Recent content by techguymaxc

In purely shader-bound workloads, sure. Games have all kinds of resources to deal with though, that's why memory bandwidth, pixel/texel fill rates, geometry processing rate, and dispatchers, caches, L/S units, and a billion other pieces are all important. Bottom line: a GPU which excels in all...

Again, TR's basic claim is GM200 has greater pixel fill rate than Fiji. One of RS' claims is that this is wrong (in addition to their info about the capabilities of Fiji's ROPs being incorrect). Maybe none of you are arguing against that, but you'll remember my response was to RS in the first...

I agree TR is wrong on the capability of Fiji's ROPs. However, that doesn't mean Fiji is going to have more fill rate than GM200. That's all I'm saying.

He made that statement by inference. TR claims that GM200 will have a fill rate advantage over Fiji. He is arguing against that claim.

Let me try again. When you break it down to its simplest level, RS' claim is that TR's argument about GM200 having a fill rate advantage relative to Fiji is inaccurate. I've provided some results for GM200 from TR in the same test. That 36GPixel/sec number is not a calculation, that's a...

I edited my post ;) I've been responding too quickly here. I'm going to slow down and take time to say what I mean.

You are being rather dense here. Let's go back to RS' post and analyze what he said, here is the specific claim at the end of his post: I provided a data set that shows 980 Ti results to give a point of comparison to Fiji's primary competition. The target is > 36GPixels/sec here. He's even...

I'm not talking about Techspot or any other site, I'm talking about Tech Report, which RS cited by name. I'm not making a "vs" argument, I'm using data from one vendor to illustrate that GPUs don't scale perfectly in this test, which a theoretical 2x R9 285 (i.e. Fiji) would need to do in...

The point of using NV results is two-fold 1) to offer a more complete data set 2) to demonstrate that NO GPU ARCHITECTURE SCALES PERFECTLY ON THIS TEST The fact that the data has more up-to-date NV cards doesn't somehow magically become invalid when discussing AMD GPUs results, they're...

The program is 10 years old, not the data. The data RS used doesn't include Fiji's competition, Maxwell. Doesn't that seem a bit odd? Certainly not a complete representation. Not sure where the mis-communication is here. Don't assume I'm some random internet fanboy here to start a flamewar...

RS's argument is that Tech Report's analysis of Fiji is inaccurate because they are supposedly not factoring in Fiji's use of more powerful Tonga ROPs. He then goes on to use pixel fill results from an almost 10 year old program that don't even bother to show Fiji's competition, Maxwell. By...

So the contention is that Tonga ROPs are significantly more powerful than Hawaii ROPs and that reviewers aren't factoring this into their assessment of Fiji. Ok, that would seem to be the case based on the addition of Delta Color Compression, I'll grant that. However, the thing that is lacking...