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It depends on the game, many games (especially previous ones) would say POWERED BY NVIDIA or whatnot. Usually specific series get special treatment, Hitman goes

It depends on the game, many games (especially previous ones) would say POWERED BY NVIDIA or whatnot. Usually specific series get special treatment, Hitman goes AMD but the Witcher goes Nvidia or whatnot. To my knowledge that generally means that A) they're using hairworks or something, and B) they likely got to work with that company for extra optimization. Then I believe the drivers also optimize games without the developers involvement (But I would assume this isn't as effective as working directly with that company). But generally certain games "work better" on AMD/Nvidia based on whoever they worked with/built it for, however the majority are "better" on nvidia for various reasons.

gambiting 8y ago
There are AAA games optimized for AMD cards too. Like the upcoming Tom Clancy's The Division 2 - there's going to be a joint talk at GDC by Massive's Technical Director and Technology Engineer from AMD about this: https://schedule.gdconf.com/session/advanced-graphics-techniques-tutorial-efficient-rendering-in-the-division-2/864612 https://schedule.gdconf.com/session/advanced-graphics-techni... Also don't forget that games are usually first and foremost optimized for consoles, and both PS4 and X1 use an AMD gpu ;-)
rasz 8y ago
In case of Nvidia it also means game will force certain feature known to not work as well on AMD, like for example tesselation in Crysis 2 going down to many triangles per pixel just to make sure AMD cards struggle https://techreport.com/review/21404/crysis-2-tessellation-too-much-of-a-good-thing/2 https://techreport.com/review/21404/crysis-2-tessellation-to... , or invisible tesselated water under main geometry https://techreport.com/review/21404/crysis-2-tessellation-too-much-of-a-good-thing/3 https://techreport.com/review/21404/crysis-2-tessellation-to... Other times Nvidia will "help" developer drop DirectX feature it doesnt like, like Assasin Creeds removal of DX10.1 after joining Nvidia "meant to be played" program. Optimizing drivers is one thing. Sabotaging libraries, and then forcing said libraries on developers under the guise of "support"/cross promotion (read Nvidia is paying developer in advance) is another.

gambiting 8y ago

There are AAA games optimized for AMD cards too. Like the upcoming Tom Clancy's The Division 2 - there's going to be a joint talk at GDC by Massive's Technical Director and Technology Engineer from AMD about this: https://schedule.gdconf.com/session/advanced-graphics-techniques-tutorial-efficient-rendering-in-the-division-2/864612 https://schedule.gdconf.com/session/advanced-graphics-techni... Also don't forget that games are usually first and foremost optimized for consoles, and both PS4 and X1 use an AMD gpu ;-)

rasz 8y ago

In case of Nvidia it also means game will force certain feature known to not work as well on AMD, like for example tesselation in Crysis 2 going down to many triangles per pixel just to make sure AMD cards struggle https://techreport.com/review/21404/crysis-2-tessellation-too-much-of-a-good-thing/2 https://techreport.com/review/21404/crysis-2-tessellation-to... , or invisible tesselated water under main geometry https://techreport.com/review/21404/crysis-2-tessellation-too-much-of-a-good-thing/3 https://techreport.com/review/21404/crysis-2-tessellation-to... Other times Nvidia will "help" developer drop DirectX feature it doesnt like, like Assasin Creeds removal of DX10.1 after joining Nvidia "meant to be played" program. Optimizing drivers is one thing. Sabotaging libraries, and then forcing said libraries on developers under the guise of "support"/cross promotion (read Nvidia is paying developer in advance) is another.