09-26-2015, 06:00 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-26-2015, 06:01 PM by RolloTheGreat.)
(09-14-2015, 03:14 PM)BenSkywalker Wrote: This talk about nVidia hardware lacking support for async compute is truly disturbing. It must be the absolute truth or nVidia would have done something to refute it by now. At this point, the only thing that I can think of that would give any credibility to their stance would be for them to travel back in time, several years, and build something into their GPU that utilized async compute in a manner that would truly stand out to the end users, given the API limitations of the time this would be tough, maybe they could do.... I don't know..... how about physics. They could come up with some dumb marketing name, we'll call it PhysX for the sake of argument- and it would use async compute to do things like generate large amounts of particles, handle things like cloth and fog.... stuff like that. They could do this on older DX11/10/9 games and add physics based calculations that ran concurrently with the graphics engine on the same GPU to prove that their parts were built from the ground up, for many years, for async compute.
Of course, something like that is way outside of the realm of possibility.
I remain undisturbed.
Last I checked, my 980Ti is a faster card than a Fury X pretty much across the board. When DX12 games matter, I'll have a Pascal chip that will likely be faster than Fury X2.
Back in the day people yelled a lot about how DX9 was faster on the ATi cards, which was true.
I think at the time the 6800 series launched and beat ATi at DX9 there were around three games that used DX9 and they weren't exactly the big sellers. (Dirt car racing and one of the Tomb Raiders?)
AMD is doing what AMD always does- trying to create fear that future games will favor their hardware. (see 8m Advocate threads saying "When future games are coded properly, you will need moar corez and a Faildozer!")
The one hope they have this time is a MS (a company that matters) is probably pushing DX12 hard for XBone. AMD graphics can only influence devs who work in their basement with their 18% discrete market share.