| AnthonyW86 said: It's weird really, you would think that since the consoles now use AMD hardware that AMD graphics would have the advantage. But i guess since it's also on ps3 it's not fully optimised for ps4/XOne. Still have high hopes for amd's pc APU's in 2-3 years though. Also i heard that the recommended pc specs mentioned a 8 core cpu? |
Gameworks is for PC, presumably Windows although I'm sure the optimizing code could be used for Linux or even Mac OSX.
The PS4 and the XB1 use their own operating systems and function as development walled gardens, meaning developers producing games for these platforms use the SDK software and hardware resources of those respective platforms for optimization. Nvidia doesn't even fall into that equation.
Besides, Nvidia's stance on consoles is that they don't matter anymore due in no small part to the fact that they have no contracts to supply any consoles with GPUs. Presumably AMD offered Nintendo, Microsoft and SCE better deals than Nvidia when it came to supplying GPUs for their current gen consoles.
On the PC gaming end of things, AMD must work directly with game developers and publishers if they don't want this potential/existing support discrepancy to continue. It won't matter if AMD offers better hardware performance for less money than Nvidia in tests if all key games favor Nvidia chipsets.
