checking in after few weeks and no new mods (as no REDKIT) but instead this has gone into NVIDIA vs. AMD forum.
And again everyone has so black and white views here, you really think this is so simple?
Yes, Nvidia has propietary technologies like hairworks but does that really make them bad company? What does Nvidia corporation exist for? To give you great gaming experience? No, its meaning is to make money. So of course it will do everything legally in its power to turn customers away from other competitors (AMD). What do expect? Nvidia is owned by its investors who decide what kind of strategy it utilizes. And it's not like AMD doesn't try to use propietary techs *cough* mantle *cough*.
I would like to see more competition in GPU field, it's always healthy, but can you really expect company to act against it's own benefit? If so, you really have no idea how business world works. If Nvidia suddenly decided to share their tech and start "let's play fair" model, what do you expect investors would do? No more investors, no more nvidia.
And to say AMD has better techonlogy but can't compete because all games are optimized for Nvidia, well lets take out some cold facts.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/amd-radeon-r9-fury-x,4196-4.html
Battlefield 4, AMD OPTIMIZED GAME, gtx 980ti (nvidia flagship) and fury x (amd flagship), EQUALLY PRIZED, and nvidia card is gets better fps.
On the same page, Far cry 4 which is Nvidia optimized game, Amd gets better fps than gtx980ti or titan x (!)
Just try to understand that it's not so simple "Nvidia blocking AMD by forcing developers to optimize fro Nvidia" case.
And as said before, how do think Nvidia could force any of big publishers to make games only supporting Nvidia cards?
Nvidia is small company compared to them. Nvidia can't pay enough for them to make games that AMD users couldn't use.
And when both current gen consoles use AMD GPUs amd-optimization is must have these days. (and in this generation console and pc architecture are so close to each other console amd optimizations carry to pc much better)
Oh and just comparing Nvidia hairworks and mad tressfx, Only place where I have really seen tressfx is tomb raider and compared to that Nvidia hairworks looks better. Of course it's more performance intensive but ,well, that's how better looking effects tend to be.
I have no preference between NVIDIA and AMD but instead pick whatever is best when I'm upgrading, lately it's been Nvidia. I hope AMD gets better again but before that, please try to lose that fan-boyism and look things more objectively.