Origin PC Opting for Nvidia Over AMD GPUs for Gaming PCs

[renz496]

Well this is interesting .Since you guys like conspiracy theory much how come anyone still not comimg out about this might be Origin and AMD are actually in this together to make nvidia look bad? I mean if origin really want to drop AMD gpu why they make noise right now and suddenly make nvidia look bad? If nvidia really have their hands on this they will not making this silly mistake which is allowing Origin to announce their intention to drop amd gpu just after receiving Battlebox contract from nvidia and in time when amd new flagship to be released. It is much wiser to tell Origin to be quiet about it and only reveal it when customer actually asking why they did not offering amd latest flagship. So amd and Origin do it the smart way. Let Origin accept the battlebox contract from nvidia and wait for the right time to drop the bomb. And when they did most people will suspecting fishy about it since Origin just to be one of the company that included in nvidia battlebox program that announced recently. Nvidia can't accuse Origin since it's amd gpu that being dropped and Origin happens to be nvidia partner in battlebox program. A few months later Origin will start including AMD gpu again because of customer request. At the same time they will say good things about AMD how AMD actually want to work closely with them to solve the problem.

I know it's crazy

It makes more sense than CharLIE's rants that's for sure! :lol:

Actually it makes absolutely zero sense.

Well of course it is. Though i thik it still considered as fine than "nvidia gpu owner are feeling guilty/ashamed because of Physx" :lol:

 

[Mousemonkey]

Well this is interesting .Since you guys like conspiracy theory much how come anyone still not comimg out about this might be Origin and AMD are actually in this together to make nvidia look bad? I mean if origin really want to drop AMD gpu why they make noise right now and suddenly make nvidia look bad? If nvidia really have their hands on this they will not making this silly mistake which is allowing Origin to announce their intention to drop amd gpu just after receiving Battlebox contract from nvidia and in time when amd new flagship to be released. It is much wiser to tell Origin to be quiet about it and only reveal it when customer actually asking why they did not offering amd latest flagship. So amd and Origin do it the smart way. Let Origin accept the battlebox contract from nvidia and wait for the right time to drop the bomb. And when they did most people will suspecting fishy about it since Origin just to be one of the company that included in nvidia battlebox program that announced recently. Nvidia can't accuse Origin since it's amd gpu that being dropped and Origin happens to be nvidia partner in battlebox program. A few months later Origin will start including AMD gpu again because of customer request. At the same time they will say good things about AMD how AMD actually want to work closely with them to solve the problem.

I know it's crazy

It makes more sense than CharLIE's rants that's for sure! :lol:

Actually it makes absolutely zero sense.

Well CharLIE doesn't bother speaking to the parties concerned before publishing an article which the party faithful swallow as "fact" so renz496's post has just as much veracity IMO.

Neither really has any merit (the website is called "semiaccurate" LOL). Extreme extrapolation rather than fact.
But NVidia paying off origin sure seems more likely

It most certainly does. What makes it seem more likely to be true, is the fact that AMD are about to release R9 290 series, which early benchmarks show as beating Titan. So why would a company want to only sell computers that will fall behind its competitors, when it comes to benchmarks and performance? Also when mantle is introduced, Nvidia will be left way behind, not to mention all the next gen games are going to be coded for GCN through consoles. Origin is going to be selling PC's that just simply can't compete, it really makes no sense what so ever.

Have you read the explanation given by Origin's CEO?

 

[fanman]

There is a difference between a deliberate lockout and compatibility due to hardware.

There's no lockout, AMD are free to get a licence from Nvidia they just choose not to because their user base doesn't want or need PhysX according to Richard Huddy, who has since left AMD.

The fact that Physx disables itself when an AMD card is present is a lockout IMO

That's only because you refuse to acknowledge how the situation came to be IMHO.

It's irrelevant. A license is only required for it to actually run on AMD hardware.
NVidia making their hardware not work just because a piece of competitors HW is in the same system is just plain stupid.

So no licence no run that's the point of a licence, restrictions. AMD don't want a licence so they get restricted (along with their user base), welcome to the real world.

Hi, I have this funny idea about this license thing. AMD GPU must buy license from intel if using intel processor or Realtek and Creative must buy license from AMD for True audio or logitech and altec must buy license from realtek or creative and so on and so on. :lol:

 

[Syntax1985]

Ok guys lets get something straight here, im not a fanboy, but "origin pc" = who are supposed to matter but ive never heard of them.... are PARTNERED with nvidea.... that really wasn't hard to find out, its on their homepage...

steam box isn't amd? i think you'll find it is. in both processor & gpu...

so erm... fail blog post tbh

"Xi3’s PISTON Console comes packed with a 3.2 GHz AMD Trinity Processor, Radeon 7000-Series GPU and 8GB DDR3 Gaming RAM"

From the website......

Facts people... Facts, get them right before fan boy blogs please.

 

[Syntax1985]

Ok guys lets get something straight here, im not a fanboy, but "origin pc" = who are supposed to matter but ive never heard of them.... are PARTNERED with nvidea.... that really wasn't hard to find out, its on their homepage...

steam box isn't amd? i think you'll find it is. in both processor & gpu...

so erm... fail blog post tbh

"Xi3’s PISTON Console comes packed with a 3.2 GHz AMD Trinity Processor, Radeon 7000-Series GPU and 8GB DDR3 Gaming RAM"

From the website......

Facts people... Facts, get them right before fan boy blogs please.

 

[renz496]

Piston? I thought that valve doesn't want to associate themselve with that.

 

[Etienne H-G]

have been with AMD gpu for a while .... changing to Nvidia when new architecture will be there ... driver , stability a smoothness are issues... plus when you realized that a gtx 470 had smoother and almost nicer graphic than your HD 6970 2gb ....

 

[smeezekitty]

Smoothness can vary greatly. But in general image quality is essentially identical