>woodscrews
>fermi architecture
>3.5GBs
>solid evidence of planned obsolescence
>constant driver issues
Why do people trust Nvidia?
Is having a large marketing budget really that effective?
>solid evidence of planned obsolescence
This is pretty much what pushed me to amd.
Gimping your own products is so fucking shady, frankly I'm surprised more companies don't do it.
They do plan obsolescence because they are far ahead of amd and anti-trust shit prevents them just running them out of business or buying them out :)
Of course this thread will die with barely any replies.
>>335749530
>Is having a large marketing budget really that effective?
Of course it is. Look anywhere, even /v/, and you'll notice it pretty fast.
Shills and people who legitimately fell for the marketing are commonplace. There are also shitposters and false flaggers, but those are hard to differentiate from actual shills.
>>335749530
>solid evidence of planned obsolescence
Source please?
>>335751089
It'll die because shilling for a company (AMD in this case) is stupid.
I always buy which GPU is best for me at the time, I've never bought one company over another because of politics.
>>335749678
Apple created that meme. They're products die or malfunction just after the warranty, and just in time for you to buy their 'S' iphone reiteration
>>335751347
Not him but Nvidia commonly releases drivers for older GPUs that cripple their performance so you have to upgrade.
>>335751537
What's stopping people from just sitting on older driver revision?
>>335751537
Source you motherfucker.
I want actual benchmark comparison
Not /v/ermin doomsaying rumors.
>>335751460
Having such a substantial market share inevitably ends in this kind of shit.
>>335751642
Every fucking AAA game needs the latest driver to not shit itself
>>335749678
I stay far as possible away from nvidia and Apple. This is just grotesque.
>STILL
>NO
>SOURCE
/v/ermin shitposting as usual
>>335751743
>Not /v/ermin doomsaying rumors.
Unless it fits your narrative of course.
>>335749530
Because they can. When AMD can compete, maybe Nvidia will do something different. AMD's new architecture Polaris is barely faster than Nvidia's last gen GTX 980ti.
http://fudzilla.com/news/graphics/40537-amd-polaris-10-gpu-performance-close-to-gtx-980-ti
>>335752283
You haven't posted a single fucking source.
Protip, I use R9 280X but I just want actual evidence but you retards never post any.
>>335749530
>mfw my HD 7790 literally runs better as time goes by thanks to drivers and by being the first gcn 1.1 card
>>335751743
See the 760 there? When it was released it was direct competition to and many times beat the HD7950.
Now, with some new games and after the 9xx series is out, it's performing about the same as an HD7870
>>335752284
I still don't want to support nvidia
like at all
I really wish something could be done about nividia and their shitty practices
>>335752284
>fudzilla
>>335752284
>yfw polaris 10 isnt even high end
>>335749530
>Why do people trust Nvidia?
I don't
Thing is with Nvidia cards I can force AA on games which don't support it and many other thing which AMD cards can't do.
>>335752513
What driver version is this one? Before or after Kepler fix?
I was going to buy a 980ti, then I realized the 1k series should be out soon.
Then I heard that AMD is making a 980-similar card for half as much.
Time will tell, but I might crossfire those if they're cumulatively better than the next high-end 1k series.
>>335752618
You're right, AMD needs to literally put 2 GPUs together to compete with Nvidia in the high end.
http://wccftech.com/amd-radeon-duo-pro-dual-fiji-1500/
>>335752730
No idea, saved that from an old brand wars thread.
It looks like a compilation of screenshots from different benchmarks run by the same website, though, judging by the different font and bar sizes, and the fact the cards benched are not the same in all four tables.
>>335752932
Then it's fuck all and not evidence.
>>335752827
First fudzilla then wccftech? Are you serious?
Were you also posting shit from The Inquirier back in 2008?
>>335752994
>Is shown evidence
>"It's not evidence"
And there's your proof as to why a good marketing budget works, OP
>>335752513
>Different games and cards with non-tangential "It was comparable to"
Nope, link benchmarks of the same card running the same game over several driver iterations showing a notable drop in performance caused by driver to support your claim.
Wait you don't have one because you're an AMDrone and spout bullshit? Nevermind.
