Yes games will favour amd cards.
Amd cards are in all major consoles: where majority of players play their games and for whom games are built.
To extract the most from a graphics card it helps if card features are used. Consoles being relatively low powered- they have to have their feautures utilised to punch above their weight. (Hence why a few first party studios make Xbox x games for 4k- not cause it is easy; but because microsoft want to sell it as 4k capable so it pulls every trick!)
Nvidia made a decision with fermi architecture (quite awhile ago now) to split there shader types; some long shaders/some short.
It basically required dedicating a team of software engineers to optimise every game for each card; nvidia did that and even hoodwinked consumers into believeing they were the better company for it- not really- look what happens to ‘last years cards’; they stop optimisation for them (until we consumers catch them out and force their hand) -it constanly makes the new low end parts look stronger than last years tip end parts.
Amd give raw performance- it is why,over time, their cards give more and more vs the nvidia equivalent.
I am not a fanboy- i have owned many many top tier nbidia parts- but left them behind when my 780ti only output 8bit colour channels (10bit reserved by drivers for titans), my gtx590 was allowed to do 10bit colour channels so it was an expensive’ upgrade’ that didnt deliver.
Nvidia have declared that if they have too theywill support the free tech freesync (even intel graphics do that)- yes I know they charge money for their special chips used in g-sync (that force an extra frame of delay).
I prefer freesync- my 10bit monitor is freesync- amd are better optimised for (games); and I dont get the dirty feeling of supporting an anti vonsumer company (nvidia).
Yes- cue backlash from nvidia users whonhavemy been biying graphics cards since the eighties and want to quote benchmarks; I understand this stuff. I get the architectual differences- I know what I am talking about.
Ethically speaking AMD.
Price point and LONGTERM performance AMD
buying up consumer tech and burying it just to avoid alawsuit or sell more: Nvidia.
I sold my 780ti when the witcher did physx on the cpu (like they always could- but left the code in an outdated 90s state after aquirimg aegea so that they could claim benefits tondoing physx on their gpus)(magically fixed now that the consoles dont have and nvidia hardware and they still want to gimp games using their blackbox hairworkx/gameworkx etx)
An above post shows the 290x vs the 780ti. Considered competitors when launched- the 780 beating it in most benches. After the next series of nbidia cards launched- the 780s performance ‘dropped’ heavily.
Same thing happened to 9 series owners when yhe 10 series launched.
And next year?
Enjoy your forced upgrade nvidia users. Gor me- power irrelevant- the argument ends right there.
I enjoy owning my pc bits for five years and then moving them on.
Nvidia isnt so great unless you have deep pockets and just keep buying ‘new’. (They do kill gaming (eg physx) in order to seem relevant; enjoy the coolaid)
