| AnthonyW86 said: The question is, who is going to buy a $899 Nvidia card if all the new games are soon going to be optimized for AMD cards. Both the PS4 and the new Xbox are using AMD HD7xxx Gpu's, so all big muti-platform games are going to be developed for that architecture. AMD already announced that they're not going to release a new architecture or any major new cards this year, and are simply rebranding HD7xxx cards to HD8xxx for OEM pc's. |
They won't be optimised only for AMD cards.
The XBox 360 was the main lead platform for allot of multiplatform games, which uses an AMD/ATI based GPU.
The fact of the matter is, in the PC space nVidia has better developer relationships with allot of incentives, so developers usually target nVidia hardware.
The other part of this is that nVidia and AMD spend allot of time and money developing their drivers and one of those side effects is specific optimisations for games, nVidia has historically had a small advantage here where it will release drivers just before a big games release whilst AMD can take weeks/months after a games release.
That seems to be slowly changing though, AMD is re-writing allot of the memory management code in it's drivers and is aggressively updating drivers before a major games release which I'm incredibly thankfull for. :)
PC graphics though is incredibly competitive, don't expect one company to be pushed out any time soon and just buy the best price/performance to meet your needs and ignore the branding.
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