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It appears that AMD is consistent with their contributions to open things. Couple that with typically lower prices for comparable GPUs it makes me sad to see th

It appears that AMD is consistent with their contributions to open things. Couple that with typically lower prices for comparable GPUs it makes me sad to see that 30/70 percentage (of red to green) on e.g. Steam. Green yet seems to employ every semi- or outright unfair strategy (gameworks, extra tesselation) to stump them while still being typically 'closed' in its ways.

yAnonymous 10y ago
It's the same for both Nvidia and Intel: I dislike the companies for the reasons you mentioned, but they do make superior products compared to AMD. In Nvidia's case, they're a step ahead with the technology and they also put more effort into efficient cooling, which is nice if you value your ears, and evergy saving. They also seem to be constantly first with new software features (automatic game settings, recording, streaming, ...). AMD, with both CPUs and GPUs, offer comparable speed at lower prices, but not a comparable product. If they did, I'd drop Intel/Nvidia in a heartbeat.
- floatboth 10y ago
  Hopefully, Polaris and Zen are going to be massive improvements. But even current cards like the Fury look fine, especially if you consider DX12 and Vulkan performance. nVidia just spent a lot of money on optimizing the drivers for DX11. About recording & streaming — that's not just a software feature, that's dedicated video encoding hardware on the cards. nVidia heavily pushed their own software that uses the hardware, but AMD were the first with the hardware itself, according to Wikipedia: > Video Coding Engine was introduced with the Radeon HD 7900 on 22 December 2011 > [NVENC] was introduced with the Kepler-based GeForce 600 series in March 2012
  - lettergram 10y ago
    In general Nvidia makes a superior product, but it really depends what you are talking about [1]. The new Nvidia 980Ti has the best power/price at the moment. However, AMD is increasing power efficiency and being competitive, competitive enough that I buy their GPUs because they work (or did) better with Linux. With the new GPUs I anticipate them being even more competitive if not outright better for the power/price and power useage. [1] http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/ http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/
    - cm3 10y ago
      Don't you mean GTX 1080?
      - lacksconfidence 10y ago
        Whats the current price for a 1080 delivered by Friday?
        cm3 10y ago
        0 because it's not released until the 27th.
rasz_pl 10y ago
AMD has only its management to blame. Look at this and tell me whats wrong http://a.disquscdn.com/uploads/mediaembed/images/3657/6103/original.jpg http://a.disquscdn.com/uploads/mediaembed/images/3657/6103/o... AMD is modern Commodore, good hardware, friendly prices, cult following, evil clueless management.
- CyberDildonics 10y ago
  That is a graph of absolute numbers comparing two companies without equal market capitalization.

yAnonymous 10y ago

It's the same for both Nvidia and Intel: I dislike the companies for the reasons you mentioned, but they do make superior products compared to AMD. In Nvidia's case, they're a step ahead with the technology and they also put more effort into efficient cooling, which is nice if you value your ears, and evergy saving. They also seem to be constantly first with new software features (automatic game settings, recording, streaming, ...). AMD, with both CPUs and GPUs, offer comparable speed at lower prices, but not a comparable product. If they did, I'd drop Intel/Nvidia in a heartbeat.

floatboth 10y ago
Hopefully, Polaris and Zen are going to be massive improvements. But even current cards like the Fury look fine, especially if you consider DX12 and Vulkan performance. nVidia just spent a lot of money on optimizing the drivers for DX11. About recording & streaming — that's not just a software feature, that's dedicated video encoding hardware on the cards. nVidia heavily pushed their own software that uses the hardware, but AMD were the first with the hardware itself, according to Wikipedia: > Video Coding Engine was introduced with the Radeon HD 7900 on 22 December 2011 > [NVENC] was introduced with the Kepler-based GeForce 600 series in March 2012
- lettergram 10y ago
  In general Nvidia makes a superior product, but it really depends what you are talking about [1]. The new Nvidia 980Ti has the best power/price at the moment. However, AMD is increasing power efficiency and being competitive, competitive enough that I buy their GPUs because they work (or did) better with Linux. With the new GPUs I anticipate them being even more competitive if not outright better for the power/price and power useage. [1] http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/ http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/
  - cm3 10y ago
    Don't you mean GTX 1080?
    - lacksconfidence 10y ago
      Whats the current price for a 1080 delivered by Friday?
      - cm3 10y ago
        0 because it's not released until the 27th.

rasz_pl 10y ago

AMD has only its management to blame. Look at this and tell me whats wrong http://a.disquscdn.com/uploads/mediaembed/images/3657/6103/original.jpg http://a.disquscdn.com/uploads/mediaembed/images/3657/6103/o... AMD is modern Commodore, good hardware, friendly prices, cult following, evil clueless management.

CyberDildonics 10y ago
That is a graph of absolute numbers comparing two companies without equal market capitalization.