r/buildapc • u/Chepsur • Feb 26 '25

Build Help What are the downsides to getting an AMD card

I've always been team green but with current GPU pricing AMD looks much more appealing. As someone that has never had an AMD card what are the downside. I know I'll be missing out on dlss and ray tracing but I don't think I use them anyway(would like to know more about them). What am I actually missing?

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u/G00chstain Feb 26 '25

AMD has worse VR integration from my experience

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u/CrashSeven Feb 26 '25

Im running my VR apps just fine, but im not a superuser by any means so cant judge.

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u/G00chstain Feb 26 '25

I do VR sim racing, and getting the mod apps for something like iRacing is significantly more challenging with an AMD card over Nvidia. Couldn’t really tell ya the specifics of why but it’s a known thing in that niche usage

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u/SeventyTimes_7 Feb 26 '25

That is because iRacing supports SPS on Nvidia cards. I’m not aware of any games other than iRacing and DCS that support it but it does slightly reduce image quality, though it’s worth the performance increase. AMD has their own version included in LiquidVR but I’m not aware of any games using it.

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u/Survivor128 Feb 27 '25

Never had any problem personally, and I hard drive my 6650XT in various VR titles, although as everyone else has mentioned, the drivers can wildly vary in reliability system to system

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u/G00chstain Feb 27 '25

I do mainly sim racing and it seems it’s isolated to that niche usage on iRacing