So you'll take Just Cause 2, Crysis 1, Crysis WH and Dirt 3 but suddenly GW2 is too old. GW2, the MMO that sold multi millions of copies worldwide and is still selling. But it's not a valid game. Alrighty. Are you kidding me? And tessellation abuse. I just don't know what to say except, I have no idea why you're offering up excuses for AMD's software team. Blame the party that needs blame. AMD software team. Tessellation abuse. Is that the go to nowadays? *mind blown* Are you kidding me. I can't believe I just read this.
No, those are all horribly outdated titles. I just gave a list of reasonable alternative titles that was longer than the amount of titles that TechReport even tested.
Now when NV wasn't able to get SLI in TWR2 I dont' recall an endless array of excuses. The NV fans wanted an SLI profile and didn't offer up excuses. These are good games we're talking about here, Batman: AO (IMO) and GW2. But AMD fans don't deserve crossfire scaling because. Old game. Tessellation abuse. OKAY. If you say so.
Basically, blame the party that requires blame. AMD's software team. Don't blame the website. AMD sent them a card knowing what was to be tested. AMD can either blame themselves for sending a review card to them with that knowledge and shutting the heck up, or they can ask their software team to step it up and fix these issues. End of story. Now the good thing in all this is that the hardware seems to be sound. So there is really no need for you to redirect the blame to where IT DOESNT BELONG. If AMD needs to blame someone for these games specifically, they'd have to look in the mirror. Fortunately, the two options AMD has is to either play the victim card or fix their software. I certainly they opt for the latter. Cuz like I said. The hardware is sound.
TWR2 SLI profile may look good on benchmarks but Anandtech had this to say about the game
In the case of Rome II NVIDIA’s previous drivers were incapable of getting good multi-GPU scaling out of the game, and with R337 they have apparently finally surmounted Rome’s AFR-unfriendly nature. However it should be noted that for the moment Rome II is suffering from (or causing) graphical glitches on both NVIDIA and AMD multi-GPU setups, so both vendors still have some work to do when it comes to Rome II.
So sure, they have an SLI profile, but it's still a bad experience on both sides, maybe this should point to the fact that the problem doesn't lie with the graphics drivers (from AMD or Nvidia) but rather the game engine?
Gloomy, you are correct and I agree fully. Neither party is perfect, but I do feel nvidia is better.
What I find absolutely absurd is to blame the WEBSITE or to blame the GAME. Come on man. AMD fans play these games, because they're popular and high quality games (referring to AC IV, GW2, and Batman: AO). Don't try to diminish the games or the website, ask AMD's software team to fix these things. With nvidia and TW Rome 2, we the fans asked them to fix it. We the fans enjoy the game, it's not like we said "Hey this game doesn't have SLI therefore the gameplay sucks!". It wasn't a situation of "WELL TW Rome 2 HAS TESSELLATION ABUSE" or "OLD GAME". Do you see how absurd this sounds?
Blame belongs where blame lies. Basically. AMD has made strides to improve, this I acknowledge. NOT where they need to be. I think you guys should press them to improve even more. Just my personal .02. To put the blame where it DOESN'T belong is extremely off-putting.
I didn't say anything about Nvidia not being better, what I specifically said was that TR happened to have a tiny test suite filled almost completely with titles that are outlier cases. Hence what I'm saying is it is a poor review since it isn't comprehensive or even remotely self-aware about the fact that the test suite is poor. Think about it like a scientific study, something like this would get torn to shreds.
And Re: Tessellation abuse, it's something that's been brought up before in articles
like this. I agree with their point - yes, Nvidia has better performance at the end of the day, but it isn't because of poor software support like you are claiming (you're literally going on about how AMD has poor software support, yes?). It's because the game engine/benchmark is that way. And no amount of AMD drivers can change that. Furthermore, the benchmark may be that way because unnecessary and excessive tessellation makes Nvidia look better, but that's a different point.
It seems you're tearing the games used down because you didn't like the results. But I could be wrong. Did any other review site use any of those games, and did you call it weird then too?
I don't recall any review sites using Guild Wars 2, but I may be wrong. I'm tearing the games apart because I don't really like the conclusion, this is an outlier review which got results that are quite different from any other site because of their poorly chosen test suite. If someone only tested with Thief, BF4, Tomb Raider, Dirt: Showdown, and Far Cry 3, then that would also be a poor review, it's horribly biased. I'm calling a spade a spade.