Are these two companies trying to corner the market by slandering there major rivals?
We'll have the answers for you after the game/at 11/later on.
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Corporations exist purely to make money. They will do everything they can to get an edge or give themselves an advantage over their competitors. Not exactly evil just how it is.
If AMD were thearket leader I'm sure they'd be pursuing closed solutions too.
And also yes this did sound like a news hook/headline
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That is isn't totally true much of Intel's drivers are fully open source.
A corporation does more than just produce profit. Profit is produced by making a skill or product that is deemed by the customer (public) as valuable. So the public must see the product as beneficial in some way to want to buy it. Thus, the corporation must actually produce something of social value.
So simply not producing a product that is closed source does not mean they are evil but their customer base just does not care about that aspect.
But this thread does feel like trolling or fanboyism. There isn't slander going on. All the major players in tech claimed their product is the best and it is better than the competition.
"Buy NVIDIA because it is ok, I guess" Won't sell many GPUs. The reason why gameworks keeps getting sold is people keep buying it. And NVIDIA is better at support with video game companies than AMD.
Intel right now practically has no competition from AMD in the consumer space. That is why Intel have been lazy they only have to beat Intel.
I have owned AMD, Intel, and Nvidia products in the past. It isn't fanboyism as it is more a thread for actual discussion. It is unfortunate that AMD is in the situation that it is in. Nvidia has great technology under the hood of Gameworks. It also has better support with game developers, but AMD has always been about riding the hairy edge when it comes to delivering new tech. Their latest adventure into co-developing HBM memory is something that we will all take for granted in the future. I do feel that their move to be the first one to secure the HBM is kind of a dirty move, but it is almost essential for them to survive.
Somebody noticed. I fucking hate news teasers.
If I am not mistaking, Intel gor sued for paying "benchmark-producers" to make them run better on their CPUs in the past. By now it is just lazy coders taking the "It will run fine, I hope"-route.
Nvidia is something I am not sure what to think of. I am pretty pissed for them locking up PhysX and killing FPS on AMD GPUs using locked up Gameworks. Their f-up with the 3.5GBs on the 970 didn´t increase my trust in them either.
As the market for GPUs and CPUs is only a oligopoly, we need any company to take part in it. If Intel could just make x86 open and AMD making the 64-bit instructions open, that could help the world.
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Speaking as somebody who owns a GTX 970 currently, It is tough to believe that Nvidia made such a bonehead move. The V-ram issue really did chap my hind side... I think that it is still a good card, but the fact I can't utilize it's full potential is a rough prospect.
I do get irritated that Intel was paying benchmark producers to increase the "performance" on Intel's processors.
I understand that it is a competitive market, but let's bear in mind that cornering it helps nobody. That would give the dominant cooperation the ability to be lazy and gouge the consumer in the process.