AMD de-thrones nVidia with DX12!

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http://www.techpowerup.com/215663/lack-o...tx-12.html
Guaranteed to be the result of more bribes from AMD.

Wholly smokes!!!!!

did you read all of it.  Like the last paragraph?  

Given its growing market-share, NVIDIA could use similar tactics to keep game developers away from industry-standard API features that it doesn't support, and which rival AMD does. NVIDIA drivers tell Windows that its GPUs support DirectX 12 feature-level 12_1. We wonder how much of that support is faked at the driver-level, like async compute. The company is already drawing flack for using borderline anti-competitive practices with GameWorks, which effectively creates a walled garden of visual effects that only users of NVIDIA hardware can experience for the same $59 everyone spends on a particular game.

AMD might be hurting, even on their last leg, but they manage to come out with this heavy handed, negative, attack campaign.  They are definitely behind this.  The whole thing......
starting with the GCN Asynchronous article at anandtech.  Then they get with their favorite lowly developer and work up some benchmark.  It is so incredibly obvious they rushed this thing out so fast and there is really no other reason why.  I mean, come on.....who sends pre beta benchmarks to the press and urges them the publish the results?  An alpha stage benchmark, sent to multiple press outlets and results being used in a smear campaign.  Clearly their is a real and true motivation behind all this.

Who is even interested in the game that this benchmark is supposed to be based on?  The game that is supposed to be coming out yrs from now?  This was all rushed out in some master scheme.  Really, if you cant see the effort behind this, you just arent looking.

This alpha benchmark sent to the press first finally got released for public download.  This came after the fact. It was much more important to spread the negative word than for people to actually check out the work the developer should want to showcase. Has any of you guys even looked at Ashes?  I mean, impressive?  Anything but.  Its not anything special at all.  

The DX 12 games i will play will be very very different than this.  I wouldnt expect the ones that start up with an AMD logo to perform as well, of course AMD GPUs will get better results than Nvidia....at least an launch.

Nvidias architecture is different than GCN. They are not the same.  I cant wait till nvidia responds, I full expect them to.  But the thing is, nvidia has tried to take the high road as of late when it comes to these AMD smear campaigns.  Certainly Nvidia can gain performance in this benchmark but it appears this developer may be more interested in drama than anything else.  It makes sense to me that a lower level API would and could easily favor one HW over another.  GCN and maxwell are different, so it is not so strange that their would be issues.  That nvidia would want to do things differently.  

I really cant wait to see how Nvidia responds to this.  The star swarm busted right in their faces but this time with DX12 it may take more than a driver.  But i really doubt this developer would be willing to let nvidia have specific code in their benchmark.  But, i dont imagine nvidia will take this sitting down.

Wow, just wow.  That's why I said a grain of salt when Oxide admitted that they are in a marketing agreement with AMD.  That says quite a lot.  I'm just hoping NV will respond with something substantial about this real soon - if they didn't already?  NV should just go ahead and put a stop to whatever momentum the publicity stunt this has gained for AMD, rather than remain silent and not even bother to publicly deny Oxide's claims.