[Mini-News] Metal Gear Solid V will be bundled with Nvidia graphics cards

[Bouzoo]

This was leaked on Reddit and confirmed on Newegg, and it will replace the current Batman: Arkham Knight bundle. It is not known yet what GPUs are at talk, but you can bet it'll be top end cards. Seems Nvidia is getting all the good bundles nowadays.

 

This is what Newegg support wrote:

“Hi everyone! We had a little slip up and posted this deal ahead of schedule. It is not currently available, but stay tuned, it will be soon! Newegg Support -Tori”

 

Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain releases on September 1st for the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Xbox One, Xbox 360, and on PC on September 15.

 

With all Konami stuff going on atm, this actually comes to me as a surprise. Do you like this? Yay or nay?

 

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[ADZ_123_!"£]

Yay so another game that will be shit on AMD gpus...

[Bouzoo]

Yay so another game that will be shit on AMD gpus...

Now that's a bold statement considering that Arkham Knight (and few other games for that matter) ran bad or everything except consoles. It may happen but it may not as well, no evidence for anything yet.

[Gale]

I should have just waited on buying a 970... *Looks at Arkham Knight*

[ADZ_123_!"£]

Now that's a bold statement considering that Arkham Knight (and few other games for that matter) ran bad or everything except consoles. It may happen but it may not as well, no evidence for anything yet.

Withcher 3 was developed with Nvidia which ment that some of the features ran like crap on AMD cards.

[Takata]

“Hi everyone! We had a little slip up and posted this deal ahead of schedule. It is not currently available, but stay tuned, it will be soon! Newegg Support -Tori”

Doesn't sound so convincing that there was anything unintentional about the timing. >.>

[Jerakl]

Obligatory

[Bouzoo]

Withcher 3 was developed with Nvidia which ment that some of the features ran like crap on AMD cards.

And the same features ran like crap on NV cards (960 beating the 780? Right), so that game is not the best example (also 1 example means nothing), anyone can beat 1 bad port with dozen good ones. Let's just wait shall we?

[Guest]

Withcher 3 was developed with Nvidia which ment that some of the features ran like crap on AMD cards.

You can't conclude that at once

Ports are unpredictable these days

all we need to do is wait

[itachipirate]

I always love to see developers working closely with Nvidia

 

Expect -15fps on equivalently performing AMD cards, and tons of gameworks features nobody asked for

[SirSquid]

I hope Mobile GPUs will get it too.

[Notional]

30 FPS and GameWorks confirmed. Maybe that's why Hideo Kojima left :lol:  :lol:

[TorqueS]

You can't conclude that at once

Ports are unpredictable these days

all we need to do is wait

Yes they are, but why do they need to be?

Why do we need to have one GPU manufacturer making proprietary tech and handing it to devs so that it crushes the competition? Everybody says AMD GPUs are crap because they didn't ran Witcher 3, Project CARS etc.(nVidia "optimized titles") well. There were only two or three unbiased people that pointed out the fact that those games ran like crap on Kepler as well, but nVidia is life riiiight...

 

I agree they might be the better manufacturer, offering better performance at a lower power consumption, thus less heat, but when it comes to drivers and software(except shadowplay) they are worse than AMD.

Should I remind the GTX 700 Witcher fiasco? That wasn't CDPR's fault, it was nVidia's, because it was their own locked code powering the game. I would go as far as saying that they did it on purpose, so that GTX 700 users might want to upgrade to GTX 900 series.

Also I heard people having to switch drivers daily, because a driver optimized for say ... GTA V would not allow you to play Witcher 3(just an example)... I had a friend with a laptop that needed to switch drivers in order to play WoT, SA:MP etc.

 

Anyways...I'm not trying to bring hate over nVidia, nor glory to AMD, they are like... the same, with the exception of AMD being rather friendly to open source ideas and projects.

[Guest]

Yes they are, but why do they need to be?

Why do we need to have one GPU manufacturer making proprietary tech and handing it to devs so that it crushes the competition? Everybody says AMD GPUs are crap because they didn't ran Witcher 3, Project CARS etc.(nVidia "optimized titles") well. There were only two or three unbiased people that pointed out the fact that those games ran like crap on Kepler, but nVidia is life riiiight...

 

I agree they might be the better manufacturer, offering better performance at a lower power consumption, thus less heat, but when it comes to drivers and software(except shadowplay) they are worse than AMD.

Should I remind the GTX 700 Witcher fiasco? That wasn't CDPR's fault, it was nVidia's, because it was their own locked code powering the game. I would go as far as saying that they did it on purpose, so that GTX 700 users might want to upgrade to GTX 900 series.

Also I heard people having to switch drivers daily, because a driver optimized for say ... GTA V would not allow you to play Witcher 3(just an example)... I had a friend with a laptop that needed to switch drivers in order to play WoT, SA:MP etc.

 

Anyways...I'm not trying to bring hate over nVidia, nor glory to AMD, they are like... the same, with the exception of AMD being rather friendly to open source ideas and projects.

It's called competition

Without it companies will slack off and forget their own products and drive a monopoly of products to start

Without competition will not push for better products, we might not like it but that's how companies work

 

And nobody hates AMD on these forums, unless there are that hide in the shadows

[Kinda Bottlenecked]

And nobody hates AMD on these forums, unless there are that hide in the shadows

 

Ho ho  :lol:  What forums have you been to? 

