AMD Gaming Evolved-2012 to 2013 'A Look Back'

[tommybhoy]

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AMD Gaming Evolved celebrates GDC 2013 with a look back at our exciting game partnerships from 2012 to date.

We hope you have had a chance to enjoy some of these incredible titles and appreciate, as much as we do,
the great and difficult work the many developers we’ve worked with put in to give fans the ultimate experience.

http://blogs.amd.com/play/2013/03/28/amd-gaming-evolved-gdc-2013-trailer/

Please, keep up the push on PC gaming AMD that has simply lit up my gaming experience no end over this simply astounding Gaming Evovled period.

BF4 confirmed, Watchdog? GTA V? and the possible dark horse that is HL3!!!

 

[Diagro]

Epic. AMD is on top

 

[LtMatt]

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http://blogs.amd.com/play/2013/03/28/amd-gaming-evolved-gdc-2013-trailer/

Please, keep up the push on PC gaming AMD that has simply lit up my gaming experience no end over this simply astounding Gaming Evovled period.

BF4 confirmed, Watchdog? GTA V? and the possible dark horse that is HL3!!!

Agreed its been a great year and so far all of the gaming evolved titles have been brilliant.

Is there a list of the titles anywhere? I've had a look around but not found anything yet.

Epic. AMD is on top

Single GPU, without doubt. Multi GPU, not a chance. Maybe this will change once June comes around.

 

[NZXT30]

Agreed its been a great year and so far all of the gaming evolved titles have been brilliant.

Is there a list of the titles anywhere? I've had a look around but not found anything yet.



Single GPU, without doubt. Multi GPU, not a chance. Maybe this will change once June comes around.

why whats happening in june?

 

[Diagro]

Agreed its been a great year and so far all of the gaming evolved titles have been brilliant.

Is there a list of the titles anywhere? I've had a look around but not found anything yet.



Single GPU, without doubt. Multi GPU, not a chance. Maybe this will change once June comes around.

Im not guna bite

 

[pgi947]

why whats happening in june?

 

[tommybhoy]

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New CrossFire management driver announced by AMD the day before the new wave of tests appeared.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6857/amd-stuttering-issues-driver-roadmap-fraps/6



Hope AMD treated you well on your whirlwind tour@Sunnyvale California matt?

Your search skills have went downhill too, in the link above, right hand column>'Categories'>'Games' and there is a list there.

Single gpu outwith Titan, it's faster than the rest, dual gpu is up in the air at the moment, but it's nothing remotely as bad as the PR spin getting put down right now.

There is no chance CrossFire is gubbed to the 9th degree that's implied..

The performance in my titles doesn't crumble down to single card performance as implied in some of the recent reports, it just doesn't happen.

There is 100% noticeable difference between slowdown(1X) and highly playable(2X) in my rig when CrossFire is enabled/disabled at the settings I'm using-taking into account I'm using CrossFire in 3D(half the fps).

However, I'm also very aware that AMD has their work set out to get them level pegging(if indeed they can any time soon) with SLi performance on the whole, they do have their work cut out it seems.

 

[pgi947]

Nice

tbh since the ULPS issue was sorted earlier in the year, 7970 CF has been quite flawless for me.

 

[LtMatt]

Im not guna bite

Please do im happy to be corrected if im wrong.

^
New CrossFire management driver announced by AMD the day before the new wave of tests appeared.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6857/amd-stuttering-issues-driver-roadmap-fraps/6



Hope AMD treated you well on your whirlwind tour@Sunnyvale California matt?

Your search skills have went downhill too, in the link above, right hand column>'Categories'>'Games' and there is a list there.

Single gpu outwith Titan, it's faster than the rest, dual gpu is up in the air at the moment, but it's nothing remotely as bad as the PR spin getting put down right now.

There is no chance CrossFire is gubbed to the 9th degree that's implied..

The performance in my titles doesn't crumble down to single card performance as implied in some of the recent reports, it just doesn't happen.

There is 100% noticeable difference between slowdown(1X) and highly playable(2X) in my rig when CrossFire is enabled/disabled at the settings I'm using-taking into account I'm using CrossFire in 3D(half the fps).

