AMD: Pirate Islands (R* 3** series) Speculation/Rumor Thread
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Well, this is not with 17% performance improvement on PCcars that they will go far.... need wait that they patch the game instead.
There's barely a 170% difference between a 780TI and a 290x in this game. And in some case, it goes over 200% difference. ( 1.7 - 2x )
1080p, no AA, high:
- GTX 780TI = 64.2fps
- R9 290x = 39.1 fps
- GT X760 = 43,5ps
So now, maybe a 290x should be able to run the game like a GTX 760 lol.
There's barely a 170% difference between a 780TI and a 290x in this game. And in some case, it goes over 200% difference. ( 1.7 - 2x )
1080p, no AA, high:
- GTX 780TI = 64.2fps
- R9 290x = 39.1 fps
- GT X760 = 43,5ps
So now, maybe a 290x should be able to run the game like a GTX 760 lol.
Fiji card will be called Radeon Fury:
http://www.expreview.com/40812.html
If true, it's nice to see the time travel and acknowledging the old cards:
BTW, does this mean that a card with two Fijis will be called Radeon Fury MAXX?
That would be a bad idea: Erinyes are relatively minor deities, not strong enough to face Titans.
That's a name I have not heard in a long time.
Will the card also claim that it can offer more than a Voodoo3 3000?
Radeon Fury does not have the same level of redundancy as Rage Fury.
Radeon Rage Fury Wrath Anger Outrage edition.
My guess would be the hw needs a bit too much "handwaving" somewhere to get optimal performance. Hence the somewhat erratic results with different tesselation benchmarks or drivers.
Brand recognition and residual goodwill of any sort is helpful, much like how AMD went back to the well for Athlon.
My first PC GFX card was S3Trio64+
I also owned Rage 128 AGP card for short period of time! I had most cards in my PC, even Matrox Millenium 4MB which was not too good for 3D.
My favourites from that era were Riva 128 and S3 Savage4Pro, Riva TNT was too good and didn't require magician to play games without corruption or poor performance so it wasn't fun!
Well for "old" peoples like us, this name tell us something, for the young peoples .. Fury is not a bad name at all ... not worst that titan or wathever .
I dont know what shape it will get with Dx11 performance, but something im sure, any GPU's who come from GCN will be blazing fast under DX12, a good jump on performance for " free" , same for Vulkan ( and for OpenGL, this is a real revolution, OpenGL have been Ironed around Nvidia since a long time, Vulkan is not ).. its like both API's are made for GCN . its crazy that we have need wait 2015 for understand how Asynchronous computing and stuff like that And ofc, we are not only speakking about Async computing.. ) who are at the base of GCN, have an so dramatic impact on performance. Simultenously, outside DX12, most graphics engine are moving really fast to a different level .. 2016 will be a real interessant years
I dont know what shape it will get with Dx11 performance, but something im sure, any GPU's who come from GCN will be blazing fast under DX12, a good jump on performance for " free" , same for Vulkan ( and for OpenGL, this is a real revolution, OpenGL have been Ironed around Nvidia since a long time, Vulkan is not ).. its like both API's are made for GCN . its crazy that we have need wait 2015 for understand how Asynchronous computing and stuff like that And ofc, we are not only speakking about Async computing.. ) who are at the base of GCN, have an so dramatic impact on performance. Simultenously, outside DX12, most graphics engine are moving really fast to a different level .. 2016 will be a real interessant years
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Speaking or Pirate Islands, will there be any more 28nm HBM chips from AMD? It baffles me how they can expect to compete in this market with chips that came out in 2012. And it's pretty sweet of them to pimp Freesync and TrueAudio when half of the GPUs they sell (and will continue to sell!) don't support either. And it's kind of random which ones support them (e.g. R7 260 but not 265 LOL).
Trying to install the latest beta driver, but since it's fucking beta shit it doesn't even work. It stops at the 'identifying graphics hardware' step and never progresses from there. Un-fucking believable, tried two times now and nothing ever happens.
How hard can it be to just get a god damn installer to work? All it has to do is stick some files in their right place (and create a billion registry keys, for some incomprehensible reason.)
How hard can it be to just get a god damn installer to work? All it has to do is stick some files in their right place (and create a billion registry keys, for some incomprehensible reason.)
Had to run Display Driver Uninstaller to get that piece of crap catalyst manager to work properly.
I did a regular uninstall, but does it friggin remove the previous driver? No, it just pretends to. Unbelievable. What purpose is an uninstall function that basically leaves everything in place as it was?!
And still, overdrive doesn't work for GPGPU jobs. I can't keep folding running full tilt at night, not with the bloody fans roaring, and now summer is coming too. This card's a genuine space heater. Why can't they fix these bugs, it's like they're completely inept; it's been this way FOR OVER A YEAR NOW! It worked with the driver I used when I first bought the card, and then never since, not in betas or not WHQL releases.
I did a regular uninstall, but does it friggin remove the previous driver? No, it just pretends to. Unbelievable. What purpose is an uninstall function that basically leaves everything in place as it was?!
And still, overdrive doesn't work for GPGPU jobs. I can't keep folding running full tilt at night, not with the bloody fans roaring, and now summer is coming too. This card's a genuine space heater. Why can't they fix these bugs, it's like they're completely inept; it's been this way FOR OVER A YEAR NOW! It worked with the driver I used when I first bought the card, and then never since, not in betas or not WHQL releases.
Oh yeah? Then what is it, pray tell?
I don't want to overclock. I'm trying to underclock the motherfucker, but it doesn't respect any clock changes as long as GPGPU tasks are active. It doesn't matter which software is used either, you get max clock, max heat, max noise always. Very aggravating.
Also, the bug where the video driver stops responding or even bluescreens the whole computer if GPGPU tasks are running simultaneously with 3D rendering is still in the driver, a year and a half after first appearing. And it's not just games causing this either, I've had my PC bluescreen just from opening up google maps in a friggin web browser and panning around a bit. That's friggin dangerous. It could wreck my entire system drive file system if it happens at the wrong moment.
Although it is absolutely necessary for many things, it is somehow considered technically separate from the actual driver. Thus if it sucks, it can be said that the driver itself doesn't suck, it's just Catalyst and you can uninstall it if you like. Of course many games will run shittily or not at all without it, but hey it's not the driver's fault
Obviously it is part of the driver if you actually want to play games and anyone who says it isn't is mistaken.
Installed fine here, I always just overwrite the old driver.
@Grall, I reinstalled windows awhile back, and was having strange issues with different drivers getting stuck while installing.
The first time I installed Catalyst on the new install, it worked fine, when trying to update down the road, I would get the driver stuck installing, and would have to kill the process. Now this is going to sound pretty dumb, but when I looked in device manager, there were "other devices", and one of them was the PCI-E device. Stupid me didn't install the Intel drivers. Once I installed them, everything was fine.
Just thought I would share, never know if it could help someone.
@Grall, I reinstalled windows awhile back, and was having strange issues with different drivers getting stuck while installing.
The first time I installed Catalyst on the new install, it worked fine, when trying to update down the road, I would get the driver stuck installing, and would have to kill the process. Now this is going to sound pretty dumb, but when I looked in device manager, there were "other devices", and one of them was the PCI-E device. Stupid me didn't install the Intel drivers. Once I installed them, everything was fine.
Just thought I would share, never know if it could help someone.