Dash Kappei
Not actually that important
CoH2 wasn't optimized AT ALL for sli (and possibly xfire) setups, so it ain't that surprising.
But I didn't know the 680 was more powerful than the 690?
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(Rumour) AMD R290x (9970) benchmarks leak - faster than Nvidia Titan
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CoH2 wasn't optimized AT ALL for sli (and possibly xfire) setups, so it ain't that surprising.
But I didn't know the 680 was more powerful than the 690?
690 is SLI card, when SLI is not working 680 is better.
That would be kinda interesting because historically I recall AMD cards handling AA better when comparing the same generation vs Nvidia, mostly because AMD usually always one ups Nvidia on the Mem Bus Width.
There will surely be a cheaper part under the top end model, though probably not as low as $400. If the R290x is faster or equal to Titan I would expect the card under it to match a 780 at least.
Usually with AMD cards, they don't gimp the lesser models that much. 7950 is a good example. Very close to a 7970 and overclocks just as well.
Rawr Its Ry
Member
Is the Hawaii GPU event open to the public? I live in oahu and it would be awesome to go that day.
You are not the market for this card.
As for me, bring it on! My 7970 feels old
not really but I want the new one.
TheLegendOfMart
Banned
Are they going to announce a full range?
I am selling my crossfire 7850's and will have £300-400 in total to get a new card. Probably wont be able to afford top one but I will probably get the equivalent of 7950.
I am selling my crossfire 7850's and will have £300-400 in total to get a new card. Probably wont be able to afford top one but I will probably get the equivalent of 7950.
amstradcpc
Member
hehehe
Well, shaders must be new, a GCN 2.0 in fact. Pitty is that although it will be the best graphics architecture ever they haven´t called it the 9800 pro in honor of the second best architecture ever.
I wonder if PS4 has these GCN 2.0 shaders too and is Curacao based instead of Pitcairn.
It has implications for the entire generation of cards though. Their architecture appears even more efficient than Kepler, without even a die shrink, if this is true. Mid range cards would presumably get much better too.
Dictator93
Member
hehehe
uh, wut?
Means it's faster than a Titan, probably full Titan (my interpretation) as well.
chaosblade
Unconfirmed Member
Why did you screencap a forum post instead of just linking it?
Terbinator
Member
It would be disappointing if it wasn't faster than a card that is 6 months older.
No, this time it would not be disappointing, because Nvidia went with full on brute force approach, creating incredibly large chip size.
AMD is much more "sane" in their approach, and because of that they have much better better price/preformance ratio.
I dont know, just thought a screen cap would look better.
Not really. AMD doesnt have a new node and their strategy of not making monster chips, this is unexpected.
Whilst that sounds great, $600 is pretty ridiculous. Will probably translate to £500 here in the UK, which is far too much for a graphics card for me personally. I don't have higher than a 1920 x 1200 monitor anyway and I feel like cards like this are better geared towards higher resolutions.
Pickles Spill
Member
What's the ETA of the announcement? I'm getting impatient. 
http://neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=680521What's the ETA of the announcement? I'm getting impatient.
Pickles Spill
Member
Welp I guess it's time to hold down the fort until tomorrow. For some reason I thought it was today.
It would be less disappointing if the price reflected that.
Felix Lighter
Member
It is completely dependent on the price. The Titan is 6 months older but it's still a $1000 card. If AMD is aggressive with pricing and can offer Titan power at the $500-600, it's exciting. If they bring Titan power at $700 - 1000, it will be disappointing.
That's the flagship model, there'll be cheaper ones too.
Terbinator
Member
Agreed about the pricing being key, although i thought that wouldn't explicitly mentioning.
I'm not budging on it being anything other than expected though. This is their new line of GPUs after nearly two years. It should be faster than Nvidia's current offering in power terms given Nvidia are on a similar time frame in regards to architecture, give or take (i.e 6xx being all but the 7xx series).
dragonelite
Member
I just want something that can give me a card in the 250-300 price range
For this that is pretty much my new gpu budget so hopefully a R290(9950 right?)
But maybe end of next year i might get an 4k screen and sli or Xfire a setup if i can land a fulltime job that summer
Skel1ingt0n
I can't *believe* these lazy developers keep making file sizes so damn large. Btw, how does technology work?
$600 and better than a Titan would be pretty killer. But the frametimes are a bit more over the place with AMD over Nvidia.
Either way, hope it lights a fire under Nvidia to deliver a badass Titan 2 for a bit more affordable price.
Regardless, loving my watercooled Titan - thing kicks ass.
Either way, hope it lights a fire under Nvidia to deliver a badass Titan 2 for a bit more affordable price.
Regardless, loving my watercooled Titan - thing kicks ass.
KaiserBecks
Member
Gets funnier every time you say it, really.