And this was to be expected. After this whole controversy surrounding NVIDIA’s decision to lock its game-ready drivers behind its GeForce Experience (something planned for mid-December), AMD decided to mock its rival for that decision. Continue reading Shots Fired – AMD Mocks NVIDIA’s Decision To Lock Drivers Behind GeForce Experience
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AMD Catalyst 15.10 Beta Driver Available, Brings DX12 Optimizations For “Ashes of the Singularity”
AMD has released a new beta driver for its graphics cards. According to its release notes, the AMD Catalyst 15.10 Beta driver comes with DirectX 12 quality and performance optimization for Ashes of the Singularity. Continue reading AMD Catalyst 15.10 Beta Driver Available, Brings DX12 Optimizations For “Ashes of the Singularity”
AMD Catalyst 15.9.1 Beta Driver Released, Fixes Video Memory Leak
AMD has released a new beta driver for its graphics cards that fixes the video memory leak that was spotted in its previous driver release. The AMD Catalyst 15.9.1 Beta is optimized for both Star Wars: Battlefront’s upcoming beta and Fable: Legends’ DX12 benchmark, so make sure to download this driver. Continue reading AMD Catalyst 15.9.1 Beta Driver Released, Fixes Video Memory Leak
AMD Catalyst 15.9 Beta Driver Is Out, Optimized For Star Wars: Battlefront Beta & Fable Legends
Now here is a nice surprise. AMD has released a new beta driver for its graphics cards that offers performance and quality optimization for both Star Wars: Battlefront’s Beta and Fable Legends’ DX12 Benchmark. Continue reading AMD Catalyst 15.9 Beta Driver Is Out, Optimized For Star Wars: Battlefront Beta & Fable Legends
AMD’s Robert Hallock: “The vast majority of DX12 titles in 2015/2016 are partnering with AMD”
It appears that AMD is trying to capitalize on its GCN architecture and the fact that it’s more future proof than what NVIDIA is currently offering. Not only that, but according to the Head of Global Technical Marketing at AMD, Robert Hallock, the vast majority of DX12 titles in the next two years will be partnering with the red team. Continue reading AMD’s Robert Hallock: “The vast majority of DX12 titles in 2015/2016 are partnering with AMD”
Oculus Employees: “Preemption for context switches is best on AMD, Nvidia possibly catastrophic”
It appears that after the whole 970 VRAM fiasco, there is a new story that haunts NVIDIA. As we’ve already reported, NVIDIA’s GPUs are really weak in Async Compute scenarios. And according to some Oculus employees, Preemption for context switches is possibly catastrophic for NVIDIA’s GPUs. Continue reading Oculus Employees: “Preemption for context switches is best on AMD, Nvidia possibly catastrophic”
AMD: “There’s no such thing as “full support” for DX12 today”, Lists Missing DX12 Features For FuryX
Yesterday, we informed you about the missing DX12 features of NVIDIA’s Maxwell. A lot of people criticized the green team, however it appears that there is more to this story than meets the eye. After all, AMD’s Robert Hallock revealed that FuryX is also missing a number of DX12 features. Continue reading AMD: “There’s no such thing as “full support” for DX12 today”, Lists Missing DX12 Features For FuryX
AMD Catalyst 15.8 Beta Driver Available – Sports Performance Improvements For Batman: Arkham Knight
AMD has released a new beta driver for its graphics cards. According to the red team, the AMD Catalyst 15.8 Beta Driver comes with performance improvements for both Batman: Arkham Knight and Ashes of the Singularity. Continue reading AMD Catalyst 15.8 Beta Driver Available – Sports Performance Improvements For Batman: Arkham Knight
AMD’s DirectX 12 Advantage Explained – GCN Architecture More Friendly To Parallelism Than Maxwell
Since the release of Ashes of the Singularity, a lot of controversy surrounded AMD’s spectacular results over NVIDIA’s underwhelming ones. Was this DX12 benchmark gimped in order to run faster on AMD’s hardware? Apparently not as Overclock.net‘s member ‘Mahigan’ shed some light on why there are so dramatic differences between AMD’s and NVIDIA’s results. Continue reading AMD’s DirectX 12 Advantage Explained – GCN Architecture More Friendly To Parallelism Than Maxwell
AMD/NVIDIA Market-Share Graph Shows NVIDIA Conquering, 4 Out of 5 PC Gamers Own an NVIDIA GPU
It appears that the gap between NVIDIA and AMD widens as more and more fans are equipping their PC systems with NVIDIA’s GPUs, despite the fact that AMD has recently released a brand new GPU. According to Mercury Research’s latest data, NVIDIA has jumped from 77% of the discrete GPU market in Q4 2014 to 82% in Q2 2015. Continue reading AMD/NVIDIA Market-Share Graph Shows NVIDIA Conquering, 4 Out of 5 PC Gamers Own an NVIDIA GPU