(VR) AMD vs Nvidia in 2025

[dr00p]

Hello all,

The tale of Nvidia vs AMD is old as computers. But in my eyes something of the ancient past. Funny thing is, here on this VR part of the forum, there is a lot of ancient posts to be read. Especially in the pinned threads; SLI in 2015. Which was funnily about at it's end, if not long dead already, at that time already.
Anyway, AMD has cached up. I have had a weak spot for AMD in gaming, for starters because I'm not an rich man. Plus even in the Radeon days I always thought AMD is making their chips for Sony Playstation and a lot more that I can't think of; it's not as bad as internet would like you to believe (in those days). (And yes, Nvidia was way ahead, undoubtedly)

I should have maybe do a search, but I'm writing a bit out of memory from what I have read here last days. But I noticed there is still a preference for Nvidia. Or at least in those very old topics.

So in my vision, since RX5700 (latest one I (my son..) have) and up, I think AMD did pretty well. So my question: Is the statement that Nvidia is (better for VR in Elite) still true? Or can you just as easily use AMD for your adventures these days?

I don't want to start anything btw I have both AMD and Nvidia, and I like them both.

 

[jojon]

Well, I have no experience with this but there is the fact that the most powerful current NVidia card is significantly more powerful than the most powerful current AMD one, if that is what one is shooting for, but that that power comes at an absolutely insane price -- decent-used-car price...

I also believe (would be happy to be wrong) that if one want to try to use any hack that attempts to finagle some degree of foveated rendering into the game's fragment shaders, those hacks are dependent on NVidia VRS, and won't work with equivalents.

Otherwise, as far as I know, problems that the game had with drawing orbit lines using AMD cards have been addressed, and AMD have not been as skimpy with VRAM as NVidia these last generations.

Forum member Morbad has written about having experieces with both options previously, and is generally very knowledgeable on tech issues -- hopefully he'll see your post and offer better advice.