FriedZombie

what a minute ..... the NSA has been at war with the rest of the world then, for how long ?

I don't think these politicians even understand how hacking works, and as such I don't feel comfortable with them making laws that will probably just create more problems.

Almost every benchmark uses HBAO+ and Hairworks, which is naturally going to run like ass on AMD hardware. 
 
The ones that don't show the 290X running about the same as a 970, which is expected given the optimization work NVIDIA put into it. 
 

 
Still don't understand why any of that is THIS big of a deal.  Sure gameworks is a controversial competitive tactic by NVIDIA, but they're options that wouldn't exist without NVIDIA creating them, and they can be turned off.  NVIDIA putting time into optimizing their cards for a game shouldn't be an issue.  NVIDIA taking time to optimize their custom graphical settings for their cards is something you may not like, but better optimization is always better.
 
Seriously, did anyone expect NVIDIA custom made settings to run exceedingly well on AMD hardware?  And does anyone honestly have that much of an issue with NVIDIA working to optimize games for their hardware?  Just because a game runs better on an NVIDIA card doesnt mean AMD was sabotaged, and just because a benchmark shows an AMD card running like shit doesn't mean the idiots putting the benchmark together took off NVIDIA optimized settings.
 
I still don't get this debate. 

What if Nvidia didn't prevent AMD from optimizing it on their side, but instead AMD just didn't bother with it that much?
 
(I'm sure some of you will give me shit for that, so no replies to this will be answered )

330% more draw calls does not mean 330% more performance.

Predict next week's lottery numbers next.

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oh man 1M subs I remember watching your video about the phenom 965 BE oh man good times.
 
Congratulations Linus and crew keep it coming

I found out about LinusTechTips when it had around 100k subscribers. I was looking around youtube for some product unboxings and the channel kept popping up so I had a closer look and I've been subscribed ever since. Sadly never got into the forum.

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