[Guest]

Ho ho  :lol:  What forums have you been to? 

More of the GPU department

The CPU is Intel land as expected 

I just like AMD for the GPUs

[marldorthegreat]

More of the GPU department

The CPU is Intel land as expected 

I just like AMD for the GPUs

I have to agree, people just say "intel for everything even if it means getting a gtx 210 to afford it" and "AMD drivers are shit" or "AMD heat problems"

[IMPERIUS]

another nail in amd's coffin

[Nexxus]

[ApolloEleven]

Nvidia-sponsored games either run bad on AMD or run bad/performance hog on both AMD Nvidia, there never seem to be a good news about it apart from getting the game for free if you buy a new GPU.

 

I don't care about AMD or Nvidia but every time I see a game that is "Nvidia sponsored" I shudder. On the otherhand AMD's "Gaming Evolved" titles and even Intel sponsored (e,g, Codemasters' FI and Grid series) games actually run very well.

 

Recent Nvidia sponsored games:

Arkham Knight

AC: Unity

AC: Black Flag

Project Cars

Witcher 3 (it does look good though)

Call of Duty Ghost

Arkham Origins

etc

etc

 

These games above is either broken or a performance hog on one or both vendors.

[PlayModeOn]

Nvidia-sponsored games either run bad on AMD or run bad/performance hog on both AMD Nvidia, there never seem to be a good news about it apart from getting the game for free if you buy a new GPU.

 

I don't care about AMD or Nvidia but every time I see a game that is "Nvidia sponsored" I shudder. On the otherhand AMD's "Gaming Evolved" titles and even Intel sponsored (e,g, Codemasters' FI and Grid series) games actually run very well.

 

Recent Nvidia sponsored games:

Arkham Knight

AC: Unity

AC: Black Flag

Project Cars

Witcher 3 (it does look good though)

Call of Duty Ghost

Arkham Origins

etc

etc

 

These games above is either broken or a performance hog on one or both vendors.

 

Exactly, I never have problems with AMD's Gaming Evolved games.

[Monarch]

Yay so another game that will be shit on AMD gpus...

 

 

Withcher 3 was developed with Nvidia which ment that some of the features ran like crap on AMD cards.

 

 

I always love to see developers working closely with Nvidia

 

Expect -15fps on equivalently performing AMD cards, and tons of gameworks features nobody asked for

 

 

 

 

Nvidia-sponsored games either run bad on AMD or run bad/performance hog on both AMD Nvidia, there never seem to be a good news about it apart from getting the game for free if you buy a new GPU.

 

I don't care about AMD or Nvidia but every time I see a game that is "Nvidia sponsored" I shudder. On the otherhand AMD's "Gaming Evolved" titles and even Intel sponsored (e,g, Codemasters' FI and Grid series) games actually run very well.

 

Recent Nvidia sponsored games:

Arkham Knight

AC: Unity

AC: Black Flag

Project Cars

Witcher 3 (it does look good though)

Call of Duty Ghost

Arkham Origins

etc

etc

 

These games above is either broken or a performance hog on one or both vendors.

 

This is BS. The reason why performance suffers with AMD hardware is high DX11 driver overhead for the CPU and the fact that AMD cards are slower in tessellation intensive scenarios, like Hairworks. This is 100% AMD's fault, so stop blaming Gameworks. GameWorks was AMD's excuse for their incompetence in optimizing their graphics driver and having poor performance in tessellation. Period.

[ADZ_123_!"£]

Ignorant people keep blaming GameWorks. I am so sick of this BS. The reason why performance suffers with AMD hardware is high DX11 driver overhead for the CPU and the fact that AMD cards are slower in tessellation intensive scenarios, like Hairworks. This is 100% AMD's fault, so stop blaming Gameworks. GameWorks was AMD's excuse for their incompetence in optimizing their graphics driver and having poor performance in tessellation. Period.

The reason that AMD sucks with hairworks is that Nvidia doesn't allow them to optimise there hardware for it.

[Monarch]

The reason that AMD sucks with hairworks is that Nvidia doesn't allow them to optimise there hardware for it.

 

Bullshit. Don't be so naive. Project CARS for example was known to run like crap on AMD hardware. Here's why from a developer:

 

Project Cars uses a light pre-pass (aka deferred lighting) renderer.

 

This rendering method gives us the great flexibility that our game has in it's lighting - for example the night lighting (with many ights) and dynamic time of day are "easily" implemented when using this method. The method is not without disadvantages - the first is that MSAA doesn't work particularly well with it, and the second is that it increases the volume of draw-calls by 2x that are needed to render a scene.

 

http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=398858&page=37

 

Check these threads out for more info:

http://www.overclock.net/t/1528559/directx-driver-overhead-and-why-mantle-is-a-selling-point-bunch-of-benchmarks

http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=398858

[ADZ_123_!"£]

 

Bullshit. Don't be so naive. Project CARS for example was known to run like crap on AMD hardware. Here's why from a developer:

Hairworks...

AMD sucks at Hairworks because it's not optimised...