Jennifer was at the long AMD press event. Hear all the details about it, the Fury X, a dual GPU Fury product, VR, living room PCs, etc.
Jennifer ended up at the AMD press event. While it was long and somewhat boring, she was able to get some information regarding the upcoming AMD products. Check out the video and let us know what you think.
Which AMd show was this? the one during the Lackluster PC Gaming show? If so, I think they dumbed it down for the Twitch audience. Plus, maybe they didnt want to give away any of the design specs for how they implemented HBM or how their new Fiji actually works.
I really hate these kind of events. Everyone does them and it's so obvious they are done for the sole purpose of boosting investor confidence. Lots of meaningless numbers and buzzwords, no real substance.
1) gddr5 has a fair bit of wasted bandwidth due to error checking and resubmits (it's in the gddr5 spec. look it up) hbm will not have this. so even if they had the same overall bandwidth hbm would still be better. 2) seems like all it takes is lower level api's and 4k becomes a heck of a lot easier to hit (a lot of devs are saying this) as the overhead on the cpu is FAR less. 3) I think amd 6 to 8 cores are going to shine on vulcan/dx12 games with killer price / performance... (am3 may rise again.. the platform might even get some storage updates off of the back of the success, but this is me stretching...long odds on this one, I can only hope :P). 4) companies having to bring out frequent driver updates after game launches are a symptom of a broken api.. nothing more, i don't think it will be all that relevant under dx12 / vulcan as game programmers no longer have to plug their code into black boxes that mangle their game.
Ugh, who is this Jennifer? Is she just there to bitch and moan without adding any value? If so, rid of her from your show. Excuse the harshness but that was really average first showing.
it's a bit harsh. having sat through the livestream I think she summarised it extremely well
just like to add, if freesync matters to you then avoid r7 370 as it doesnt have freesync.. if that doesnt matter to you and it's price / performance appeals then go for it.
somehow I don't think I will be upgrading my 2x saphire tri x r9 290's anytime soon :P
Re-brands or not. Its worth noting (and for some reason no one has noted) that the all the new line of cards should be supporting AMDs new AMDGPU stack on GNU/Linux.
The Quantum seems like a joke to me. First off, the main base looks cool, but the external piece (graphics cards?) makes it seem cumbersome.
If this is a 'living room' pc that has TWO Fury X's to run 4k.... i think they have already failed. 4k tv's do not have displayport, and the Fury doesn't have DHMI 2.0. This means than you are limited to $K at 30Hz. Just makes no sense to me.
Also, i just find it funny that AMD is using an Intel 4790k inside. I wonder if this was because the 9590 pales in comparison, or because there are no 990fx itx boards?.....
put this on a list of 'shit i don't care about'. HOWEVER, i am uber excited to see Fury benchmarks (not Fury X. not a water-cooling fan... <--- pun?) not sure i can justify $550 for a card when i have a 1080p monitor, but i am still eager to see stuff for it. looks awesome. I hope all the r9 400 series cards run HBM.
Also eager to see if this tech can be utilized with CPUs. Would be cool to buy a CPU with RAM already attached to it. Free up some space on ITX boards.
I'm surprised AMD doesn't send you all their products for review. You were one of the few reviewers that did some benchmarks that showed the FX-8350 in a positive light for streaming compared to ivy-bridge i5.
What is a joke about it? Like Jennifer said, it looks way better than any of the "living room" PCs that were showed at Computex. I don't know if there is a big market for this kind of thing, but they seem ahead of everyone else when it come to this. The cpu and graphics cards are in the main part, the external piece is the power supply.
They haven't released specs yet, so you have no idea whether it supports HDMI 2.0 or not.
Even though it can run 4k60 it's still cheaper to buy 3 4k monitors than the tv part. Then you can run games at 12k and have money left in your pocket.
Woah WTF dude? Jennifer is awesome - personally I' like to see more of her, and if you had watched all of the tek 0185 you would know that she sure as hell doesnt 'just bitch and moan'. Seems like thats all YOURE here to do.
