We can however say they do have a track record of doing so. The Omega drivers were originally created to address this exact thing.
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AMD IQ Vs Nvidia IQ - shenanigans or something else?
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We can however say they do have a track record of doing so. The Omega drivers were originally created to address this exact thing.
Soldato
Greg used DX11 in both. The performance of mantle in BF4 with GCN 1.2 parts is worse than DX11 apparently.
Caporegime
Ok.
For me this highlights the fact that Vendor comparisons based on raw FPS is utter nonsense.
Not just because they could and probably do quite a lot of the time run different levels of IQ with exactly the same settings but also because software measurements of FPS are not reading how many Frames the GPU is actually rendering at any given time, its could be rendering 45 in a second but actually feeding 90 through the output with half of them being the previous frame refreshed.
The only real measure of these GPU's is turn off all OSD software, now how does the game feel to you and what do you think of the image quality.
All else is empty noise.
Soldato
Definitely better on the AMD I can see an outline of a yeti on the left screen but the right screen sure I can see a dodo.
Haha, good shout. I never expected a crappy recording to draw so much attention but if there is something amiss, good stuff. I am re-doing the run but walking it this time and staying on a line and using GVR for AMD and ShadowPlay for Nvidia. Both record in great quality, so hopefully it will make things a little clearer to see. Also playing at 1440P and recording at 1080P, so should help with youtube compression. I would have recorded at 1440P but GVR doesn't
Right, back on the Nvidia card and just need to record some footage...... Which will be done after work at 10pm tonight
Caporegime
Fiji does have more raw power than GM 204, about 8.6 TFlops vs 6.1 TFlops, its also more performance per watt, hayho.... 
Why is all that power apparently not translation into gaming performance?
Why is all that power apparently not translation into gaming performance?
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Caporegime
Easy enough for your lot to lock yourselves in a room for a few days with some Maxwell cards and start screnising your screens with a magnifying glass.
If I had to give a reason, it would be the new fangled Nvidia colour compression algorithms they're using to get round the relative weakness of Maxwell's memory bandwidth.
Possibly...maybe ????
Caporegime
AMD have the same tech and use it.
I suppose it can cause washed-out colour and less sharp textures but not to the extent apparent in the side by side Youtube, youtube is not ideal i know.
Delta Colour compression and Texture compression is something that is a part of Cryengine, the Delta Colour difference between say 2x and 8x can hardly be seen with the naked eye.
Edit; it wouldn't explain missing details, missing objects....
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Just wait till tonight chaps. I will have much better 60fps video's for comparison. I will also add screen shots and that should show things better. Just don't try and find something that isn't there though and watch with an open mind.
Soldato
The colour compression on AMD's GCN 1.2 is supposed to be lossless from what i read. Not sure about nvidias but i would assume they would do the same.
This is gonna sound odd, but have you tried the TX connected via DP to the monitor to see if that makes any difference?
Could it be something to do with the way Nvidia cards use HDMI colour compression to do 4K+60Hz without HDMI 2.0? (I know the TX has HDMI 2.0 but if the HDMI capture device doesn't it may be that the card is seeing a sub HDMI 2.0 connection and activating it's chroma subsampling /shrug).
IDK
I'd try and test it from my end but I don't have the cards available. If anyone has both then I'd be interested to see if these results could be replicated.
Gregster may have found something here. I'm waiting to see what his results will show later. Potentially might have been a one off, might not. Let's wait and see. #TeamGregster
Gregster may have found something here. I'm waiting to see what his results will show later. Potentially might have been a one off, might not. Let's wait and see. #TeamGregster