haven't been keeping up. is there anything new / soon from amd?
Nope. Not until next year. Look for Zen CPUs and Vega GPUs in the first quarter.
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next year ... as in 2017?
AM4 and an RX 490/465 miiiiiight be out this year, but nothing major is coming from AMD just yet
course an AM4 APU ITX rig is going to be sweet whenever it comes out
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Yes.
I need Vega....like NOW lol. Just got a Vive and dual 390s isnt cutting it apparently. Might just have to grab 2 1080s.
Serious Sam VR has affinity multi-GPU, it's the One GPU per Eye tech, should give that a try, otherwise seriously just wait for Volta/Vega lol or the 1080ti if anything
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Yea I'll more than likely end up waiting, I did just water cool both my cards last month. Also, I havent tried turning off crossfire, so that might make things a little smoother in some games from what I've read.
The Radeon Pro cards released.
I'd be shock if the 490 turns out to be a bigger Polaris chip instead of a duel 480.
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Yup, turning off crossfire gave me significantly better performance in pretty much every game I play in VR (Elite Dangerous, Project Cars, Assetto Corsa, Dirt Rally and Arma 3) but games actually made specifically for VR were about the same. OC'd core clock to 1175 for slightly better performance, that wait just got easier lol.
Crossfire/SLI is just not the solution really anymore. It CAN work well, but often doesn't work as well as it should.
Focus on saving up for a single GPU solution in the future, the 490 is going to be 12TFLOPS!
How about some... V R
I think it would likely be two Polaris 10 chips on one interposer, effectively doubling the chip area, but working like one rather than in crossfire like earlier dual GPU cards. AMD has the ability to do this. It would be just like the Fiji core, but instead of HBM, it's another die.
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Hmm, that's intriguing. If true that would be amazing for consumers in a lot of ways. AMD would save a lot of money by doing away with higher-end/bigger chips that tries to level with a 1080 (which are expensive to manufacture, let alone R&D, and good yield) like they did in the past with the R9 290x, and Fury X. Just take their mid range chips and turn it to a higher end card the way you described. That means higher-end card for the masses because it's going to be far cheaper I produce presume, just like they did for the mid-range market. This makes sense considering their whole strategy has been to bring back down the cost in the market, I remember an interview they did when talking about their Zen saying that they want to keep their competitors "honest" or rather, "keep them in check". They've never been able to do that until their HBM and 14nm fan node process came along.
share price value massively shot up, highest its been since 2012
I haven't read any news that would warrant that current surge.. fairly certain they are just going to break even this quarter, as there are far too many 'one off' costs that will bring down the profit vs loss.
even with the apple stuff, new consoles & holiday period, 490 release I can't see that driving massive revenues.
People might be taking a risk on zen/am4 though..
if that does what it claims then those share prices will rocket up (as people will account for platform lifetime earnings), if it doesnt then they are going to nosedive back down to $2/$3.
seems like an all or nothing bet for q1/q2 as if the am4 / zen platform really will either bring them back into the limelight or sink them (depending upon price / performance at launch)
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This launch is crucial for AMD. They really can't afford to make any hype or promises that they can't deliver on. They can't shoot themselves in the foot on this one the way they did with Bulldozer. Granted they still make good revenue from consoles, but I really hope they can get some server chip market-share. That's where the big bucks are. Intel makes a killing from the enterprise market.
Its possible they had some investor news or conference going on that caused the stock price rise. Honestly Zen needs to match the i5-i7 pretty closely while being significantly cheaper, that last part is going to be a issue! People aren't going to sell their intel rigs!
I'll be ditching my X99 as the mobo needs RMA which is a SLOW process in the land of dingos. So upgrade to Zen, RMA Intel, Sell, Profit. (unless Zen turns out to be terrible, which is still entirely possible!)
i'm beginning to view AMD as the Hello Games [No Man's Sky] of hardware. when somebody actually gets one, then i'll be interested.
when was the last time in history a company actually didn't blow the hype whistle as the train barreled towards Cthulhu's chasmic arsehole at the end of the tracks?
i was about to put a massive amount of money in the market on them, thanks you might have scared me straight
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