AMD Radeon R9 290X with Hawaii GPU pictured, has 512-bit 4GB Memory

[LtMatt]

Might be, likely for the event.
BF4 with the 290 series make sense but we find soon out what its about

AMD teases Crossfire, Eyefinity and Linux driver improvements
http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2013/09/25/amd-teases-crossfire-eyefinity-and-linux-dr/1

I'd love it they added another 5-25% to 7950 crossfire performance. Wishful thinking though i expect.

 

[Orangey]

The margins might be acceptable for the Steambox chip. But I think Valve would pay them what they want anyway, a Linux box needs Nvidia so the green goblin has the leverage.

 

[LtMatt]

That's probably what Nvidia's announcement is tbh.

 

[humbug]

That's probably what Nvidia's announcement is tbh.

Yeah could be.

 

[flopper]

I'd love it they added another 5-25% to 7950 crossfire performance. Wishful thinking though i expect.

I assume its some hardware improvement for crossfire.
more to do with fcat than fps.

 

[Jono8]

Perhaps they will be putting a Titan in each steambox

 

[LtMatt]

I assume its some hardware improvement for crossfire.
more to do with fcat than fps.

I know but we can still hope.

 

[N19h7m4r3]

Well OpcenCL, and OpenGL performance is important for me, so I'm hoping these new cards step up their game with OpenGL especially.

It would be interesting if the SteamBox used AMD as well, it would kind of make up my mind for me on buying an AMD card for my system.

 

[LtMatt]

I can't think of many decent OpenGL games. I'm sure there are some but i can't recall any apart from the Left 4 Dead series. Someone name a few that im missing.

 

[~>Dg<~]

I can't think of many decent OpenGL games. I'm sure there are some but i can't recall any apart from the Left 4 Dead series. Someone name a few that im missing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_OpenGL_programs

 

[Suarez7]

I can't think of many decent OpenGL games. I'm sure there are some but i can't recall any apart from the Left 4 Dead series. Someone name a few that im missing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_OpenGL_programs

Master Dg beat me to it, well played sir.

 

[Gripen90]

I can't think of many decent OpenGL games. I'm sure there are some but i can't recall any apart from the Left 4 Dead series. Someone name a few that im missing.

Rage ? I think was OpenGL.

Else I remember a LOT of good old OpenGL games...Quake 3, Quake 4, RTCW, MOHAA, Serious Sam, COD, Devastation, Prey etc.

 

[Martini1991]

I can't think of many decent OpenGL games. I'm sure there are some but i can't recall any apart from the Left 4 Dead series. Someone name a few that im missing.

As far as I know, L4D is DX9 (Or was).

I know it's OpenGL in Linux, but I'm not sure if that version ever made its way to Windows, I can imagine why it hasn't, as then Steam lose their "Linux is way bettererererer for performance"

If L4D was DX11 instead of DX9, but was exactly the same, only using optimisations, it'd also run faster (But why would Steam mention that?)

 

[~>Dg<~]

l4d3 maybe ?

 

[Suarez7]

Half Life 3 confirmed

 

[Martini1991]

Orange box 2 theory

 

[flopper]

I know but we can still hope.

Phase 2 driver is also expected for eyefinity users.

Realistic rendering in real time like this maybe?

Spoiler

 

[Gripen90]

Prey 2 might be OpenGL.

 

[ubersonic]

Pretty much anything made by valve is either OGL or has an OGL version. Unreal engines always have a OGL variant too (the originals had a better OGL engine than D3D engine, through the Glide one was better ). Blizzard games all have OGL engines AFAIK (but the PC versions use D3D).

 

[Jono8]

Half Life 3 confirmed

ay?