John Carmack: Modern Graphics Cards from AMD or Nvidia are Insanely Powerful.

Legendary Video Game Designer Finds Pros and Cons of GeForce and Radeon Graphics Cards

John Carmack, a well-known developer of video games, believes that modern graphics cards by ATI/AMD and Nvidia Corp. are powerful enough to handle very complex games. However, the company that can better help game developers to optimize their games for their hardware will eventually automatically provide better solutions for those titles, Mr. Carmack believes.

“You almost cannot make a bad decision with graphics cards nowadays. Any of the add-in cards from AMD or Nvidia are all insanely powerful,” said John Carmack, the lead programmer at id Software, the game developer behind Doom, Quake, Wolfenstein and other popular title, in an interview with PC Gamer web-site.

 

Even though Mr. Carmack does not give any recommendations for buyers, he claims that the hardware from a vendor that better supports game designers can potentially offer better solutions to end users.

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