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AMD Reveals Radeon R9 Fury X Specs and Preliminary Benchmark Performance Results

MojoKid writes: AMD announced new Radeon R9 and R7 300 series of graphics cards earlier this week, and while they are interesting, they're not nearly as impressive as AMD's upcoming flagship of AMD GPU, code named Fiji. Fiji will find its way into three products this summer: the Radeon R9 Nano, Radeon R9 Fury, and the range-topping (and water-cooled) Radeon R9 Fury X. Other upcoming variants like, AMD's dual-Fiji board, were teased at E3 but are still under wraps. However, while full reviews are still under embargo, the official specification of the Radeon R9 Fury X have been revealed, along with an array of benchmark scores comparing the GPU to NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 980 Ti. Should the numbers AMD has released jibe with independent testing, the Radeon R9 Fury X looks strong and possibly faster than Nvidia's GeForce GTX 980 Ti.

87 comments

  1. Re:AMD Refuses Review Hardware over Negative Revie by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    So you are saying MojoKid is just another shill who pays Dice to get articles on the Slashdot front page?

  2. Re:AMD Refuses Review Hardware over Negative Revie by drinkypoo · · Score: 0

    So you are saying MojoKid is just another shill who pays Dice to get articles on the Slashdot front page?

    I'm not saying anything, but some variation on that theme would neatly explain why my submission on this subject hasn't been accepted.

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  3. No HDMI 2.0 support, not even in Fiji by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    A word of warning for everybody: Neither the new R9 3xx series GPUs nor the Fiji (Fury) parts support HDMI 2.0. That means that you will not be able to output 4k60 pictures to your brand new 4k TV. That's fairly silly for a graphics card that is advertised as making 4k gaming a reality.

    1. Re:No HDMI 2.0 support, not even in Fiji by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Why would you use HDMI for that, and not displayport? Why?

    2. Re:No HDMI 2.0 support, not even in Fiji by goarilla · · Score: 2

      Because HDMI and probably HDMI 2.0, will be used in the whole AV market unlike DisplayPort, which is more of a PC only interface.

    3. Re:No HDMI 2.0 support, not even in Fiji by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I doubt that is "will be used", but "will maybe be used".
      That said, its really whatever since older cards don't support HDMI 2.0, and Sapphire or Gigabyte or whatever will ship a R390 with HDMI 2.0 when the time comes.
      Like usual.

    4. Re:No HDMI 2.0 support, not even in Fiji by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      What do you mean "will maybe be used"? I have not seen a single tv or amplifier having display port (at least from brands that are capable of changing the market). I have not even seen hints of display port adoption outside of pc market. In fact, for the same reason, display port is bad even in pc scenarios if you want the sound to be handled by your amplifier. Or you want your pc as console by the tv.

      Otherwise, I agree, the other manufacturers will ship with 2.0.

    5. Re:No HDMI 2.0 support, not even in Fiji by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      >(at least from brands that are capable of changing the market)
      wtf does that mean
      >display port is bad even in pc scenarios if you want the sound to be handled by your amplifier
      Why would you want to buy a monitor with some built in horrible speakers?

    6. Re:No HDMI 2.0 support, not even in Fiji by silas_moeckel · · Score: 1

      Displayport to hdmi 2.0 cables are all of 11 bucks on amazon. Oddly think OEM's will be capable of throwing whatever chip is in there on an output.

      Every decent TV I've had has been able to output it's sound via optical/coax to the receiver, hell hdmi has a standard for doing just that.

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    7. Re:No HDMI 2.0 support, not even in Fiji by TeknoHog · · Score: 2

      Displayport to DVI/HDMI can be done with a passive adapter. Basically, DP can output DMI/HDMI signal once it detects that kind of a monitor. I'm not sure if this applies to newer versions of HDMI, though.

      The whole separation between AV and PC worlds seems silly anyway. For example, the first time I connected my AMD GPU to my "computer" monitor via HDMI, the computer was detecting/sending a correct resolution, but the output was shrunk, leaving black bands on all sides and the image ugly and blurred. It turned out that the HDMI output does 15% underscanning by default, presumably to compensate something that TVs do. And presumably because HDMI implies TV which implies I don't care for exact pixels (what's this 4k or 1920x1080 crap anyway), just a huge picture. Fortunately, the default could be easily overridden. I understand this kind of thinking might have been important in the days of analogue TVs, where you needed the occasional adjustments to account for different source materials in a less well-defined analogue display, but in the days of full HD and beyond it's just idiotic.

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    8. Re:No HDMI 2.0 support, not even in Fiji by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Yes, there are adapters, but the video signal will still only negotiate as 4k30 if both ends do not speak HDMI 2.0. The adapters are *passive*.

    9. Re:No HDMI 2.0 support, not even in Fiji by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The passive adapters/cables DO NOT support 4k60. The video signal will still only negotiate as 4k30! You either need an active adapter (costs more than $100, not sure if they are even out in the market yet) or, better, a graphics card that supports HDMI 2.0 natively!

