AMD GPU14 Tech Event Sept 25 - AMD Hawiian Islands

[FiLeZz]

I was afraid my 3 780gtx cards were going to need to be replaced Now I know I will not need to replace them. Looks like I have all the HP I need and amd has nothing to offer me or sway me. I have had AMD for 3 gens back the 780's were my first time back to NVidia in a long time. Sorry AMD

 

[FredNotFound404]

I will go AMD just out of spite for Nvidia Kepler Boost, my 670 was and still is the most atrocious card I ever had to overclock. 600 dollars seems fine to me

 

[Gloomy]

"Intensive audio"

Take me, AMD. Be gentle.

 

[Elixer]

speaking of audio... anyone recall nForce2 that had SoundStorm ?
Then nvidia axed that...

 

[pcslookout]

I was afraid my 3 780gtx cards were going to need to be replaced Now I know I will not need to replace them. Looks like I have all the HP I need and amd has nothing to offer me or sway me. I have had AMD for 3 gens back the 780's were my first time back to NVidia in a long time. Sorry AMD

I remember you.

 

[cmdrdredd]

So GTX 780 will continue to sell for $650.

 

[sontin]

Hm, i guess he never heard of Creative and their EAX technology...

 

[Nintendesert]

I assume it's a baby step towards meeting their long term strategy of replacing everything with a single processing unit. APUs aren't advanced enough yet to replace discrete GPUs for gaming, so while that front is being developed they start integrating less ambitious things into the GPUs

Very well might be. That would be a logical progression of their APU and cut down costs and drive more performance.

 

[AnandThenMan]

Love the push for better audio, it adds so much to the overall experience but most people completely ignore the audio part of their entertainment system.

 

[Granseth]

Maybe this Trueaudio stuff is something AMD has been doing anyway for the new consoles

 

[BallaTheFeared]

"Intensive audio"

Take me, AMD. Be gentle.

My body is ready.

 

[FredNotFound404]

""Licke'em"..."Link Them" Hilarious this guy is a better presenter then the rest so far, he seems quite honest and nervous.

 

[BallaTheFeared]

I will go AMD just out of spite for Nvidia Kepler Boost, my 670 was and still is the most atrocious card I ever had to overclock. 600 dollars seems fine to me

Enjoy AMD's exclusive feature: A clock/voltage for every game. :thumbsup:

 

[AnandThenMan]

Maybe this Trueaudio stuff is something AMD has been doing anyway for the new consoles

Hope so, that way we'll see the audio stuff come to the PC in many titles.

 

[Revolution 11]

It was until everyone switched to MOBO audio and stopped caring about good audio. Great audio on great speakers is great, gamers however don't care much for that so I'm not sure what AMD is hoping to gain here. They're just trying to find a new market I think.

I was thinking the same thing but the demo actually sounded great even through the webcast and on my headphones. Could differentiate between at least 3 levels of elevation. Of course the implementation will be key but I think AMD is on the right track. I would be interested as long as the price premium is not too high.

 

[Arkadrel]

Hes right that the industry has been so focused on the visual graphics,
that the sound improvements possible have been pushed aside.

In that sense I think this is okay, if it does stuff your avg. onboard soundcard cannot do.


all this talk about human brain research,... . elevation & depth perception of sounds ect.
Still not really sure what to think about this.

 

[sontin]

God, i forgot for a second that this is a GPUTech conference...

 

[cmdrdredd]

speaking of audio... anyone recall nForce2 that had SoundStorm ?
Then nvidia axed that...

The whole mobo chipset was axed. Software solutions caught up in both quality and cpu utilization. Outside of specific cards that are as expensive as a decent motherboard, the audio from the mobo itself is perfectly fine. I don't think people will care about this AMD audio stuff.

Hes right that the industry has been so focused on the visual graphics,
that the sound improvements possible have been pushed aside.

In that sense I think this is okay, if it does stuff your avg. onboard soundcard cannot do.

Any ideas on what that is? Cause I'm not seeing the benefit for games which are not using lossless encoding on the PC.

 

[Gloomy]

""Licke'em"..."Link Them" Hilarious this guy is a better presenter then the rest so far, he seems quite honest and nervous.

Spiderman is going to swoop in any second and expose his nefarious scheme.

 

[monstercameron]

Love the push for better audio, it adds so much to the overall experience but most people completely ignore the audio part of their entertainment system.

tbh, sometimes I just take off my headphones while gaming...it gets a little tiring...and sound in general is just not exciting but it is interesting...it this like early gen cuda or specific hardware?

 

[wand3r3r]

Enjoy AMD's exclusive feature: A clock/voltage for every game. :thumbsup:

Exactly how does this differ from NV? ()

Stability is determined across the board, not in a single app/game.

 

[Qbah]

This kinda reminds me of Xbox One announcement Games? What games? Obviously you want to use your console to watch or record TV shows That worked well for MS, right?

 

[Revolution 11]

The interesting thing is that Intel Architecture Labs was experimenting with concepts like this in the early 90's. Before Microsoft shut them down, IAL was trying to incorporate dedicated video and audio processing hardware into Intel's CPUs. Ironic that AMD is going down the same path nearly 25 years later.

 

[Face2Face]

This guy is just babbling now.... Someone please get him off the stage..

 

[Gloomy]

tbh, sometimes I just take off my headphones while gaming...it gets a little tiring...and sound in general is just not exciting but it is interesting...it this like early gen cuda or specific hardware?

This is like physx, it's going to destroy your CPU if you don't have an AMD card.

...I think. Honestly this makes me pretty mad but I think accelerated audio is a little more important than accelerated physics right now. And it looks like AMD prolly wont lock Nvidia out... maybe.