Lets be real, if Nvidia/Oxide are claiming that Nvidia is going to fix this in driver, does it really matter if it's software or hardware? I highly doubt Nvidia is going to release a driver that either cripples performance, or side-grades it.
Again people keep talking about the implementation, they talk about the method being used, etc, but they completely ignore the final result, which is what everyone should care about -- the performance. In AOS @ 1080P through 4K the difference in performance between a 980Ti and Fury X is negligible. They essentially perform the same. And the game is literally designed to be a draw call benchmark.
What annoys me is that aside from PC Perspective's podcast and Hilbert (through multiple posts) no one is talking about this. Everyone is just circle jerking eachother about a bunch of irrelevant bull****. 3 Days ago there was a post on reddit that was like "CONFIRMED, NVIDIA DOESN'T SUPPORT DX12 ASYNC SHADERS" now today, there is "OXIDE CONFIRMS NVIDIA SUPPORTS ASYNC".
Tech review sites really need to step up too -- I get that some don't focus on the low end, technical stuff -- but the fact that I have to go to some forum and read through amd/nvidia fanboy nonsense for 70 pages in order to even understand what is happening, is bull****. I really miss Anand from Anandtech. The guy would have had a 10 page breakdown of the entire architecture, what's occurring, why it's occurring, with actual developer commenting on it. But since Ryan or whoever sold it to Tom's hardware, that site has literally turned into a giant ****ing billboard of advertising garbage. There is more ad space then article space on that site now. Anyway I'm ranting, but it's frustrating. People keep posting their uneducated, uninformed opinions based on what some armchair googling nerd thinks is happening.
I personally think that the ASYNC shader "issue" was a PR idea created by AMD to sell their lower end cards at a higher price than before and an effort to cut into Nvidia's bread and butter. I give them credit, it sure is getting play.
We'll see how it turns out.