Illumiigel
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The software differences are minimal, there's no reason to factor that into deciding whether to go NVidia or AMD. Power consumption means nothing in this age; who builds a $1000 rig without a 500w PSU? Temperatures vary between cards depending on the manufacturer and how far they OC them. There are many variants of the 290 which run cooler than many variants of the 960.Well Illumiigel there's different things that Nvidia offers that AMD doesn't just like there's thing AMD offers that Nvidia does not. I'm not here trying to cause a flame war or anything just saying that Nvidia has things like PhysX, Gsync (yes I know AMD has freesync but it's his preference), there's Nvidia Shield that he can sync to, CUDA (if he's video editing), Less power consumption (cheaper power supply) and finally less heat output (if he lives in a hotter environment and yes I know that the AMD cards are designed to run that hot so that it can get the best possible performance but sometimes people would prefer silence and better cooling. Hope this cleared things up (btw I like both companies and I'm not saying these things just because I'm an Nvidia fanboy I'm saying these reasons for why he might prefer Nvidia over AMD
NVidia have a software advantage, AMD have a hardware advantage. They offer more performance per dollar, which is the most important factor when building on a budget.