Community Console, How would you do it?

[Mira Yurizaki]

5 hours ago, Stefan Payne said:

Haven't you heard the storys about the Original XBox? What do you think why Microsoft dropped Intel _AND_ nVidia for the 360 and made that incompatible??

I would like to see a link to this story.

 

Also the Xbox 360 had wonderful backwards compatibility with the Xbox.

5 hours ago, Stefan Payne said:

And what about the CUDA/Open CL Story??

They dropped the Support for that with Kepler - right when 'the other ones' are better in that area, they do the walled garden shit...

No they didn't. NVIDIA didn't add support for OpenCL 2.x officially. However, there are unofficial drivers that expose OpenCL 2.x support in the works and for what OpenCL support it does have, it seems to be doing pretty well (https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nvidia-1080ti-opencl&num=1)

5 hours ago, Stefan Payne said:

OT:

Radeon HD7970 was already equal or better than Kepler aka GK104.

Same with Hawaii...

Perhaps in raw potential, but AMD has history where their drivers are like liquor: it gets better with age.

5 hours ago, Stefan Payne said:

And then there was the GTX 970 Memory Architecture...

 

And to be honest: an 192bit Memory interface would have been better - with 3GiB than what we have right now.

How would that be better?

5 hours ago, Stefan Payne said:

For what?
The 4th or fith Time?!

The i740 failed, then they did only IGP Stuff for a while.

Larrabee didn't work...

And their drivers are the worst for gaming right now...

Larrabee turned into Xeon Phi, which seems to be doing well.

 

And I'd like some more information that their drivers are "the worst."

[KarathKasun]

2 hours ago, M.Yurizaki said:

I would like to see a link to this story.

 

Also the Xbox 360 had wonderful backwards compatibility with the Xbox.

No they didn't. NVIDIA didn't add support for OpenCL 2.x officially. However, there are unofficial drivers that expose OpenCL 2.x support in the works and for what OpenCL support it does have, it seems to be doing pretty well (https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nvidia-1080ti-opencl&num=1)

Perhaps in raw potential, but AMD has history where their drivers are like liquor: it gets better with age.

How would that be better?

Larrabee turned into Xeon Phi, which seems to be doing well.

 

And I'd like some more information that their drivers are "the worst."

Not really.  Graphical glitches and general instability was common unless you were playing Halo or one of the other stand-out titles from OG XBox.

 

Intel drivers take hardware that should be capable of playing a game and turn it into a glitchy unplayable mess.

[Noctua_Boy]

10 hours ago, Stefan Payne said:

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Yes that's really not something that's hard to miss.

Especially when you get some facts that show that "the others" are way better than you make them out to be.

 

Just look at how good Doom and Wolfenstein II perform!

 

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Haven't you heard the storys about the Original XBox? What do you think why Microsoft dropped Intel _AND_ nVidia for the 360 and made that incompatible??

And stuck with ATi/AMD since then...

 

I created a thread about on a website called gamersreporters back in 2006, Im very familiar with it.

 

 

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It would be a start if you stop buying every nVidia generation...

Im not a fanatic , i look at each generation and all the reviews and then make a choice.

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Radeon HD7970 was already equal or better than Kepler aka GK104.

Same with Hawaii...

And then there was the GTX 970 Memory Architecture...

 

The tests shows Pascal doing better than Vega. This is 2018. I dont like living in the past , do you?

 

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The 4th or fith Time?!

The i740 failed, then they did only IGP Stuff for a while.

Larrabee didn't work...

And their drivers are the worst for gaming right now...

 

They recruited Raja an ex Radeon group GPU expert and they have the money to dump into R&D. I Think they dont want High end GPU performance , more like Midrange enough to make OEMs consider. (Laptop)

 

[Noctua_Boy]

14 hours ago, KarathKasun said:

Not really.  Graphical glitches and general instability was common unless you were playing Halo or one of the other stand-out titles from OG XBox.

 

Intel drivers take hardware that should be capable of playing a game and turn it into a glitchy unplayable mess.

Panzer Dragon Orta freezes after the 3rd Level. 

[Ithanul]

On 3/25/2018 at 3:55 PM, KarathKasun said:

Not really.  Graphical glitches and general instability was common unless you were playing Halo or one of the other stand-out titles from OG XBox.

 

Intel drivers take hardware that should be capable of playing a game and turn it into a glitchy unplayable mess.

No kidding, I had Xbox 360.  The backward compatibility on the 360 was craptastic.

Just ask anyone who tried playing the Knights of the Old Republic.  O god, me and my roommate where laughing our butts off at all the glitchyness of running it on a 360.