Ubisoft now in bed with AMD?? Watchdogs 2 to be DX12 and AMD sponsored!!

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Saw this on overclock.net and AT forums:

http://www.tweaktown.com/news/51303/...rds/index.html
https://twitter.com/Roy_techhwood/st...55139419193346
http://www.thecountrycaller.com/5468...mized-for-amd/

Ubisoft now working with AMD - they were one of the studios who were very close to Nvidia for yonks!!

It might explain why at the Capsaicin event Ubisoft were talking about DX12 and VR which was very strange,considering their Nvidia focus. It might explain why The Division ran well on AMD cards too.

The list of AMD DX12 partnerships now grows:

http://www.guru3d.com/news_story/amd...tnerships.html

Well played AMD,well played!!

[kalniel]

I don't like the sound of a game being 'optimized' for a particular vendor at the expense of everyone else at all. It's exactly the sort of thing we've both complained about people doing for nVidia, and though this is likely to be of far less impact on nVidia than closed tech, it's not a win for gamers in general.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

I don't like the sound of a game being 'optimized' for a particular vendor at the expense of everyone else at all. It's exactly the sort of thing we've both complained about people doing for nVidia, and though this is likely to be of far less impact on nVidia than closed tech, it's not a win for gamers in general.

This is significant since Ubisoft and Epic over the last decade have been firmly pro-Nvidia. Ubisoft even removed the DX10.1 patch which made ATI cards perform better in AC.

Considering AMD simply has less money to throw at things than Nvidia,I suspect their might be other factors at play.

I think the fact AMD GCN is in the consoles is the main effect we are now starting to see things change - Nvidia can only throw so much money at Gameworks to try and impede AMD.

Considering AMD tends to be more open about stuff than Nvidia,I would rather AMD sponsors stuff than Nvidia.

The last use of TressFX,aka as Purehair,in TR,showed the technology was impartial to the vendor uses,just like TressFX 1.0 - the performance hit was similar to both vendors.

AMD code is also fully open sourced now on Github. Nvidia supposedly did that recently - it is not the same license as Nvidia still has control over what you can do with it and they can yank it at anytime.

Many of the AMD sponsored games tend to work really well on Nvidia cards too - I should know having had a GTX660 and using a GTX960 now.

Plus Nvidia DX12 support is starting to look a tad suspect in some cases. Of the three releases,the two AMD sponsored ones run much better,GoW which was Nvidia sponsored with a patch seems to run better on AMD hardware now and the TR benchmark is unreliable,and people have noticed it is far less CPU intensive than DX11 on both AMD and Nvidia cards.

In the end sadly,AMD/ATI needs to push more and more - Nvidia marketing and fluff was enough for them to sell more FX cards than the ATI Radeon series even when DX9 performance was subpar in HL2.

Being the "good guy" is not helping with sales - the average Joe and Jane buys Nvidia since they see advertising everywhere on games to Twitch gamers,channels on YT,etc.

If they don't get their name out there it won't help them.

Sadly this is the reality of things.

[Dashers]

This is good for everybody - at least in the long term. AMD (currently) champion more open standards, if these standards become more utilised by game developers then Nvidia are likely to be forced into implementing them providing a more level playing field for GPUs.

Whilst I'm firmly in the green camp, I've never liked the idea of having to get a particular type of card as a result of software bias.

Hopefully closer to the iron APIs like DX12 and Vulkan will render a lot of this behaviour obsolete.

[XRoyalT]

Hmm I'm thinking that AMD has got something big up there sleeve (HOPE) Nvidia and Intel need a bit more competition, and hearing about AMD's results with DX12 and Vulkan, it will be great for them to release something brand new into the market.

Regards