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by EpicEng 3474 days ago
Care to give some examples? As someone who has been building gaming rigs for some time, this flies in the face of ally experience. NVIDIA always has the best performing GPU each generation, has better drivers, and better support for most AAA games. Where is AMD winning?
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chc 3474 days ago
From what I've seen, the entire RX lineup appears to be as good or better than Nvidia's offerings at the same price points.

Also, "support for AAA games" isn't really a graphics card feature, per se. AAA development studios choose what hardware they want to support, and many choose to target Nvidia technologies (e.g. HairWorks).

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EpicEng 3473 days ago
>Also, "support for AAA games" isn't really a graphics card feature, per se. AAA development studios choose what hardware they want to support, and many choose to target Nvidia technologies (e.g. HairWorks).

Yes, but who cares? If NVIDIA beats AMD for the games I want to play, the why completely irrelevant. Games run better on NVIDIA. I buy games and want them to run as well as possible. Sold.

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chc 3473 days ago
The topic under discussion is whether "AMD is lagging way behind NVIDIA." If some games run better on Nvidia not because AMD is lagging, but because those developers are choosing to make them run better on Nvidia cards, the why is very relevant to the topic at hand. What isn't relevant is which brand of video card you choose to buy.
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dragonwriter 3473 days ago
Even if only on relationships with gaming studios (or game engine builders, which are overlapping but not identical groups), AMD is lagging in a market-critical area for GPUs if games don't run as well on AMD GPUs.
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maxsilver 3474 days ago
> Where is AMD winning?

GPU Performance per dollar.

NVIDIA has the best high-end GPUs each generation, and NVIDIA is often more power efficient, but AMD is often competitive or slightly ahead in GPU performance per dollar, particularly in the low/mid-range end of the market.

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tracker1 3474 days ago
AMD has been competitive on the low-mid range CPUs, and very competitive on power utilization (mobile devices).

I agree on the drivers though, Nvidia drivers have always worked much better, I've avoided the past 2 generations of AMD graphics because of this. They may have gotten better.

Just upgraded to a GTX 1080 a few months ago when I went back to single monitor (40" 4k) from two 27's... works very well, just needs a little more oomph in gaming at 4k though, next gen should be great at 4k though. I don't really game much, so it's been great for me.

I'm not sure what will come out of AMD, but think they are ahead of intel for integrated cpu/gpu though.

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m-p-3 3473 days ago
You should take a look at the AMD Crimson drivers, better than what Nvidia offers IMO.
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jdietrich 3473 days ago
They aren't really winning anywhere. The RX480 and GTX 1060 are fairly closely matched in terms of price and performance. AMD have basically nothing to compete with the 1070 and above.

AMD APUs are a good value option at the very bottom of the market, but the margins on a $25 Sempron can't be good.

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m-p-3 3473 days ago
I don't agree regarding drivers, especially in the last months. AMD drivers are quite solid since Crimson.
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