AMD Enables Gamers Rewards Program
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Ryu5uzaku
it's been there for a while and it works just like that geforce experience. tho I'd rather not use it.
Neo Cyrus
If they were like other companies are these days they'd patent nVidia's ideas then sue them.
CronoGraal
pretty sure both amd and nvidia have 'embraced' gamers...you know, considering they're behind all the graphic cards?
Hilbert Hagedoorn
Administrator
Second time you are plugging that site, you wouldn't be sneaky advertising it would you ?
sykozis
Except that nVidia didn't come up with it....
Deckard
was a member from the beta days then last week they changed the rewards system and points, everyone lost 2/3rds of thier points accumulated. I was on 10k almost. That got reduced to 3k, not a happy bunny ;( most of the goals to get free things are almost unobtainable unless you spam there forums/ stream on twitchtv, and optimise games according to the community settings (which was always way too low for my setup.) I now need to play until im 50 to get anything worth something for free. SO I uninstalled. some people say they were mining data off the community with such an enticing free rewards system (id like to think they were wrong) but alot of people have unistalled also.
UZ7
I thought this has been out for a long time? I remember winning a few games last year lol.. I guess I was using the beta then.
elpsychodiablo
Your comment is Genius......not!
Nvidia can´t create new technologys without failing. At last we can say we have good luck if AMD comes and make open Standarts for all.
Look at 3Dfx, they havent any good words about their technology, but they was the first one buy it.
Look at Agaia, the Game industry and Nvidia laughing about their physic technics which noboy needs, but see who was the first one buy it.
Look at GPU Compute, ATI did the first step with Apple for going to OpenCL, soon we saw Cuda.
Look at G-Sync, they sell expansive Hardware for crappy TN Displays, look who make a open standart without extra Hardware for every Monitor which have Displayport 1.3, doesnt matter if use IPS, PLS or MVA Displays, thx AMD.
Who buy Uli for doing Chipsets for Mainboards?
Who buy Hybrid Graphics for Mobile Device?
Who buy Portalplayers for makeing Tegra chips?
Who buy Mental Image GmbH for Raytracing Technology on GPU Rendering?
Nvidia did.
so GTFO :banana:
scoter man1
Hope you are rich. I heard the miners are making the prices high 🤓
-Tj-
That nvida can't create much, so they rather buy and make closed standards.
Which I understand to a point, but to see crippling on purpose and disabling stuff is kinda funny xD
sykozis
He's saying, exactly what NVidia has done.... NVidia is much like Apple. They buy a company or an IP portfolio, then claim to have invented said "tech".
PhysX came from the Ageia.
CUDA came from the University of Utah's Computer Science department. (I posted sources for this several years ago.)
G-Sync came from the VESA standard. NVidia just chose to enable it through proprietary hardware instead of supporting an existing standard that they can't sell licenses for. (It's all about the money.....not the customer).
NVidia has little, if any, real concern for the customer. Everything they do is strictly for profit. If it benefits consumers, it's by accident. This does in fact have it's upside for consumers. Just look at the cards NVidia releases.....
kill007
lol @ that before and after image.
sykozis
Newegg is well known for jacking up prices on products with high demand, as is TigerDirect (who coincidentally is the worst for doing this). Little over 2 years ago, TigerDirect was trying to sell their stock of eVGA GTX480's on Ebay for $2500 a piece.
If AMD is having problems getting enough of the HawaiiXT GPU's, it would make sense to increase prices to slow demand. Of course, we can't blame AMD without blaming all of their AIB's as well. It's possible that the price increases are from retailers/etailers, AMD, AIB's....or any combination of them. You'll never get any of them to admit to being at fault. They'll all just blame those mining crypto-currencies.
Not sure exactly what the issue is with my post. It was entirely factual. If any of us were running a company like NVidia or Intel, we'd run it the same way. Profits come from market position. Market position comes from product quality/performance (unless you're Samsung, then product quality doesn't mean anything). If NVidia wasn't so driven by profits, cards like Titan and GTX780Ti wouldn't exist. My next card will likely be a Maxwell refresh card anyway.....or whatever the 900 series ends up being.
Agent-A01
HAHAHA
http://i.imgur.com/QA5esmZ.png
Cyberdyne
I love the AMD fanboy view of AMD the company. 'They can only do good! Everything they do is for US and not their profit!'
How do you explain the obvious partnership with Raptr for this BS rewards program.
If you hear a company say 'rewards program' you run.
Cyberdyne
I'm not a fanboy.
And even if I was, which do you think is worse?
AMD in bed with Raptr to make money off of people using this new program.
Or.
NVidia users complaining about it.
Which do you think actually effects you?
If you still think it's still NVidia users complaining then you are the perfect target for any company looking to nickel and dime you.
Barry J
Strange view so if nvidia bring out a graphics card that uses 2w and is 10 x faster than anything AMD has and is half the price you would not buy it ...... ?
WhiteLightning
Moderator
I think these programs are a good thing. There are loads of people, even on this very forum who seem to think they max out todays games without a performance penalty. (AC4 fior instance) hopefully these programs will bring them back to earth by showing them what the recommended settings really are.
I dont know how well this reward program works though , can anyone comment on that ? when people are able to get a game for free or something like that.
Cyberdyne
@sverek
I didn't call you or all AMD users fanboys. The fact that you took offense to what I said tells me you do think AMD is an unfulfillable company and are ok with companies milking people. Just because a lot of companies do it does not make it ok. Just because you wont use it does not mean it should not be there.
And I think you are a little confused and/or misinformed. This program is an answer to Geforce Experience. A program that I don't even bother installing. Which was out May 23 2013, and was in open beta before then.
And I'm also willing to bet that, even after learning NVidia users already have the same functionality without ads, which gives me no reason to want to ruin AMD users fun, I am still a NVidia fanboy.
In other words, this is Geforce Experience, which also optimizes games, updates drivers, and has twitch + ads brought to you by Raptr. And just to be clear, this is not just ads, this is a fully integrated 'rewards program'.
Why are you ok with that?
meth curd
i have an amd card so i love this unconditionally. also death to nvidia etc
