AMD to Celebrate 30 Years of Graphics: Webcast and new product reveal.

[Silent_Scone]

Agreed, I used to love COH type games so I'm quite keen to give that a try. I just hope they include some in game benchmark that represents performance in game. Showcase Mantle, showcase the performance benefits it offers over DirectX. I'll be sure to do a bench thread if they include it. I've been badgering one of the devs about it for a while, but he wouldn't comment on it. I suspect it's unlikely.

In fairness it's not the type of game. I imagine it will run equally as well under both API but the difference will be with multi gpu setups

 

[LtMatt]

In fairness it's not the type of game. I imagine it will run equally as well under both API but the difference will be with multi gpu setups

Well I'm thinking if there is a lot of objects and cpu actions on screen, especially when zoomed out then that is there Mantle could come into its element. Either way i know the game devs are incredibly enthusiastic about Mantle in their game and it's available when the title launches. I'm expecting good things based on the uplift Mantle has given to titles that it has been added to after they've launched.

 

[FoxEye]

Agreed but there won't be an option for that when stock has all gone

Can only hope there will be some epic deals on the old stock, otherwise I'll be scouring the MM for used ones

Maxwell is too far away

 

[Boomstick777]

Overall that was a bit dull really, Repackaged FX CPU's and midrange GPU..

I kept thinking something interesting will happen any minute, but no...

Oh well, guess 2015 will be the year for more interesting GPU's.. Crazy to think AMD might still be selling the same old FX chips (Albeit In different boxes with different names) for all of 2015 as well..

 

[Silent_Scone]

Well I'm thinking if there is a lot of objects and cpu actions on screen, especially when zoomed out then that is there Mantle could come into its element. Either way i know the game devs are incredibly enthusiastic about Mantle in their game and it's available when the title launches. I'm expecting good things based on the uplift Mantle has given to titles that it has been added to after they've launched.

That's what 8 cores are for

 

[shankly1985]

One thing I was hoping to get shown was the new amd ccc that's been hinted.

 

[tommybhoy]

Upgraded from Titan's ouch lol.

'I upgraded from titan'

I love this guy.

He's spot on about the frame pacing thing though, multiple sites now say it, they can't all be wrong. As for 4K, assuming the 290 does not run out of vram it's definitely faster.

Here is the Kyle interview if you missed it, can't embed it because of the PG13 status:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Uzhf9lcflg

 

[Gregster]

Good interview and a massive round of applause for the announcement that crossfire is now smoother than SLI. Shows how bad it was before

Ohhh and WatchDogs running better on raid-e-on than the other guys. So much for the crap that was dished out to nVidia about GameWorks

 

[humbug]

Here is the Kyle interview if you missed it, can't embed it because of the PG13 status:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Uzhf9lcflg

5:10 to 6:35 and 7:25 to 8:10 is one for Gregster

 

[tommybhoy]

Yes it was a hard pill to swallow at the time, but end result equates to AMD playing games the way they are really meant to be played.

 

[LtMatt]

Yes it was a hard pill to swallow at the time, but end result equates to AMD playing games the way they are really meant to be played.

Agreed. I believe Nvidia will have to get their own form of XDMA SLI in the long run, with the gpu's of AMD being able to talk to each other via the massive PCI-E bandwidth rather than relying on a 900mb bridge.

EDIT

Kyle Bennett, what a man!

 

[Silent_Scone]

The bridge is legacy it does very little. To be fair in real rigs where there are water blocks it helps with sag and removal anyway so not bothered


*passes the aloe vera*

 

[LtMatt]

You reckon they will keep using the bridge frosty?

 

[Silent_Scone]

Nah, AFR is the weapon of choice and it's already possible to get by the bridge doing the work. Give it a year maybe

 

[humbug]

Nah, AFR is the weapon of choice and it's already possible to get by the bridge doing the work. Give it a year maybe

Alternate Frame Rendering (AFR) is a technique of graphics rendering in personal computers which combines the work output of two or more graphics processing units (GPU) for a single monitor, in order to improve image quality, or to accelerate the rendering performance. The technique is that one graphics processing unit computes all the odd video frames, the other renders the even frames. This technique is useful for generating 3D video sequences in real time, improving or filtering textured polygons and performing other computationally intensive tasks, typically associated with computer gaming, CAD and 3D modeling.[1]

One disadvantage of AFR is a defect known as micro stuttering.

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

 

[Silent_Scone]

Lol noob. Crossfire uses AFR. It has the best performance value

 

[Orangey]

Speaking of AFR we were supposed to get custom solutions to replace it using Mantle, nobody been brave/clever enough to attempt it so far it seems.

 

[humbug]

Speaking of AFR we were supposed to get custom solutions to replace it using Mantle, nobody been brave/clever enough to attempt it so far it seems.

I don't see the point with XDMA, with that bandwidth and frame pacing there shouldn't be any stuttering.

 

[LtMatt]

Speaking of AFR we were supposed to get custom solutions to replace it using Mantle, nobody been brave/clever enough to attempt it so far it seems.

Correct. At the moment it is something for the future.

 

[Silent_Scone]

Speaking of AFR we were supposed to get custom solutions to replace it using Mantle, nobody been brave/clever enough to attempt it so far it seems.

They spoke about asynchronous CF but from what DICE were saying the performance just isn't there