I was an EVGA customer for many years. I’m looking to buy a new GPU soon to replace my 2080Ti. What brands would you consider when making a new GPU purchase and why?
I’m an AMD guy myself due to Linux compatibility. I prefer Sapphire, PowerColor, XFX, and Asus cards, in that order.
I’ve always been AMD myself.
Unfortunately I’ve had an Asus Strix Vega 64 suffer from voltage spikes and ended up seeing it has bad quality control thermal pads ❎
Then seeing Asus melt motherboards with the AM5 X3Ds at launch 🤔…
I think the current generation of Power Color was having a similar issues with thermal pads, but don’t quote me on that. My PC 5700xt and 6900xt Red Devils worked fine.
I went with Sapphire this go round for my 7900xtx.
Make friends, resell old parts. Subsidize upgrades 🙃
My Radeon 290X gave me a lot of Linux problems before it died. Like freezing a while after resuming from sleep. Hate to admit the GTX 1660 Ti hasn’t given me any problems on Linux.
AMD revamped and open sourced their driver sometimes around the Vega era, I think? It’s been super solid since then.
I am very pleased with PowerColor for the price. My RX580 has been beaten a ton for 5-6 years now, and goes on strong. Same from other PowerColor GPUs of friends
If I’m buying an AMD card, I buy PowerColor or Sapphire. If I’m buying an Nvidia card, I buy ASUS or MSI (quality isn’t as good as ASUS, but tends to be cheaper). No real reason for those picks other than preference and good experience over many years of using them. Just remember that it’s possible for any card to break regardless of brand so take reports with small sample sizes with a large grain of salt.
Just go with Sapphire. Get whatever the best card they sell that’s within your budget. Can’t go wrong.
AMD side: Sapphire, Powercolor, and XFX in that order usually. Asrock’s been pretty decent as well.
Nvidia? Not really sure, Zotac is a sister company to Sapphire and is usually pretty decent, I’ve heard. MSI might be okay, but I’d read reviews for the specific card in question. Same with Asus, as I’ve heard they’ve been going downhill as of late. Gigabyte’s been known for poor quality cards for a while. Maybe not all of them, but more of them than other brands.
That’s just the word on the grapevine though, individual reviewers would have more insight. Like Gamer’s Nexus and Hardware unboxed.