Too many threads already, lets wait for the launch first before coming to such conclusions.
AMD: R8xx Speculation
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Too many threads already, lets wait for the launch first before coming to such conclusions.
Well I realize it doesn't help the pro X11 vs. against X11 agenda of both sides. You don't sound the type of guy that would counter me with some idiotic PhysX argument, so I will take the liberty and consider the 5870 the fastest single chip GPU after its available of course.
Anyone who thinks that latest PhysX titles bring nothing but "eye candy physics" shoudn't expect much from DX11 in 2010. They should expect less than that actually.
Actually what I said was that it didn't make sense.
If you feel that there's more to be said about that, or indeed want to continue the 'spin' thing, I would suggest using a topic other than this one though.
Whoa there! It's just a graphics card.....no faith required
But yeah all will be clear once we have actual numbers.
I'm going to feel slightly worried if I'm the only man on a web forum of proudly confessed geeks, to catch a Darth Vader quote...
So, we shouldn't expect perf improvements and we shouldn't expect IQ improvements over previous API modes any time soon? OK...
On the first link's images, i might be imagining but i think i read "04" as the last digits on the memory chip confirming 0.4ns (or 5.0Gbps) chips.
There are rumors floating round though, that the ES and retail boards have different memory manufacturer ie Hynix might be still in the picture. From memory i think some 4870x2 boards had Hynix chips.
Either way looks like they have emptied their stock of fire sale Qimonda memory. Nvidia still seems rather reticent so AMD will have tricky negotiations trying to keep the price down on its volume alone given the background lately of increasing memory prices(particularly DDR2). Imagine they would like Elpida and Winbond to also enter the picture as soon as possible.
You shouldn't expect as much improvement from DX11 in 2010 as from PhysX in latest GPU PhysX-enabled titles. Hope that's clear.So, we shouldn't expect perf improvements and we shouldn't expect IQ improvements over previous API modes any time soon? OK...
Oh, you mean Arkham Assylum that even the CPU can emulate partial/adequate PhysX acceleration on
Waiting for Frostbite II's deferred CS rendering, should be something amazing post X-Ray (with the zillions of bugs it has) and the Dead Space engine.
No, you are not limited to the max supported resolution. The software will enumerate the panels and pick multiples of resolutions that all panels support. If you have 3 panels of all the same type that support 1024x768, 1280x1024, 1920x1080 (for example) the following SLS (or Display Group, as they are called in CCC) resolutions are available:
3x1 Landscape:
3072x768
3840x1024
5760x1080
3x1 Portrait:
2304x1024
3072x1280
3240x1920
1x3 Landscape:
1024x2304
1280x3072
1920x3240
When a display group is defined, then this is "seen" by the OS as a single panel and the OS (or CCC) treats it as such, allowing all the resolution configurations that the display group supports to be used - that is then available to the OS itself and other applications.
As has been mentioned, this isn't scaling, this is rendering more pixels. Additionally, dependant on the aspect ratio this is increasing the field of view in the title allowing you to see more of what around, and potentially whats coming up.
Check out the view here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teE5wqT2DNU
At around the 1m 15s mark the guy taking the video is just panning to see what is on the left panel, and then all of a sudden a car hoves into view to overtake - if you were just playing with a single panel then you wouldn't know that until it had hit the centre panel; if you think of other racing games, with more cars on track and things are closer, then that view could be very handy. Alternatively, if you think of an FPS, especially one like Left 4 Dead, having that peripheral vision can be very advantageous to react to whats coming at you from a field of view that you wouldn’t have known about with just a single panel.
No, this is:
Hrumph. Cheat!
I'm pretty sure that even DX9 will be able to "emulate" almost all of the DX11 effects of the first wave of DX11 titles, yes.Oh, you mean Arkham Assylum that even the CPU can emulate partial/adequate PhysX acceleration on
Except silly stuff like tessalization and compute shaders.
Then you are just trading half the border for a nasty looking edge.
That is pathetically weak, but from Nvidia, not surprising.
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Im wondering if ATi ever managed to fix powerplay when using a multi monitor setup. Ive had both the HD4850 and GTX260+ run at full 3D clocks so the whole low idle power consumption goes out of the window. The problem is that cards have to run at full 3D clocks (especially the memory clock) when running dual/triple/multi monitors or else is met by artifacts, crashes and what not.
If this is fixed, my wallet might have a burnt hole in the nearby future
If this is fixed, my wallet might have a burnt hole in the nearby future
R420 is alreay a 5 cores GPU
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