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EA, Star Wars is not the same as your ass-tastic, dime a dozen, modern warfare cribbing Battlefield campaigns.
The story and lore are what bring people in when it comes to Star Wars.

Lol turned out^ that is true

Sounds amazing. As long as I don't have to trade a foot for it.
 

$999 probably Australian/Canadian dollars. Loving the stickers.

$999 probably Australian/Canadian dollars. Loving the stickers.

$999 probably Australian/Canadian dollars. Loving the stickers.

i'm just wondering... why would AMD know less about vram requirements of games than random LTTers

I think GTA5 was the only recent big game that did their release right, which is probably the reason why so many delays were made. As for the GameWorks comment, I'm not even sure if we had a Nvidia sponsored game recently that hasn't had some sort of problem. Since Watchdogs, we've seen a lot of controversies and problems arising in performance and whatnot. We can look at Project Cars, and Nvidia cards had problems with wet scenes at first. Witcher 3 has hairworks, which was that one small feature that crippled a lot of card's performances until workarounds were made (which realistically should've just been displayed within the options menu). I have a hard time blaming AMD or Nvidia for anything, when games show that devs which either don't provide us with much options or don't optimize in the first place or provide us with a broken game on release. Seems like this is what the game industry has turned into unfortunately. I'm not saying that AMD sponsored games are any better, but the entire game industry is just like this now.

I don't think there was much incentive for nVidia to compete on HBM1. They already maintain the vast majority of dGPU shares and thus don't really need to be at the forefront of innovation to drive sales. Plus there's the risk of early adoption with new tech and the innate issues that can potentially come with it. They can allow AMD to "beta" test the technology (as you pointed out) and, should it perform well, they wont lose too much in terms of revenue, but they can improve on whatever short-comings it may have in its current iteration ready for Pascal.
 
nVidia maintains a lot of its success through aggressive marketing, and refining existing technology. AMD are almost forced to rely on early adoption of new technology as a selling point. I just hope that AMD can claw back some market share so both companies can start pushing innovation.

Texture compression can be lossless and still offer 40% compaction with minimal decompression overhead for the GPU side. Also, you don't need a higher-res texture than your display resolution. Seriously, you don't. That's what tiling and other replication methods are for: getting the same effect more efficiently and leaving room for even greater detail.
 
Modding the shit out of Skyrim still shouldn't need it. The problem with Skyrim is EVERYTHING is loaded ALL THE TIME! Even though it's unnecessary. If you're not using the texture for anything at the moment, and it's not coming up in the immediate area, it doesn't need to be in the VRAM!
 
I'm a gamer and I'm also a high performance computing programmer. I'm very much aware of how to reduce footprints of ANY dataset. 
 
Yes. A good game should load the textures to the GPU just before they are needed, not leave them sitting there for a rainy day. Conservative design is highly beneficial and would in fact allow you to do MORE. Using your resources to the upmost is as much art as science. Don't talk down to one of the actual programming experts (relative term for @Opcode, @LukaP, and any other potential flamers) in the room.
 
Also no! Jesus! There is about 30% of performance being left on the table today by bad programming in games, and that's just the GPU side of it. 75%+ is missing on the CPU side. Do yourself a favor and sit down, shut up, and do the research before you type a single word more at any of us who challenge the bullshit tossed at us by game studios today.

The only time where running hotter might be considered an advantage. 

The only time where running hotter might be considered an advantage. 

The only time where running hotter might be considered an advantage. 

Eh, @vinyldash303 has roasted marshmallows on the rear exhaust of a GTX 480... Those things can hit 110C and not throttle...

"Does your oven run Nvidia or AMD?"
"Oh I have a AMD oven."
"Haha, probably inefficient."
"No, my food is cooked quicker."

i'm generalizing here but most people buy NVIDIA over AMD because of brand name. They have done a better job of marketing over the years and the geforce name is more ubiquitous.

Here's hoping Fiji delivers. I have money with your name on it, AMD, don't let me down.

Here's hoping Fiji delivers. I have money with your name on it, AMD, don't let me down.

And in a world where money wasn't an issue, we'd have non-stop innovation. Unfortunately the reality is that AMD simply cannot invest enough to warrant an entire new line of GPU's from the entry level to enthusiast grade. So they target the area in the market where they haven't been a contender for a while with the lure of new technology in HBM, meanwhile maintaining some relevance in the mid-high range with the rebrands.
 
 
With the budget AMD have, it's a sound strategy.

Ok, after reading the article all i have to say is what a garbage excuse!
 
The core issue appears to be the same thing that has been rehashed for many years. Music rights holders are worried about piracy, nothing more nothing less, every point they bring up is irrelevant.
 
The fact that there are multi track high quality recordings doesn't mean anything because, as a quick google search will show, both the high quality tracks and their multi track versions are already available online.
 
Moreover, if they use the same encryption on the files for the PC version as the console version then then it should not matter, yes the files on pc maybe easier to work with and hence crack, but that hasn't stopped any other company like spotify from allowing people to access music apps on their PC. Its called a risk. 
 
Finally, do you want to know the most ironic thing in all of this so far? That same google search I conducted earlier to check the multi tracks out, showed a website that got its multi tracks from the console version of rock band. This COMPLETELY undermines their argument.
 
Piracy existed on the console version beforehand, not bringing it to PC will not change that!
 
/rant

And in a world where money wasn't an issue, we'd have non-stop innovation. Unfortunately the reality is that AMD simply cannot invest enough to warrant an entire new line of GPU's from the entry level to enthusiast grade. So they target the area in the market where they haven't been a contender for a while with the lure of new technology in HBM, meanwhile maintaining some relevance in the mid-high range with the rebrands.
 
 
With the budget AMD have, it's a sound strategy.

And in a world where money wasn't an issue, we'd have non-stop innovation. Unfortunately the reality is that AMD simply cannot invest enough to warrant an entire new line of GPU's from the entry level to enthusiast grade. So they target the area in the market where they haven't been a contender for a while with the lure of new technology in HBM, meanwhile maintaining some relevance in the mid-high range with the rebrands.
 
 
With the budget AMD have, it's a sound strategy.

And in a world where money wasn't an issue, we'd have non-stop innovation. Unfortunately the reality is that AMD simply cannot invest enough to warrant an entire new line of GPU's from the entry level to enthusiast grade. So they target the area in the market where they haven't been a contender for a while with the lure of new technology in HBM, meanwhile maintaining some relevance in the mid-high range with the rebrands.
 
 
With the budget AMD have, it's a sound strategy.

Sounds like the plot line to an overly-dramatic 80's action film about a renegade cop who fights crime with super-human martial arts techniques.

Radeon Fury MIGHT also sprout wings, fly out of your case, and try to take over the world.