AMD Announces Radeon RX 470, RX 460 Graphics Cards (gamespot.com) 48
An anonymous reader writes from a report via GameSpot: At E3 2016, AMD has announced the Radeon RX 470 and RX 460. They will join the RX 480 in the company's Polaris family. Both GPUs will be VR-capable, whereas the RX 480 is made for 1440p gaming. AMD says the RX 470 will focus on delivering a "refined, power-efficient HD gaming" experience, and that the RX 460 will offer a "cool and efficient solution for the ultimate e-sports gaming experience." The RX 480 will be priced starting at $200 for the 4GB variant, with the other two cards most likely priced lower. The company did also announce that the chips are extremely thin, offering a very low Z-height, and will fit into thin and light gaming notebooks. They support a wide variety of features that include DX12, HDR, HDMI 2.0b, DisplayPort 1.3/1.4, and H.265 encoding/decoding. AMD claims the RX 480 card outperforms $500 graphics cards in VR. The RX 470 and RX 460 have yet to have official release dates. However, the RX 480 is scheduled to launch on June 29. In April, AMD announced a plan to license the design of its top-of-the-line server processor to a newly formed Chinese company, creating a brand-new rival for Intel.
Great! (Score:2)
New lower-power GPUs that can fit in thin laptops!
Now I know which GPUs Apple won't use for their computers! Intel's integrated crap forever!
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maybe apple will go amd zen + amd video.
how thin can zen go?
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Keep dreaming.
Apple won' tbe putting any ventilation holes in their products any time soon - it spoils the design.
Nope, you'll be stuck with crappy graphics and tinny-sounding speakers forever. All so you can have a glowing Apple logo on the back for other people to see.
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Now I know which GPUs Apple won't use for their computers! Intel's integrated crap forever!
Apple won' tbe putting any ventilation holes in their products any time soon - it spoils the design.
Apple hides the ventilation slots in the screen hinge and have done since the G4 Powerbooks if not earlier. They also offer nvidia GPUs on the higher end models.
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Re: "e-sports"? LOL! Come on, don't use that term. (Score:5, Insightful)
Exactly!
We should keep in mind that we don't want to tarnish the reputation of such great physical challenges as darts.. Target shooting.. Professional poker.. Chess.. All of which are considered cheese by at least some people.
You are definately right.. The English language has a long history of having its words locked in stone with zero room for change or development.. Even if you do make a modification of the word to make the change clear!
You convinced me!
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e-sports has drug testing like other athletic sports.
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Why not? Pro cycling has "motor doping" [npr.org] -- it's hard to get any more asinine than that!
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One man's 'asinine' is another man's 'thats cool, I might start watching.'
They aren't done until the bikes have V8s!
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The asinine part wasn't using a motor, the asinine part was calling it "doping" when it was a completely different form of cheating.
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Meanwhile, in the rest of the world... [wikipedia.org]
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But most sports are referred to as "games." Soccer games, Basketball games.... you going to the game tonight?
I've recently started watching E-League, and my first instinct was that it's not really a "sport." After thinking about it for a while, it occurred to me that it's not just twitchy fingers - the hand-eye coordination and super fast reaction times are really impressive. That, and they train as a team, working out strategies for thousands of hours. E-League is doing Counter Strike... and unlike a f
Low TDP? (Score:5, Interesting)
The new nVidia GPUs have quite high TDP sadly... Will these new AMD ones go as low as the GTX 750 Ti? Those were great for fanless operation.
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The driving force for this sort of hardware is very soon going to stop being graphics rendering and
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Exactly this. I fully expected I would have to get a new card to run DOOM but my 970 and i5 run it on ultra with no lag whatsoever. I simply have no reason to upgrade. Though I am considering going to AMD if their open source drivers turn out to be good.
Games hit the wall? (Score:2)
I don't think either company is going to have any problems selling their latest graphics card offerings, considering all the notebook computers that have under-powered graphics chipsets and all the Apple products that used older chipsets with mediocre performance.
It may be true that games aren't taxing the latest card's capabilities right now -- but they're not in the same situation as CPUs, where even a budget priced processor has more power than people need for most of what they do. With graphics cards, a
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It's 14nm FinFet.
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The new nVidia GPUs have quite high TDP sadly... Will these new AMD ones go as low as the GTX 750 Ti? Those were great for fanless operation.
Some models will [wccftech.com], but almost certainly not the RX480. I think the suggestion is roughly GTX950 performance for 50W, nVidia lists the power draw of a 750 Ti as 60W. Of course these are all marketing slides, not third party reviews but yeah the power savings from 28nm to 14nm are substantial.
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If you call same or less TDP than the previous generation while having widely more computational power than sure they are "high"
Seriously. The 1070 has a 150 watt TDP, same as the 970 it's replacing.. Only it's faster than the top-end card from the previous generation, the 980ti, which has a tdp of 250 watts.
It's not unreasonable to say that the 1000 cards use about half the power of the previous generation.
Nvidia will probably soon put out a new GPU that fits in the 750ti price and thermal range, and it wi
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It's already out. Better revisions of the GTX 950 have been able to get the power down to 75w. For that you get 40% higher performance than the GTX 750 Ti, and for just a five dollar premium over other GTX 950 cards!
The Asus card review [techpowerup.com]
The Newegg page. [newegg.com]
The pictures on the Newegg site still show a p
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Which is why it's a placeholder until GP107 arrives, like I said in my fucking post.
What is it wih ACs, you allergic to reading?
Ummm.... What? (Score:2)
The TDP/performance of the latest nVidia cards is nothing short of amazing. It is the best we've ever seen out of any company. They've been doing some serious optimization on the performance/watt front and it has payed off bigtime. Combine that with a smaller process and these are great.
If you mean total power draw... Well ya. Here's thing the with all GPUs: They introduce the big parts first, and make the smaller parts based on them. The small GPUs are just big GPUs with a lot of the units cut off. So it m
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Well the current driver system will be mostly opensource for amd's drivers.
you will just run-time swap out firmware & some driver code for what you want to do. Play video games? have it unload the foss part and load up the amd part. Your card now runs at about 90%~ or so of the windows version. Finish playing the game? The amd code gets swapped out for the foss linux radeon driver. Which is better at handling the compositing and desktop stuff..
Here we go (Score:2)
Wrong!
The usage of "whereas" higher up is also garbage.
Re:interesting editorializing... (Score:4, Insightful)
I imagine that the Chinese company might receive preference in China - whether that's through tariffs or subsidies or just plain national pride, it might convince a lot of customers (government, business, or consumer) in China to buy it instead of Intel chips.
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China and Russia don't trust kit coming out of a Western company.
Further, the Chinese will be selling it for cheap.