The smallest granularity is a quad of triangles, right?
AMD: Volcanic Islands R1100/1200 (8***/9*** series) Speculation/ Rumour Thread
The smallest granularity is a quad of triangles, right?
A quad of pixels. If the triangles are all single pixel then a pixel wave will contain fragments for 16 triangles and the utilization is 25% as only 1 of every 4 pixels is lit.
Not tomorrow after all? Of course if reviewers don't have cards (any other hints of that?) it's quite certain...
http://videocardz.com/46729/amd-radeon-r9-290-series-launch-postponed
http://videocardz.com/46729/amd-radeon-r9-290-series-launch-postponed
Well, it wasn't postponed. The date (15th) was mentioned in some slide by mistake, but AMD instantly stated, that this date is just an error. They mentioned it at least during two press events (~2 weeks ago) and also stated, that they have never planned to launch any new product on 15 Oct.
I believe Linus hinted at playing with a non-reference 290/x.Without an officially communicated launch date there is naturally no delay
But has any of the usual suspects among the reviewers hinted about having cards or not? usually you'll see people like Hilbert semi-leak (like showing the package that just arrived etc).
Without an officially communicated launch date there is naturally no delay
Effectively this is true :smile:
What a pity, I really want to see some real benchs
At one point they probably did plan to launch at that date, hence the creation of said slide, and when it became clear to them that they couldn't make it by then - post-leakage/release of the slide - they retconned history and turned it into an "error".
...Yeah. That's just a crazy conspiracist theory of course, but what do you rather believe happened, when also considering their continuing refusal to give even a hint of an official release date this long after the card has been revealed...?
Do you guys never grow tired of this retcon sing and dance? AMD always planned for their line-up to be stable in 2013...after the point in which they figured out they cannot meet their initial update schedule and before they actually managed to squeeze in an update. AMD never planned to lift the NDA on the 15th up after the point in which they decided to delay NDA lift. On and on it goes - companies are not your friends guys, they have people paid to posh up their public image, how about you let those fine gentlemen and ladies earn their paycheck instead of trying to prop-up their screw-ups. Do you seriously believe people put together slide decks (and programmer's manuals) by accident, and that nobody validates the major items (yes, an NDA lift date tends to be major).
What are the screw holes for
For some kind of mounting bracket, possibly in a mac?
Mostly Dell/Alienware, some OEM ones have use thoses bracket for keep the gpu in place... As for the mac, i dont know what version. ( the Pro seems to have acomplete different system of cooling and use FirePro)
Bouncing Zabaglione Bros.
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It's still a dick move to leave your customers hanging like that. We still have no confirmed price, specs, or release date. Instead of riding the hype, AMD are risking a backlash.
DavidGraham
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The beta is not working well at all , on Windows 8 it's very smooth, on 7 however it's so bad that it took 2 updates to get it working at an acceptable level and still it's not there yet.
Maybe they need an extra week to recount the number of transistors?
Born Sept 2-8th 2013.