Aloha from Hawaii - AMD GPU14 Product Showcase Live*

I wanna download the Ruby demo !!

 

That 7990 I've been eyeballing for my other rig keeps looking better and better.

 

Yeah its r7-260x and r9-290x exclusive.


like he said 9x more if you compare at same settings, or idk same 100fps at 9x richer world, finally.

Im very excited when I heard about this Mantle thing, makes me wanna have that R9-290x more lol

 

I gave my guess on R-290x somewhere on start as they told few things about it.
Google shows now very similar specs +-6%.
If that sticks I'll have new GPU soon. And I wonder how will that Audio stuff do with my Essence ST which I really need to drive my K-701.

 

I have mixed thoughts after this presentation.

On one hand, it's great to see AMD finally starting to get their act together. The AMD RAPTR is something sorely overdue, their MANTLE API sounds great. Trueaudio is nice as well, it's about time things start to get moving on the audio front again.

However, I am worried about the long term prospects. We still didn't hear anything about s treaming technology. AMD needs to start coming up with an alternative to Nvidia's Grid, as that's where the future lies. Giving Nvidia a clear head start is going to cost AMD dearly in the future. Also, while MANTLE sounds great on paper, it remains to see how many other engines (or devs) outside of EA/Frostbite will take advantage of it. The game developers need their games to work on Nvidia hardware, and the performance advantage may not be worth the additional investment needed to get MANTLE running properly.

I guess I'm a bit disappointed with AMD trying to do more of the same and relying on PC hardware to get them by in an age where the Cloud and mobile is starting to be king. I really hope they launch a s treaming initiative sooner than later.

 

Well imagine a world that is limited to 17k calls @ 60fps, now imagine same world that is capped at ~ 80k calls @ same 60fps.

U4E, Luminous simulates those 80k and it does a darn fine job, but simulating and faking most of the stuff has its flaws, like improper lightning, etc..

More calls means, more objects, more AI, more details, more detailed fx,..


Imo its what we've been waiting for, Dx11 is a dead end, you cant make it faster unless you make it like openGL with bindless resources. This what's in dx11.2 is as close as it gets, but its still far away.

 

Quote from Anandtech :-

Wonder if thats going to be all what we are waiting for, specs, performace, and pricing

 

This week shows so far that PC gaming is not dead

 

AMD does do st.reaming....

http://www.amd.com/us/products/desktop/workstation/cloud/Pages/cloud-gaming.aspx
Go read about AMD Radeon Sky....

 

I wonder if Mantle will also work with NVIDIA GPUs, I'm sure AMD will allow cross vendor support unlike NVIDIA with its PhysX and CUDA APIs...

deltatux

 

That Mantle looked good, the raptr thing doesn't really interest me though, as when i put games on, i just whack all the settings up to the max

 

@White
If it really has up to 9x more calls then dx11, then there is no doubt it work like a thing from the future.



@Deltatux
Apparently on all GNC gpus,. Makes those 7790, 7850, 7870, etc like uber gpus

 

Can you link how NV Grid is being utilized by the industry today?

I believe mobile is a different market atm so not much point in comparing them.

 

Well im off ta bed, night guys

 

The "OUR most powerful GPU ever" statement says a lot to me... Then, there's the FireStrike benchmark graph itself. The R9 290X is leveled up to a 7k score. Well, my GTX 780 already scores 8k @ stock.

Finally, if the R9 290 Series would be "killing" the TITAN - or the GTX 780 for that matter -, I don't doubt AMD would have said it quite clearly.

How I hope I am wrong though, and R9 290X proves to be the best, fasted, powerful GPU of them ALL ever. I wouldn't mind to get one for myself

EDIT: I wonder what will be Microsoft reaction (read response), to this "Mantle" API...

 

Ooohh, I actually didn't hear about that. Good to see, though I wish it was given a first rate presentation at today's show.

 

Damn, how far away from reviews are we? use 101010 if you have to LOL