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AMD Fury x2 Demoed at V-R conference

Another way to explain it ... Fury X2 is basically 2 fury x 'stuck together',
but a single fury x is higher than the minimum or average spec for oculus games,
so its pretty much guaranteed that your VR game is going to work properly on a card like the FX, so adding another one is highly excessive, especially when we dont know how much 'quality options' will be provided within these games, possibly none ! ( because otherwise user will make themselves sick and complain that its the headsets fault )

Also I could be misremembering but I think it was said or implied that developers have to implement / include LiquidVR / Crossfire etc into their games specifically,
it doesn't just work properly when they use the oculus SDK.
 
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Ferrari100 said:
http://www.amd.com/en-us/press-releases/Pages/amd-partners-with-2015oct05.aspx


also consider that Oculus and Vive recomend AMD 290's alongside Nvidia 970's

290's are generally 10% slower than 970's. They could have gone with 390's to match performance levels so there is clearly some advantage over current gaming performance with AMD hardware
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Lmao, have you looked at the actual Alienware VR ready website - default option is a gtx 970 and there aren't any AMD options in the menu at all

That article doesn't say anything about Oculus partnering with AMD, it says Alienware... And, well, the actual situation now is that Alienware have dropped AMD from their "oculus-ready" PC's
 
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beany_bot said:
I didn't even know that 295 existed!! Whaaat. why don't OCUK sell it? (not that I can afford it) but still.
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Superb card, however the games I play don't support CF. So it was bit of waste and replaced it with a Nano.

But dead quiet with the custom AIO, which can be upgraded with 2 Apaches at full speed to provide better cooling and mine clocked without hassle at 1100/1625. Never tried to push it tbh.

I will put mine some time soon on MM cheaply, when I find the strength to do so :o
 
andybird123 said:
Lmao, have you looked at the actual Alienware VR ready website - default option is a gtx 970 and there aren't any AMD options in the menu at all

That article doesn't say anything about Oculus partnering with AMD, it says Alienware... And, well, the actual situation now is that Alienware have dropped AMD from their "oculus-ready" PC's
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Seriously you failed to read the title:


AMD Partners with Oculus

You smell of Nvidia fanboy by the way.
 
970 is underpowered for VR.

If that's what Dell are flogging as "the best VR card" then LOL. I imagine there'll be a petition or two when casuals can't play their games at 1440p90.
 
Ferrari100 said:
Are you nuts.
You need to ask AMD that.
I am sure they would not state they are partnering with Oculus if they were not.
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On the Oculus website there are 2 links to "oculus ready" PC's, both of which only come with NVIDIA cards - if oculus are are "partnered" with AMD, why are they only touting NVIDIA on their own website?

The link is at the bottom of the article you posted - seems jolly good sport of AMD to provide a link that directly advertises nvidia's cards and not their own.
 
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andybird123 said:
On the Oculus website there are 2 links to "oculus ready" PC's, both of which only come with NVIDIA cards - if oculus are are "partnered" with AMD, why are they only touting NVIDIA on their own website?

The link is at the bottom of the article you posted - seems jolly good sport of AMD to provide a link that directly advertises nvidia's cards and not their own.
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Just because they have announced an intended partnership with AMD and Dell doesn't mean said PC's are ready for sale yet. Or that the website has been officially updated. It was an announcement.

Also, "partners" is just a generic term for getting some legitimate branding and backing. Nvidia are also partners. It doesn't really mean anything.
 
Richdog said:
Just because they have announced an intended partnership with AMD and Dell doesn't mean said PC's are ready for sale yet. Or that the website has been officially updated. It was an announcement.

Also, "partners" is just a generic term for getting some legitimate branding and backing. Nvidia are also partners. It doesn't really mean anything.
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the "partner" mentioned was Dell/Alienware... the Dell/Alienware OR-Ready PC's are now on sale, they do not default to AMD and they don't even have AMD as an option, this has only gone live in the last couple of weeks (the AMD announcement was in october)

I know that, you know that, people like F100 are trying to make out that AMD and Oculus have something exclusive going on, which they don't, they apparently have anything going on at this point as Oculus are only linking to Nvidia.

At the very least, coming on to a forum to tell people to buy AMD cards for VR because AMD have a "partnership" with Oculus and then linking to something that actually sells nvidia cards is somewhat of an own goal.
 
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Richdog said:
Just because they have announced an intended partnership with AMD and Dell doesn't mean said PC's are ready for sale yet. Or that the website has been officially updated. It was an announcement.

Also, "partners" is just a generic term for getting some legitimate branding and backing. Nvidia are also partners. It doesn't really mean anything.
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I quite agree but you would think that AMD advertising a partnership with Alienware and Dell would have them at least giving an AMD option. The article is from the 5th October as well. Anyone who looks at that article with a view to getting into VR will be given the choice of a GTX 970 and only a 970 (at this time). That is poor marketing... Actually, that is stupid marketing.
 
Radox-0 said:
AFAIK its still 2 cards so needs crossfire support as normal cards do.
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For normal games yes, for VR i think the two gpus are working on slightly different two pictures for the two lcds. So they don't have to share the resources.
 
Mtom said:
For normal games yes, for VR i think the two gpus are working on slightly different two pictures for the two lcds. So they don't have to share the resources.
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No, the game still needs to support crossfire, it s a slightly different crossfire mode, but for example DX11 doesn't support splitting the memory pools, so it would also need to be DX12 to get in to split resources, and even then the image displayed on each screen is very similar so the requirements on each pool will be virtually identical
 
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