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by maikklein 3865 days ago
Nice conclusions, have you even had a look at the source for gameworks? I can't find anything that will make it run slow on AMD.

Not to mention that a huge amount of games are using Gameworks PhysX.

Unreal Engine, Unity etc also use PhysX.

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Nothing inherent to gameworks, rather when devs implement gameworks nvidia is prone to asking them to turn up features that will hurt AMD and older nvidia cards without any increase in performance. With the fallout 4 example the ray lighting, in other games it's unnecessary tessellation. Nvidia has even asked devs to disable features that don't negatively impact nvidia, but positively impact AMD like async compute.

It's easy for nvidia users to see these practices as okay because they are only hurting other people, but given a new generation of cards these measures will be leveled against them too until they upgrade. Nvidia has no qualms about fucking over their own customers so long as it fucks over amd customers more.