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    Michamus
    Michamus reacted to Godlygamer23 in Will you be geting 1000 series gpu   
    Depends on the performance offered. My 970 is fine for my needs right now.
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    PlayStation 2
    Michamus got a reaction from PlayStation 2 in So they said "ASHES IS ONLY BETA, THERE WIL BE A DRIVER ONCE THE GAME IS OUT" THE GAME IS OUTT !!!!!!!   
    How else is he supposed to show he's an AMD fanboy and his ignorance about async compute?
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    i_build_nanosuits
    Michamus got a reaction from i_build_nanosuits in So they said "ASHES IS ONLY BETA, THERE WIL BE A DRIVER ONCE THE GAME IS OUT" THE GAME IS OUTT !!!!!!!   
    What's Ashes market cap? I have a feeling Nvidia doesn't care about a Indy RTS game that is running a few frames slower. I get the feeling the only reason we're seeing a major difference is because the dev team front loaded command lists to exceed 92. This is really the only time the R9 will start to perform better on Async compute and to pretend it's any more than a few frames per second is disingenuous.
     
     Besides, I hope they don't fix it, so I can watch people continue to say that Maxwell doesn't support Async Compute, even though it's been a feature of CUDA since 2008.
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    ivan134
    Michamus got a reaction from ivan134 in So they said "ASHES IS ONLY BETA, THERE WIL BE A DRIVER ONCE THE GAME IS OUT" THE GAME IS OUTT !!!!!!!   
    Interesting. I wonder why it didn't come up on my google image search. Regardless, that's some serious heat the R9 is bringing to DX12. Guess my wife is going to be rubbing that in for a while.
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    don_svetlio
    Michamus got a reaction from don_svetlio in Best GPU at a $250 or less for gaming at 1080p   
    I think what he means by "Ultra" is "Set it to Ultra, then turn everything to medium manually"
     
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    xDchoisauce
    Michamus got a reaction from xDchoisauce in GPU with dedicated storage   
    There's a few problems with your idea.
     
    The GPU can only address to it's RAM and that RAM is specialized for GPU computations. It doesn't have the ability to run programs directly, merely the graphical aspect of the program. So, for your idea to work, the GPU would need to sacrifice it's specialization toward ALU function and strap on CPU functions. This takes up valuable space on the card and reduces its performance. Sure, you could place a CPU on the card, but what's the point really if you don't have RAM as well? You're gonna have to communicate across the PCI-E bus to store addresses for the SSD chips after all. So, let's add RAM to the video card too. Cool! Now everything is on the video card. The problem is, you've just designed a video card that isn't upgrade-able and is at least $500 more than the video card was in the first place.
     
    You see, everything in your system is extremely specialized. When you load a game from your SSD, the CPU isn't just pointing its finger at the GPU. It's actually executing the program in all aspects except the graphics. It delegates that to the GPU, because it knows the GPU can handle that part of the job the best.
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