| Darc Requiem said: It's ironic that I that AMD has added life to my old GTX 1080 laptop. Sure I'll take the extra performance on RX6900XT desktop but it's not something I was worried about to begin with. My laptop has started to show it's age as of late. |
Amd cards age like fine wine too.
Usually they dont put in as much work as needed with driver optimisations at launch, as nvidia does.
So overtime the drivers see bigger improvements.
While its like nvidia purposefully give older cards worse drivers as time goes on (time to upgrade $$$$).
This means if you look at launch reviews, you might see a amd card loseing out against a competeing priceclass nvida card (at launch).
Then 5 years down the line, its actually performing better than the competeing nvidia card, in then, newly released titles.
But yeah, AMDs approach of everything being open source, and for all, is nice.
They have to work abit harder for sales, than nvidia does, since their the underdog.
Sometimes it really points out how much BS, nvidia does though.
Case in point, G-Sync vs Free-Sync. Paying 150$ extra to nvidia, for something barely noticeable vs free solution that works for everyone.
Also nvidia is quick to come up with new technologies. Then dictate how its used, by developers.
Like Tessellation? remember when that was a issue?
Nvidia was better at it than amd, so it paid benchmark makers, to use more of it than was nessary (ei. you couldnt even tell visually anymore, on model with increased amounts) (invisible sea mess, of tressellation ect). Just so nvidia could look better in benchmarks (non games), in reviews.
They also paid to have dx10.1 removed in Assasins creed game? I think it was, due to it favoring AMD in benchmarks.
Nvidia play hardball, and cheat at times to come out ahead. Walled gardens, ect.
Feels bad man, same with Intel, they where doing tons of suspect things like that as well, in the x86 space for years.
Its amasing that AMD can even compete (marketshare wise.... its like 30% in gpu and cpus?).
hard not to root for the underdog (because where would we be, if it was only Intel and Nvidia, dictateing everything and price too?)
