Zodiark1593
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But that would all be ... logical. Too logical for NVidia, they have to figure out a clever way to screw over their customers first.
No hardware HEVC on most older Maxwell parts.
But that would all be ... logical. Too logical for NVidia, they have to figure out a clever way to screw over their customers first.
AMD is moving its entire graphics driver stack to open source, removing the disconnect with some closed source drivers. Elements of the stack are under different open source licenses, but it allows customers to develop and distribute a custom driver kernel specific to their needs.
Regarding the discussion earlier in this thread about entry level Nvidia dGPUs:
According to this rumor there will be a Nvidia GT 930 (based on GM108) coming Q1 2016:
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2458367
http://wccftech.com/nvidia-geforce-gt-930-launch-q1-2016-maxwell-kepler-fermi/
....but so far the info is that it will have DDR3. No mention of GDDR5 yet.
A gt930 for a cheap driver of a 4K'er ..
It's a decent marketing move on AMD's part. Game's like LoL, Dota2, and CS:GO have huge player bases. Why not let the public know that you can play games like that "just fine" with an AMD APU like the 7870k? It's not like they need a GTX 980Ti or anything.
The "super apu" is basically the zen apu and some people here argued that it would be ~ 300W full-on CPU + discrete card together.
For option #1, I wonder if it is possible to make a laptop chip out the Sever APU?
Maybe AMD could take the 8 best cores out of 16 (possibly disabling SMT in some cases). So 8C/8T (or 8C/16T) vs. Skylake/Kaby Lake 4C/8T?
Then have different level of cTDPs?
Certainly with 8GB or 16GB of HBM (replacing system RAM) and the large iGPU (vs. having dGPU) it would be compact. (Though the cooler will likely add a lot of bulk back)
"I play on MAX, I play on AMD"
You wish
If GM108 comes with GDDR5, I figure it will be 75% of a GTX 750. (re: 384 Maxwell v1 cores is 75% of 512 Maxwell v1 cores)
That is not bad either! (although looking at that chart in the link, I do wonder when that will happen)
P.S. Regarding the display output......GT930 as GM108 will work at 4K (60Hz) with display port. But these will not have HDMI 2.0.
a new GM108 card is very uninteresting, that's like a cutdown GM107, something which is almost 2 years old, I think it lacks HEVC, VP9, HDMI 2.0
the only GPU that seems to support all this stuff is the 1 year old GM206? that's sad,
The "super apu" is basically the zen apu and some people here argued that it would be ~ 300W full-on CPU + discrete card together.
I've been wondering if they could even get that Server APU tamed down to the level of a laptop (a higher TDP one, of course).
However, I don't how much of functional units need to be disabled:
http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=37924655&postcount=167
Now I realize that idea sounds far fetched (to put things mildly), but Intel is able to get Skylake 4C/8T down to 25W with good clocks. So 45W to 65W seems reasonable enough for a 16C die with 8 cherry picked cores.