AMD - A New Era In PC Gaming

[Notional]

Playable 5k? At what, low settings?

5k has 75% more pixels than 4k right? With 4gb of vram? They just had to beat nvidia with claims

 

Tomb Raider was 60fps @ 5k ultra settings.

[gill2k]

Did they mention a price for the nano or is it also $649? 

[MrDynamicMan]

Fury x2.

What. The. Mother. Of. God. And light.

[Jerakl]

Tomb Raider was 60fps @ 5k ultra settings.

If true

 

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[Bouzoo]

Tomb Raider was 60fps @ 5k ultra settings.

Source? I'll watch the full press when I get home, if it's there don't bother

[zMeul]

in case it was missed: the dual-Fiji

 

[ThreePinkApples]

someone posted these on 4chan /g/, not sure if legit or not

 

 

If that is true, then it looks like up to 4K, 4GB actually holds, but for 5K 6GB is necessary, and at 8K you need 8GB+

[Brainless906]

Source? I'll watch the full press when I get home, if it's there don't bother

 

At the conference Lisa pointed out two machines on her left. One running Sniper Elite 3 at 5k 45fps and one running tomb raider at 4k 60fps

 

This is all on her word though.

 

If it holds up then we're looking at a beastly new era for 4k content.  

[DEDRICK]

The MultiGPU Affinity though is sweet.  1 GPU per eye rendering for VR, 90 FPS should be easy but this is old news

[MrDynamicMan]

Question time. Fury nano or 980ti? (750w psu)

[Opcode]

No it hasn't, in Crysis 3 the minimum FPS drops under 30, completely unacceptable. (First example I could think of, bet there are other games with similar results)

 

And we also only have like 3 games with select 8192p textures yet - which will be a new standard on at least player characters/ skin/ clothing. (Dying Light, The Witcher 3 and I forgot the last one)

 

In other benchmarks done (Anandtech) the game runs upwards of 61 FPS on average. I don't see a dip down to under 30 FPS likely at them averages.

 

They've also got games running at 5k in the press conference at 45/60 FPS respectably on 4GB.

 

Did they mention a price for the nano or is it also $649? 

I would expect it to be more expensive than Fury but not as much as the Fury X.

[TorqueS]

Question time. Fury nano or 980ti? (750w psu)

Both can play Mario at 4k so...

[Fetzie]

in case it was missed: the dual-Fiji

 

|| <-- that close to reporting for pornography

[DeathRtH]

Question time. Fury nano or 980ti? (750w psu)

 

Wait until there is proper benchmarks before deciding.

[Dietrichw]

 

• Fact of the matter is that new, even 2 year old AMD motherboards support pcie gen 3. So what was his point again?
• http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/display/20130528222526_AMD_Will_Receive_60_100_for_Every_SoC_for_Next_Gen_Game_Consoles.html 60-100$ per console. Their embedded soc business is up and making a lot, since these current gen consoles where released. They are making a lot on them.
• That was his argument for claiming AMD did not make much off of the consoles. That was true then, not now. Either ways it's irrelevant what MS or Sony makes off of the console. AMD is paid for their chips.
• And it's based on not even knowing about Greenland. So we can already debunk his entire "prediction". It would not surprise me if Greenland is released before pascal. Not like TSMC knows how to do anything right atm. Also AMD probably has first right to HBM 2 as well. But we will see.

Point is that his statements are coloured green and without any basis on facts, or at least what we know.

 

• his point was AMD FX chipset motherboards don't support PCI3 3.0. Don't pick out the exception which uses a PLX chip and claim it is official for all Motherboards. 
• That is from analysts not official so meh, nobody knows
• What? not really but I guess you can twist it like that
• You Don't need to know about Greenland to know the time between launches and how they fit together. Nvidia will launch their new line and they won't launch a card that is slower than Fury unless they want to give up. Half way through the next line of Geforce cards AMD will have the next line of Radeon cards. It is just how the pattern is.

In tech talk he prefaces most of what he says as "This is what I think" so he is saying that is his opinion and not confirmed fact. 

 

I'm done wasting time after this

[Notional]

in case it was missed: the dual-Fiji

 

 

A dual high performance GPU, smaller than a Titan X. That's just bonkers.

[MEC-777]

in case it was missed: the dual-Fiji

 

 

Not only is it dual GPU, but it's not even a full-length card. Awesome stuff.

[Sakkura]

If that is true, then it looks like up to 4K, 4GB actually holds, but for 5K 6GB is necessary, and at 8K you need 8GB+

 

Just makes it that much weirder that AMD were talking 5K today.

[That Norwegian Guy]

 

In other benchmarks done (Anandtech) the game runs upwards of 61 FPS on average. I don't see a dip down to under 30 FPS likely at them averages.

