Recent content by MathMan

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    ATI Freesync anywhere in sight?

    Huddy said on stage end of November that they would be available before end of 2014...
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    The main reasons for inflated VRAM requirements

    I wish people would stop using the "developers are lazy" platitude.
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    What will be AMD'S next Move?

    AMD and Nvidia have been using various forms of compression for years. But both are having to deal with a situation where GDDR5 is essentially stalled and the obvious solution is to be more efficient with BW. That doesn't mean they're actually sharing IP.
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    [wccftech] NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 Official MSRP Will Be $299

    I'd want it to be $300 just to have a rebuttal for all the "Nvidia is an evil profit machine" people. That, and also because it'd be awesome. :D
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    [VC]NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980, GTX 980 SLI, GTX 970, 3DMark performance

    So they still exist, people who think there'll ever be 20nm GPUs. Apple is using 20nm for the iPhones. That has 2 implications: - 20nm is ready for very large volume. - very large volume eaten by Apple. If Nvidia and AMD are still releasing 28nm today, it will be a year before you see a...
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    [VC]NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980, GTX 980 SLI, GTX 970, 3DMark performance

    GM204-GK104: 32% difference in die size. 285-265: 65% difference in die size. After the dust settles and gm200 take the top spot, gm204 will take over the gk104 market segment. 285 and 265 play in different leagues.
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    AMD's Tonga - R9 285 (Specs) and R9 285X (Partial Specs)

    Can we just agree that 285 not performing well on Mantle is a big fail for AMD? If it's a problem with the application, then it raises some major concerns about game devs having to target individual chips. If it's a driver issue, then AMD was insane to not make Mantle a priority for the launch...
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    [VC]NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980, GTX 980 SLI, GTX 970, 3DMark performance

    There most be some kind of limit for SLI of course. I have no idea what it is. Maybe there are 2 interface, one back, one forth. How knows...
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    [VC]NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980, GTX 980 SLI, GTX 970, 3DMark performance

    If a HW bridge of a slave SLI board feeds straight into the display controller of the master SLI board, the only BW required is the BW needed to send over an image. This would be a simple back-pressured operation: slave GPU indicates that there is data available, master GPU indicates that a...
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    Nvidia Game 24

    It's not illegal to go to a party of company A wearing a t-shirt of company B. Hell, my colleague comes to work in a jacket with the logo of our biggest company, because his wife happens to work there.
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    [VC]NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980, GTX 980 SLI, GTX 970, 3DMark performance

    What is better? A dedicated high-speed interface that's only used to transfer the final image, or a shared bus that's also used to feed the GPU with data? The biggest benefit of not needing bridge, is that you don't need a bridge. :big grin: Fundamentally, this is no reason why a bridgeless...
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    Nvidia Game 24

    Lighten up. They're not going to destroy anything. They'll be laughing stock. It'll be fun. It's no big deal.
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    [TPU] Radeon R9 290X Sees Price Cuts

    The start of many... Their whole product stack will soon have to move down. Positive for almost everybody!
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    AMD breaks 25% barrier in professional graphics market in Q2 2014

    Exactly right. Another one is support for Nvidia specific features. A very nice recently announced example is this one: http://www.nvidia.com/object/adobe-illustrator-cc.html
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    Nvidia Game 24

    Or simply something like this: "There are a few AMD fans in his audience who can't wait to get their hands on a GTX980. Why don't we give them all a round of applause for finally seeing the light!" The possibilities are endless: never go against a professional master of ceremony.