However, I'm also very aware that AMD has their work set out to get them level pegging(if indeed they can any time soon) with SLi performance on the whole, they do have their work cut out it seems.

Yes i didn't include titan in my single gpu claim as its without doubt better but i was referring to similarly priced cards in the single gpu bracket.

Fair enough Tommy. As you use crossfire you undoubtedly know better than me regarding that. It will be interesting to see the difference those new drivers make though as microstutter is definitely a multi gpu problem that does exist but it seems like Nvidia have a better method of masking it at the moment.

It makes sense now why AMD have been supporting RadeonPro behind the scenes. This could also tie in to why they have started locking the flip queue size in the drivers, in anticipation of the new latency control feature that will be added in later drivers. If RadeonPro is anything to go by then microstutter will become a thing of the past for AMD cards in time.

Nice

tbh since the ULPS issue was sorted earlier in the year, 7970 CF has been quite flawless for me.

Its confusing though as i see the majority not having problems either but then these reports come out saying that its never been this bad. Its confusing.

 

[oldestgregg]

Nice

tbh since the ULPS issue was sorted earlier in the year, 7970 CF has been quite flawless for me.

Here here

 

[oldestgregg]

RadeoPro gives me virtually zero microstutter anyways but itll be nice not to have to run a 3rd party app for a change

 

[tommybhoy]

Yes i didn't include titan in my single gpu claim as its without doubt better but i was referring to similarly priced cards in the single gpu bracket.

I know bud, I just added it in, in attempt to stop any to and fro's.

Fair enough Tommy. As you use crossfire you undoubtedly know better than me regarding that. It will be interesting to see the difference those new drivers make though as microstutter is definitely a multi gpu problem that does exist but it seems like Nvidia have a better method of masking it at the moment.

It's definitely an issue, but, personally the only time Iv'e witnessed it is:

The rest of your hardware can't keep up with the gpu's(stopgap switch over to 990FX PII 555BE unlocked to 3 core on wait for bulldozer which simply couldn't cope with the throughput of stock/highly clocked 69's).

The game(engine) is a mess-FC3, stutter/driver fix/ubi patch-rinse and repeat(confirmed by myself, 100% working smoothly in 3D forcing FC3 onto 1.2 driver works, but not good enough performance).

There is no driver profile and you can't make/spoof a profile yourself when it needs written directly into the driver.

It makes sense now why AMD have been supporting RadeonPro behind the scenes. This could also tie in to why they have started locking the flip queue size in the drivers, in anticipation of the new latency control feature that will be added in later drivers. If RadeonPro is anything to go by then microstutter will become a thing of the past for AMD cards in time.

I'm hoping it's addressed in full as AMD have been nothing but outstanding of late, but wary it may take longer than June/July.

I think Nvidia's excellent adaptive vysnc has given them an edge from what I've read and it's now down in black and white that SLi performs better.

The dynamic vsync function in Radeon pro should be deployed properly by AMD in a proper automatic/disabled fashion in CCC and the user shouldn't have to sort it out manually.

Its confusing though as i see the majority not having problems either but then these reports come out saying that its never been this bad. Its confusing.

It depends on how anal(for better a word) about microstutter or not I suppose-in the sense if/how much it affects the individual or not, and whether you know what your doing(there is plenty just jump in not having a clue how dual setups work).

There is also the marketing spin to consider as well, AMD have been shining bright for the longest period Iv'e ever witnessed, and it's Nvidia's turn to turn the screw and get some spin back.

Obviously AMD new these articles were coming and that's why there was a pre emptive strike from them, and the article stated they would be on the back foot for a few months.

The original Techreport Skyrim brought better from the driver so it's beneficial for the end user at the end of the day that this has came out.

There is also the element of money/scratch my back-I'll scratch your back to consider too imho, as some of the reports have said the second gpu does nothing at all and might as well not be there, which as I explained above is total nonsense, your eyes can tell you that never mind software/hardware.

Again, I'm not saying there is no problem, it's game dependant and just not as simple and straight forward as these early reports imply.


To anyone who's reading and takes issue with any of the above, it's my own personal take on my past/current CrossFire experience and not wishing an endless debate of pointless to and fro's.