Trainz GPU performance AMD vs NVIDIA

[AV3]

So I'm drawing up plans for a brand new gaming pc build and I'm trying to decide on whether or not to go with AMD or NVIDIA for a new GPU.

For reference, my current rig is running an RTX3060TI paired with an Intel Core I9-10850K CPU and 3600MHZ of DDR4 RAM.

So I'm wondering, does Trainz have a reputation for being more favorable to one manufacturer compared to the other? I've always heard that Trainz prefers NVIDIA hardware compared to AMD but I've never seen any solid evidence of this claim. These past few years I've been more of an NVIDIA guy when it comes to GPUs but after the recent launch of the 50 series cards and hearing some not so good things in terms of raw performance compared to the last gen 40 series cards, I've been looking at AMD GPUs more often as of late.

 

[johnwhelan]

Start here:

PassMark Software - Video Card (GPU) Benchmark Charts

Video Card Benchmarks - Over 1 Million Video Cards and 1200 Models Benchmarked and compared graphically - Updated with new system benchmarks daily!

www.videocardbenchmark.net

You're interested in the 3D benchmark score.

https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gpu-hierarchy,4388.html is interesting it suggests now is not the prefect time to buy.

Your current card at 20,000 3d score is quite respectable and better then most are using. 10,000 is considered the base line.

With PBR textures arriving 16 gigs of memory on the video card would be nice. Many GPUs have gigs of memory.

Traditionally nVidia draws less power than AMD. If your system overheats you'll see throttling which isn't good. Also some power connectors have been known to burn out.

nVidia has or had a program to help Game developers optimise their code for their GPUs and from memory N3V use nVidia cards in the office apart from a couple of test machines.

I suspect my choice would be an RTX 5070. Dell Alienware are worth looking at if only for the configurations.

Cheerio John

 

[AV3]

Alright, if it helps I'm thinking of an AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D for my new processor along with hopefully 7200mhz DDR5 Ram sticks.

 

[pdkoester]

The latest of either works more than great, shouldn't be a concern, worry more about how hard it hits your wallet instead.

 

[big_b]

I changed over to an all AMD PC for gaming in 2021 never had a problem since building it
been on NVIDIA since win95 changed over and will not go back.

 

[Forester1]

For reference, my current rig is running an RTX3060TI paired with an Intel Core I9-10850K CPU and 3600MHZ of DDR4 RAM.

Let me know your price for your old machine, it is way better than mine!

 

[Paulsw2]

I changed over to an all AMD PC for gaming in 2021 never had a problem since building it
been on NVIDIA since win95 changed over and will not go back.

Yeah, I went over to AMD last year - I think we had an exchange about it!
https://forums.auran.com/threads/my-first-amd-based-system-hows-the-r7-7800x3d-with-trainz.178576/

I've been using an AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D with an RTX 4080S and so far it's worked great in Trainz (touch wood!)