      The new generation of AMD Radeon cards is worthless with 4k TVs. Sadly.

    10. Re:No HDMI 2.0 support, not even in Fiji by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      >(at least from brands that are capable of changing the market)
      wtf does that mean

      meaning one of the big brands, not some unknown. I am sure you can find some company named "Panasonix" which produces a tv with displayport. I am sure such company would have little influence by "adopting" displayport

      >display port is bad even in pc scenarios if you want the sound to be handled by your amplifier
      Why would you want to buy a monitor with some built in horrible speakers?

      what? if I would be using amplifier, what is the point of letting the sound pass through to the monitor?

    11. Re:No HDMI 2.0 support, not even in Fiji by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      But I was not talking about sending signal from tv to receiver. I was talking about two scenarios:

      1. you want to connect your pc audio output to amplifier. If you want that uncompressed, you can either do stereo pcm through coaxial, 5.1 through analog, or 5.1 pcm through hdmi. Displayport also is capable of carrying sound signal, but you will be hard pressed to find an amplifier that will have displayport input. Also displayport is limited to pcm, so you will have to convert dts-hd/dolby truehd on your device.
      2. you want to use minipc as a gaming console. the problem is now sending high resolution video signal to your tv (since tvs don't have displayport input). displayport to hdmi cables are limited to 1920x1200. there are active adapters that require external power (typically usb) but these are limited to 2560x1600. I have not seen an adapter that can handle higher resolutions. They are also bloody expensive.

      Displayport is good enough if you are connecting pc to monitor directly, for everything else hdmi is better.

    12. Re:No HDMI 2.0 support, not even in Fiji by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      No anon, wtf is a "big brand", and how do I identify them? There is like 20-30 monitor producers.

    13. Re:No HDMI 2.0 support, not even in Fiji by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Get an active dp -> dhmi adapter that DOES support 4k/60fps.

      The problem with HDMI 2.0 is that it's considered legacy in the PC realm now. HDMI is not capable of 4k/60fps at 4:4:4 with HDCP 2.2. Displayport is definitely the way to go for the future.

    14. Re:No HDMI 2.0 support, not even in Fiji by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I am sure you can find some company named "Panasonix" which produces a tv with displayport.

      I couldn't find anything by them, but I was able to find at least one TV being made by these "Panasonic" guys, but I'm sure they're just a knock-off brand with no real market influence...

    15. Re:No HDMI 2.0 support, not even in Fiji by tlhIngan · · Score: 1

      A word of warning for everybody: Neither the new R9 3xx series GPUs nor the Fiji (Fury) parts support HDMI 2.0. That means that you will not be able to output 4k60 pictures to your brand new 4k TV. That's fairly silly for a graphics card that is advertised as making 4k gaming a reality.

      Are you sure? Because you only need 10.2Gbps for HDMI 2.0, which is the same bandwidth as HDMI 1.4. It's how current HDMI 2.0 devices support 4k60 right now.

      The video card might now have a proper 18Gbps HDMI port, which will also give you 4k60.

      Right now, everyone cheats - 4k60 on 10.2Gbps is done using 4:2:0 - practically all 4K60 ready devices on the market today do it. Though full 18Gbps HDMI devices are finally starting to come out (which will give you 4k60 at 4:4:4), but still not common.

      Anyhow, I don't think it matters. Work gave me a 4K monitor and I'm doing 4K60 on it with a 7770HD card. Using DisplayPort. Of course I'm not gaming on it, but having all those pixels is nice.

    16. Re:No HDMI 2.0 support, not even in Fiji by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Nitpick:

      > 4k60 on 10.2Gbps is done using 4:2:0

      4:2:0 sampling was only added in v2.0

    17. Re:No HDMI 2.0 support, not even in Fiji by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It is ironic how I picked the knock-off name.. =)

      So I stand corrected, maybe the tides are shifting after all.

    18. Re:No HDMI 2.0 support, not even in Fiji by toddestan · · Score: 1

      In theory an active Displayport to HDMI adapter is still possible. My guess is such a device will be made at some point.

  4. Re:AMD Refuses Review Hardware over Negative Revie by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    They're not even embarrassed. They know their hardware is junk, and they're relying on the emperor's new clothes model to keep people excited about it.

    Considering that AMD has long experience with anti-AMD shilling I can understand them not wanting it to be reviewed by them. After all, Tomshardware did the same thing going all the way as far as blaming AMD for the poor performance. That was until someone on their side let it slip that TH knew that the poor hardware performance was because intel allowed specific optimizations to benchmark codes. Thus their real world performance was flawed.

  5. Whats is the slashdot stupid icons over the title by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    I can't even read the end of the friggen titles, come on slahsdot, get those STUPID icons out of the way of the titles of the articles

  6. Nice hardware, shame about the drivers... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    What are AMD's graphics drivers like these days?

