• The Tek 0130: NVIDIA & AMD Rumors
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[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cTGwjAWz5E[/media]
Nvidia has been especially quite since their timeline for the 800 series apparently slipped into 2015.
[url]http://www.game-debate.com/news/?news=13676&graphics=GeForce%20GTX%20880&title=Nvidia%20GeForce%20GTX%20880%20Benchmarks%20Leak%20Ahead%20Of%20Possible%20Gamescom%202014%20Launch[/url] This plus DirectX11 plus Mantle (if Nvidia is smart enough to adopt it) plus the rumored Haswell refresh could really make 4K gaming on a single card viable. I'm really excited for the future because the next gen hardware is finally coming out.
[QUOTE=Korova;45474369][url]http://www.game-debate.com/news/?news=13676&graphics=GeForce%20GTX%20880&title=Nvidia%20GeForce%20GTX%20880%20Benchmarks%20Leak%20Ahead%20Of%20Possible%20Gamescom%202014%20Launch[/url] This plus DirectX11 plus Mantle (if Nvidia is smart enough to adopt it) plus the rumored Haswell refresh could really make 4K gaming on a single card viable. I'm really excited for the future because the next gen hardware is finally coming out.[/QUOTE] Why would Nvidia ever adopt Mantle? It's not gaining ground, the gains were for the most part minimal, and there are non-AMD options out there that are way more widespread (DX, OpenGL).
I really like Tek Syndicate, I've been watching Tech Update since TigerDirect, but to be honest their latest shows are getting a bit too reddit-NSA-circlejerky for me. Plus I miss Maks. Maks was the boss.
AMD is great for cheap builds. Also they overclock really well. But per-core performance, Intel is winning.
Great camera work! [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/o37s1Ip.png[/IMG]
[QUOTE=acds;45474616]Why would Nvidia ever adopt Mantle? It's not gaining ground, the gains were for the most part minimal, and there are non-AMD options out there that are way more widespread (DX, OpenGL).[/QUOTE] Mantle really shines in the multiple card benchmarks and why not use mantle if it's free to use? Amd are being the good guys offering free sync and Mantle support while Nvidia is holding exclusivity on many of their tools for developers under the Nvidia Game Works system.
[QUOTE=Buck.;45475012]Great camera work! [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/o37s1Ip.png[/IMG][/QUOTE] I'll admit, I would have never found him if you hadnt pointed this out
[QUOTE=Noss;45474645]I really like Tek Syndicate, I've been watching Tech Update since TigerDirect, but to be honest their latest shows are getting a bit too reddit-NSA-circlejerky for me. Plus I miss Maks. Maks was the boss.[/QUOTE] Feel like the guy who looks like the villain from The Incredibles doesn't know what he's talking about sometimes. I'm just not convinced by some of the things he says when it comes to...well, a lot of things, but like the net neutrality video they did a while back? I was more interested in the guy behind the monitors and what he was talking about when it came to VPN's than anything the main guy had to say.
[QUOTE=Noss;45474645]I really like Tek Syndicate, I've been watching Tech Update since TigerDirect, but to be honest their latest shows are getting a bit too reddit-NSA-circlejerky for me. Plus I miss Maks. Maks was the boss.[/QUOTE] I thought they were cool until I later learned that most of the "techniques" they showed off on how to apply thermal paste were some of the worst (micro air bubbles!). I stopped watching them after their ridiculous "benchmarks" on the fx-8350 (oc'ed to 5.0GHz) more than doubling framerates over a 3570K (OC'ed to 4.5GHz) on GPU-intensive games. The thermal paste video is forgivable for a first build, but those benchmarks on the fx-8350 were a complete joke. I simply can't trust a review site after something like that. If anybody is curious, the video was: [URL]http://youtu.be/4et7kDGSRfc[/URL] check 7:10 and 7:22 for two examples in the video. Keep in mind the fx-8350 can't even beat the 3570k on video encoding which is like the best case where more cores help performance.
[QUOTE=Buck.;45475012]Great camera work! [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/o37s1Ip.png[/IMG][/QUOTE] Wendell loves hiding behind his monitor matrix.
[QUOTE=Banned?;45482448]Feel like the guy who looks like the villain from The Incredibles doesn't know what he's talking about sometimes. I'm just not convinced by some of the things he says when it comes to...well, a lot of things, but like the net neutrality video they did a while back? I was more interested in the guy behind the monitors and what he was talking about when it came to VPN's than anything the main guy had to say.[/QUOTE] The main guy (Logan) is the personality behind the show, as a result I think he jumps in to stories far too fast and gets a lot of the facts wrong. He seems to have a more reactionary personality. The guy behind the camera (wendell) is much more level headed and knowledgeable about the subjects on the show. I think the dynamic works well but Logan needs to do some more research other than 'look at the front page of /r/technology'.
[QUOTE=Korova;45478630]Mantle really shines in the multiple card benchmarks and why not use mantle if it's free to use? Amd are being the good guys offering free sync and Mantle support while Nvidia is holding exclusivity on many of their tools for developers under the Nvidia Game Works system.[/QUOTE] Why would Nvidia adopt an proprietary API that is controlled by their main competitor when DirectX 12 will (supposedly) have very similar performance?
[QUOTE=Atlascore;45488233]Because it's free and there's nothing to lose by doing it? Better game performance is good for everyone involved.[/QUOTE] It's not "free", implementing an entirely new API would require a lot of work. OpenGL is open source and AMD still has pretty shitty OpenGL support despite of it being free. Even AMD only supports Mantle on their newest GPU architecture.
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