I'd happily run Matrox or 3dFX or whatever comes around thats competitive and not NV.
Marketing wank to try and get people hyped for your product isn't the same as straight out lying. Not gonna get much excitement if you launch with "It's not as good as these guys' stuff, BUT WE TRIED REALLY HARD!"
The last NV card I owned was in 2003, which is when I found this website, when Kyle uncovered the 3dmark cheat in the drivers.
Follow that with Agea, and the lies on what they were going to do with PhysX
The 970 scandal
Gameworks fucking everyone
G-Sync
Driver gimping accusations
$1500 video card because fuck you.
Patent infringements, then try to sue the people who's patent you're infringing on.
Not someone I want to give my money to.
LOL yeah
So you won't even go with AMD then,
They did 3dmark cheats too
They also did AA/AF cheats (nV did as well)
$1500 card don't remember the the 1500 x2 AMD made? yeah it was less then what nV had but still.... Both rediculous prices for dual GPU cards. Single gpu cards $1500 bucks isn't bad when there is no competition and its performance is warranted. Its not like someone is making you buy that card.
Driver gimp accusations: that is all it was accusations (you need to read up more on that one)
Game works, can be turned off, so not sure where you are going with that one.......
The only thing that can hold up there is the 970, and they got sued and they have to pay out.....
Go back to VIA or Intel IGP, cause those are the only companies that are available for you for, Matrox is using AMD GPU's now.
So that is all you are left with.
And the marketing wank that AMD has been doing, just hurts them at the end, they deserve what they get when they over hype products and they fall flat on their face. It is happening.
No they lied about the rx480 power draw, they obscured its performance/watt many many times over. They lied about it when showing P11 vs the gtx 950 in a simulated test for power usage. They gave expectations that weren't realistic at all.
http://blog.clientheartbeat.com/customer-expectations/
This is what has been happening to AMD for years now!
If a customer feels like you did not deliver a service that was expected, they won’t come back and buy from you again
This is why they have been loosing marketshare, both CPU and GPU, they keep saying things that they don't deliver on. This also makes it much harder when they do have a good product (competitive) for people to switch back to them. If OEM's are the major seller for these companies (which they are, they sell the lion's share of product) those companies that buy in volume want a steady partner that delivers on their promises, once burned its hard to remake that bridge.
Now to all the people that expect AMD to out perform nV in graphics stop expecting that, because that will increase the hype to a crazy level which AMD can't possible attain, and if they do get to above and beyond nV, Great! competition is back and we can have great discussions at that point!
Manage promises – to manage expectations, companies can first start managing their promises. The study found that some observers recommended deliberately under-promising the service to increase the likelihood of exceeding customer expectations. This is something I regularly recommend to our customers all the time. There’s nothing worse than over-promising and under-delivering! Keep in mind that there are some risks with under promising as it can reduce your competitive appeal, so make sure you are aware of your competitive environment.
Just a cursory look at Polaris's launch and you can see AMD fell short of this, granted they did try to, but fanboy hype and online websites for click bait really did a number on them. But added to AMD's marketing people as well.
And lets not even get into what they talked about nV without even knowing what nV was capable of, if anything they should very well know nV's capabilities and they should have just kept their mouth shut (marketing and technical marketing from AMD) They shouldn't make things up because it makes them look better in the short term because when reality hits, its going to hit like a hammer, those people loose credibility.
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