    1. Re:Nice hardware, shame about the drivers... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      They had to push out the Omega Driver Pack for the release of R290 and R290x, so sites would stop using pre beta drivers for benchmarking the cards.

      So in all honesty? Its more or less the same as Nvidia, with different problems.

  7. Re: AMD Refuses Review Hardware over Negative Revi by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Why would you be embarrassed if you knew someone wouldn't give an honest review? There is no shame in recognizing that somebody else isn't worth the bother of listening to their opinions.

    A mind that is too open lets everything fall out.

  8. Re:Whats is the slashdot stupid icons over the tit by wjcofkc · · Score: 1

    Typically, I am one of the few that days does not complain when Slashdot makes changes. However, as of this last change they have gone too far.

    Slashdot, on top of the gripe that I am replying to, please remove that chat bubble from the story title line and restore the "Read More" link to it's proper place. I am not saying you can't have a prominent social networking link, I am saying put more thought into where it should go. Seriously, please backtrack on this one.

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  9. Re:Whats is the slashdot stupid icons over the tit by OzPeter · · Score: 1

    I can't even read the end of the friggen titles, come on slahsdot, get those STUPID icons out of the way of the titles of the articles

    You just need to stretch out your browsers windows so that it is wide enough to accommodate the headline layout as envisaged by the might /. design team.

    Or in other words the idiots at /. designed a layout that looks good on their monitors and never tested it beyond that. Why should they, as it works on their systems!

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  10. Re:AMD Refuses Review Hardware over Negative Revie by drinkypoo · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That was until someone on their side let it slip that TH knew that the poor hardware performance was because intel allowed specific optimizations to benchmark codes. Thus their real world performance was flawed.

    The problem with this argument is that all the benchmarks are flawed for this reason. I never trust a synthetic benchmark to tell me how hardware is going to behave in the real world.

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  11. Re:AMD Refuses Review Hardware over Negative Revie by rholtzjr · · Score: 1

    Well this is my anti-anti-AMD shill . Of the 2 NVidia cards I have had, both incinerated themselves while ALL my AMD/ATI cards were in perfect health when I upgraded. If I had to choice between an AMD/ATI GPU and a NVidia, I will always choose AMD/ATI. I would rather have a GPU that will still function after a month and not self destruct as my previous NVidia cards did.

    Besides I never read either TH or KG reviews anyway (or I at least take their assessment with a grain of salt). The same thing happens with movies. Many a movie critics denounce a particular movie upon release and it flops at the box office. Later on it becomes a sleeper sensation once on DVD and it surpasses sales of their "recommend to see" films. As long as the person is happy with the product that they paid for all is good, isn't it?

    Thus ends my anti-anti-AMD shill.

  12. Re:Whats is the slashdot stupid icons over the tit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    The thing is... this is easily fixed. You could probably do this in greasemonkey

    #firehose article header .topic { top: 27px; } .comment-bubble { top: 27px; }

    It's not a perfect look for the comment bubble (I'd suggest just making it a box and moving it down more), but it's functional.

  13. Re:Whats is the slashdot stupid icons over the tit by TeknoHog · · Score: 1

    You just need to stretch out your browsers windows so that it is wide enough to accommodate the headline layout as envisaged by the might /. design team.

    Or in other words the idiots at /. designed a layout that looks good on their monitors and never tested it beyond that. Why should they, as it works on their systems!

    The /. designers must now be wondering why newspaper text is laid out in narrow columns. After all, a newspaper has a lot of horizontal space, so why don't they just print long lines of text...

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  14. These are AMD-released benchmarks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    From Hothardware....

    Again, please realize that these are benchmarks that AMD has run themselves.
    Read more at http://hothardware.com/news/official-amd-radeon-r9-fury-x-specifications-and-benchmark-scores-revealed#b05g8gOtwPL75dqB.99

    Just in case anyone is under the impression that these benchmarks are from a real reviewer.

  15. Re:Whats is the slashdot stupid icons over the tit by ArcadeMan · · Score: 1

    Same problem here, can't read titles. The font setting used by Slashdot means I always need to +1 the zooming, which means icons overlapping the titles. A rollback on both the icons and the "read more (x comments)" would also be appreciated.

  16. Re:Whats is the slashdot stupid icons over the tit by ArcadeMan · · Score: 1

    Still using a non-widescreen monitor here, browser is always full-width, can't make it any wider.

  17. Re:Whats is the slashdot stupid icons over the tit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    .comment-bubble{position:absolute!important;bottom:0!important;top:auto!important;left:0!important}

  18. Re:AMD Refuses Review Hardware over Negative Revie by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Very strange. I've never had an Nvidia card, nor any other graphics card go bad, ever! That said, Nvidia just makes the chip, not the board itself. Stop buying from shitty vendors and stop overclocking.

  19. AMD is stressed out of its wits by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    ..and you know it. Their future depends on these benchmarks.
    Every minute adds time to perfecting their video driver. I'm quite sure they're working day-in day-out by now.