 

Medium quality are you serious??

 

Don't f"#?/()&?¤% "Q come at me with bencmarks "proving" 4GB isn't necessary for 4K with nerfed textures and shadows FFS!

[Notional]

 

• his point was AMD FX chipset motherboards don't support PCI3 3.0. Don't pick out the exception which uses a PLX chip and claim it is official for all Motherboards. 
• That is from analysts not official so meh, nobody knows
• What? not really but I guess you can twist it like that
• You Don't need to know about Greenland to know the time between launches and how they fit together. Nvidia will launch their new line and they won't launch a card that is slower than Fury unless they want to give up. Half way through the next line of Geforce cards AMD will have the next line of Radeon cards. It is just how the pattern is.

In tech talk he prefaces most of what he says as "This is what I think" so he is saying that is his opinion and not confirmed fact. 

 

I'm done wasting time after this

 

 

• Still don't get his point. Highend AMD stuff has PCIe3 Gen. You're not going to use gen 2 motherboards in a gaming system.
• http://quarterlyearnings.amd.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=74093&p=quarterlyearnings Knock yourself out.
• AMD's income on consoles are separate from MS/Sony. If they choose to subsidize, that is on them, not AMD.
• No ones claiming Pascal will be slower than Fiji. He directly said AMD won't have HBM2 because they can't afford HBM2 and R&D, and that they would get bashed by Pascal, because they would only have Fiji rebrands. He said that after an official roadmap showing Greenland with HBM2, being released around same time as Pascal.

Wasting time? You asked for examples, I supplied it. Be careful what you wish for.

[evilarceus]

The R7 360 shape really interested me. I knew from the start that it would not be the normal shape of a GPU for some reason.

[VagabondWraith]

I'm still in my return window for my 980 Ti. I have til July 2nd to send it back. This Fury card has me so got damn tempted but I'm gonna wait until official benchmarks arrive. Thing is, I want the water cooled version out of the box. I was gonna get the EVGA hybrid kit for the Ti but that would cost me another $100. If the benchmarks surpass the 980 Ti, Team Red looks very tempting this round.

Can someone please tell me what I would be losing going AMD and also what I would be gaining with AMD. Are the drivers really that bad compared to Nvidia? What if I decided to do crossfire when I switch to 4k? Is it stable?

Thanks!

[ThreePinkApples]

Medium quality are you serious??

 

Don't f"#?/()&?¤% "Q come at me with bencmarks "proving" 4GB isn't necessary for 4K with nerfed textures and shadows FFS!

 

 

Nobody knows if it is enough or not. Only thing we can do is wait for benchmarks. 

Looking at VRAM uses for games won't help you, as it is normal to "use more when available" so that it can do even fewer pulls from harddrive. How much is actually needed only benchmarks can show, by showing that FPS is getting crippled or not. 

[Notional]

I'm still in my return window for my 980 Ti. I have til July 2nd to send it back. This Fury card has me so got damn tempted but I'm gonna wait until official benchmarks arrive. Thing is, I want the water cooled version out of the box. I was gonna get the EVGA hybrid kit for the Ti but that would cost me another $100. If the benchmarks surpass the 980 Ti, Team Red looks very tempting this round.

Can someone please tell me what I would be losing going AMD and also what I would be gaining with AMD. Are the drivers really that bad compared to Nvidia? What if I decided to do crossfire when I switch to 4k? Is it stable?

Thanks!

 

NVidia are generally a bit faster with SLI profiles. But it varies with the games it seems. AMD's drivers are generally quite good; let's just say the critique is blown way out of proportion, and is based on several years ago.

 

You lose out Gsync support if you have that, so bear that in mind. But you can get vrr with Freesync on adaptive Sync monitors, if you want that.

[Elapo]

I'm still in my return window for my 980 Ti. I have til July 2nd to send it back. This Fury card has me so got damn tempted but I'm gonna wait until official benchmarks arrive. Thing is, I want the water cooled version out of the box. I was gonna get the EVGA hybrid kit for the Ti but that would cost me another $100. If the benchmarks surpass the 980 Ti, Team Red looks very tempting this round.

Can someone please tell me what I would be losing going AMD and also what I would be gaining with AMD. Are the drivers really that bad compared to Nvidia? What if I decided to do crossfire when I switch to 4k? Is it stable?

Thanks!

 

AMD has most stuff Nvidia has, you won't lose anything, except for regular driver updates (As in, AMD releases less updates), probably also wonkier multi GPU and possibly more heat output/power consumption. (Based on AMD in the past. Might not be the case with the new card.)

 

Not sure if they've said anything about VRAM, but keep in mind that the fury might not have 6GB of VRAM