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AMD Radeon announces Capsaicin Live Webcast at GDC on March 14th
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Lactose_Intolerant
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That was their intro for Polaris....wrap it up, AMD is done.
Corpsepyre
Banned
What the fuck is happening? HAHA.
deeptech
Member
CraigerGamer
Member
I think AMD needs to take an Apple class on how to reveal products. Holy moly.
Holy shit.
Corpsepyre
Banned
Also, this guy on stage had a sore throat at last year's E3, and things haven't changed a year later.
Not a consumer event.
Chobel
Member
Thanks!
johancruijff
Banned
that's it with polaris?
Frostbite is one of the most well optimized engines.
They already had Mantle in the past, so it's a small jump to DX12
This seems like the broadcast address:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/gQETjZzLnf9
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/gQETjZzLnf9
johancruijff
Banned
Total Warhammer DX12?
whelp good news if it helps the chronic problems the series have
whelp good news if it helps the chronic problems the series have
Peter Ian Staker
Member
That plus 64 bit support
qa_engineer
Member
That Polaris 10 demo was cringeworthy.
Sanctuary
Member
This isn't some attempt at a driveby shitpost, or a claim that one brand is "better" than the other; but if money is no object ($1000 or less anyway), and with the way Nvidia seems to actively go out of its way to hinder the performance of AMD cards in some way with some games, what's the biggest upside of going red again? Have they finally improved their leaf blower noise levels as well?
Horsemama1956
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You wouldn't notice the difference most of the time and blower style coolers are always going to be louder, that's just the nature of that type of fan.
Price and GBs of memory are pretty much the only things that AMD have going for them, aftermarket cards are whisper quiet, but my 290 has lasted me over 2 years at this point and it's been fucking fantastic (compared to Kepler, at any rate). Pascal will probably rock whatever AMD will put out in regards to power consumption and Nvidia-specific effects though. fuck VXAO is gorgeous.
Horsemama1956
Member
AMD cards match up well for the most part compared to nVidia cards though in terms of performance. A big focus with Polaris is efficiency.
Most of the AMD GPU hate is just ignorance.
General Lee
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They did say Hitman was running 1440p 60 fps, which seems crazy if it was running a single Polaris 10, that's supposed to be a small ~100 mm chip.
They also had a driver ready and capable of running production games.
Something is fishy there... What were the settings there?
I very much doubt a 100~120mm chip at 14nm can run a game like Hitman like a R9 390.
Here's a direct link to the stream.
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/gQETjZzLnf9
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/gQETjZzLnf9
General Lee
Member
Apparently Polaris 10 is the bigger chip, and what they showed at CES was Polaris 11.
https://twitter.com/Thracks/status/709528808416673793
I own one, lmao. They are both great companies. It all depends on what ecosystem you want to buy into, just wait for both companies to play their cards and see.
And some of them are 100% lies.
Like the Fury X unveil....."great overclocking!"
yea, about that.
potatohead
Member
Well if nvidia gets their HBM2 card out this year then I'm jumping ship personally, amd had a headstart and aren't taking advantage of it? Fucking morons, HBM1 isn't much better then GDDR5 so its a waste honeslty.
They demoed a Polaris chip running hit man in dx12 at 1440p 60fps. Apparently a smaller energy efficient chip, which is impressive imo. The question is what settings did they use, but if this is a 100-120mm chip doing that even if it was low-medium settings that's impressive. Of course we don't know the launch price, so that could make or break the chip.
R10Neymarfan
Member
AMD gets first pick though, so I'm confused. So I guess the flagship cards won't be coming till 2017. and we will get the mid range GPUs with GDDR5X for just this year.
Baron_Calamity
Member
I really doubt Nvidia will have a consumer grade card with HBM1 this year.
Guess I'll stick with what I have and pray for the best. Here's a graphical repesentation of my GTX 770 at the thought of having to run new PC games for another 10+ months.
johancruijff
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stream down?