond. GTX 1080 represents the latest work of Nvidia's Pascal architecture, and AMD intends to fight back through the next generation of Polaris. We believe we will see more information about this product at the Taipei International Computer Fair at the end of this month.

　　Software and Technology

Software and exclusivity are often considered another big advantage for Nvidia, but they are not exactly the same. Although Nvidia has some exclusive naming techniques, including PhysX, these technologies do not seem to have a significant advantage over AMD in addition to G-sync enhancements, and AMD has not been much affected by this disadvantage in the competition with Nvidia.

If you know a little bit about it, both Nvidia and AMD have their own exclusive technology, AMD's TRESSFX and Nvidia's Hairworks, in the graphics performance competition, these are the two manufacturers of their respective magic weapon.

More importantly, these technologies can easily handle the entire load run of the game. For example, Nvidia's Shadowplay technology allows users to capture high quality game images without any impact on the game. In the game process, only need a hotkey can save the entire game process to the local, if there is idle bandwidth, and even can be online streaming media sharing.

AMD also has its own trick, and if you choose to install the gaming evolved developed by AMD in collaboration with Third-party Raptr, you can also provide a high quality record of the game. Of course, the things that Nvidia's GeForce experience can do, AMD Crimson can do as well.

　　Driven

NVIDIA's driver support has become less solid for advanced users, and we can download game drivers directly from the Nvidia official web site. But since last year, according to PC World reports, users will later be able to download after registering GeForce experience.

On the contrary, AMD users can still download the driver directly from the official web, or update it directly from the AMD gaming evolved RAPTR or Radeon Crimson.

　　Exclusive

Last year, AMD was "blow", the much-anticipated PC version of the Game "Wizard 3: Wild hunting" only support Nvidia Hairworks, and AMD Tressfx was discarded. And AMD's chief gaming officer, Richard Huddy, said in an interview with Ars Technica that Nvidia's GameWorks completely undermined the performance of wizard 3: Wild hunting, and said that similar technology tressfx had less impact on performance and more open technology, But the developer of Wizard 3, CD Projekt Red, was not adopted.

This behavior is actually a disruption to the integrity of the entire PC industry, and especially for the PC industry, the biggest advantage compared to the game host domain is compatibility, and in this way Nvidia and AMD will start to show "exclusive" or "exclusive" Trends like PS4 and Xbox One.

Who better

Generally speaking, the standard answer to this comparison is "two great companies have great products, we want more competition between them, more and more favorable for players, no better conclusion" and so on, but in reality, Both Nvidia and AMD have their own strengths and weaknesses.

Of course, you can count on Nvidia GeForce experience to bring us a good picture of G-sync sync, but AMD users can download the update drive directly on the official web, without even having to install a bloated stack of additional software like Nvidia.

Two companies have exclusive technologies, but they are essentially the same. Both provide a decent level of performance at similar price points (Nvidia has a slight advantage over high-end products), and even have exclusive software support advantages.

However, if the future Nvidia and AMD are beginning to make the exclusive game developers to say so, then for the whole PC game field development, not a good omen.