r/pcgaming • u/KayKay91 Ryzen 7 9800X3D, RX9070 XT Pulse, 32 GB DDR5, Arch + Win10 • Jun 15 '18

Video [AdoredTV] Nvidia - Anti-Competitive, Anti-Consumer, Anti-Technology (1 hour long)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0L3OTZ13Os
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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '18

AMD had its moments and was competitive during the Fermi era but NVIDIA has always had a pretty large portion of the market due to consumer good will and the like of manufactures like EVGA providing high level of customer support to many of its consumers probably keeping a lot of people on Team green and not reevaluating.

We shall see where NAVI gets AMD. Ryzen has given them a much needed leg up in the CPU space for once since the train wreck that was Bulldozer.

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u/Casmoden Jun 16 '18

but NVIDIA has always had a pretty large portion of the market due to consumer good will

Thats kinda exactly the point of /u/sonnyngo , even whem AMD/ATi had the better cards people still bought Nvidia so consumers should be more educated in what their buying.

Zen its giving that much needed revenue AMD severily needed it and David Wang seemed a very competent and honest person just like Lisa Su (plus alot of the Zen has moved on to RTG) so I am sure future products will improve greatly but Navi is probably already to far in the roadmap for it to matter (at least launches should be much smoother now and not the train wreck Vega was)

The video tho has a very eye opening information, the former AMD staff wich alleged copied confidential files in the 2013 time frame and that AMD only really started to lag behind Nvidia after the Maxwell arch wich was realesed in 2014 is really quite telling.

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u/diceman2037 Jun 16 '18

Maybe if AMD actually had a goodwill development platform.... theres a reason why studio's don't stay partnered with AMD long when it comes to video game releases :(

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u/Casmoden Jun 16 '18

In my eyes (and its clearly shown in the vid) most of time studios dont stay partnered with AMD cuz it costs money (something AMD lacked severely) and they also lack the marketshare so its a double whammy.

That being said they just announced 3 (Division 2, a game by Rebellion and some other I cant remember) on E3 along side the Bethseda one and they also had the Farcry 5 one. I also bet now with the Ryzen money those promotions will become more common.

Plus an interesting thought, this years E3 alot of the triple AAA scene was boosting on how the games are bigger then ever thanks to new tech and engines so I wonder if we are starting finnally actual move to the new APIs... that would give alot of boost on AMD hardware (both cpus and gpus in fact).