What games are amd optimized and what are nvidia

[mariogamer9]

I want to know what games are optimized for amd gpus and nvidia gpus because I've seen people say games on there amd gpu runs like crap but good for nvidia, and the other way around. So can someone please give me a list of games optimized for both gpus?

 

[rhysiam]

I want to know what games are optimized for amd gpus and nvidia gpus because I've seen people say games on there amd gpu runs like crap but good for nvidia, and the other way around. So can someone please give me a list of games optimized for both gpus?

Assuming you're talking about single card gaming - i.e. no crossfire/SLI - whoever told you there's games that "run like crap" on one card but are good on another is exaggerating massively. Yes, there are differences between games, but it's unusual for the swing to be more than 10%, maybe 20% at most. You're talking 5-10fps in usual gaming situations.

Games like Far Cry 4 and the Talos Principle do slightly favour AMD, where BF4 and GTA5 are a little better on Nvidia. Like I said though - the swings aren't huge by any stretch.

 

[GizmoMKD]

I want to know what games are optimized for amd gpus and nvidia gpus because I've seen people say games on there amd gpu runs like crap but good for nvidia, and the other way around. So can someone please give me a list of games optimized for both gpus?

Hey i had an R9 290X TRI-X and i change it due to problems with games... i'm going to switch to Nvidia 970 GTX or 980 due to games are not supporting AMD cards as it should be...

For example i had big problems with this games at start: Watch Dogs, AC Unity like FPS drops, stuttering, low fps...GPU utilization bla bla..

Games like: BF4 run fine on AMD GPU due to Mentle support, on DirectX BF4 have low fps on AMD cards at least on mine...

90%+ of the games are better on Nvidia cards.. i'm talking from my experience... i had the card and sold it due to problems with FPS... now i'm switching to nvidia...

Maybe AMD cards have better numbers in their specification but games are optimized for nvidia..

 

[0xBahaa]

Check this post:
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/113989-13-list-games-favoring-nvidia-neutral
and this: (for nvidia)
List of games with hardware-accelerated PhysX support
Also check out the AMD featured games list from their website.
Take into consideration that not always games will run like crap if they're not optimized. Even if they do at first, something will be done about it in the next driver update from AMD or Nvidia.
A game like Devil May Cry 4 used to have a splash screen saying "NVIDAAAAAAA" at the beginning, but I run it with my ATI card at >200 fps 😀

 

[rhysiam]

Hey i had an R9 290X TRI-X and i change it due to problems with games... i'm going to switch to Nvidia 970 GTX or 980 due to games are not supporting AMD cards as it should be...

For example i had big problems with this games at start: Watch Dogs, AC Unity like FPS drops, stuttering, low fps...GPU utilization bla bla..

Games like: BF4 run fine on AMD GPU due to Mentle support, on DirectX BF4 have low fps on AMD cards at least on mine...

90%+ of the games are better on Nvidia cards.. i'm talking from my experience... i had the card and sold it due to problems with FPS... now i'm switching to nvidia...

Maybe AMD cards have better numbers in their specification but games are optimized for nvidia..

With respect, I don't think you can blame AMD for those issues, at least not entirely. Unless you're fetching a great price for the 290X second hand, you're forking out a whole lot of money for a side-grade (or a downgrade performance wise in the case of a 970).

Both AC Unity and Watch Dogs had pretty turbulent launches, see a TH post on Watch Dogs here: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/ubisoft-watch-dogs-pc-gaming-bsod-launch,26886.html
AC unity was really badly optimised at launch and, I believe, still remains a very CPU demanding game, particularly in large crowds. The poor GPU utilisation you're seeing would very likely have been just as bad on a 970 or 980.

I could give my own anecdotal account about how "me and most my friends" have run AMD cards for years and never had issues - but that's hardly solid evidence. The fact that AMD cards are still frequently recommended by all major review sites is a much better indication that the majority of dirt thrown at the AMD driver team is not really warranted.

 

[GizmoMKD]

Hey i had an R9 290X TRI-X and i change it due to problems with games... i'm going to switch to Nvidia 970 GTX or 980 due to games are not supporting AMD cards as it should be...

For example i had big problems with this games at start: Watch Dogs, AC Unity like FPS drops, stuttering, low fps...GPU utilization bla bla..

Games like: BF4 run fine on AMD GPU due to Mentle support, on DirectX BF4 have low fps on AMD cards at least on mine...

90%+ of the games are better on Nvidia cards.. i'm talking from my experience... i had the card and sold it due to problems with FPS... now i'm switching to nvidia...

Maybe AMD cards have better numbers in their specification but games are optimized for nvidia..

With respect, I don't think you can blame AMD for those issues, at least not entirely. Unless you're fetching a great price for the 290X second hand, you're forking out a whole lot of money for a side-grade (or a downgrade performance wise in the case of a 970).

