Digital Foundry Performance analysis: Tomb Raider Definitive Edition

[DonFerrari]

shikamaru317 said:

trixiemafia86 said:

shikamaru317 said:

trixiemafia86 said:

So it runs like shit on Nvidia. No wonder I see dips regularly below 60fps on my PC on ultimate settings.

poorly optimised game in general for Nvidia.

AMD paid the developers to make AMD optimization a priority during development. It's a shady practice but Nvidia does it too. 

oh i c. no wonder a 7870 is outperforming a gtx 680

Yeah, AMD calls it "AMD: Gaming Evolved", what it really means is "we paid the developers to prioritize AMD hardware when optimizing the game". The list of AMD: Gaming Evolved titles includes Sleeping Dogs, Tomb Raider, Battlefield 4, and Hitman Absolution, I think the upcoming Thief as well. But like I said, Nvidia does it too, pretty much any game that you see bundled with an Nvidia graphics card had Nvidia optimization paid for by Nvidia, games like Assassins's Creed IV and Metro: Last Light. You'll also see Nvidia pay developers to use PhysX in their games instead of another physics effects solution, since AMD graphics cards can't run PhsyX, Borderlands 2 was one such game.

Pretty much like Sony/MS do from time to time with some titles.