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What Would you Want From the Otherside
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not calling you out in particular, but their has been a few Nvidia owners that want nothing from AMD surely their must be somthing, you saying you dont want Mantle or true-audio for example or even cheaper prices?
Lol.
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Nvidia user here: AMD's value for money, True Audio, Mantle, Overclocking features such as unlocked voltage, game bundles. I don't care for Tressfx of HD3D.
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not calling you out in particular, but their has been a few Nvidia owners that want nothing from AMD surely their must be somthing, you saying you dont want Mantle or true-audio for example or even cheaper prices?
To be fair if you already own the cards what difference is cheaper prices going to make?
I can't say I'd miss True-Audio if I lost it, in fact my 7950CF setup doesn't have it and I don't miss it. A bit like PhysX I guess except I expected to miss that more than I have.
Mantle is a tricky one at the minute I think too as it's very early on and it's not currently in many games. In a year or 2 when a lot of the announced games are out and the effect Mantle has on them can be seen this might change.
I've just thought of something else I think would be nice for AMD that Nvidia do:
Being able to use output connectors from any and all of your cards when using Crossfire. When I had my 670SLI I could run my 3 monitors connecting 2 cards to the main card and 1 to the second card (all monitors are Dual Link DVI). When I went to AMD, well my 7950CF only had 1 DVI port, but my 290CF has 2 DVI ports. But to connect 3 DVI monitors I have to use DVI connectors and an active adaptor (~£70) and a DisplayPort connector and this works so poorly I've stopped bothering.
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not calling you out in particular, but their has been a few Nvidia owners that want nothing from AMD surely their must be somthing, you saying you dont want Mantle or true-audio for example or even cheaper prices?
Nope.
Well, not specifics. I want stronger power circuitry on reference cards and for NV to support overclocking to an extent. Prices obviously, but you could say the same about anything. There is a reason they charge what they do and get away with it unfortunately.
as an AMD user i would like :
-physx
-better reference design
-usualy i would have said Drivers, but honestly since the end of 2013 AMD have been doing great job with their drivers, definitly better, more frequent and more feature rich, maybe keep it up, and step it up a noche to be able to beat Nvidia in this area, they are not far though.
what would it take for me to go Nvidia :
-a lot less deceit in their PR compaings
-droping the price
-adopting Mantle
-adopting adaptive sync
-stop with the closed eco-systems, and be more open
( to me being locked in an eco-system could be ok, if it brings me advantages to save money on top of the features, not lock me in something that is always over priced to what the competition or open market offer, even if there is no competition i would like for my loyality to be rewarded not used to be milked and over taxed with premiums )
-physx
-better reference design
-usualy i would have said Drivers, but honestly since the end of 2013 AMD have been doing great job with their drivers, definitly better, more frequent and more feature rich, maybe keep it up, and step it up a noche to be able to beat Nvidia in this area, they are not far though.
what would it take for me to go Nvidia :
-a lot less deceit in their PR compaings
-droping the price
-adopting Mantle
-adopting adaptive sync
-stop with the closed eco-systems, and be more open
( to me being locked in an eco-system could be ok, if it brings me advantages to save money on top of the features, not lock me in something that is always over priced to what the competition or open market offer, even if there is no competition i would like for my loyality to be rewarded not used to be milked and over taxed with premiums )
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Nope.
Well, not specifics. I want stronger power circuitry on reference cards and for NV to support overclocking to an extent. Prices obviously, but you could say the same about anything. There is a reason they charge what they do and get away with it unfortunately.
Agreed.
Nvidia could do with being a bit more liberal on voltage control.
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As an AMD user, I'd like PhysX. It made such a difference in the Batman games (I like pretty!) that I ran a 460 in a hybrid PhysX system when I had the space but it was just too much hassle in the end having to rely on one person producing hacked drivers.
I also wouldn't say no to the Titan-style reference cooler, but non-reference coolers & Acceleros can sort that out, so it's a "would like" rather than a "need".
I also wouldn't say no to the Titan-style reference cooler, but non-reference coolers & Acceleros can sort that out, so it's a "would like" rather than a "need".
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amd user:
what i would like is for all the hate to be shrugged off, the two companies to metaphorically shake hands like gentlemen and get working on a unified mantle with physx support so both amd and nvidia fanboys can have their cake and eat it and for them both to start competing in the old fashioned way and try to make better cards than each other so we profit from their efforts.
what i would like is for all the hate to be shrugged off, the two companies to metaphorically shake hands like gentlemen and get working on a unified mantle with physx support so both amd and nvidia fanboys can have their cake and eat it and for them both to start competing in the old fashioned way and try to make better cards than each other so we profit from their efforts.
was gonna say and peace in the middle east, but then i remembered that the world's biggest prison is being bombed non stop as we speak, it's fine and all that we can argue about GPUs and useless stuff, while millions of ppl lack their fundamental right, of food, shelter and security...
Nope.
Well, not specifics. I want stronger power circuitry on reference cards and for NV to support overclocking to an extent. Prices obviously, but you could say the same about anything. There is a reason they charge what they do and get away with it unfortunately.
So you really do both want something specific from the otherside
:AMD use stronger power circuitry on reference/high end cards specifically for overclocking-fully:
I had the Lightning at 1.5v
Don't just take frosty's word for it, take it from the man in the know:
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Amd user. Happy enough but would like to be able to consider Nvidia cards if cheaper, so cheaper Nvidia cards please. 
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I don"t know why so many AMD users want Physx support. It's hardly used and isn't any better then other stand alone phyics engines.As an Nvidia user the beat feature I've found on Geforce cards is the quality of service from the Nvidia only board partners.