AMD and nvidia seem to have always been pretty neck-and-neck in terms of GPU performance, with the deciding difference often being that AMD's drivers are often less stable and prone to crashing

which is a shame because AMD is absolutely the best big tech company out there right now morals-wise. fortunately they're currently also beating the hell out of Intel in every regard except mobile processors and something about memory controllers? though still trailing behind nvidia gpu-wise

@Felthry When I buy a GPU [in... several years], I am definitely going AMD.

[A significant part of that is they have /way/ better Linux support too!]

@Felthry I don't care if I can only run a game at 80fps vs 110fps. At a certain point, performance just doesn't matter anymore. :3

Heck, I'm still /floored/ by my recent GPU upgrade... to a two-year-old Mac laptop GPU. [Which happens to be AMD.] I don't need Ultra Performance.

@IceWolf yeah, our current GPU is a GTX 1060 6GB, which we got because the comparable RX 580 was reportedly really hard to get working right at the time due to, again, wonky drivers. it's served us well since we got it two years ago and we haven't felt the need to upgrade

@IceWolf by all reports, the 5700XT is really good! it just has really poor drivers, but i imagine the problems have been fixed by now

probably a good idea to wait anyway though since AMD have said they will be making GPUs with ray-tracing capability similar to nvidia's RTX series and with their track record of having a lower price than nvidia I would expect them to be cheaper than a 2060S for similar performance

@Felthry Noice!

I'm not getting a GPU anytime soon anyway, since I'm in college, with a laptop I can't upgrade the GPU [or anything else] in at all...

Well two laptops. I kept the old one and still use it for everything except games, because the new one can't really run Linux. ;w;