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Re: New Graphics Card

Posted: Thu May 07, 2015 10:46 am
by Righteous
I wouldn't read too much into that. The current gen consoles are AMD based. They would of had to get the code right for both.

Re: RE: Re: New Graphics Card

Posted: Thu May 07, 2015 11:05 am
by AstrO
Duke wrote:It's nothing new, many game developers have a tie-in with one brand or the other, hence why they work better for that brand... it goes back many years, Microsoft Flight Sim X is well known to work much better with nvidia cards for exactly this reason.
Saying that, once a game is released the other brand can & usually do try to optimise their drivers but in most cases they never quite get the same level of performance.
Intel do the same thing with their compiler, it cripples performance when run on AMD CPU's... :rolleyes:

Re: New Graphics Card

Posted: Sun May 10, 2015 2:25 pm
by wobblysauce
Astro, what made you get the 4gig over the 8gig card?

Re: New Graphics Card

Posted: Sun May 10, 2015 7:14 pm
by AstrO
wobblysauce wrote:Astro, what made you get the 4gig over the 8gig card?
Because the R9 290 doesn't come with 8GB of RAM :shake:

Re: New Graphics Card

Posted: Sun May 10, 2015 10:46 pm
by wobblysauce
Ah. it was the x that did.