>>335752513
Your entire post proves nothing, it instead gives an equal chance that AMD improved their drivers causing the difference in comparable performance. Until you show a single card giving dropping performance over driver updates, you are giving zero evidence.
>>335753139
But that's not evidence since as you've said it's a collage and doesn't even include driver revision.
Kepler had a bug that was fixed in a driver update later on.
For all I know this is from before the bug was fixed you fucking dumb shit.
>>335752994
ppl spouting garbage who don't understand that older generation cards simply dont do as well in some tasks that new games program for
if nvidia was ever found to be purposefully breaking their own performance they'd be destroyed by the government, conspiracy kiddies on /v/ are retarded. its teenagers just talking absolute garbage
>>335753139
See >>335753154
Show the same card, running the same game, over a period of time using different driver revisions where the performance drops with each next revision.
That would be proof.
But you lack it, cause no such thing happened.
define "trust" because i think their GPU's are more likely to just werk with random shit.
i can't think of specifics off the top of my head but every so often i come across a bunch of people complaining about X program or Y game having problems supporting AMD because of driver bugs and other bullshit.
it happens with nvidia but i don't see it to the same extent.
>>335753270
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7fA_JC_R5s
>>335753782
>When we turned on new features and FPS dropped compared to previous performance numbers with those features not in the game
Jesus Christ you AMDrones are fucking retarded.
>AdoredTV
Ah yes, resident /v/ AMD shill, that keeps whining that things are "unfair" in the free market.
>>335753154
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hImoox6qyzo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKk63TajS6M
>>335753956
>Game adds new graphical features
>Enabling them causes worse performance than before they were part of the game
How mentally challenged are you people?
>>335754049
>>335753782
>>335753956
>turn on NEW graphics features added in the game that weren't there in previous version
>thus causing more visual strain
>THIS IS SOMEHOW PROOF THE CARD WAS DOWNGRADED
How about you run the game at the same settings you faggot?
>>335753947
Full of valid examples. Don't ask for them if you're so closed-minded.
>>335754124
>I habe no argument, here's a picture
I know that buying AMD is a case for pre-existing mental deficiency, but try and stick with me on this, I won't use big words.
The patch added new features.
That chart compares prior version without features to the new version with features.
Surprise, if you enable Tessellation, Physx, new lighting and new AA, your performance will be worse than when those options didn't exist.
>>335754242
>Full of valid examples
It's not, it's comparing newly patched in higher graphics settings against old versions without them, it's typical disingenuous AdoredTV shilling bullshit.
>>335754265
You are retarded.
Stop shitposting, marketer.
>>335754373
>Still no argument
Yep, typical AMD shill.
>>335754373
Spout more fucking buzzwords instead of realizing how dumb you are.
>muh obsolence meme
Kys shills
>>335752513
Those are all AMD optimized games, so it makes sense for the 280 to beat the 760. But I agree that Nvidia tends to ignore older architectures pretty fast.
>>335749530
Nvidia are like Microsoft and Android
Their products all suck and their fans well-
You are sure they are real but you can't help but get a feeling in your gut that you are being shilled
>>335754356
The Crysis issues are not "features" or "settings". It's intentionally inefficient to harm the competition.
>>335754521
>Those are all AMD optimized games
But that's okay, but how dare you ever prove your point with an nvidia optimized game.
Welcome to AMDrone hypocrisy.
>>335749530
>Woodscrews
Please elaborate, this sounds like gold.
>>335754547
>and Android
Hello Apple shill, your garbage has actual confirmed planned obsolescence.
>>335754547
Nvidia is apple.
AMD is android.
conclusion: nvidiadrones are braindead
Nvidia ignores older cards pretty quickly but that doesn't mean they are intentionally gimping them with new drivers.
>>335754356
If that were true it would affect all of the cards relatively equally. That's clearly shown not to be the case.
>>335754049
>ignoring the video
Nvidia's biggest sin is being cheap fucks with VRAM. Not just 3.5meme, but they always give cards about 50% less than the most they could use.
680 had 2GB, 780Ti had 3GB, 980 has 4GB. It's too little for their lifespan.
