Quote Originally Posted by Manicdan View Post
well if tessellation is better on AMD side, then hopefully gaming is too.

to be better in a very specific synthetic benchmark but worse in all games, i would call that a failure, even as an AMD/ATI owner and fan
Well the only benchmark should be games. Future gaming performance, based on the tessellation engine, is plainly ridiculous.

The vast majority of games are console ports, they basically translate to dx 9/10 games. Once DX11 gaming takes hold for the PC, the 6850, 6870, 6950, 6970, 580 and 570 will be underpowered.

Synthetic benchmarks have always been the fallback ones for fanbois. If there company of choice isn't much cop, then there will surely be a benchmark that still looks good.

Just look at anything that involves tessellation or physx. You can count the games on one hand that use them (to a degree it's possible to see differences between AMD/Nvidia), but fanbois will search them out and point to the scores.

The same can be said with AMD too. Anyone remember all the threads telling us how having 27 monitors at home is the future.