AMD E3 Page

[humbug]

Again, like with the Nvidia page I think this is where all AMD news will land, if not please correct me

http://www.amd.com/us/aboutamd/newsroom/Pages/e3.aspx

 

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Good stuff Humbug. I was about to start an AMD_ROY thread just for Greg after he asked for it earlier but seeing as you've done this i won't bother.

Humbug get on to roy and find out what time the AMD stuff starts so we can tune in. We're all counting on you Humbug, don't let us down.

lo... I will ask.

 

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What time is that here? Will that be on this live stream?

http://www.gametrailers.com/netstorage/e3/live.html

I would think so.

E3 is in LA (GMT -8 hours)

 

[humbug]

No problem

 

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If Humbug is right it will be 1am our time if my calculations are correct.

That's right.

What happened to my steam thingy?

 

[humbug]

Apparently you've not set up your steam profile yet, noob.

I have... oh I will look at it later or remove the bloody thing, messing about with this crap it doesn't even go to my profile when you click on it, it goes to the steam signature thing.

what a load of old ####

Edit... its back! what??????

 

[humbug]

How did you do it ? I wouldn't mind adding mine, though that does mean i would lose my stylish sig. Hmmm.

Click on mine. then go to your steam profile page, in the browser, copy the URL into the box, select status (profile to big for rules) and click submit.

Add the signature URL generated into your forum signature.

 

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One of you guys is gonna have to stay up and record it, all of it, for the rest of us.

Who wants the responsibility?

I'm usually up till 4AM talking with a colleague in that part of the world, well, further north than that....

But my bandwidth just isn't stable enough for that, currently moving about on 3G.

 

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I will try, no grantees.

 

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I love the way Roy always tweets his messages to Nvidia's twitter. Don't think he's had one reply back yet.

Yeah I noticed that, always copying in Nvidia, in its self its amusing.

With all this talk of trolls, clearly Roy Reed is trolling Nvidia's Twitter page

 

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is bf4 coming free with 8970?

The chances are...yes

 

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If 8970 is around £400 and comes with bf4 I would be very happy.

Has AMD said anything about there new graphics cards at e3 yet?

Not yet

 

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The Radeon guy tweeted this page at me later on http://www.amd.com/us/aboutamd/newsroom/Pages/e3.aspx

So far we have a 5Ghz CPU and BF4.

 

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I think this image summarises E3 thus far:

Credit/Sauce: Le_Jimmy @ Reddit

plant that in the GC room, I dare you.

 

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Lets see if we can't get this bloody ball rolling.

 

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AMD famously tight lipped again, AMD say the new GPU's will be with us in Q4 2013, the consensus is along with BF4.

Perhaps AMD have yet not decided what the specifications are going to be, hence the silence.

 

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Yeah i see your reasoning and i don't necessarily disagree with it. I think if Nvidia had made decent gains with similarly priced 7xx cards AMD's hand would have been forced. As it is they can bide their time and pick the moment they think is best for launch, which is clearly not right now. They also might be waiting for Nvidias full 7xx line up before releasing. This way they can alter things like clock speed to ensure they're faster.

I would have liked to see new cards, but to be honest ive just got a 7950 crossfire setup and seeing how this ploughs through titles at 1440p no new cards are needed, performance wise imo. So i can kind of see why they're thinking lets just wait a bit.

That said, i would like it if they came out with a brute of a card and took the single gpu performance crown back, but at the end of the day what does that matter. Price vs performance is AMD's trademark.

I just look at that 256Bit bus on the 8950 and think, hhmmmm? na!

 

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There was a chart that showed the possible specs of the new cards, which probably isn't true, but could be. Even if it is it would put the 8970 ahead of the 780 by no more than the 780 is ahead of the 7970ghz now. my point being I can see no reason for any delay. They would get more sales in the next four months than they would from the extra boost that a release with BF4 would bring.


edit: found it

7970 GE:
2048 SP's @ 1050 / ROP's 32 / Mem @ 1500 - 384Bit - 288Gb/s

vs

8970:
2304 SP's @ 1100 / ROP's 48 / Mem @ 1750 - 384Bit - 336Gb/s (+12.5% / +5% / +50% / +17%)
Probable performance increase 25%
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7950 BE:
1792 SP's @ 925 / Mem @ 1250 - 384Bit - 240Gb/s

vs

8950:
1792 SP's @ 1200 / Mem @ 1750 - 256Bit - 224Gb/s (0% / +30% / -7%)
Probable performance increase 15%
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7870 Tahiti LE:
1536 SP's @ 975 / ROP's 32 / Mem @ 1500 - 256Bit - 192Gb/s

vs

8870:
1536 SP's @ 1100 / ROP's 32 / Mem @ 1500 - 256Bit - 192Gb/s (0% / +13% / 0% / 0%)
Probable performance increase 7%

 

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Interesting breakdown humbug. Going by this a 8950 ain't much different than a 7970 GE and 8970 quite close to a 780 but certainly not a "Titan killer". It looks underwhelming given how much time they've had.

Yeah, it looks decidedly unimpressive, and moving the #950 to a lesser 256Bit bus would be a huge mistake.

If there is a 10% actual performance increase from the Stream Processors, then it would be good. I.E: 35% - 25% - 17%

The only thing that I can see that tickles my interest, are the 8 ACE units, IF there are more pipelines that could in its self improve performance, potentially quite significantly, much like what they did with the PS4 APU, quadrupled the pipelines,- doubled the performance.

To much speculation, not enough data.