my workstation build has an nvidia card in it so I should be able to play hogwarts total goblin death without the water textures freaking out like they did with my RX 580

I hope AMD does get their market share up so their GPUs aren't an afterthought for game developers
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@deprecated_ii it's a two way street sometimes. I know Kingdom Hearts on PC had issues with AMD cards for a long time until it came over to Steam. AMD finally released a driver update for it and then Squenix fixed it further. I know a lot of emulator devs seem to have more trouble with AMD cards too and if anything, they should be the ones I'd most expect to get it working.

On top of that you have a lot of features Nvidia cards have that AMD just can't seem to match. It's rough. They have advantages in price and sometimes in raw performance, but the former doesn't mean a lot when you're buying an expensive card anyway, and the latter doesn't mean a lot when Nvidia has so many tricks to make games perform and in many cases even look better at the same time. I'd only get an AMD card if I was primarily interested in playing games that don't support newer Nvidia features anyway, and I wanted to play those games in higher frame rates and resolutions.

A lot of the time I see people arguing in favor of AMD cards, it is solely because they are competition. Like, their entire place in the market is to make sure Nvidia doesn't get more greedy and dumb.

That is just talking about their graphics stuff though. I'm not as well versed in AMD vs Intel processors but it seems like it's always going back and forth with who can have the worse issue. Historically, Intel has been more efficient and runs cooler so that's kind of what I've just stuck with, required motherboard upgrades be damned.

@beardalaxy from what I've heard nvidia will have their own employees embed in game dev teams to make sure the game works really well on their hardware

they seem to have better software developers in general than AMD and of course they have a lot more money so they can afford to do stuff like that

@deprecated_ii not all the time, but they do sometimes. That's a great way to get your stuff sold.

@beardalaxy yeah I'm sure they don't bother a lot of the time. but it makes sense to do it for big titles, stuff that might become a benchmark especially
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