  20. Re:Whats is the slashdot stupid icons over the tit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Still using a non-widescreen monitor here.

    You filthy peasant! I'd give up computers and TV entirely before I ever go back to 4:3.

  21. Re:AMD Refuses Review Hardware over Negative Revie by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    they may be in perfect health IF you require additional space heating and can take shit quality drivers. For both of these reasons I have primarily sworn off ATI again, especially for notebooks.

    I laugh when I look at the TDP of Fury boards and then ATI's earlier comments about working on power utilization and performance. AMD is utter phailwhale at power management AND performance.

    Had they MANAGED to control power to competitive levels, I may have put up with the ultrashit drivers just to see personally how well HBM works out.

  22. Re:AMD Refuses Review Hardware over Negative Revie by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I had many cards. More ATI cards than Nvidia ones. Only one broke, and it was an Nvidia card.

  23. I will buy one by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    'nough said.

  24. Re:Whats is the slashdot stupid icons over the tit by ArcadeMan · · Score: 2

    Give up 4:3 TV? Sure.
    Give up 4:3/5:4 monitor? There's no reason if it still works.

  25. Re:Whats is the slashdot stupid icons over the tit by aquabat · · Score: 1
    I haven't hit that problem yet, but I think they could do a better job with the auxiliary content on the site. For example, This is what I get for "Related Links", at the bottom of the page:

    - Independent Researchers Test Rossi's Alleged Cold Fusion Device For 32 Days
    - Man Booted From Southwest Flight and Threatened With Arrest After Critical Tweet
    - Russian Military Forces Have Now Invaded Ukraine
    - Professor: Young People Are "Lost Generation" Who Can No Longer Fix Gadgets
    - Oregon Testing Pay-Per-Mile Driving Fee To Replace Gas Tax.

    I have no idea what their criteria is for "related". Also, there used to be a "post" button at the bottom of the page; now I have to scroll all the way back up to the top to post.

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  26. Re:Whats is the slashdot stupid icons over the tit by TeknoHog · · Score: 2

    Give up 4:3/5:4 monitor? There's no reason if it still works.

    IMHO, 4:3 or 5:4 (which I'm using right now) is much better for most of the computing tasks I do -- see my cousin post on text line widths. I'd gladly get a new monitor with such dimensions (and a modern resolution, naturally).

    For the inevitable comments on turning a widescreen monitor in a vertical orientation, please go and educate yourselves on subpixel font rendering. Of course, as videos don't use that, an ideal monitor might have their subpixels oriented in the long direction, so it could serve both purposes optimally.

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  27. Re:AMD Refuses Review Hardware over Negative Revie by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    Former ATI (and then AMD) engineer here... Now work at NVIDIA. My take is that, generally speaking, the quality of the chips from either company are pretty much on par. I'm not talking performance, that's a separate issue. I'm talking the quality of work that went into design, implementation, manufacturing. Neither company's chips/boards is going to be any more reliable than the other, on the whole. Similar MTBF and whatnot, and as these are consumer parts, there will necessarily be folks who unfortunately get a bad part or two. It's just probability.

  28. Re:AMD Refuses Review Hardware over Negative Revie by redrock87 · · Score: 1

    This is my first and last post to slashdot. Goodby.

  29. Re:AMD Refuses Review Hardware over Negative Revie by TheDarkMaster · · Score: 1

    Both my cards, Nvidia and ATI (two separate computers), always worked perfectly. My problem actually always was the ATI drivers, these never worked right.

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  30. Re:AMD Refuses Review Hardware over Negative Revie by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Thank you for sharing your knowledge, humor, and most of all, your love.

    We at Slashdot salute you for your magnificent achievements.

  31. Re:AMD Refuses Review Hardware over Negative Revie by drinkypoo · · Score: 1

    This is my first and last post to slashdot. Goodby.

    You didn't even tell us why you were leaving; although leaving your comment here under my comment is suggestive, it doesn't explain anything. What a waste of time.

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  32. Re:AMD Refuses Review Hardware over Negative Revie by glsunder · · Score: 1

    The old ati all in wonder 8500 that I put in my daughter's computer finally died last year.

  33. Re:AMD Refuses Review Hardware over Negative Revie by drinkypoo · · Score: 1

    I had many cards. More ATI cards than Nvidia ones. Only one broke, and it was an Nvidia card.

    I've had one nvidia chip fail, and I've had one ATI chip fail, and I mean actual chip failure in each case. Where ATI fails over and over again is in their drivers. Their drivers have always been bad, literally always. I usually have to find hacked drivers to get them to even kind of work. I have a machine with AMD R690M chipset which has never been correctly supported on any platform but Windows Vista, I am not making this up even a little bit. Vista is the only place it behaves. On any other OS, it's horrible. I need hacked DnA drivers to get it to kind of work on Windows 7. Does not work under Linux, period. When it was new, fglrx said it was too old... as in, while the machine was still shipping. The free driver just trashes the display.

