GPUXPert

The legendary game designer and programmer responsible for creating the first ever first person shooter and the first ever PC LAN games (Doom, Quake, Wolfenstein 3D) took his frustrations with Nvidia's patent litigation with Samsung and Qualcomm to twitter shaming the company for promoting it. "It disturbs me that Nvidia reports on their patent litigation as if we are supposed to be cheering for them." He stated The entire lawsuit is very controversial once broken, if successful it means that no other company in the world would be allowed to design and sell graphics processors without Nvidia's consent. Full story / SOURCE

I'll just patent water then and sue companies that bottle it (Qualcomm) and the people who drink it (Samsung). According to you I have the right to do that because I own a patent that says I invented drinkable water. And you're plain wrong when you say they "arent patenting the GPU" because they DID and it's one of the patents they're using to sue Samsung and Qualcomm. Just read their official statement to realize how pathetic this is. So anything that can "process graphics and light up screens" is patented by Nvidia and NO ONE else should be allowed to make, seriously do I need to go on ?!!! @Suika NVIDIA did invent the marketing term "GPU" in 1999 however they by no means invented the video card, the 3d accelerator, or any of the indivdual facets that make up a "GPU". ATI can say they invented the "VPU". Essentially it's like Kleenex saying they invented the Kleenex. Of course they did, but they didn't invent the first tissue paper. The terms GPU and VPU are both semantic BS.

You have to understand that patents merely protect your implementation of an idea not the idea itself. Nvidia is claiming that if any company builds any sort of logic that processes graphics then its infringing on its patent, because it "invented the GPU". That's absolutely ridiculous in that case I'll just patent the use of human beings as employees in companies and then sue every company in the world. I'm sorry but if you don't see through this then you're jaded beyond reason.

Ah apologies, should be moved to off-topic then.

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The R9 390X is coming next month folks, has already been demoed at GDC. The rest of the line-up is what's coming later , R9 380X and down. No rebrands this time entirely new GPUs.

LMAO at all those who so quickly declared Mantle dead on the spot.

They don't say where it's from so I'm not sure.

The source is the shipping data http://cdn3.wccftech.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/AMD-R9-390X-with-Cooler-Master-heatsink.jpg Please visit the actual WCCFTech.com page, they do say under R9 390X photo "AMD Radeon R9 390X concept by VCZ". It's a concept mock-up done by videocardz.

The R9 390X has been confirmed to be shipping with a liquid cooler from Cooler master. The new card will feature a similar liquid cooling setup to the R9 295X2. leaked specifications : "Based on these alleged specifications we can make preliminary conclusions about performance. Although please keep in mind that I’ve only taken into account performance scaling based on the SP count. So these estimations do not take into account any possible architectural improvements or the new stacked memory sub-system. Assumed clock speed for the R9 390X is 1020Mhz based on what we’ve seen from the R9 295X. Although I’d expect the card will feature even higher clock speeds considering the huge thermal headroom enabled by the liquid cooling system." Source

In the video AMD shows, an unknown green company coming up with its own version of the fixer. Let's just say it doesn't go well. And at the end AMD leaves a brutal jab at the recent GTX 970 controversy.

Or just buy two R9 290s. Cheaper than 970s, faster in 4K and actually can use all of their VRAM. At least you'd be buying the same card AMD advertised.

It's stacked memory, so 1Ghz of HBM is actually 9 times faster than 8Ghz GDDR5. http://wccftech.com/amd-20nm-r9-390x-feautres-20nm-hbm-9x-faster-than-gddr5/

I drew up that comparison to give a sense of perspective.

The GPU performance of Carrizo has been revealed and it's three times faster than Intel's fastest iGPU on the market. It's as fast as an R7 265 / GTX 660 / PS4 . And that is mighty impressive. The performance gains shown suggest a doubling in GPU IPC over Kaveri, this is suspected to be the direct result of HSA compliance. Not having to copy around the data back and forth between the CPU and GPu to achieve a common task could prove miraculous. Source