AMD for the future?

[RobGogsUK]

Just been looking at DirectX 12 Benchmarks and it looks like AMD is getting the upper hand? just wondering what others are thinking mainly because i am looking for a graphics card to save up for in the future and if AMD wins this generation and i buy a Nvidia card ill be pretty annoyed! Let the wars begin?

[TheRandomness]

No flame wars. Currently, in every market but extreme low end and extreme high end AMD beats NVIDIA.

[PlayStation 2]

I'm saying this right now, I'm probably gonna be biased in my opinion. But I think AMD will have the lead, at least for this and Pascal.

Maybe Nvidia'll be competent enough to focus Volta on DX12.

[Amazingasian]

Just been looking at DirectX 12 Benchmarks and it looks like AMD is getting the upper hand? just wondering what others are thinking mainly because i am looking for a graphics card to save up for in the future and if AMD wins this generation and i buy a Nvidia card ill be pretty annoyed! Let the wars begin?

Still too early to tell.  Nvidia could release some huge driver that optimizes it's cards for DX12 in the future that would give it really good performance.  Or AMD could rule the market with DX12.  Currently, even with DX11, AMD beats Nvidia at many price points.

[RobGogsUK]

@Amazingasian in saying that AMD may have more drivers aswell that make them even better.

[Amazingasian]

@Amazingasian in saying that AMD may have more drivers aswell that make them even better.

Yes.  Both red and green are probably working on drivers for DX12 but we don't and won't know until the official release of DX12.  Also, it's up to the game devs to implement DX12 support.

[PlayStation 2]

coming pascal Nvidia will likely retool their GPU architecture for DX12. I expect them to come out on top again as always at first.

Nah.

Nvidia's not competent enough to do that IMO.

Once again, this is my opinion so eh.

[suchamoneypit]

I think AMD might get the advantage this generation with DX12. There's not much to go off of but what can be tested, AMD is showing a real head start.

 

I might be a little biased because I like AMD, but I have had no issues making builds for friends and picking out NVIDIA cards if they simply offer better price/performance.

[SteveGrabowski0]

Just been looking at DirectX 12 Benchmarks and it looks like AMD is getting the upper hand? just wondering what others are thinking mainly because i am looking for a graphics card to save up for in the future and if AMD wins this generation and i buy a Nvidia card ill be pretty annoyed! Let the wars begin?

 

GPUs aren't future proof, and especially no GPU available now since both AMD and Nvidia will be dropping to 16 nm in 2016.

[VagabondWraith]

Everybody is purely speculating. Nobody knows how either will perform until DX12 becomes mainstream. How about we wait until the topic is relevant.

[Delicieuxz]

All this talk about DX12, but Vulkan may be the top renderer in the coming generation. Most major 3D PC game engine developers have announced they will support both DX12 and Vulkan, and some developers are thinking there may not be a point to building a DX12 back end for a game, since it's W10 exclusive, while Vulkan is WXP - W10, and Linux as well.

 

The graphics card winner may be the one whose product has best performance in either DX12 or Vulkan, or both, and not just one of those renderers.

[App4that]

That's like saying AMD will retake the CPU market because reasons.

Nvidia will be Nvidia no matter what comes after DX, and AMD will be there to beg for scraps. We hope.

[Nena Trinity]

Pascal may turn it around...