This is why older AMD graphics cards are better than Nvidia

[Jamie McKane]

This is why older AMD graphics cards are better than Nvidia

Nvidia graphics cards haven't aged nearly as well as AMD GPUs.

 

[Xiphan]

AMD planned well in advance for the future when they introduced GCN as the replacement to TeraScale (their previous VLIW architecture). Not only is it a potent platform for GPU compute—making it very popular for cryptocurrency hashing—but graphics cards as far back as the Radeon HD 7000 series, released in 2012, have support for DX12, Mantle and Vulkan and see significant performance gains when using them. Unlike Nvidia's most recent cards which, despite having support for these APIs, see very little improvement when using them.

 

[DarthMol]

I must say - I'm very impressed with my 2nd han R9 290 - it's a reference card so it's not quiet but that's what headphones are for and the performance doesn't disappoint.

 

[Weasley]

AMD planned well in advance for the future when they introduced GCN as the replacement to TeraScale (their previous VLIW architecture). Not only is it a potent platform for GPU compute—making it very popular for cryptocurrency hashing—but graphics cards as far back as the Radeon HD 7000 series, released in 2012, have support for DX12, Mantle and Vulkan and see significant performance gains when using them. Unlike Nvidia's most recent cards which, despite having support for these APIs, see very little improvement when using them.

so my 7870 will get a benefit when games run dx12?

 

[Xiphan]

so my 7870 will get a benefit when games run dx12?

There's a good chance of that. While it's not DX12 I did stumble upon this album, which shows the 7870 achieving a ~20 FPS gain in Doom when using Vulkan.