Nvidia GameWorks dead?

dangus

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Oct 8, 2015
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First off, let me say that I'm not a big supporter of either Nvidia or AMD. I just have to love them both because they let me play games on my PC. I've had multiple cards from each in the past 15 years. It all started with the Nvidia Geforce Ti4400. Moved on to the ATI 9800 pro and then blah blah blah.

I'm not looking for fanboys here. But, is the whole rivalry between Nvidia GameWorks and AMD's alternative (I think it was called "Gaming Evolved" but correct me if I'm wrong because I seriously can't remember the name nor can I find it) essentially done with? If it is done/dead, I'm glad because it seemed like game developers were almost trying to develop (LOL) factions between the actual people who play games on PC. It seems to be not as big a deal as it was back, maybe, a few years ago in 2011/2012 when the HD 7xxx cards and GTX 6xx cards were coming out. I suppose I'm inviting fanboys from all corners to join in, or maybe I'm an idiot. But is this thing still....a thing? Or what?
 
Nvidia Gameworks is not dead and is slowly seeing increased adoption (Witcher 3, among others... even FFXV tech demo for PC version showing Nvidia Gameworks technologies). Consoles are seeing increased attention from Nvidia as well with further CPU/console optimizations for PhysX and other technologies. Even Unreal Engine 4 has seen integration of some of the technology. That said, adoption still hasn't exploded, yet, and a large part is because much of it wasn't yet optimized for console/CPUs until more recently so we should see more emphasis on it in the near future. Further, a lot of the technologies are, honestly, experimental/infant tech that still requires a lot of optimization/better hardware to really utilize within a game build. AMD's tech, if I am to be completely honest is a joke and has repeatedly failed to live up to their claims of what it will be capable of or match Nvidia's Gameworks so I do not really follow it closely. This may change in the future but they spend substantially less on development of such technologies so I wouldn't hold my breath. Late response as I just saw this post but hope it helps answer your question.
 

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