    Lots of people say ATI makes good hardware, fine. If they ever learn how to write software, maybe they'll have something worth buying.

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  34. Re:AMD Refuses Review Hardware over Negative Revie by glsunder · · Score: 4, Informative

    here's why it was pulled:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    The video was released before any official info about fiji was released, so it was full of speculation, had inaccuracies on topics that were already publicly known, and called AMD a bunch of cons for using previous gen cards in the non top end, non-fiji part of their lineup.

  35. Re:AMD Refuses Review Hardware over Negative Revie by mister_playboy · · Score: 1

    That's actually your third post, you dirty liar. :)

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  36. Re:AMD Refuses Review Hardware over Negative Revie by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    modded down by amd.

  37. Re: AMD Refuses Review Hardware over Negative Revi by Type44Q · · Score: 1

    This. While I admit I have a soft spot for AMD (for a whole lotta reasons which I won't go into here), their graphics drivers have tended to be dogshit on both Winblows *and* Linux... and this has, u fortunately, been their m.o. since their graphics division was ATi.

  38. Re: AMD Refuses Review Hardware over Negative Revi by Type44Q · · Score: 1

    Well, sure; how much wear and tear did you expect it to endure when it wasn't actually capable of accelerating anything?? No, really.

  39. Paid Nvidia Reputation Managers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Every year Nvidia spends TENS OF MILLIONS of dollars to what the PR industry calls REPUTATION MANAGERS. These are people who blitz the tech sites and their forums with anti-AMD FUD, and pro-Nvidia boosting.

    That person on a forum who SWEARS he once owned AMD card after AMD acrd, and they all went wrong- forcing him to go Nvidia? A paid Nvidia shill. That person who obsesses about any omission in a new AMD product (see the HDMI FUD in this forum for instance) and swears it is an unforgivable and fatal flaw- a paid Nvidia shill.

    Nvidia once made the high-end hot and power-hungry graphics cards, and Nvidia paid off every tech site to say that REAL PC gamers had massive cases filled full of fans that used the biggest PSU imaginable. Then Nvidia went to a higher performance per watt than AMD, and suddenly every tech was saying that how and power hungry graphics cards were the worst thing ever- and every REAL PC gamer wanted the smallest case with the tiniest PSU.

    For years, only AMD implemented digital sound over the cables used to drive home cinema devices, and Nvidia paid off tech sites to say that REAL home cinema enthusiasts used separate amps driven from an independent audio output from the back of the PC.

    Using two graphics cards together is an UTTER JOKE apparently every time AMD's solution is better than Nvidia, but the best thing since sliced-bread every time Nvidia's solution is better than AMD's.

    Nvidia plays dirty- very, very, very dirty. And sometimes Nvidia has the better products as well (if you don't take price into account). For whatever reason ATI/AMD has never played this dirty propaganda game, and without doubt it has suffered horribly because of this. At the notorious Anandtech, for instance, the forums have 'moderators' who are actually also employees of Nvidia and Intel. The trolling of AMD on the graphics and CPU forums there is unprecedented as a result.

    Fiji is a BETTER GPU than the Titan X (so-called Big Maxwell) and Nvidia knows this. But Fiji is a terribly expensive product for AMD, while the 980TI is a much cheaper build from Nvidia. On each Fiji card AMD makes a significant loss- while on each slower but similar priced 980TI card Nvidia makes an Apple like profit.

    Both have chips of around the same size, but AMD has higher transistor density and lower yields. AMD's tech is much more advanced, which is why the anti-AMD fud is operating at 11 at this time.

    Next year everything changes. Years late, Nvidia launches its first true DX12 architecture (AMD has been fully DX12 compatible since GCN first appeared with the 7870). Nvidia's PASCAL architecture is expected to crucify AMD (and sadly there is no reason to expect otherwise).

    1. Re:Paid Nvidia Reputation Managers by ArsonSmith · · Score: 1

      Where do I apply for this job? I could get on sites and talk about my history with previously ATI now AMD products and why I only get nVidia now, and have a clear conscious while doing it.

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    2. Re:Paid Nvidia Reputation Managers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      > wall of text from AC
      > accuses company A of posting propaganda on message boards disparaging company B
      > unironically posts propaganda disparaging company A in the same breath

      NT, AMD shill.

    3. Re:Paid Nvidia Reputation Managers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      This.

      Due to personal experience helping a University visualization department develop their solutions, I will never consider ATI (Now AMD) PC graphics cards to be worth a damn.

      Not because of the hardware itself, which is capable enough (see game consoles). But because of the shit PC drivers that they continue to write and publish.

      Believe me, there's things we don't like about nVidia, but their drivers can at least be relied on to work most of the time. Because they design the hardware to fit their standard driver architecture, and don't re-write everything for each new card. Which results in fewer bugs.

    4. Re:Paid Nvidia Reputation Managers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Similar performance. Consumes a lot more power, more expensive to make.

