I think AMD is a great competitor and we need more competition to lay it to NVIDIA and AMD as well, BUT HOLY FUCK. I can't stand AMD's software/control panel vs NVIDIA's.

[–] liamwb@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I just switched from nvidia to and and I have the exact opposite feeling lol

[–] taco_ballerina@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Aye. The Nvidia control center was cool when I installed it for my Ti 4600 in 2002 and not much has changed. I'm not particularly fond but the aesthetics of the Radeon software, but it beats the heck out of the semi-useless GeForce experience. I have to make an account just to see if there's a driver update available? I can't even control fan speeds in Windows without third party software?

They're both bad but in comparison Nvidia's offering is garbage.

[–] joel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

I am so fucking sick of having to make an account for everything, I swear to God

[–] iegod@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

You don't need an account for drivers. You can still get those for free off their website just like you could in 1999. You only need an account for their experience app.

[–] Prethoryn@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Care to explain your gripes?

At least with NVIDIA's control panel I can find what I am looking for but my god AMD's software feels so damn unorganized.

[–] liamwb@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well I guess there's two parts of the nvidia software experience, geforce and the control panel. The control panel is functionally fine, but the ui is very dated and the available features are a bit limited. Geforce is pretty widely reviled as far as I can tell so I won't go into it.

I just find the amd ui nice, and I like how you get quite simple and direct control over your video card, eg you can do some simple oc/undervolting, choose which software special sauce you want at a glance, and so on.

[–] propaganja@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

My first-ever Nvidia card was a 3080Ti. After installation I was genuinely confused and kept clicking around everywhere looking for the real settings panel.

Actually I remember, my older laptop had a MX150 (lol) so I did know all about GeForce Control Panel and Experience—I just thought they were the outdated bargain-basement solution assigned to POS hardware like mine, not worth (understandably) slapping shiny new chrome on.

Subsequently I had automatically assumed without a doubt in my mind that the pandemic card I had paid for in tainted blood would have some uber slick new interface that I couldn't wait to play around with.

Needless to say, my disappointment was immeasurable and my day was ruined.