SieB
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They never gave a price :lol:
AMD Hawaii showcase
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They never gave a price :lol:
Tripp
too many shrooms
i thought so :mellow: god damn you amd i need to know how much you going to break my bank account by
Tripp
too many shrooms
yeah i hope its not stupidly exspensive, an i agree the naming scheme sucks
WYP
News Guru
This 'mantle' thing sounds very interesting. I am curious how BF4s performance will be affected by this December 'mantle' update.
mantle is supposed to make console-pc development easier, giving console optimizations also work for pc/ GCN architecture GPUs. Direct-X is not utilised by mantle, this should make the mantle API usable in linux, which could work well for developing games on steam OS/linux.
however games will need to support Nvidia, which means mantle will likely be slowly adopted as engines like frostbite 3, will need to support mantle and Direct-x or another API.
mantle should give future frostbite games like, battlefield, star wars, need for speed, Mirrors edge, Mass Effect and command and conquer advantages on AMD tech, definitely a win here
The new naming scheme could be much better
mantle is supposed to make console-pc development easier, giving console optimizations also work for pc/ GCN architecture GPUs. Direct-X is not utilised by mantle, this should make the mantle API usable in linux, which could work well for developing games on steam OS/linux.
however games will need to support Nvidia, which means mantle will likely be slowly adopted as engines like frostbite 3, will need to support mantle and Direct-x or another API.
mantle should give future frostbite games like, battlefield, star wars, need for speed, Mirrors edge, Mass Effect and command and conquer advantages on AMD tech, definitely a win here
The new naming scheme could be much better
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NeverBackDown
AMD Enthusiast
I find it interesting that they have almost doubled the same amount of cores with an ever so slightly bigger chip size. Let alone adding in ROPs/TMUs and more geometry engines, and lastly a bigger memory data path. Now i wonder what the power draw will be with all these vast improvements.
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unclefapsalot
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WELL... I tried to watch it live but accidentally took a nap... Oh well!. I'll just watch the recap before I read the spoilers!
chrismjurd
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Personally liked it, though the crowd seemed less than enthused, and obviously didn't pay the fanbois enough this year 
They didn't give any specs did they on the cards other than how much VRAM it had? So by just that...won't the Titan still be king seing as it has 6GB...obviously may not be the case but they didn't give anything else away.
I was hoping it was going to be "This is our rig with the 290X, these are the specs, price and here it is running BF4 maxed out!" instead we found out the RAM and some crap trailers of poop games.
I was hoping it was going to be "This is our rig with the 290X, these are the specs, price and here it is running BF4 maxed out!" instead we found out the RAM and some crap trailers of poop games.
The amount of RAM in the Titan is not really relevant, but it stands to debate that the 280x (or whatever the hell) is a clocked down version of the 290x, as the GTX 780 is a dialed down version of the GTX Titan (well, they amputated the double precision calculation there). The GTX 780 does outperform the 280x in regards to the Fire Strike benchmark, there's nothing to say the Titan won't outperform the 290x. Even so there's the rumor going around that nvidia will release a GTX Titan Ultra apparently a fully equipped GK110 without barriers. But then again: rumors
Oh I know it's not completely tied down just to how much memory the card has BUT as it's the only thing they gave us...and they were talking about "This is the fastest card for 4K" well I would imagine the 6GB would benefit 4K more.
Can't believe they gave nothing else away, no specs, price, nothing. I wonder if Tom has one...
Can't believe they gave nothing else away, no specs, price, nothing. I wonder if Tom has one...
Doubt it. Many HW-Reviewers were at the reveal event to get their Hands on that stuff, or get a first look at it, if they had them earlier, they wouldn't have been this enthusiastic about it. But I'm pretty sure the review samples will be sent out shortly.
Excalabur50
Well-known member
There is going to be an 8gig card released as well probably by Sapphire that will handle 4k no problem
If your looking to buy one, you could always buy two and give me one.
If it's re-branded I'm not bothered, as long as it performs well for a good price then I'm happy. I just need A graphics card.
Tripp
too many shrooms
haha i am looking at getting the R9 290x myself, sell my 7870 tahiti edition on