      This is not what I call a "BETTER GPU" - There's more to the business than transistors and frames. You need a product you can make money selling, and that's not a trivial task.

      There isn't some shill conspiracy out to kill your favorite brand. Nvidia is simply ahead of the game.

      They've won. They won more than a year ago when they launched kepler. They've been putting out what are essentially under-clocked cards while refining their process tech. Their arch has MASSIVE headroom for improvement.

      All they have to do to beat AMD is do what they always planned to do - Release higher clocked, improved versions they already had waiting to go. What Nvidia's putting out now they could have put out 12 months ago. They just didn't because they didn't need to.

      No nobody is arguing that the current Titan is a well positioned product. It's not right now. IT's a high-end product that's being eclipsed by a newer low-end product. The titan is from their quadro/tesla line, and being a business product has a slower development cycle. They'll refresh that whenever they're ready to, but keep in mind the Titan is mostly a dick-waving advertisement, and is only used by people that have more money than sense.

  40. Re:AMD Refuses Review Hardware over Negative Revie by drinkypoo · · Score: 0

    The video was released before any official info about fiji was released, so it was full of speculation,

    Yeah, he says that a lot. I'm probably not going to watch the whole video, but he's said it a bunch of times already: that it's speculation. And as AMD didn't permit the press to see the product, even though they were showing it off to some people, he had only speculation to offer.

    had inaccuracies on topics that were already publicly known,

    That's a pity. What were they?

    and called AMD a bunch of cons for using previous gen cards in the non top end, non-fiji part of their lineup.

    Well, I'd say that about both AMD and nVidia. They both do that, and it's sleazy in both cases.

    I gave the video thumbs down, because comments are disabled, and I always do that. But I don't see what the complaint is, perhaps I'm not sufficiently familiar with the product lines in question since I wouldn't buy an ATI GPU anyway. Can you tell me or point me to a commentary which explains what was already known that he got wrong?

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  41. Re:linux drivers suck . nvidia get my money by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Pardon? Obviously you're not from earth.

  42. Re:AMD Refuses Review Hardware over Negative Revie by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    It goes beyond the synthetics though. I've seen some benchmarks where they choose an odd set of game video quality settings, such as cranking everything to the max, but disabling MSAA (so that the "mid range cards get a chance to shine" is the excuse), and then showing that the game gets 49FPS on the AMD 390X card, but 58FPS or so on the Nvidia GTX 980, and claiming the "390X can't compete". Of course, the clueless readers are "wtf, amd fail!!11!", ignoring the fact that the 980 is like $150CAD more expensive to get that extra 9FPS.

    I saw the same benchmark at another site where they enabled 2x MSAA for that game, with the rest of the specs at "very high", and lo-and-behold, the AMD card was running the game at 85 FPS and the same Nvidia card was now at about 88FPS. $150 premium doesn't seem so cost effect now, does it? Do Nvidia cards take a big performance hit on MSAA? Is that why it was disabled on one site's tests?

    Nearly every time I see AMD reviews, the products get compared to competitor's offerings that are clearly in a different price range, or serve a different audience.

    It's hard to believe the reviewers are that ignorant, so it really seems like some sites are out to harm AMD. I wouldn't put it past Intel to be behind this. They're the reason you only see maybe one AMD notebook in any store, surrounded by 20+ Intel powered notebooks.

  43. hahahaha flamebait by drinkypoo · · Score: 1

    Butt-hurt AMD fanboys with modpoints, or AMD employees with modpoints? You decide.

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  44. Re:AMD Refuses Review Hardware over Negative Revie by drinkypoo · · Score: 1

    They're the reason you only see maybe one AMD notebook in any store, surrounded by 20+ Intel powered notebooks.

    No, AMD's shitty fucking netbook chips are the reason for that. I bought one AMD netbook, and it was a festering pile of shit because of shitty chips which pretend to be old video cards but don't emulate them faithfully, and a total shitfest when it comes to drivers. And of course, AMD won't let you download these drivers directly; there were a few months when they permitted it, but then they revamped their site into the new form where you can't find anything, and at that time they removed the mobile driver downloads. For all I know they're back again.

    Nobody wants an AMD netbook because AMD netbooks fucking suck.

    You need to realize that I am goddamn surrounded by AMD CPUs, I far prefer them to Intel. I've got two SFF X2s, an X6 1045T, an X3 720BE... This is not about hating on AMD. This is about hating on ATI. It's not my fault that they chose to use the same name for both branches of their company. However, it is notable how much more effort intel spends on proper power management for their processors under linux vs. AMD. The processor in my netbook still doesn't have proper power management support. Or is the problem the chipset? No sure way to tell, but either way, it doesn't work right.

    AMD does two things well, they make processors with good price:performance, and they make chipsets for those processors. And they are apparently pretty good at marketing, because in spite of their horrible driver fuckfest, people keep buying their cards.

