To be fair, The Dota 2 International 2015, or TI5, is actually powered by us, the fans.
The pro players do a good portion of the work, granted, and Valve are hardly slackers themselves, but there would be very little if we weren’t so excited by the game itself.
That said, we won’t be too harsh on NVIDIA for advertising that TI5 is powered by GeForce GTX and their G-Sync display technology.
It’s a wise call given that The International’s prize pool is worth more than $17 million, so it’s a fairly big deal.
We’re not sure about the whole, “Only NVIDIA GeForce GTX GPUs and G-SYNC monitors provides eSports players with a gaming platform that delivers the sharper graphics, low latency and high precision that they demand.”
AMD’s latest Radeon cards, in conjunction with FreeSync, their G-Sync equivalent, would likely do just as good a job. Their R9 Fury X cards pack quite a punch after all.
Either way, it’s certainly interesting to note that Valve chose NVIDIA over AMD. Actually, that’s not quite true. It’s more likely that NVIDIA gave Valve more money to use their tech.
It’s a cool interest piece and feather in NVIDIA’s GeForce cap all the same.
Source: GeForce.com
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G-Sync outperforms FreeSync by a long way, and with the new card tech Nvidia is going to release we can might as well say bye-bye AMD, they where just lucky to use HBM first which put them on par with a GTX 980ti well done AMD for coming out of mediocrity for one generation of graphics card, prepare to dwindle off back into obscurity with the release of NVLINK and HBM2, you can take your poorly put together tech, and badly written drivers with you when you leave.