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AMD Continues To Pressure NVIDIA With Lower Cost Radeon R9 270 and BF4 Bundle
MojoKid writes "The seemingly never-ending onslaught of new graphics cards as of late continues today with the official release of the AMD Radeon R9 270. This mainstream graphics card actually leverages the same GPU that powered last-year's Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition. AMD, however, has tweaked the clocks and through software and board level revisions updated the card to allow for more flexible use of its display outputs (using Eyefinity no longer requires the use of a DisplayPort). Versus the 1GHz (GPU) and 4.8Gbps (memory) of the Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition, the Radeon R9 270 offers slightly lower compute performance (2.37 TFLOPS vs. 2.56 TFLOPS), but much more memory bandwidth--179.2GB/s vs. 153.6GB/s to be exact. AMD and its add in board partners are launching the Radeon R9 270 today, with prices starting at $179. The Radeon R9 270's starting price is somewhat aggressive and once again puts pressure on NVIDIA. GeForce GTX 660 cards, which typically performed lower than the Radeon R9 270 are priced right around the $190 mark. Along with this card, AMD is also announcing an update to its game bundle, and beginning November 13 Radeon R9 270 – R9 290X cards will include a free copy of Battlefield 4. NVIDIA, on the other hand, is offering Splinter Cell: Blacklist and Assassins Creed – Black Flag, plus $50 off a SHIELD portable gaming device with GTX 660 and 760 cards."
Maybe someone else has a decoder ring, but it's alphabet soup trying to figure out what video card one should get.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Nvidia_graphics_processing_units#Comparison_tables:_Desktop_GPUs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_AMD_graphics_processing_units#Comparison_table:_Desktop_GPUs
If you stare at the article above, it's a blob of numbers worthy of A Simple Mind.
I left the PC gaming rat-race a while back, and I've never been happier -- the only real downside is that I can't possibly suggest to people what video card to buy beyond saying, "meh. Go spend $200 on Newegg."
Braille displays are comparatively low resolution, and can be driven in software over serial, USB, or Bluetooth without specialized hardware. (The exception might be older TTY/TDD systems, which use some...eccentric encoding schemes that are of very limited compatibility with many computer modems)
man, amd drivers are not "shitty" but geforce drivers ARE better hands down.
nvidia is larger than ati and amd combined, they have way more R and D.
i myself always buy nvidia because they are more efficiant and stable, you pay a bit more but you get what you pay for.
I'm however glad ati is around, as competition is a good thing, and wish them the best.
I have written the 3D renderers for a number of commercial software packages for the film VFX and games industries. The parent is right. PEBKAC. The drivers are fine. You are a shitty developer (who needs to make sure your code conforms to the GL/D3D spec properly).