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  45. a source by electrosoccertux · · Score: 1

    That was until someone on their side let it slip that TH knew that the poor hardware performance was because intel allowed specific optimizations to benchmark codes. Thus their real world performance was flawed.

    The problem with this argument is that all the benchmarks are flawed for this reason. I never trust a synthetic benchmark to tell me how hardware is going to behave in the real world.

    for anyone who was looking for more to read on this matter, Ars Technica looked into this with PCMark2005. I'm not sure why but I don't care if that was a 10 year old benchmark, 10 years is not a long time IMO. I suppose AMD could be blamed a little though for not supporting writable registers like Via on their chips...

    NVidia does sorta-similar with their Game/HairWorks features in Witcher 3, or pushing retardedly stupid anti-aliasing modes because their architecture runs them better than AMD's.

  46. Re:AMD Refuses Review Hardware over Negative Revie by electrosoccertux · · Score: 1

    Former ATI (and then AMD) engineer here... Now work at NVIDIA. My take is that, generally speaking, the quality of the chips from either company are pretty much on par. I'm not talking performance, that's a separate issue. I'm talking the quality of work that went into design, implementation, manufacturing. Neither company's chips/boards is going to be any more reliable than the other, on the whole. Similar MTBF and whatnot, and as these are consumer parts, there will necessarily be folks who unfortunately get a bad part or two. It's just probability.

    AMD's drivers have, historically, been a little more rough around the edges for special features (alt-tabbing to multitask with something on the right HDMI monitor while using dual monitors while gaming on the left in DVI-- this was a problem 3-4 years ago, but not now), but lately (last year that I've had my 7850) I've been impressed with their driver stability, and it reminds me of how well my 670 worked 4 years ago.

    NVidia still has the edge on CPU efficiency with their drivers currently but that'll be changing with these DX12-capable cards where any game compiled in DX12 will make use of new parallelized draw calls that improve multi-core driver scaling substantially, which should solve AMD's current problem. In other words, this Fury/FuryX card looks like both fastest and cheapest card for anything but 4k gaming (where it sometimes loses to the 980Ti).

  47. here's a good example you can expect by electrosoccertux · · Score: 1

    A good example with this you can expect coming up will be about how 4GB isn't enough memory for future proofing, but how 3 months ago everyone was saying having only 3.5GB available in the 970 wasn't.

    1. Re:here's a good example you can expect by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      learn 2 grammar

  48. Re:AMD Refuses Review Hardware over Negative Revie by hairyfeet · · Score: 2

    And yet again you bring up the drivers despite the fact multiple people on multiple occasions have given you the correct drivers which work perfectly well on anything from Win 7-Windows 10.

    Since your Google-Fu must sucketh yet again here it is and yet agaion here is the step by step on how to install..1.-Extract drivers to folder of your choice, 2.- Right click on video card in device manager, choose "update driver", 3.- Choose manual over having Windows hunt for a driver, 4.- Point Windows to folder where you dropped the driver.

    That is it, that is literally all there is to it and I have a customer with one of those chips and it took me less than 5 minutes to get it up and running perfectly fine in Windows 7. If you don't want to actually do the four steps you can always download driver booster or driver magician and either program will do it for you, its REALLY not that hard.

    The fact that you are STILL harping on, despite multiple people pointing you to the correct download AND walking you through the frankly noob friendly install? Yeah, starting to wonder if shill or fanboy would be an appropriate label here, especially since you seem to go out of your way to post this to every. single. AMD. article. whether it has anything to do with GPUs or not.

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  49. Re:AMD Refuses Review Hardware over Negative Revie by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Nobody gave a shit about "TDP" until one vendor's marketing department started trumpeting it all over. Now all of a sudden its some crucial factor. And it's usually parroted by trend-whores who just have to have the most expensive, fasted card available, and therefore obviously don't actually give a shit about power consumption.

    Just keep lapping up the marketing drivel, you easily led little puppy.

  50. Re:AMD Refuses Review Hardware over Negative Revie by drinkypoo · · Score: 1

    And yet again you bring up the drivers despite the fact multiple people on multiple occasions have given you the correct drivers which work perfectly well on anything from Win 7-Windows 10.

    No, no they don't. Power management is unreliable, and the system becomes very flaky. If I load the DnA hacked drivers then only power management is a problem, I don't get free reboots. I told you this before.

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  51. Re:AMD Refuses Review Hardware over Negative Revie by petteyg359 · · Score: 1

    Funny how any APU will kick the ass of an i3...

  52. Re:AMD Refuses Review Hardware over Negative Revie by drinkypoo · · Score: 1

    Funny how any APU will kick the ass of an i3...

    I wouldn't buy an i3, either. And I don't even know intel's naming scheme well enough for a really good rant about how shit it is. Believe me, I'm not in love with intel. I am quite fond of nVidia, but I've had the occasional minor problem there, too. And again, the problem with that G71 die bonding... They're not perfect. However, nVidia wasn't the one I had to deal with on that, HP was. They strung me along for over 24 hours of phone time altogether before I got a replacement machine. Too little too late.

