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ubersonic said:
Oh god...

Something horrific just came to mind. And it fits with a long development time and changing the face of gaming.

An Nvidia API
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To do what exactly?

Sure, AMD has Mantle, but DirectX12 is basically taking what Mantle has done and making it platform independant.

I bet it's some VR nonsense. Like the Nvidia 3D.
 
Was going to suggest it could be a new G92 card :p

But when I googled it turns out G92 was 8 years ago :eek:. Made me feel old :p
 
madindehead said:
I don't think AMD would have handled the situation much better than Nvidia did. Companies are there to make money. End of.
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Indeed, you only have to look back to the original Phenom TLB bug.

AMD's solution to it actually reduced performance of the Phenom by 10-20% on average (unlike GTX970 where performance is unchanged) and all of the signs at the time pointed to AMD going out of their way to hide the performance impact that their fix would have:
http://techreport.com/news/13724/erratum-degrades-phenom-9500-9600-performance

Incidentally, the presence of the TLB erratum may explain the odd behavior of AMD's PR team during the lead-up to the Phenom launch, as I described in my recent blog post. The decision to use 2.6GHz parts and to require the press to test in a controlled environment makes more sense in this context. Since 2.6GHz Phenoms, when they arrive, should be based on the B3 revision of the chip with the TLB erratum fix, AMD could justifiably argue that their performance won't be limited by the BIOS-based workaround. Saucier confirmed to us that the test systems at the Tahoe press event did not have the workaround enabled.

On a related note, AMD PR consistently denied or delayed TR's requests for samples of the production Phenom 9500 and 9600 models in the days following the product launch, until we informed them that we'd ordered a CPU from Newegg. We received a production sample of the Phenom 9600 from AMD shortly thereafter, followed by the 9500 we'd purchased at Newegg.
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I'm sure AMD would never stoop to such a level in the minds of some people on this forum though. ;)
 
^^

I would pick a Samsung GPU over AMD / Nvidia any day off the week, if only they made them..

it's a pity we're so limited in the GPU space..

Both company's have their flaws..

Maybe the future is Intel graphics :p
 
I have to say i like Samsung Tv's but their phones are torrid pieces of cow dung, i have the misfortune to own the Galaxy S3 when it first arrived, i moved from a HTC to the Samsung, and i have to say it was the worst build piece of plasticy rubbish i have ever had the misfortune to own.

The HTC build was superior in every aspect and even run faster on an older model.

Their TV's are decent however, so if their GPU if they ever made them, went through the QC dept that was responsible for TV's then it would be a winner, if it went through the dept that was responsible for mobiles then you can keep it :)
 
Ayahuasca said:
Nice, I'm sure encouraging people to win threads by trolling will clean up this sub section.
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What do you expect to happen in a thread based on something about which we have absolutely no information? Were you expecting people to make an orderly queue to submit their sensible, but purely speculative ideas on what nVidia might or might not do?

Given that there's not even any rumours to discuss, let alone concrete information, what's wrong with comedy ideas? I mean who in their right mind can get upset about people joking at the thought of nVidia underpants?
 
ubersonic said:
Oh god...

Something horrific just came to mind. And it fits with a long development time and changing the face of gaming.

An Nvidia API
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I thought the same as well, and the event is the day before gdc kicks off remember, but more than likely with be some sort of VR contraption, new shield or god forbid a console
 
kazuya1337 said:
They have bought out AMD
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5 years in the making......

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Looks like they missed an opportunity back at the end of 2012 :D:p:D
 
mmj_uk said:
Indeed, you only have to look back to the original Phenom TLB bug.

AMD's solution to it actually reduced performance of the Phenom by 10-20% on average (unlike GTX970 where performance is unchanged) and all of the signs at the time pointed to AMD going out of their way to hide the performance impact that their fix would have:
http://techreport.com/news/13724/erratum-degrades-phenom-9500-9600-performance



I'm sure AMD would never stoop to such a level in the minds of some people on this forum though. ;)
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I'm sure as per usual with your anti AMD crap you like to post such twaddle but that article states the opposite of what you're saying.

First of all just like Intel with their bugs or broken chipsets, they announced when they found out and everyone knew about the performance loss.

There was no shipping 2.6Ghz model, it was a future model they were demo'ing, it had the bug fixed in hardware and didn't need a performance reducing bios work around enabled. That isn't hiding a problem that was AFTER they had been very public about the problem and stopped shipping the chips for a time. The very quote you used claims it makes sense in this case. As for a hardware company controlling a product showcase... that is what is known as standard procedure.

It was also a bug, Intel amongst many other companies have them from time to time, why you're comparing it to the 970 which wasn't a bug but a design choice and something they did on purpose... then failed to tell anyone while releasing incorrect specs on purpose I really don't know.

They starting shipping a product, found a fix quickly and took a very public hit even though this bug effected like 0.002% of desktops and at the time not even most server workloads. They did nothing in the slightest to hide it, they like Intel are extremely upfront about such issues. But continue with your anti AMD bs in every thread you post in.

To compare it to the 970, like you wanted to arbitrarily, would be if AMD didn't announce the problem, got found out months later and then tried to pass the buck repeatedly till finally forced to admit what they did. Again they shipped and enforced a situation where EVERY motherboard and bios enabled the fix by default which hurt the perception of the chip even though 99.99999% of programs home users would use would never run into this bug. That is the complete opposite of hiding it.
 
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