That was quite a while ago, I was in a bad state of mind because of a medical condition. I was referring to AMD’s business practices and not about the quality of their products. Since then several changes have been made within AMD’s structure which will hopefully bring on some positive results. I have nothing against AMD, I am eagerly waiting for the 390X and I am getting two of them.

Wait, you write for WCCFTech? And you make comments like this???

Mantle is the alternative to Direct3D (low level API vs high level API) and Direct3D is part of DirectX. But DirectX 12 will be low level.

Sad yet completely avoidable. Nvidia could make their Gameworks source code public like AMD did with TressFX and they could rely on the strength of their hardware. If they truly have the best GPUs and the best drivers on the market right now then they could prove it on an equal playing field.
The fact that devs condone this behavior is, quite frankly, disgusting.

Gameworks is the result of some very talented work and millions in r&d, providing a better visual experience on nvidia hardware.
If they choose not to share the code it’s understandable as is the developers’ choice to implement Gameworks into their games.
It’s sad that this leaves AMD at a disadvantage.

Gameworks doesn’t even give AMD a chance to “get their act together”. According to Nvidia, developers can, under certain licensing circumstances, gain access to (and optimize) the GameWorks code, but cannot share that code with AMD for optimization purposes. AMD basically have to wait for the game to release and then reverse engineer it to work better with their hardware. By the time that’s done and the driver is released, the game’s release hype has vanished and performance review articles on the game show AMD cards struggling to run it.

Oh no, it’s nowhere near that bad.

Certain Gameworks technologies can be used on consoles but it’s up to nvidia to allow it. CD Project RED mentioned this regarding the Witcher 3. Having their tech on consoles can be beneficial for nvidia but it could depend on specific relationships and developers.

GTX 980Ti is not coming out in March and no I won’t be buying it. Worthy upgrades would be the GTX Titan II and the R9 390X and neither will be available before summer. What I buy has nothing to do with AMD’s state and there is no denying that they are and have been in the red for quite some time.