Allen
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Joined: Oct 1999
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Ohio USA
I agree AMD is behind Nvidia on "raw maximum FPS" in the highest cost products. For a variety of reasons, its been that way for years.
The main reason may be that being first in FPS (no matter what they have to do to get there) is a cornerstone of Nvidia marketing (at least, that's what they said at one point).
The second reason is that (according to Nvidia engineers who were interviewed years ago), nearly all games are developed on Intel/Nvidia with Nvidia help (though that's changing) -- and Nvidia coders make sure the games run better on Nvidia -- they say its relatively easy (given their access to the game engine).
Nowadays, there's more to a graphics card than raw FPS. In providing those "other" things, AMD can be competitive and even slightly ahead. Moreover, smaller differences in FPS (say 10 percent) are not "visible"; those are for advertising/marketing purposes.
My prediction, that I have made before, is that Nvidia will usually be ahead on FPS for a given price range. If not, something went terribly wrong at Nvidia. AMD wants to win at FPS. But, they have said they will not compromise their product approach just to get that win.
Since Vega10 is still in development, and AMD knows the competition, Vega10 may temporarily lead in FPS when it is released.
Navi is a new ballgame. Since AMD GPU architecture has been aiming towards a Navi solution for a while, AMD migh actually beat out Nvidia with Navi -- and Nvidia may take a while to catch up (and surpass) AMD on that one. However, I imagine Nvidia is already "designing" to beat Navi -- so, we'll see
