Recent content by JethroBodine

Two 970s is definitely the "bang for buck" champion these days, and likely will be for some time.

From the looks of those photos, you could have two pipes fully covered with one gap, or one pipe fully covered, two partially covered, two gaps. This might actually have more contact, would be interesting to see the difference if it were centered.

Dave Baumann of AMD PR has already stated publicly on his old site that the R290X is a full chip, so people probably shouldn't wait for the "full chip" that AMD launched long ago: http://forum.beyond3d.com/showpost.php?p=1817984&postcount=2269 Which makes sense. If there was a "fully enabled"...

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Sapphire/R9_285_Dual-X_OC/30.html http://www.anandtech.com/show/8460/amd-radeon-r9-285-review/19 So you think if AMD brings the 3-5% improvements of Tonga to Hawaii, they will overcome the 19% performance deficit at 1080P or the 13% deficit at 25X16...

I was being facetious, because the question was self evident and stated as proof NVIDIA's strategy is a successful one. NVIDIA and intel enjoy the position of being the first tier vendor to a market of people whose income has been largely unaffected by economic downturn. Computer gamers are...

AMD W1zzard, because they give a gamer a decent chunk of wafer for his $500! Plus, it's cold in Wisconsin in the winter, 290X on uber mode running on a FX8350 cpu could heat the whole house! Lots of cold states out there.

Nice. Yesterday there's a 9/25 announcement alluded to, with Roy Taylor saying we haven't seen anything yet and that AMD loves competition. Today on Roy's Twitter he's got an India FirePro link, something about PayPal and Bitcoins, and "Why APUs are OK for gaming". No competition for the...

A. NVIDIA sells on performance, not wafer size. People buy based on performance, not wafer size. http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Zotac/GeForce_GTX_660/27.html The 660Ti (mid-range chip for the Kepler gen at $300) outperforms last gen top chip, the GTX580. The GTX660 (4th highest performing...

There's a "good chance" AMD will beat intel when they're behind in IPC, process node, losing money practically every quarter for many years, and having a market cap equal to about one quarter of profits for intel?! :wtf:

Remember? What? This year? Last? 2012? 2011? I have a harder time remembering to when AMD was something, because I think it was June 2006. My guess is this will only get worse. No competition for intel on the horizon. Maxwell boots them out of laptops effectively. Low margins on console chips...

I could have sworn it was a combination of engineering breakthroughs and invention. Are you implying NVIDIA would have released Maxwell three years ago if AMD had a chip at this level three years ago, because "competition" drove them to it? I have to differ. AMD would be launching a...

Maybe there will be a new review category- "wafer per dollar". Or maybe no one really cares about wafer size at all. Personally, I don't care if AMD or NVIDIA figure out how to get their performance off parts with 3 transistors that cost them fifty cents to make. If the part offers more...

Pretty harsh assessment frdmftr. As you think the 980 at $550 is an "economy class chip" and a "Kia", what do you think of the 290X? High school science project? Tobacco Row part? After all, the 980 pretty much embarrasses the 290X on every relevant performance, engineering, and efficiency...

Personally I'm just excited to see products this good this cheap. The GK series chips were great, but fairly costly at first. (pre-GTX780 launch) The R290X was a face plant launch. Sure, it competed, but the OEM design was a hairdryer. I disagree on the one company winning harms us. Intel...

You're working really hard to make it look like NVIDIA is somehow "cheating" people by giving us the top single GPU performance for $550 and beating their competitors $500 card on all fronts for $339.. DARN them for selling people products that are superior on all fronts for $160 less! On the...