AMD officially announces Radeon R9 285 and new FX-processors

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  1. icedman

    icedman Maha Guru

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    Its still fun to share our thoughts tho no need to go on the way u have been. I personaly enjoy reading what others think even if it turns out being all wrong.
     
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    You could probably add 512 CUDA cores and still end up 20% smaller on a mainstream Maxwell 28nm die (rough estimate) compared to the fully DP capable GK110 (960 DP cores take up a lot of the die).

    Observing how AMD beat nVidia to 40 and 28nm it's also safe to assume they'll beat nVidia to 20nm, but all I expect from them atm is a Hawaii revision...so how about a die shrink! 20nm Hawaii is born. Something speculative to anticipate without cumbersome facts lol. And that in a Tonga thread.
     
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  3. Athlonite

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    Based on a Core i7-4960X six-core processor and 16 GB of DDR3-1866 memory, the R9 285 scored P7066 (performance) and X3513 (extreme).

    any reason they don't use their own CPU's in these benchies
     
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    @laststop: your definition of behind the corner based on kepler GTX 770 to 780(Ti) is kind of stupid.
    Because GTX770 is GTX680 (released 2012-03-22) and GTX780 came 2013-05-23.

    Therefore if you can get new architecture in 1-2 months and you care about those features, there is no reason to wait another year for top GPU from given architecture.
    But in this case 20nm may come in 6 months after release.
    (Still only assumption and if previous experience to be used in context, then GTX770 was actually one of best GPUs around at time it got to market ~ perf./price & price wise.)
     

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    Probably to obtain the highest possible score in Firestrike since CPU power is included P score and the 4960x is unbeatable.

    That should be obvious....


    One thing I dislike about AMD is their (often misleading) marketing tactics. Like how they promote performance gains on GPU's with bar graphs that don't start at 0.
    **Mind u Nvidia do the same thing, like listing games on their PhysX page that don't support GPU acceleration.
     
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    Micro stuttering is a thing of the past. You should read some Crossfire/SLI reviews from time to time ;)

    SLI and crossfire bridges too btw, although the phase out has only just begun ...
     
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    They also said something about new chipsets, any idea when those could get to retail?
     
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    AMD keeps beating that dead FX horse! Can't even be used for server cores, the TDP is too bloody high. xD
     
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    Should help with video encoding and cpu intense games, larger L2 will speed up execution times.
     
  10. -Tj-

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    Compared to which cpu?

    I see all 4module (8cores) chips have the same 8mb cache
     

  11. SplashDown

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    Sry my bad, my eyes seen what they wanted, I thought it was going from 2mb to 8mb per core, seen it wrong, my bad....
     
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    hey no worries :)
     

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