AMD: R9xx Speculation
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Silent_Buddha
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If you do, wait until one comes with an active digitizer in addition to capacitive touch. The handwriting (even script/cursive) recognition is fantastic. It can even correctly recognize my friend's handwriting and I have a hard time deciphering his handwriting.
On my convertable tablet, handwriting is my primary form of input (it has a full size keyboard that I rarely use), but weight is a huge drawback for convertables.
Oh and capacitive touch pens for use with capacitive touch screens are absolutely HORRIBLE for handwriting and inking. /shudder. I just got an 11.9" slate hoping to replace my 12.1" convertable tablet, but no go. Without an active digitizer there's just no way I can use it productively. Capacitive pen = horrible horrible horrible for writing. /sigh for the 15 USD wasted on a quality Boxwave stylus. It still works fantastic for casual windows use however. Media (1080p playback and output over HDMI), web browsing, games (I'm starting to like popcap style games now that I have a touchscreen slate
).I probably should have gotten the HP slate since it has an active digitizer, however it's too small for my needs. Oh and the Atom processor is entirely TOO slow for a lot of productivity tasks (complex PDF viewing for one) which is something else that I need to change. Luckily some Core i3, Sandybridge, and Fusion slates on the horizon with active digitizers. Sacrifice some battery life, but the increased performance will help for productivity.
The Fusion and Sandy Bridge slates have me interested. Those might be able to play something like Civ 5 on a slate which would be fantastic.
Oh and a 16:9 screen is absolutely horrible for a slate. Waaaaaay too narrow when in portrait view.
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SB
I'm waiting on the release of the ISA doc for Northern Islands.
I suppose the changes it would contain are already known, but perhaps there could still be some tidbits in there.
I suppose the changes it would contain are already known, but perhaps there could still be some tidbits in there.
Atom is junk, any which way you slice it. It needs loads of hw accel to make it work.
I think a lot of this discussion could be had in more appropriate threads.
http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=138674
1GB 6970 to cost only $279....what the...$100 off the original Cayman XT? Is that even possible or AMD going kamikaze against GF114?? Early Barts and Caymans adopters have to be screwed....and the hell was all the renaming about....
Then again...Cayman shouldnt be too much more expensive to manufacture than Cypress....now that could be why the SIMD were not laser cut too....
1GB 6970 to cost only $279....what the...$100 off the original Cayman XT? Is that even possible or AMD going kamikaze against GF114?? Early Barts and Caymans adopters have to be screwed....and the hell was all the renaming about....
Then again...Cayman shouldnt be too much more expensive to manufacture than Cypress....now that could be why the SIMD were not laser cut too....
DavidGraham
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I think the news is wrong , they meant HD 6950 , not HD 6970 ..http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=138674
1GB 6970 to cost only $279....what the...$100 off the original Cayman XT? Is that even possible or AMD going kamikaze against GF114?? Early Barts and Caymans adopters have to be screwed....and the hell was all the renaming about....
Then again...Cayman shouldnt be too much more expensive to manufacture than Cypress....now that could be why the SIMD were not laser cut too....
Just give us unlock Overdrive limit....too much profiling and optimization makes judging a card harder.... It is kinda crazy how GF114's impending launch... has threaten to shake up the gpu price/perf....the market became totally stagnate after the first few months of Cypress launch....I wonder will AMD have a 6970 OC version..the 1GB Caymans and GF114 looks to disrupt what AMD would like for higher tier cards..
Why do you write in endless "..." segments? You remind me of.....
The graphics card market is so flooded with options right now that it's almost impossible to make a decision and feel good about it. Every $30-40 increment has been filled it seems. It's crazyness.
And what are they going to do with the 6700 series? Is that going to be a new GPU? Where will they price it!? Or the 6600?!!??!?!?!!?
You remind me of.....
The graphics card market is so flooded with options right now that it's almost impossible to make a decision and feel good about it. Every $30-40 increment has been filled it seems. It's crazyness.
