Friday, May 22nd 2015
Technical Director for Frostbite at DICE Reveals AMD "Fiji" Graphics Card
Johan Andersson, technical director for the Frostbite game engine at DICE, developers of games such as Battlefield, tweeted the first clear picture of AMD's next flagship graphics card, and it looks a lot [better] than this mockup render. We'd be tempted to call it the Radeon R9 390X, but older reports suggest that AMD could give it a fancy name, just as NVIDIA named its top-dog "Titan." That's not all, Andersson commented that "this new island is one seriously impressive and sweet GPU," referring to the card's GPU codename of "Fiji." AMD is expected to launch this card in the third week of June. Either to preempt that, or out of spook (with an effort to siphon off high-end GPU sales), NVIDIA is preparing the GeForce GTX 980 Ti, which will launch in the first week.
71 Comments on Technical Director for Frostbite at DICE Reveals AMD "Fiji" Graphics Card
My Radeon box is due for a refresh, anyone in the market for two, slightly used 290Xs? :p
I sincerely hope all the hype sorrounding this card comes to fruition, and the card is priced sensibly, exciting times for the pc master race! :toast:
The wait for reviews and impressions is agonizing, LOL.
1. How many actual/potential Titan X adopters would not have been aware that Nvidia would be doing just this? I'm guessing the percentage is the barest fraction above 0%.
2. As I alluded to in the post I linked to, if history is any indicator, the $650 price tag will buy a vendor cooler, higher clocks, and quite possibly, more leeway with power budget ( the 6GB of GDDR5 lost should translate into~ 30-35W of power that can be used for higher clocks), and quite possibly a non-reference PCB and custom power delivery circuit depending upon vendor. Asus, Gigabyte, MSI, Palit, EVGA, and Galaxy amongst others all have a tendency to release their lower tier custom design overclocked cards at reference MSRP.
I really wouldn't bother bringing pricing depreciation into the discussion. Graphics cards aren't particularly known as blue chip investments, and I seem to recall that depreciation isn't vendor specific.
I'm such a cheap bastard.... Never spent over 140 bucks on a CPU or 170 on a GPU. I think the most expensive (counting for inflation) component I've ever bought was a Creative Graphics Blaster rivaTNT card, back in the day, 150 smackers that cost me, lol...
Let's hope the didn't cheap out with a noisy pump or squeaky coils or some other faux-pas they often did in the past...
In your own reply, by your own Aquarius Logic, you imply that their is probably a number between 0.00% to 1.00% adopters who aren't aware of the move NVidia has made. That's the rhetoric question you are asking in the quote up above to indirectly imply your points. The adopter's aren't aware they are victims of NVidia's sweet deal aka what Casecutter calls a "Bum Rush." In an indirect perspective or point that shares a relation to your point, and it is any individual could argue that they (adopters) are 99.0% to 100.0% suckers because they paid for NVidia's sweet deal of a 23% above GTX 980 in performance with a full GM200, no 64bit Floating Point Precision, and 12GBs Framebuffer--card. This line of thought would be true. If not, your first point made by you isn't true. It later begs the question why would you buy NVidia products only to be screwed by it in a shorter interval of time (2 to 3 months) and be ok with that?+1.0
Thank you for being a voice of reasoning.
In general:
I will probably wait to see how the AMD R9-390x does on the 3rd party benches between that and it's competitors: GTX 980-Ti and GTX Titan. GTX Titan alone has been a sever disappointment, to me because it hasn't past my own expectations. Most likely, I will either wait or invest in 2 R9-390x with the 8 GBs Framebuffers.
Things I think AMD should work on for the future:
1. AMD should possibly work on their own variant to PhysX in the future.
2. Improve or revamp their CFx.That member is talking about AMD Graphic Cards. They are tempted to purchase their graphic cards, but are reminded of how poor their driver support is. In addition, this is a topic of discussion about the AMD R9-300 Graphic Card. More specifically, it's a vague post about the R9-390x.I think it was 15th Warlock or someone else stated in the "GTX 980-Ti spec leak" topic of discussion, it (GTX 980 Ti or R9-390x; I can't find the member's post) should be called the Cronos. The rational thought is probably that Cronos is the head of the Obsidian Order aka "The Titan" Faction. They are against the Pantheon, and Cronos was the head of the Titans after he dethroned his father, Uranus or Ouranos. This could imply that R9-390x is a "Titan Slayer," or GTX 980-Ti is the head Titan. Naming it ATI is just epic fails in my point of view. Calling it an ATI R9-390x is just fails.
1. Aquarius Logic isn't a thing, so no need to capitalize. Aquarius (logic) is actually an enterprise simulator in software.
2. If you plan on coming across as erudite, probably best if you don't make basic grammatical errors straight off the bat. *You see what you did
theirthere?No. I am not asking a rhetorical question. A question of any description ends with this notation "?". What I stated, rather than implied, is that Titan X consumers would be well aware that Nvidia would launch a cheaper card with most, if not all, the performance of the Titan X. Unless you are of the opinion that people who spend $1000 per graphics card are somehow completely ignorant of recent history even if they cannot grasp the concept of understanding the business model that is geared towards maximizing amortization of the silicon. There is also ample proof (as I linked to earlier) that shows the concept of a cheaper 980Ti was generally accepted and commented upon even before the Titan X launched - as an example I posted both the name and possible price point back in January. It's hardly rocket science if you have even a passing interest in graphics.For those that are completely ignorant of how history works, have little understanding of (nor seemingly the inclination to find out) how the graphics market works, and have $1K to toss at a single piece of hardware that will be rendered second-class kit within a year.....well, maybe they can commiserate with people who bought the last best things such as the Titan Z and 295X2 that were worth cents on the dollar mere months after launch.Getting past the utter senselessness of your grammar, by your reasoning, every person that pays a higher percentage of cost than the product delivers in performance against some (arbitrary) baseline is by definition a sucker....presumably including yourself,since you seemed perfectly fine with spending three times the amount of a 290X to gain twice the performance. People use different metrics aside from pure value for money when buying hardware - not least of which are that they can afford it, and they will put up with paying a premium for have the best hardware they can purchase. You could ask a dozen people what is an acceptable price to pay for a graphics card whose relative value and performance degrades as soon as the next best thing is on the shelves, and get answers ranging across the entire range of market segmentsBecause for those 2-3 months, these people have been benchmarking for fun and profit....2 to 3 months of enjoyment they wouldn't have had had they sat around like the vast majority of consumers waiting for better relative value. I would have thought this was obvious for someone who claims to have bought the Ares II and HD 7990?The basic underpinning of VGXI is the partially resident texture (PRT) feature of DX12/11.3, although from my understanding the VGXI has performance enhancements to enable the feature with lower GPU workload (at least for Maxwell µarch graphics). Having said that, I think all GCN architecture graphics can take advantage of PRT.
how do you spot a Nvidia fanboy? Look for any butthurt replies that may threaten their epeen or glorious leader that reek of used douche and failed masturbation.
I am looking forward to competition in the GPU marketplace at any level, it benefits everyone and prevents things like $1000 midrange cards, or generation old cards being ignored.
Let's hope AMD deliver, hell I may even go AMD if it's super special.
It will be fun to play the victim for a change.
I promise to split the victimization with you if we get to alternate weeks, and holidays. you pay for dental and I will cover daycare.
I wish you every success in your endeavour.I think everyone needs AMD to make a big splash with Fiji, although personally I'm eyeing up Arctic Islands or Pascal as my next major graphics update. The games at the moment don't seem to warrant the outlay of big cash, and DX12 gaming, as well as decent well featured monitors aren't quite here yet.