Emotions cause people to act and think irrationally.
Hardware unboxed and Gamers nexus are impartial to both companies with actually more bias towards AMD. Being able to remove emotions from the equation, a person is generally able to make better and more concise decisions.
With emotions blinding some people, they are unable to realize, that this blocking technology hurts everyone that is a consumer. If DLSS is present in the same game as FSR2, FSR2 is shown to be inferior of FSR2, which is why AMD does not want this comparison. However while hurting AMD, should actually encourage them to improve the technology which would be a benefit for all gamers. Additionally, if AMD starts blocking DLSS, there is nothing to stop Nvidia from doing the same thing. When AMD lowers the bar, it hurts all consumers because it enables Nvidia.
One just has to look at the 7870. This was a mid range die at best at 212mm2 on cheap 28nm, where wafer cost was around $3000 dollars per wafer, But how much did the 7870 cost? $350 dollars. That is $450 dollars today and wafers are not $16000 dollars like today. In addition when it launched, there was zero improvement to performance per dollar. There was actually regression much like today's cards.
https://www.techpowerup.com/review/amd-hd-7850-hd-7870/28.html
Wafer cost wasn't even a potential excuse during this time, but there was not much blow back because AMD is the little guy, However the consequences was Nvidia got to do the same thing because AMD did it first. With Kepler and Nvidia generally bringing improvements to performance per dollar while doing the die shift AMD did first, Nvidia was able to be herald as heroes and AMD destroyed its good will. It got to the point AMD had to do 20-30% price cuts while throwing in 3 triple AAA cards to sell their cards because of AMD's mindshare blunder.
Actually the whole 7xxx series in general was the same. AMD was the progenator of charging big money for little improvement, with small dies and pricing things according to improvements vs last generation.
If AMD starts blocking DLSS, what's to stop Nvidia from the same behavior? Nvidia has given AMD every opportunity to gain mindshare this generation and they keep on blowing it. Hate marketing can only go so far and this type of marketing has made the GPU market, toxic for both players.
People expecting/asking to see a contract are doing so in bad faith. The chances of an actual contract leaking are slim as the number of people to see this contract will be very low(easy to trace leak) and likely on the executive level. Why would someone employed at either company leak this contract. AMD has no reason to show it if it does show a blocking DLSS clause.
What they can do is clarify this statement if they are indeed not blocking DLSS. Media outlets with millions of subscribers are given them the opportunity to clear the air and give them the chance to show they are the good guys in the industry. This no comment when being asked from the media this direct question shows AMD is highly likely blocking DLSS as saying they are not blocking DLSS only leads to positive outcomes and nips this rumor in the bud before it gains more traction.
To address one more comment why this is topic is gaining traction even though FSR can be used on all platforms stems from two things.
DLSS is superior to FSR in terms of image quality and Nvidia represents 80% plus percent of the market. This move is more likely to piss off most of the videocard market than get on the FSR band wagon. IF FSR was superior over DLSS in terms of image quality or AMD represented the majority of the market, most of this controversy would go away.
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