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by EpicEng 3478 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 3478 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 3478 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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