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AMD Polaris architecture – GCN 4.0

Questions..with all the talk of VR and AMD flogging the dead horse that is crossfire by saying and showing graphs hinting at a pair of 480's being great for Vr with the performance of a 1080. Does that mean my 390 crossfire is good to go on VR, if I decide to dabble with VR in the future?
 
TonyTurbo78 said:
Questions..with all the talk of VR and AMD flogging the dead horse that is crossfire by saying and showing graphs hinting at a pair of 480's being great for Vr with the performance of a 1080. Does that mean my 390 crossfire is good to go on VR, if I decide to dabble with VR in the future?
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Assuming any VR games actually support crossfire ever then yes.
 
Yeesh. Out of morbid curiosity, is the Pascal thread filled with discussion of Polaris the same way this is with 1080/1070 discussion? : /
 
h4rm0ny said:
Yeesh. Out of morbid curiosity, is the Pascal thread filled with discussion of Polaris the same way this is with 1080/1070 discussion? : /
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For the last two to three pages here we were on a roll with no specific 1070/1080 talk, only constructive AMD 480 talk.
Hopefully it will remain that way.
:rolleyes:
 
Pretty desperate to market it as a xfire card for VR when:

a) xfire is dead
b) headsets cost 3 times as much, not exactly a match made in heaven for budget-conscious buyers

I hope they change tack and give people some more realistic reasons to buy.
 
TonyTurbo78 said:
Questions..with all the talk of VR and AMD flogging the dead horse that is crossfire by saying and showing graphs hinting at a pair of 480's being great for Vr with the performance of a 1080. Does that mean my 390 crossfire is good to go on VR, if I decide to dabble with VR in the future?
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Crossfire is going to be the absolute worst thing you can do for VR. Terrible frametimings are going to wreck the smoothness of the experience, which is paramount.

AMD will need to incorporate some sort of split frame rendering if they want to support multi-GPU's in VR. There are still potential latency and sync issues(between views), but it's the ONLY way that multi-GPU should be done with VR. I've heard they've been working on this, but haven't seen any actual demonstrations of it yet. Nvidia have done, but even their solution still hasn't seen any actual use in a consumer application yet. So it might be a while. I'd be very wary buying two in anticipation of this. There were people who bought two GTX970's for this reason only for things to be much farther off than they realized.
 
h4rm0ny said:
Yeesh. Out of morbid curiosity, is the Pascal thread filled with discussion of Polaris the same way this is with 1080/1070 discussion? : /
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Lets not go down that path - there is plenty of negativity both warranted and unwarranted in the Pascal threads including a fair amount from people who will never buy an nVidia card.
 
Orangey said:
Pretty desperate to market it as a xfire card for VR when:

a) xfire is dead
b) headsets cost 3 times as much, not exactly a match made in heaven for budget-conscious buyers

I hope they change tack and give people some more realistic reasons to buy.
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200$ - 390-970/980 performance
 
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