AMD optimized games?

[Gdourado]

Hello, how are you?

So lately there has been plenty of talk about Nvidia optimized games and games that are developed using Nvidia exclusive tools like Hairworks and tesselation and other Gameworks tools.

And when there are GPU reviews, the benchmarks are usually in favor of Nvidia.

So my question is are there any AMD optimized games released recently?

The last one I remember about hearing was Tomb Raider with its Tressfx and that is a 2013 game...

Will the future be all Nvidia? With game studios and developers siding with Nvidia and games having better performance on their GPUs?

What are your thoughts?

Cheers!

[TheAmazingCookieFromSquare]

I highly doubt a AMD optimized game exists 

[PineappleHolidays]

Most games get to be optimized after a few days,

 

nowadays the amd cards have caught up on nvidia cards in most nvidia titles.

 

but specific titles I don't know, maybe dirt ? (imo not interesting)

[Swndlr]

Battlefield

Although most Nvidia cards basically perform the same even without Mantle support anyway, AMD needs to come up with something, hopefully Zen is really good.

[Clyne]

Sleeping Dogs i guess

[wyattzx]

Battlefield 3 & 4 both ran well on my 6870, and since 4 supports Mantle, it looks to be a good AMD game. DiRT series was also optimized for AMD. Managed to run DiRT 3 on Ultra on my 6870 at 1080p just fine, which was nice. Saints Row 3 is also optimized for AMD. Another game I ran at Ultra at 1080p. I'm just naming titles I own, by the way. In terms of recent games? I'm not entirely sure.

[Mao_Zedong]

Will the future be all Nvidia? With game studios and developers siding with Nvidia and games having better performance on their GPUs?

Well nvidia is worth almost 10x AMD, so just that says a lot. Also, 3/4 of discrete GPUs are nvidia cards. Because they are bigger, they can pay more to devs to work on games and also to help optimise them.

[Atmos]

Nvidia gameworks and a game being AMD optimized are two very different things.

 

Gameworks is pretty much, inaccessible for AMD to get a hold of to properly code in drivers for their hardware. Leaving them to half guess a driver revision a day or so after the game using gameworks is released. Meaning, a permanent, and very noticeable drop in performance on red team's cards, despite time enough being given after the fact.

 

A game being optimized for AMD on the other hand just means amd worked in hand with the devs to get the game out of the box running really well on their hardware. it's not some hidden and restricted code being used in the game that cannot be properly coded to work on a certain competitors hardware. It just means that given a week or so after launch, the gap narrows considerably between both sides, rather unlike a GameWorks game.