RussianSensation
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Sounds like an excuse to explain AMD's poor driver support
I'm glad that MAD Studios called out AMD publically for their driver support which fully explains the poor performance of AMD GPUs in Project Cars. That and the lack of DX11 multithreading which Project Cars uses..
Curious to know what your explanation is for how 980 is 50% faster than 780Ti, how 960 OC is just 6% slower than 780Ti, how 770 scales perfectly against a 680 but 780Ti hardly scales against the 780, and how the Titan X hardly scales against a 980? Sounds like an amazingly optimized game engine! Not.....
http://www.computerbase.de/2015-05/project-cars-guide-grafikkarte-prozessor-vergleich/2/
Let's face it, in the current state, Project CARS is runs bad on everything besides Maxwell. Sure, AMD fell asleep at the wheel and didn't optimize their DX8.1 driver but there is a massive 40-50% increase in FPS in W10 vs. W8.1, which throws your entire theory about AMD's DX11 driver sucking out the window. If AMD's DX11 driver was so awful, switching from W8.1 to W10 would do nothing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzFe5OOHZko
Not to mention there is a major GPU under-utilization issue with AMD cards in Project CARS and performance goes up 20-30% from moving the PowerTune to +20% without doing anything else.
Hairworks, which runs well on AMD but slightly slower due to the fact that it uses isoline tessellation and other than Tonga, AMD's tessellation performance is not equal to NVidia's..
Where did you see benchmarks of Hairworks of NV vs. AMD for TW3? I don't think we can pass judgement yet.
However, in your statements, you never mentioned anything about NV's inferior and performance crippling implementation of PCSS in games.
"In regards to NVIDIA PCSS at times there is no shadow at all displayed in an area where AMD CHS or Rockstar's settings show a shadow. The shadows are also a lot more blurry in some cases, especially dealing with leaves projected onto objects." ~ HardOCP :hmm:
and the performance is worse too - a double whammy!
"Rockstar's Softest shadow option is the fastest, then AMD CHS and then NVIDIA PCSS as the slowest. The difference is a slightly larger 14% on the R9 290X between Rockstar's Softest setting and NVIDIA PCSS. The drop is also greater between Softest shadows and AMD CHS." ~ HardOCP
Hilarious, 14% performance drop from Rockstar's shadows despite having inferior IQ. GW FTW! :biggrin:
Anyways, back to TW3. Let's hope this isn't another AC Unity repeat in terms of over hyped visuals and terrible performance.