I just watched this video and... RAGE QUIT!
That video really just killed LMG for me. How can one call himself an "unbiased reviewer" and publish bullshit like this?
At my workplace, nvidia turned into a joke when their "high-end" quadros got beaten by W7000, the old cards we were looking to replace.
Back to topic: Watch it yourself and be happy about TekSyndicate being what it is. I will take a long walk now...
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I don't know if it would make a difference, but as I see it the rendering times are data, you can't have bias when showing data unless you tampered with it, which we don't know if he did (and leaving out some cards in the final test, which could be because of bias, or because they wouldn't run the test, we don't know). The Quadros and the W7000 are both workstation graphic cards, I don't know if they wouldl be better at this sort of workload than consumer grade graphics cards, like, per clock or per wattage or overall.
"Video Card"
It's a GPU Linus, a GPU.
GRAPHICS processing unit.
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Logan's game 'Zweihander' has Nvidia Gameworks Features.. Feeling more triggered? Stop following just 'One Guy's reviews. Look at everyone's review before making a decision when it comes to hardware.
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I can not be the only one to notice that the first two tests had AMD win and Linus just skipped that to call Nvidia a winner after the third test. You know, the test where they did not even bother to get the Fury running.
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Gameworks for DX11 is semi-open by now. Plus everyone knows by now how good Nvidia is at coding themself into the top spots.
Not at all. Nvidia just opened the source code for two of the newest Nvidia features. It's still not Open Source yet.
I like some of his videos. His builds are a bit over the top hence the youtube term "Linus build" but I think the junk yard wars changed that some and taught him to atleast thing outside the box.
The forum there is vile and vastly inferior to tek syndicate.
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I said semi-open, not open source. Let us be honest, nobody expects Nvidia to start any opensource project. Never the less, opening the code so people can look at it is a step in the right direction.
I didn't watch it... I've known Linus to be very biased (much like most techtubers out there but oftentimes even moreso). I knew what the result would probably be (Nvidia is way better i presume?). I can't stand the market right now... I have stopped watching all build videos (other than TS because they actually do some interesting stuff) because it's always an Intel & Nvidia setup for $900 to $1500 (and i get really pissed when they use a 970 because they don't realize that the 390 is actually a thing). Linus and others can keep up w/ this ridiculous level of bias but they better not expect to keep my viewership.
Fair enough. But i Personally feel they are doing it for the wrong reasons. Anyways, back on topic. Just look at reviews from everyone prior to making a decision on purchasing hardware. It gives you a much broader perspective.
Linus says it himself...
"the third test.... finally showed us what were were looking for"
aka a win for nVidia.
Also, theres a 960, but where is the 380?
I'm curious as to why the 390 wasn't performing very well.
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I can only imagine what travesty would have occurred if they'd tested rendering with Sony Vegas 13, where a Titan X is beaten by a Radeon 7970.
Yeah, that video broke it for me. Unsubbed. It was a good 2 years, but Tek Syndicate's growth model and community are just so much better and worthy of support than LTT. Ah well. Good luck to Linus. Hope he doesn't sell himself into an early failure. Doubt that'll happen - he has enough sycophantic subs that would follow him to hell if he decided to take a trip there.
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Long story short, in 2 of the 3 benchmarks, the Nvidia cards were all edged out by most of the AMD cards, Fury, 290, 390X, etc. Even the 285 edged them all out in one of them. Linus didn't bat an eye. As soon as the 980Ti pulled ahead of the AMD cards in the last benchmark (by around the same margin) Linus said "Here's the result we were looking for." and decided not to include the Fury. I can only assume that it was because the Fury would have beaten the 980Ti and made poor old Nvidia look bad.
It's gonna be funny when Nvidia slashes the 900 series to make their newer series look more powerful.
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Oh my... this is much worse than i had originally anticipated. Facepalms (ಠ෴ಠ)
if amd wanted to get access to gameworks source code, they wouldn't get it - if they wanted to get it though - they would have to register by unaffiliated person with amd with their developer membership and then request access to the code.
Wow...This is pretty badly biased..I had issues with LTT but most of them were actually because they were not as knowledgeable as they thought they were. But this?
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It's even more funnier cause AMD does this as well.
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Putting the nVida vs. AMD never ending war beside...
I would have loved to hear more of that BS supermicro barebone ^^
I find LTTs videos still entertaining... as always in live, one source isn't worth the article. =)
I assume the bias backlash is strong https://twitter.com/LinusTech/status/713426175432007680
I really didn't have an issue with this video until the end. Inexplicably not including the Fury was very weird.
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