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AMD Radeon R9 290X with Hawaii GPU pictured, has 512-bit 4GB Memory
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Soldato
It's AMD these will drop £200 after a month. No point buying now
Haha it's true, just think this time next year we'll be picking these up for a couple hundred quid
. By then Mantle might have more games than just BF4 as well. Definitely think the GPU market is getting saturated atm, I can see why AMD / Nvidia are pushing 4K, they need to convince people that they need another £500 GPU..
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Boomstick777
4k is not what will push people. Oculus rift is .....
As a 3d gamer i see how it melts anything i throw at it !!!! My cofig is minimum what i would consider for good enough 3D gaming experience. But i do need more gpu power
4k is not what will push people. Oculus rift is .....
As a 3d gamer i see how it melts anything i throw at it !!!! My cofig is minimum what i would consider for good enough 3D gaming experience. But i do need more gpu power
Haha it's true, just think this time next year we'll be picking these up for a couple hundred quid
people tend to buy new cards when their stuff isnt up to snuff in a game.
Trying out the beta with BF4 will show me how my 7970 stands up, likely to last me until I go for a 290 sometime later.
a mid range card holds up really well at 1920x1080.
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BF4 will probably grind mine to a stuttering halt.
Soldato
New AMD crossfire technology
http://www.donanimhaber.com/ekran-karti/haberleri/AMD-Radeon-R9-290X-ve-yeni-nesil-teknolojiler.htm
http://www.donanimhaber.com/ekran-karti/haberleri/AMD-Radeon-R9-290X-ve-yeni-nesil-teknolojiler.htm
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Good find Finally. Where did that image come from?
Soldato
Soldato
The lower depths of the internet then.
But i got there by accident, but it seems like you know it well.
But i got there by accident, but it seems like you know it well.
Yes im a regular on the seedy underground of the internet.
I also just found it on Rage3d.
Soldato
True. My GTX570 hit the wall, when TW:Rome 2 came out earlier this month.
1.28GB VRAM are consumed by "the start screen"
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Boomstick777
4k is not what will push people. Oculus rift is .....
As a 3d gamer i see how it melts anything i throw at it !!!! My cofig is minimum what i would consider for good enough 3D gaming experience. But i do need more gpu power
Um an odd comparison to be honest mate. Oculus Rift looks a great product and sure it will be popular, but the hardware won't push sales for high end GPU's. Oculus rift runs @ 640×800 per eye, hardly taxing to even current hardware.. 4K will require monster GPU's for high / max settings, hence why AMD / Nvidia are marketing 4K now, they want people to buy into the whole 'Need more power' thing. Currently even midrange cards cope with 1080P just fine, Nvidia and AMD will keep pushing towards 4K to drive sales.
It will be interesting to see how well this works, I would have thought that it would be slower to pass info through the motherboard rather than direct form card to card. I'm sure they have it all worked out though, maybe even because it is bound to take those few milliseconds longer it allows them even out the frame pacing issues with no detrimental effect to the end user. (this is just my own thoughts not based upon any actual info.)
Hardware solutions trumphs software.
Its an aspect of Oculus I've been curious for awhile - for it to succeed it requires massive backing and a mechanism to push it into the mainstream i.e. bundle with a console and/or steambox yet theres a lot of people backing what appears on the face of it like a dead end tech due to the lack of feasible distribution and uptake.
Theres 2 fairly major projects that depend on it one Eve Valkyrie theres also another major IP coming from a big name studio that depends on it also (can't say more than that). Its confusing that that much effort would go into something that looks like it would only ever reach a niche audience.
(Not to mention JC joining as CTO - I can't really see people like him jumping onboard if they didn't think there was a future there - though he has always been a VR fan).