AMD Gaming Evolved recording? your thoughts?

[asim1999]

do you think that AMD and Nvidia are coming to much more equal footing now that AMD has hit back with their own in-house game capture solution. looks pretty solid as well. Performance may not be as consistent as shadowplay in the heavier games but it is still in Beta testing and is catching up pretty darn fast. r9 290 prices aren't that bad either both in the UK and the US. if I import from the US I can get 2 r9 290s in crossfire for the same price as a 780 Ti.

What are your thoughts, are AMD hitting back and gaining ground? I certainly think that the r9 290 is a steal with the free recording. pretty darn good IMO.

What are your thoughts on this? would love to hear all of your opinions on this.
thanks

 

[Gam3r01]

I feel as though the recording software for both really dont impact the purchase of the cards.

AMD has never really been beaten down by Nvidia, sure they may have lacked in the performance end last year, but entry level (7770) they took the lead. Crypto currency allowed them to make large profit off of cards intended for gaming, allowing them to raise their 180 dollar 7950 to 450 dollars at a point. Now there are specific budget levels where one is better than the other.

290 vs 780, AMD wins. 290x vs 780ti, Nvidia. 295x2 vs Titan-Z, AMD.

 

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http://www.anandtech.com/show/8224/hands-on-with-amds-gaming-evolved-client-game-dvr
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First and foremost, in the case of Thief there’s an unusual gamma problem that results in the recording coming out far darker than it should be. This problem is only in the recording while the original image as displayed is correctly balanced as you’d expect. Meanwhile Game DVR compatibility is still spotty, with some games/applications not being detected and recorded. Bioshock: Infinite was one such game, and 3DMark (2013) also could not be recorded by Game DVR. Game DVR does not have a desktop recording capability – AMD/Raptr haven’t mentioned whether they’re working on it, but we’d certainly hope they are – so any game that Game DVR fails to detect is currently unrecordable.

Finally, it’s worth pointing out that Game DVR is also for the moment limited to Direct3D. OpenGL and Mantle cannot currently be captured, the lack of the former being as much expected, though the lack of ability to use Game DVR to record Mantle is a bit ironic.

Closing Thoughts

Wrapping things up, AMD tells us that they are expecting the Game DVR and Twitch features to exit beta later this summer. AMD and Raptr clearly have some polishing to do between now and then, but in the interim it’s already in a very usable and useful state.

As it stands AMD seems to have the basics nailed down for Game DVR, but from a competitive standpoint I don’t think there’s any getting around the fact that NVIDIA’s lead in developing recording software means that they still hold the edge in compatibility and functionality. AMD isn’t publishing a roadmap or feature list like NVIDIA did for Shadowplay so we won’t spend too much time speculating on what might be, but I’d certainly hope to see AMD continue to close the feature gap with NVIIDA. AMD doesn’t need 1:1 feature parity, but after having been spoiled by NVIDIA’s desktop capture, that’s really the last feature they need to make Game DVR a well-rounded utility.

 

[asim1999]

Thanks guys, r9 290 is cheaper than 780 in uk and us respectively, also, it is HALF the price of the 780 Ti in the uk and us. Why does the Ti cost so much?

 

[Gam3r01]

Its the fastest single GPU card on the market.

 

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Thanks guys, r9 290 is cheaper than 780 in uk and us respectively, also, it is HALF the price of the 780 Ti in the uk and us. Why does the Ti cost so much?

It's the Law of Supply and Demand. Products in high demand cost more, while conversely, products in low demand cost less.
http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey

Note the GTX 780 Ti has sold as much as the entire R9-200 series, the 290 and 290X combined.
The GTX 780 alone has sold nearly 2.5x the amount of the 290 and 290X combined.
http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/videocard/

 

[asim1999]

Ok thanks