Recent content by rbraden

I do not know, I have had both an amd and nvida system up and running (intel based though at the moment). When I sit down and play I am hard pressed to see the difference between them, they are close enough that I do not even give it a thought. Though I will say I lost interest in benchmarks in...

Does anyone happen to know what Graphic IP 9 entails? Would this be GCN 1.5 or something else entirely? I am more than likely totally off the mark here. Just trying to wrap my head around some of this.

Thank you. I just remember reading about the purchase a bit back. The more you learn.

Please excuse my ignorance, but I recall AMD buying a company awhile back, something to do with coherent fabric. Would this only be useful for cpu's or is this something that could be used for gpu's also. I know nothing about coherent fabric other than skimming over it a few years back. And...

I thought I read somewhere that vega would be 4096 shaders, though that could have been a drunken dream I had.

I am also looking forward to specs being released about either vega, being I need to replace my 7970 in one of my systems. I have tried to have both(yes once their were many) vendors thru each gen since the rendition and voodoo 1/matrox days. I am a bit behind on the AMD side, and no reason to...

First of this has been a daily stop for me since 03 or so, thank you all for the knowledge you have indirectly sent my way. Anyway this is akin to the "Getting Started" thread posted earlier. I have been around computers all my life, my first job was in the late 80's building the bastards, then...