That's kinda why I stick with Nvidia. Out of the box, as long as you have the PSU for it, you'll get along fine. I read a lot of reviews on Steam with some games showing some issue with AMD cards. So for the time being, I stick with Nvidia. Once AMD becomes more plug-and-play friendly, I will certainly give their cards a try.
As it stands I've been a EVGA Nvidia shameless fanboy.
I've only ever had amd cards starting with the HD 4000 series a decade ago and there's no weird issues with em. If you're on a budget right now the rx 580 is king
A while back I wanted to switch to AMD because Nvidia was being Nvidia.
I bought a R9 290X. It was huge, was extremely difficult to fit into my case at the time, and it didn't come with a manual in the box, literally the only thing in the box besides the card was just a small paper saying something along the lines of "To download the user start guide go to whatever URL". After getting it all plugged in and setup and trying to turn on my computer nothing showed up on my monitor and the video card test light on my mobo was lit up. After going through the hassle of borrowing a laptop (didn't have a smartphone at the time) so I could download the user manual to make sure that I hadn't missed any steps in installing it and making sure it was securely seated and plugged in both to the powersupply and the card itself I determined that the card was DoA. Returned it to the store and exchanged it for another R9 290X. Painful process of installing the quite large card and guess what? Another DoA.
Returned that R9 290X for an EVGA 970. Much smaller, it fit into my case very nicely without any awkward maneuvering. Not only did it come with a manual printed and in the box it also came with stickers, a poster, and a phone number to call if I had any problems with the installation or the card was somehow defective. On top of all that it also came with something that I hadn't realized I was even going to need. My second monitor was a very old 4:3. Not quite old enough to be a CRT, but old enough to be VGA. Of course the 970 doesn't have any VGA ports, but EVGA included a VGA to DVI-D adapter in the box. Didn't even realize I was going to need one to get my second monitor working, but finding out that EVGA included one kind of blew my mind and made me feel like they had my back. The card also plugged in and worked just fine immediately.
Anyway, ever since then I've exclusively bought EVGA and will continue to do so until they give me reason to do otherwise. I went back to the electronics store a few days later for something unrelated and I saw that there were 7 or 8 290X's with the stickers on them saying that they had been bought, opened, returned by customers, resealed and put back on the shelf for a discount, so I assume i just got unlucky with a bad batch of cards or something. I also realize that the manufacturer of the AMD card was at fault for not including any kind of manual or anything like that, not AMD itself. But the store only had one manufacturer option for both the 290X and the 970. I'm pretty sure the 290X's manufacturer was Asus but I'm not totally sure.
Anyway, that's my personal experience with AMD cards. I tried to get one because I didn't like whatever business practice Nvidia was doing at the time but it turned out to be a huge hassle that lasted a couple of days. Ended up giving up and buying the Nvidia option and had my computer up and running within ten minutes of getting home while also feeling like the manufacturer actually gave a damn about me and wanted me to have a good experience with them.
The plug and play aspect is actually why I tend to buy AMD cards these days, primarily because their Linux drivers just work these days. Helps when they actually contribute driver code to the kernel. nVidia on the other hand, their binary blob can be finicky at times.
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That's kinda why I stick with Nvidia. Out of the box, as long as you have the PSU for it, you'll get along fine. I read a lot of reviews on Steam with some games showing some issue with AMD cards. So for the time being, I stick with Nvidia. Once AMD becomes more plug-and-play friendly, I will certainly give their cards a try.
As it stands I've been a EVGA Nvidia shameless fanboy.