How do people feel about the new cards that got announced at the AMD conference today. these new series cards looks like they may be in competition with Nividas' new cards like the 10xx series and the new Titan X. They kinda have the new look for the GPU color (it's now blue instead of red).
Here's the link for reference
AMD New card releases Q4 2016
it looks interesting I'm probably going to buy one i hope its a step up from my 960 rig I have now.
those are not enthusiast cards, but workstation/developer cards.
Fury, Vega, Titan are enthusiast card
Oh sorry thanks for the clearification, but i bet they would be commonly used in PC gaming aswell.
workstations cards are really poor for gaming, they use different drivers
these replace the FirePro series of cards which are pretty old and underused at this point
doubt that. They only differ by having fully unlocked dual precision, and full drivers support for cad etc software.
no one in sane mind would buy those for gaming.
The Pro WX 7100 is pretty much rx480 but for around $1k
Oh ok , i also heard that they were introducing the the fury x2 which they basically calling it the Radeon core duo
they did that 6months ago.
Radeon Pro Duo
oh well i'm way behind.
The pro duo can use workstation or gaming drivers as well
but it's pretty pointless overall, they released it far too late
Well damn hopefully vega can try and do better.
HBM2 is going to be a lot better than HBM1, should help them a lot
I can't wait for this technology to trickle down to consumer market. This could come in handy for games that use a lot of texture, like id Tech engine. Or open world games that has to use a little bit of virtual memory. Once they get the fabrication small enough to be in the same PCB as the GPU, that's when will see this implemented.
If you mean the massive VRAM, it's pretty slow, not good for gaming, mostly what'll probably happen is more affordable lower end cards made solely for youtuber video editing
Not when it close to the GPU, like the PCI bus, if they can this in the same PCB as the GPU that's even faster than having a virtual memory to CPU ram or storage drive. The only way I see this not being implemented is if another alternative memory can be produced in higher density for much cheaper in the future, HBM isn't going to be cheap anytime soon and GDDR5x has it's limit in density so it takes up too much PCB space. So we'll likely still be stuck at 8gb to 12gb as a standard for the 5yrs.
I. FUCKING. CALLED. IT.
I 100% KNEW people would be confused by the Radeon naming of these cards and think they were for gaming. This is only the beginning.
Shit naming scheme Raja, absolute garbage.
What's the fastest SSD we have? about 2GBps last I checked for what's out now
GPU RAM runs at well over 20GBps in total
This type of approach is good if you need a ton of VRAM, they could actually do a similar thing with APUs if they really wanted, it would just be slow.
But for live rendering, it probably isn't going to work very well
It's a $10,000 so who is the hell in the consumer market is going to mistake it in their shopping card online, or even remotely care?
OP made the mistake instantly, countless others will too. The $10K price is only shown if you go to AMD's site and choose to order the beta hardware, so anyone looking at specs before price will be confused by these new fangled Radeons that aren't actually Radeons at all, because they're poorly named FirePros.
If you spend 16 years building a brand name don't turn it upside down in a single product cycle without at least explaining what the new nomenclature is. This shit is going to confuse so many people.
That's OP's fault not AMD's LOL.
Completely AMD's fault.
OP most likely wouldn't have made the mistake if these cards were called FirePros, or some similar name. Everyone who knows PC hardware knows FirePro, Quadro, and Tesla are for the big pro markets, not gamers.
Market segmentation and appropriate nomenclature help consumers understand product placement. It's up to the company creating those products to ensure they market properly.