Quote Originally Posted by DilTech View Post
If you prefer, we can look at it from the other side...

A company offers your development studio cash, a FULL test lab, on-site assistance, AND extra developers to include features...

Do you take it, or do you say no?
i think the line needs to be drawn at optimization.
this is starting to sound more like intel vs amd with disabling instructions based on vendor id. and chances are it will only get worse.

cuda is great, i love the idea, i will not disrespect nvidia for being involved in the software side of things. but once a brand gets to reach into the cookie jar, whos stopping them from crushing all the cookies they didnt take?

the HAWX2 tessellation thing is close to this. if nvidia is average at rendering polygons in all methods, and amd is average in one, and sub par in the other, then maybe nvidia could choose to help them optimize code in the way thats sub par for amd, while offer a negligible difference for themselves. at that point they in theory are just helping, while actually sabotaging, and whos going to prevent it?

the other big "if" question, is what would have happened if nvidia didnt buy physx? would we see an implementation in games thats more optimized? since under the old brand they might have cared more about looking incredible vs havok, instead of requiring brute force to do anything decent to sell higher end cards