Nvidia blocks AMD from optimizing drivers for GameWorks titles.

[wonderfield]

Good point. Carmack made his millions by attending NVIDIA PR events.

Heh. For whatever it's worth, NVIDIA claimed that the trio wasn't paid to attend the G-Sync launch.

On the subject of Intel and 'serious level', they're already there. Intel dedicates larger percentages of die space to the GPU with each successive generation. The reason is simple: they can't meaningfully improve IPC by increasing the pipeline depth (which they've been decreasing) and they can't do it with cache, either. Dedicating more logic to branch prediction doesn't seem to pay off either. They have little they can do with the transistor budgets they have except increasing core counts (which pays little performance dividend in most cases) and allowing more to the GPU, which pays off in a major way. Embarrassing parallelism and all that.

If Intel is willing to implement four times as much eDRAM as what their engineers deem ample, and to do that for the purpose of increasing graphics performance, you know they're pretty serious about it.

 

[Mr. K6]

They would simply buy NVidia in order to enter the hardcore gaming market and I don't think any of the PC enthusiasts want that. Intel would simply crush AMD, we don't want that.

Intel doesn't need to. Unless nvidia really gets it's shit together and pushes HPC or Tegra they may be taking a backseat sooner than later. See:

On the subject of Intel and 'serious level', they're already there. Intel dedicates larger percentages of die space to the GPU with each successive generation. The reason is simple: they can't meaningfully improve IPC by increasing the pipeline depth (which they've been decreasing) and they can't do it with cache, either. Dedicating more logic to branch prediction doesn't seem to pay off either. They have little they can do with the transistor budgets they have except increasing core counts (which pays little performance dividend in most cases) and allowing more to the GPU, which pays off in a major way. Embarrassing parallelism and all that.

If Intel is willing to implement four times as much eDRAM as what their engineers deem ample, and to do that for the purpose of increasing graphics performance, you know they're pretty serious about it.

Exactly. For those of you who haven't tried out the graphics on a Haswell chip, even the mobile variants, do so, they're amazing. Not only do they run all your desktop functions without a hitch, gaming on them is actually enjoyable, as in decent settings and resolution with good frame rates. Performance like this was only possible on mid-range discrete a couple of years ago. These new chips are powerhouses and as mentioned Intel is going to keep pushing them.

 

[290X]

This is seriously fucking it. I can't wait until AMD's R9 3XX series cards release, because I'm going to get 4 as soon as they come out.

Even as an Nvidia user I'm tired of this backdoor bullshit.

 

[Cool Vibrations]

This is seriously fucking it. I can't wait until AMD's R9 3XX series cards release, because I'm going to get 4 as soon as they come out.

Even as an Nvidia user I'm tired of this backdoor bullshit.

You say that now. You're just going to end up buying 4 of them then complain how crappy it is then go back to buying the 8xx series. This is actually perfect since it seems like none of you Nvidia loyalists can't seem to grasp the difference between what GameWorks (closed-source) is and what low-level API is.

 

[FrgMstr]

So much off topic. Bannings will start...