Both AC Unity and Watch Dogs had pretty turbulent launches, see a TH post on Watch Dogs here: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/ubisoft-watch-dogs-pc-gaming-bsod-launch,26886.html
AC unity was really badly optimised at launch and, I believe, still remains a very CPU demanding game, particularly in large crowds. The poor GPU utilisation you're seeing would very likely have been just as bad on a 970 or 980.

I could give my own anecdotal account about how "me and most my friends" have run AMD cards for years and never had issues - but that's hardly solid evidence. The fact that AMD cards are still frequently recommended by all major review sites is a much better indication that the majority of dirt thrown at the AMD driver team is not really warranted.

Well it's really bad to wait for a patch after game is release for FPS fix... for example i was waiting for watch dogs like 1 month for stable fps and no stuttering...

i like the amd cards but the games are focused on nvidia... better go with standard optimized cards instead having better numbers on hardware specification...

 

[mariogamer9]

I was thinking about getting the r9 285 because it has a great price for the performance but then I saw posts with people saying amd cards run horrible is every single game ever in existence because obama, and then reasonable people saying there is a 10 fps difference so should I get the r9 285 still? (I mainly play csgo, bf4, black ops 3 soon, and soon the new star wars battlefront game)

 

[0xBahaa]

I was thinking about getting the r9 285 because it has a great price for the performance but then I saw posts with people saying amd cards run horrible is every single game ever in existence because obama, and then reasonable people saying there is a 10 fps difference so should I get the r9 285 still? (I mainly play csgo, bf4, black ops 3 soon, and soon the new star wars battlefront game)

I can confirm that I ran all COD games before Advanced warfare, plus all Battlefield games (up til BF4) and many other major titles (Far cry 4, AC blackflag, SaintsRow 4, gta iv, Shadow of mordor, MK X, left4dead2, Fifa 15) on an AMD card (6900 series).
I didn't encounter any issues.
My advice: If u like the price/performance of the R9, get it and enjoy.

 

[con635]

I was thinking about getting the r9 285 because it has a great price for the performance but then I saw posts with people saying amd cards run horrible is every single game ever in existence because obama, and then reasonable people saying there is a 10 fps difference so should I get the r9 285 still? (I mainly play csgo, bf4, black ops 3 soon, and soon the new star wars battlefront game)

All those games actually bench very well on radeons, csgo radeon usually wins, bf4 is dice/amd ge title, the only black ops 3 bench I saw shows my 680 at 7870 level :/ battlefront again is dice/amd ge title.

 

[rhysiam]

Well it's really bad to wait for a patch after game is release for FPS fix... for example i was waiting for watch dogs like 1 month for stable fps and no stuttering...

I think you'll find that the "patch" you were waiting on was a game patch, not a driver patch. AC:U that was the case, they basically released a pretty badly optimised game and it wasn't until a few game patches that the bulk of the issues were resolved. Nvidia or AMD would have been similarly flawed because it wasn't driver issues it was game issues.

My understanding is that Watch Dogs was similar, the majority of the issues were game related... just as bad on Nvidia as AMD.

i like the amd cards but the games are focused on nvidia... better go with standard optimized cards instead having better numbers on hardware specification...

That's just not true. I come back to my original point, if AMD consistently delivered a noticeably worse experience why are they still so commonly recommended by review sites?

 

[GizmoMKD]

Well it's really bad to wait for a patch after game is release for FPS fix... for example i was waiting for watch dogs like 1 month for stable fps and no stuttering...

I think you'll find that the "patch" you were waiting on was a game patch, not a driver patch. AC:U that was the case, they basically released a pretty badly optimised game and it wasn't until a few game patches that the bulk of the issues were resolved. Nvidia or AMD would have been similarly flawed because it wasn't driver issues it was game issues.

My understanding is that Watch Dogs was similar, the majority of the issues were game related... just as bad on Nvidia as AMD.

i like the amd cards but the games are focused on nvidia... better go with standard optimized cards instead having better numbers on hardware specification...

That's just not true. I come back to my original point, if AMD consistently delivered a noticeably worse experience why are they still so commonly recommended by review sites?

maybe review web sites are paid by amd who knows... or sponsored by amd...

 

[rhysiam]

maybe review web sites are paid by amd who knows... or sponsored by amd...

So AMD, despite having fewer resources than the giant Nvidia, somehow has the majority of review sites on their payroll to the extent that the bulk of tech journalists in the industry are covering up issues and recommending flawed products? And Nvidia is what, sitting there and doing nothing about it? If we were talking about 1 or 2 smaller sites maybe, but it seems you're suggesting the majority of graphics card reviewers in the industry are biased towards AMD. Is it not more likely that you were unlucky?

Both Nvidia and AMD have driver issues from time to time. Some games (like AC:U and Watch Dogs for example) are released in a semi-broken or poorly optimised state. You're free to blame AMD and spend your money wherever you want, but with respect, I'll trust the major review sites to recommend products, not one single person who had a bad experience on a couple of games that were well-publicised as poorly optimised.