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  53. Re:AMD Refuses Review Hardware over Negative Revie by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    If you don't see what the complaint is, then you are incapable of understanding any explanation.
    The video is full of shit... if it weren't for the videos description in the bot, everyone would've thought that this guy is an nVidia PR guy.
    I remember back in the days were even anand was crying over single core(Intel) and dual core (AMD) cpus and he was trying to convince people that Intel's solution(ooohhh, what a surprise) was the way to go.
    Anyhoo, most site and most s/w is biased... either by paid reviewers or by "magic" compilers.

  54. Re:AMD Refuses Review Hardware over Negative Revie by hairyfeet · · Score: 1

    Screencaps? In fact ANY evidence? Because I have used these cards before, have a customer at this very moment who is still happily using hers with Windows 7 and there aren't any "hacked drivers", all I did was point Windows driver updater to the folder....that's it, that is ALL THAT IS REQUIRED and the ONLY difference between that method and the normal driver is you don't get Catalyst. You of course won't get above WDM 1.0 because that IGP is simply not capable of supporting higher so no Aero but as far as functionality goes? It works perfectly fine. It sleeps, it wakes, it plays video, hell you can even download KLite Codec Pack and get hardware accelerated DVDs if you want.

    So don't blame the company when its a case of "ur doing it wrong" or as the FOSSie faction is happy to parrot....Works For Me!(TM)

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  55. Re:AMD Refuses Review Hardware over Negative Revie by drinkypoo · · Score: 1

    Screencaps? In fact ANY evidence?

    Fuck you, shitbag. I'm not lying, but that's what you're accusing me of right now. Well, you're a well-known pro-AMD shill.

    So don't blame the company when its a case of "ur doing it wrong" or as the FOSSie faction is happy to parrot....Works For Me!(TM)

    So you're going to use an argument that you think is shit? That's because you're shit. I'm tired of your bullshit. You really think I'm lying about this? What's the angle? I'm clearly not getting paid by intel, who I bad-mouth regularly. I'm obviously not sponsored by nVidia, or I'd have more than a 750Ti. So why would you think I'm lying? Just because it's what you would do in my position? The machine sleeps, resumes, suspends as long as no video driver is installed. Add the ATI driver to the mix and none of that works right any more. That's how I know it's the video subsystem. For all I know it's a hardware problem, but that wouldn't be an endorsement of ATI either.

    ATI's drivers have been causing windows crashes as long as there have been Windows graphics drivers, and the only reason they are able to even sell cards to new buyers is that they are ignorant of the full depth of the problem, because of dbags like you who defend their incompetence. But then they always bring out another shit driver. Cognitive dissonance is responsible for their return business; people don't want to admit they made a bad mistake. That's how the big 3 automakers survived the Malaise era, too. My country right or wrong! WRONG.

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  56. Re:AMD Refuses Review Hardware over Negative Revie by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Actually, my experience with nVidia cards has also been that they tend to toast themselves. I ran them for a while, up until the 560Ti, and purchased them from EVGA, who is probably THE most reputable nVidia vendor there is. Nevertheless, it seemed these cards were melting themselves (at stock clocks) after 8-12 months. Since moving back to AMD (for the first time since my then ATi 9800 Pro, back when Doom3 came out and made us all build new PC's), I've not had any longevity issues with cards (barring the one RMA'd card that was DOA, but replaced promptly with the card I still use today).

  57. Re:AMD Refuses Review Hardware over Negative Revie by petteyg359 · · Score: 1

    Meandering off to ramblemutterstan is a great counter-argument.

  58. Re:AMD Refuses Review Hardware over Negative Revie by drinkypoo · · Score: 1

    Meandering off to ramblemutterstan is a great counter-argument.

    I responded to your comment, then I rambled. If you missed my response, pay closer attention next time. I'm not responsible for your reading comprehension skill level. My counter-argument in more detail, for the clue-impaired, is that "intel makes slow chips too" is not an argument. It's an uninteresting fact. It's also an irrelevant fact, because I wouldn't buy an AMD IGP, because of the IG part. I have an AMD CPU in my PC right now. In the box with it is an nVidia GPU. And way back in the way back, I had an AMD K6/2 with a nVidia Riva TNT. I have a couple of C2D machines around here, but I got them spectacularly cheaply — I paid $50 for one with 4GB RAM and a 250GB HDD, and who-cares intel integrated graphics I've never used beyond textmode, and I paid $10 for one with 2GB RAM and a 160GB HDD and nVidia Quadro NVS 295. The only AMD GPU I have here is a little bitch. I've learned my lesson, and that was the last one.

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  59. Re:AMD Refuses Review Hardware over Negative Revie by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Wow, thanks for all the facts you presented. Could you add some opinion too, to balance it out?

  60. I'll review it in a positive way... by Gallomimia · · Score: 1

    As soon as they release drivers that function.

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