And what are they going to do with the 6700 series? Is that going to be a new GPU? Where will they price it!? Or the 6600?!!??!?!?!!?
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Well, the more options the better
. Generally, you do get a bit better performance for a bit more bucks, so this is a good thing.HD67xx is recycled Juniper.And what are they going to do with the 6700 series? Is that going to be a new GPU? Where will they price it!? Or the 6600?!!??!?!?!!?
HD66xx is Caicos. This looks like Redwood with one more SIMD. Should be quite interesting, this is actually a chip with no direct nvidia equivalent (GF108 has no hope of catching even HD5670, yet alone a faster chip). I would suspect though AMD will keep TDP under 75W (no pcie connector) even for the fastest version which probably means similar clock to HD5670, hence it will be faster than that but with still quite a gap to HD67xx (unless there are some options there with more simds disabled / lower clock than HD5750).
I thought that was Turks?
Anyway, I'm not sure there will be much of a gap between the XT variant and a 5750. A 6850 (960SP@775MHz) nearly matches a 5850 (1440SP@725MHz). Assuming the same front-end advantages apply, performance differences should be similar, too.
At ~850 MHz core clock it would possibly even beat both the 5750 and GTS 450.
DarthShader
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http://www.hardocp.com/news/2011/01/18/amd_catalyst_111a_hotfix_driver_information
AMD Radeon HD 6900 and AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series:
AMD Radeon HD 6900 and AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series:
- ·3DMark Vantage improves ~7%
- ·3DMark06 improves ~3%
- ·Call of Duty Black Ops improves ~20% at 4xMSAA and up to 35% at 8xMSAA
- ·Riddick Assault on Dark Athena SSAO performance improves ~20%
- ·Unigine Heaven OpenGL performance improves ~10% at moderate, 30% at normal and 100% at extreme tessellation levels
- ·Aliens vs. Predators improves ~9% at 2xMSAA and up to 20% at 4xMSAA
- ·Batman Arkham Asylum improves ~4%
- ·Crysis Warhead improves ~2-4%
- ·Metro 2033 improves ~28% at 4xMSAA
DavidGraham
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HOCP listed them wrong , they are in that order :
AMD Radeon HD 6900 and AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series:
· 3DMark Vantage improves ~7%
· 3DMark06 improves ~3%
· Call of Duty Black Ops improves ~20% at 4xMSAA and up to 35% at 8xMSAA
· Riddick Assault on Dark Athena SSAO performance improves ~20%
· Unigine Heaven OpenGL performance improves ~10% at moderate, 30% at normal and 100% at extreme tessellation levels
AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series:
· Aliens vs. Predators improves ~9% at 2xMSAA and up to 20% at 4xMSAA
· Batman Arkham Asylum improves ~4%
· Crysis Warhead improves ~2-4%
· Metro 2033 improves ~28% at 4xMSAA
AMD Radeon HD 6900 Series:
· Battleforge DirectX 11 performance improves as much as 6%
http://forums.guru3d.com/showpost.php?p=3853283&postcount=8
DarthShader
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Hmm, yeah, looks less impressive now.
I wonder if the pretty colors I get with 4X EQAA in STALKER SoC are gone now?
I hear talk of instability and I have had some weird periodic crashes with Mass Effect. But I was going to chalk that up to Mass Effect PC being a mess, judging by the 35 page thread that I found about the GPFs.
I hear talk of instability and I have had some weird periodic crashes with Mass Effect. But I was going to chalk that up to Mass Effect PC being a mess, judging by the 35 page thread that I found about the GPFs.
UniversalTruth
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Hmm, yeah, looks less impressive now.
No.
In whatever way written, the text above looks awesome. It shows there is room for those, so commented improvements. It looks just gorgeous.
Unknown Soldier
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Really? Same thing said here.
http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/video/...n_of_Radeon_HD_6970_with_279_Price_Point.html
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